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Anyone into the WOO here? UFOs etc?

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  • @cfour said:

    @knewspeak said:

    @cfour said:

    @knewspeak said:

    @cfour said:
    I am sorry, I get carried away when talking about Science :s

    We’ve been sending radio waves for years never heard a thing back, speed of light, that distance, you quote scientific methodology. Do the maths. Incredible :o

    I think you need to do the math. Do you know what electromagnetic radio waves are? At what speed they travel? Since when we are producing them? Now imagine a civilization 4 to 8 light years away. Are there complications? Sure, the strength of the signal may be insignificant. But compared to traveling those distances, well, it is rather easier. Do the math of how long it would take for signals like those to go there and come back.
    Now to my main point. Why haven’t “they” tried something similar? They could have been sending signals for thousands of years for all we know. Yet we have not heard anything. Incredible :o

    You said intelligent life is rare, now it’s 4 to 8 light years away, so many assumptions you chose, when it suits your Theory of Everything. BTW we are sending way too much rubbish in electromagnetic signals for an extraterrestrial civilisation to possibly make sense of, so maybe to understand us better, maybe they’d visit?

    I think you are misquoting me. I think it is rare, by no means impossible. For the sake of argument I am considering a civilization that is nearby. Would you agree that the further away a civilization is the more unlikely for us to contact them (or vice versa)? For the sake of argument and the benefit of those that do believe in such a thing I am using a civilization that is close by. My point being that even one that is located orbiting our nearest star outside the solar system would take us (and perhaps them) thousands of years to travel, and how much easier it would be to send electromagnetic signals as an example. If we are considering a civilization located 500 light years away well… things get pretty complicated. Not sure how we could explain those guys visiting us, so to me it was more reasonable to go for something closer to engage in this discussion. If it is 500 light years away I agree that my wee little electromagnetic waves are of little use, but even more so traveling with a spaceship.

    I do not have a theory of everything at all, I think that generally speaking (probably not the case here though) the problem with believing with little evidence is that it might be used the wrong way, usually to make money, as you always have some enlightened figure that “knows the truth” and sells you books, a course, etc. In any case, they have not visited us, not in any concrete, meaningful way, which makes everything harder to believe. So all I am saying is, perhaps more robust evidence would be great. That is all my “theory of everything” as you call it entails.

    But anyway, I really don’t mind too much about this whole UFO thing, and I even hope it would be true. I also love this forum and I feel I am starting to argue a bit too much, so I think I would prefer to leave it like that.

    Travel would take a long time for us, given our technology, why do you put limitations on ‘them’ when our own method’s in term’s of speed and distance have increased significantly within such a short timeframe.
    You state 3 billion years out of the age of the universe, yet we’ve only just dipped our toes into space within the last century. It could be like explaining nuclear fission to a dinosaur.

  • Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

  • @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    Well, God… sorry, I mean… aliens work in mysterious ways :p

  • Funny that @cfour said he was done contributing to this thread, yet he still continues to contribute!

  • @SNystrom said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Those so called tic-tac UFO videos? Interesting but to me looks suspiciously like video artifacts in the recording equipment and stabilisation technology of the lenses rather than aliens, but look forward to seeing more research on what these blobs turn out to be.

    ok, quick bit of research seems to indicate that they are likely to be glare from engines and yes, other confirmations that it's likely also from the camera technology. I work loads with video algorithms, animation and camera gear and you just notice tell-tale signs like that immediately.

    So if that's the best current visual evidence, it's nothing unfortunately. The military just report what they see and these are just natural glitches.

    Tell the Pentagon lad, they’re spending billions trying to work this out! Oh, and the associated visual sightings and radar confirmations….religion, drugs, not used to the dark, mental illness…probably.

    Surprised no one has mentioned weather balloons, Venus and swamp gas as viable explanations!

    J. Allen Hynek became tired with peddling these excuses, now it’s Chinese or Russian drones.

  • :D > @SNystrom said:

    Funny that @cfour said he was done contributing to this thread, yet he still continues to contribute!

    ROFL. I know!!! I have this very bad habit of engaging in discussions :'(
    Somebody stop me! :D
    I need to try harder :s

  • @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    From the military, it has to be declassified, those videos that are available, the technology is outdated now, so they got declassified. If you manage to read the linked article I posted above, those with security clearances, state, more recent ones which are numerous, are of much better quality, as well as corroborated testimony and other separate factual corroborating data.

  • @cfour said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    Well, God… sorry, I mean… aliens work in mysterious ways :p

    Yeah, I guess they must have special rules, a galactic code which allows them to “appear’ only in front of low definition tech only
    And never to large groups of witnesses and cameras simultaneously:

    VHS,super8,hi-8,SD crt- pixelated video and low res infrared and radar imagery = fine but only vaguely and must be unconvincing and similar to naturally reproducible effects.
    720p = not recommended
    1080p-8k and above =not a chance

  • @cfour said:
    :D > @SNystrom said:

    Funny that @cfour said he was done contributing to this thread, yet he still continues to contribute!

    ROFL. I know!!! I have this very bad habit of engaging in discussions :'(
    Somebody stop me! :D
    I need to try harder :s

    I could be the bad cop, but I’ll give you a pass this time! 😉

  • edited September 2022

    @knewspeak said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    From the military, it has to be declassified, those videos that are available, the technology is outdated now, so they got declassified. If you manage to read the linked article I posted above, those with security clearances, state, more recent ones which are numerous, are of much better quality, as well as corroborated testimony and other separate factual corroborating data.

    Information is declassified not because the technology is old, but because either the information can be released to the public without any impact or it is being released for a particular purpose. Since people love conspiracies, so it can also be a means to create dialogue or drum up attention even if it's meaningless.

    Corroboration is not fact, just because thousands or millions believe something, it doesn't mean it's a reality. Groupthink and religion are things which give humans purpose. They can be valuable and comforting in some circumstances, but they are also a slippery slope to towards unknown 'truths' or realities which are deemed irrefutable.

  • @auxmux: your anti-UFO arguments are rather hard to take seriously when your profile graphic totally matches the object observed in the Phoenix lights incident:

    Hundreds of thousands of people saw the, btw…. 😉

  • Hundreds of thousands of people saw this, btw

  • edited September 2022

    @auxmux said:

    @knewspeak said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    From the military, it has to be declassified, those videos that are available, the technology is outdated now, so they got declassified. If you manage to read the linked article I posted above, those with security clearances, state, more recent ones which are numerous, are of much better quality, as well as corroborated testimony and other separate factual corroborating data.

    Information is declassified not because the technology is old, but because either the information can be released to the public without any impact or it is being released for a particular purpose. Since people love conspiracies, so it can also be a means to create dialogue or drum up attention even if it's meaningless.

    Corroboration is not fact, just because thousands or millions believe something, it doesn't mean it's a reality. Groupthink and religion are things which give humans purpose. They can be valuable and comforting in some circumstances, but they are also a slippery slope to towards unknown 'truths' or realities which are deemed irrefutable.

    What I’m talking about, human eyewitnesses, separate radar tracking data, video all of the same event, this happened time after time…. The military technology FLIR and cockpit instrumentation is classified, as well as radar and other tracking, jamming equipment. Which is another thing they do, Jam radar locks, which is considered an hostile act within the rules of engagement.

    I also noticed you side-stepped my deserted island analogy. Ocam’s razor got your tongue?

  • @Carnbot said:

    @CracklePot said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Those so called tic-tac UFO videos? Interesting but to me looks suspiciously like video artifacts in the recording equipment and stabilisation technology of the lenses rather than aliens, but look forward to seeing more research on what these blobs turn out to be.

    ok, quick bit of research seems to indicate that they are likely to be glare from engines and yes, other confirmations that it's likely also from the camera technology. I work loads with video algorithms, animation and camera gear and you just notice tell-tale signs like that immediately.

    So if that's the best current visual evidence, it's nothing unfortunately. The military just report what they see and these are just natural glitches.

    Tell the Pentagon lad, they’re spending billions trying to work this out! Oh, and the associated visual sightings and radar confirmations….religion, drugs, not used to the dark, mental illness…probably.

    Haha don't worry they know by now :)

    In this case yes, I'm more experienced than the Pentagon or Military to look at video. I have over 25 years experience as an imaging expert in film and video and work with every type of image you can think of trawling through BBC archives and manipulating images and working with digital algorithms and I could spot it straight away the signs of camera anomalies.

    I presume you’ve had access to, and analysed the full-length, raw cockpit footage - not just the highly compressed, edited and repeatedly copied YouTube video, to dismiss the Pentagon’s findings?

    I'm really not interested in seeing any more footage like that because they are clearly naturally caused artifacts. But if you're not interested in expert opinions and real explanations and just want to confirm a belief then it doesn't matter what anyone says.

    I would love it as much as anyone if there was some real strong evidence and I'm not trying to put down anyone's belief. It would be great if anything genuine comes up. :)

    How do camera anomalies appear simultaneously on radar?

    It's just another plane in the distance which the gimbal has locked onto and it's an optical illusion in the camera that it's performing weird manouvers. :)

    The military would be aware of the other plane. So, you invoke phantom planes and optical illusions. Is that really your expert explanation? Nothing about digital algorithms or whatever?
    That’s pretty weak, considering you are such a experienced expert in digital imaging, as you like to mention so frequently.

  • @Spidericemidas said:

    @Proppa said:

    @Spidericemidas said:

    @Proppa said:
    The ‘Dyatlov Pass Incident’ really captured my intrigue. I’ve heard several different sources of possible explanation and the details remain stranger than fiction. Truly freaky stuff.

    Yeah! I've studied that one as well. Raises the hairs on my neck, that one! A really strange story.

    Did you come across reports from other witnesses further away but around that area reporting strange lights around the same time?

    It’s a great (terrifying) one! Didn't lights-sightings suggest a possible military-testing zone? The main sources I heard covering the incident had different hypothesized conclusions about the whole event.

    Every time a take started to make sense there’s be factors that ruled out simplicity. (Why cut through the tent? Why climb the tree? What the hell was the radiation?).

    Yes. There was something about the strange lights and radiation possibly suggesting something military as one of the explanations.

    The weirdest thing is seeing the photos of the group that were recovered from one of the hiker's camera. Looking normal and fine on location at the time, then soon after, something so strange happened to them and they were all dead!

    If I remember correctly, there was also one member who fell ill shortly into the journey and had to give up and turn back. Imagine being that person, learning afterwards that they had been lucky enough to fall ill early on and have to turn back, a lucky escape for them!

    That's right: it's a very cinematic scenario though I can't imagine an adaption besting the "just what we know" reality. What I like about this event is that something absolutely did happen and no matter how one views the clues it's just plain freaky.

    @Gavinski said:

    @Proppa said:

    @Spidericemidas said:

    @Proppa said:
    The ‘Dyatlov Pass Incident’ really captured my intrigue. I’ve heard several different sources of possible explanation and the details remain stranger than fiction. Truly freaky stuff.

    Yeah! I've studied that one as well. Raises the hairs on my neck, that one! A really strange story.

    Did you come across reports from other witnesses further away but around that area reporting strange lights around the same time?

    It’s a great (terrifying) one! Didn't lights-sightings suggest a possible military-testing zone? The main sources I heard covering the incident had different hypothesized conclusions about the whole event.

    Every time a take started to make sense there’s be factors that ruled out simplicity. (Why cut through the tent? Why climb the tree? What the hell was the radiation?).

    This is one of the ones I actually watched a YouTube vid on after hearing it mentioned in this thread. Definitely some very weird details, at least if the YouTube account is to be believed. If only there had been smart phones in those days we'd maybe have had camera footage that explained it better. Definitely an interesting and intriguing watch though. The vid mentioned a yeti. But some of the descriptions of the deaths made me think this was unlikely. The bodies weren't discovered for weeks, if I recall correctly. In such a barren landscape would a yeti have eaten the lips and eyes of someone without eating more? I doubt it.

    I've not watched any YouTube vids on this one but there are at least two very good podcasts which discussed it. If I recall only one came to a hypothetical conclusive summary which seems to be in line with the theory I see the most by those who've studied the case.

    There is quite a bit of info on the Incident online as well as heaps of sensationalism as always to have to parse through.

    Another great mystery is the 'Yuba County Five'.

  • @auxmux said:
    This is an interesting debate. I'm curious @monz0id or anyone else who believes that aliens visit the earth -- are you open to being disproven?

    That is to say, if there is evidence that such observed phenomena or recordings are actually not aliens, would you be ok with that? Since these videos or experiences are being researched supposedly by credible scientists, what if there is evidence to show that they were misperceptions of the human psyche?

    Or are these recordings or recollections proof enough? 

    Correlation is not evidence. Belief in something as true doesn't make it true. As mentioned by @Gavinski @cfour @Carnbot and others, human perception and memory can be flawed and fooled, and recordings can be edited and manipulated. The stories of UFOs in themselves can't be evidence of a reality, just like the mystical visions of gods, demons, ghosts, etc. If they are proof enough, that is faith and a belief but not necessarily reality.

    Every one has a right to believe in things, but in this world, people believe a lot of things based on hearsay and supposed evidence. Unfortunately, the lines between ufos/aliens/miracles/visions/god/conspiracy theories are overlapping and blurred, but many believe the things in between.

    Beliefs in things are a manifestation of the time we live in. Before the last 100 or so years, how much belief was there in UFOs, aliens etc? Did banshees, ghosts, angels or other supernatural boogeymen get replaced by aliens? It's highly likely. Are UFOs primarily a western phenomenon, since traditional religion has largely faded and science fiction has become a part of pop culture?

    Of course I am disproven every single day and I accept every single proven result… but the fact is there are still things that are unproven and that is tantalizing and everyone who believes in the scientific method should also be excited or interested.

    Science is there to increase our understanding of the universe not to shit on everything we don’t understand cos it hasn’t been in a peer reviewed paper yet. The fact that esteemed scientists and serious organizations are taking on the uap situation in a sober manner is great.

    I watched that crappy documentary about flat earth era on YouTube and it was really interesting because one of the most esteemed scientists said we shouldn’t be shouting those people down we should be applauding them for their curiosity and their attempts (however misguided) to prove their beliefs. This is how real scientists should be. We need more Galileos and less dogma.

  • @auxmux said:
    What's the point for an alien species to randomly visit earth? Are we special as a species that advanced aliens should care for us? In the Bible, angels come to interfere in the affairs of the earth. Greek gods did the same. Is this just the same story?

    What’s the point of human beings observing an ant colony then?

  • @CracklePot said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @CracklePot said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Those so called tic-tac UFO videos? Interesting but to me looks suspiciously like video artifacts in the recording equipment and stabilisation technology of the lenses rather than aliens, but look forward to seeing more research on what these blobs turn out to be.

    ok, quick bit of research seems to indicate that they are likely to be glare from engines and yes, other confirmations that it's likely also from the camera technology. I work loads with video algorithms, animation and camera gear and you just notice tell-tale signs like that immediately.

    So if that's the best current visual evidence, it's nothing unfortunately. The military just report what they see and these are just natural glitches.

    Tell the Pentagon lad, they’re spending billions trying to work this out! Oh, and the associated visual sightings and radar confirmations….religion, drugs, not used to the dark, mental illness…probably.

    Haha don't worry they know by now :)

    In this case yes, I'm more experienced than the Pentagon or Military to look at video. I have over 25 years experience as an imaging expert in film and video and work with every type of image you can think of trawling through BBC archives and manipulating images and working with digital algorithms and I could spot it straight away the signs of camera anomalies.

    I presume you’ve had access to, and analysed the full-length, raw cockpit footage - not just the highly compressed, edited and repeatedly copied YouTube video, to dismiss the Pentagon’s findings?

    I'm really not interested in seeing any more footage like that because they are clearly naturally caused artifacts. But if you're not interested in expert opinions and real explanations and just want to confirm a belief then it doesn't matter what anyone says.

    I would love it as much as anyone if there was some real strong evidence and I'm not trying to put down anyone's belief. It would be great if anything genuine comes up. :)

    How do camera anomalies appear simultaneously on radar?

    It's just another plane in the distance which the gimbal has locked onto and it's an optical illusion in the camera that it's performing weird manouvers. :)

    The military would be aware of the other plane. So, you invoke phantom planes and optical illusions. Is that really your expert explanation? Nothing about digital algorithms or whatever?
    That’s pretty weak, considering you are such a experienced expert in digital imaging, as you like to mention so frequently.

    It’s very weak, the ufo was tracked via the ship’s tracking radar, altitude and bearing, over a much wider field, the aircraft’s line of sight is limited, FLIR gives you a monochrome image either black hot or white hot, what propulsion system is it using, because aircraft bank, UAP’s often don’t adhere to aviation aerodynamics they turn at incredible velocity that would create such G-forces as to rip apart the most robust know aircraft, as well as rocketry.

  • @knewspeak said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @CracklePot said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @monz0id said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Those so called tic-tac UFO videos? Interesting but to me looks suspiciously like video artifacts in the recording equipment and stabilisation technology of the lenses rather than aliens, but look forward to seeing more research on what these blobs turn out to be.

    ok, quick bit of research seems to indicate that they are likely to be glare from engines and yes, other confirmations that it's likely also from the camera technology. I work loads with video algorithms, animation and camera gear and you just notice tell-tale signs like that immediately.

    So if that's the best current visual evidence, it's nothing unfortunately. The military just report what they see and these are just natural glitches.

    Tell the Pentagon lad, they’re spending billions trying to work this out! Oh, and the associated visual sightings and radar confirmations….religion, drugs, not used to the dark, mental illness…probably.

    Haha don't worry they know by now :)

    In this case yes, I'm more experienced than the Pentagon or Military to look at video. I have over 25 years experience as an imaging expert in film and video and work with every type of image you can think of trawling through BBC archives and manipulating images and working with digital algorithms and I could spot it straight away the signs of camera anomalies.

    I presume you’ve had access to, and analysed the full-length, raw cockpit footage - not just the highly compressed, edited and repeatedly copied YouTube video, to dismiss the Pentagon’s findings?

    I'm really not interested in seeing any more footage like that because they are clearly naturally caused artifacts. But if you're not interested in expert opinions and real explanations and just want to confirm a belief then it doesn't matter what anyone says.

    I would love it as much as anyone if there was some real strong evidence and I'm not trying to put down anyone's belief. It would be great if anything genuine comes up. :)

    How do camera anomalies appear simultaneously on radar?

    It's just another plane in the distance which the gimbal has locked onto and it's an optical illusion in the camera that it's performing weird manouvers. :)

    Radar from separate systems? Ship, aircraft?

    Yep some of these things have been observed by multiple systems and people… are they all failing at the same time!? Maybe they are atmospheric anomalies, a weird animal , space aliens or Chinese drones….. the point is they are physical, appear to exhibit very strange abilities and warrant further scientific investigation

  • edited September 2022

    @SNystrom said:
    @auxmux: your anti-UFO arguments are rather hard to take seriously when your profile graphic totally matches the object observed in the Phoenix lights incident:

    Hundreds of thousands of people saw the, btw…. 😉

    Hahaha!

  • edited September 2022

    @Carnbot said:

    @cfour said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    Well, God… sorry, I mean… aliens work in mysterious ways :p

    Yeah, I guess they must have special rules, a galactic code which allows them to “appear’ only in front of low definition tech only
    And never to large groups of witnesses and cameras simultaneously:

    VHS,super8,hi-8,SD crt- pixelated video and low res infrared and radar imagery = fine but only vaguely and must be unconvincing and similar to naturally reproducible effects.
    720p = not recommended
    1080p-8k and above =not a chance

    What about the phoenix lights? That was filmed by many people and seen simultaneously by hundreds if not thousands of people.

    I see your point but you are refusing to see anyone else’s… it’s not a religion, it’s not spirituality, there are anomalies that are being researched that have a possibility however small of creating a paradigm shift in what we believe scientifically to be true. To laugh off everything is not only condescending, it’s anti scientific.

    And honestly it’s the people like mick west who are acting more like religious organizations, enforcing their dogma

  • @sevenape said:

    @Carnbot said:

    @cfour said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    Well, God… sorry, I mean… aliens work in mysterious ways :p

    Yeah, I guess they must have special rules, a galactic code which allows them to “appear’ only in front of low definition tech only
    And never to large groups of witnesses and cameras simultaneously:

    VHS,super8,hi-8,SD crt- pixelated video and low res infrared and radar imagery = fine but only vaguely and must be unconvincing and similar to naturally reproducible effects.
    720p = not recommended
    1080p-8k and above =not a chance

    What about the phoenix lights? That was filmed by many people and seen simultaneously by hundreds if not thousands of people.

    I see your point but you are refusing to see anyone else’s… it’s not a religion, it’s not spirituality, there are anomalies that are being researched that have a possibility however small of creating a paradigm shift in what we believe scientifically to be true. To laugh off everything is not only condescending, it’s anti scientific.

    And honestly it’s the people like mick west who are acting more like religious organizations, enforcing their dogma

    Last time a watched a video with Mick West he was debating with Eric Weinstein, he seemed to be in agreement he needed to stop with the dismissive ridicule stance and both agreed to follow the evidence, so maybe there’s hope for the future.

  • I remember when me and my UFO friends nearly fell out, we realised that there’s just a gap where the already convinced become frustrated by the yet to be convinced not getting on board with their viewpoint, while the yet to be convinced feel patronised by the already convinced constantly telling them to open their minds, when they feel that their minds are pretty damn open 😁

  • @Krupa said:
    I remember when me and my UFO friends nearly fell out, we realised that there’s just a gap where the already convinced become frustrated by the yet to be convinced not getting on board with their viewpoint, while the yet to be convinced feel patronised by the already convinced constantly telling them to open their minds, when they feel that their minds are pretty damn open 😁

    How did they become convinced?

  • edited September 2022

    @knewspeak said:

    @Krupa said:
    I remember when me and my UFO friends nearly fell out, we realised that there’s just a gap where the already convinced become frustrated by the yet to be convinced not getting on board with their viewpoint, while the yet to be convinced feel patronised by the already convinced constantly telling them to open their minds, when they feel that their minds are pretty damn open 😁

    How did they become convinced?

    I still haven’t figured that out 😀

    The main point was I wanted to make was that we spotted that and made efforts to not alienate each other. We also had a much better dialog about it all after, although I think now that they’ve been watching way too many woo channel docs they’re back in the same position they’d reached from the books in the nineties, so we rarely engage more than a few jokey comments between us in WhatsApp these days…

  • @Krupa said:

    @knewspeak said:

    @Krupa said:
    I remember when me and my UFO friends nearly fell out, we realised that there’s just a gap where the already convinced become frustrated by the yet to be convinced not getting on board with their viewpoint, while the yet to be convinced feel patronised by the already convinced constantly telling them to open their minds, when they feel that their minds are pretty damn open 😁

    How did they become convinced?

    I still haven’t figured that out 😀

    The main point was I wanted to make was that we spotted that and made efforts to not alienate each other. We also had a much better dialog about it all after, although I think now that they’ve been watching way too many woo channel docs they’re back in the same position they’d reached from the books in the nineties, so we rarely engage more than a few jokey comments between us in WhatsApp these days…

    I haven’t figured out what I witnessed, I’m pretty open to explanations from all sides, but some on both sides believers and skeptics have extreme fixed viewpoints.

  • edited September 2022

    Thanks for keeping the lights on @knewspeak - I was going to politely withdraw, but some things I just have to respond to…

    @cfour said:

    @monz0id said:

    I think you haven’t properly understood the conversation I was having with Mr Gavinski.

    Hence my examples of a round planet, and black holes as things that most of us acknowledge as being real, without recourse to faith, or the requirement of a physical object we can hold and look at.

    Oh no, I have understood everything. You equate our understanding of black holes (based on the laws of gravity and mathematics) with UFO sightings (based on wishful thinking). But hey, sure, no physical object there :D

    I’ll try again: The laws of gravity and mathematics are not a physical object that can be presented as evidence for the existence of black holes, the evidence Mr Gavin requested for proof of alien/UFO activity. My point is to stress the need not to dismiss things out of hand just because you haven’t got a chunk of them on your desk.

    Do you seriously think all of those things have not been comprehensively checked and ruled out by the teams of military, scientific, technical and government officials that have studiously investigated cases that are then marked ‘unexplained’?

    @cfour said:
    Presumption fallacy. If it is "unexplained" it does not mean it is aliens. It could still be lights, drones, etc

    No-one said it was, it’s just another possibility that an open minded person might consider. But if ‘lights, drones etc’ have all been ruled out through a detailed investigation, why do you still consider them potential explanations? Sounds like ‘presumption fallacy’ to me, that lad.

    @cfour said: Never in the middle of Manhattan or Mexico City.

    Funnily enough Mexico city has been a hotspot for decades.

    @cfour said:

    So you would class belief in black holes as a ‘religion’ then?

    WHAT?!?! ROFL. Biggest non-sequitur in history.
    OK, I am not sure by now if you are trolling or are so immersed into believing this that it feels like discussing with Jehovah's Witnesses.
    I am done discussing this in any case as we are running in circles. I hope George Soros and the Reptilians are not angry at your for discovering their secret :p

    You dismissed talk of other dimensions earlier, yet are a firm believer in the existence of black holes.

    Are you aware that a number of scientists are proposing multidimensional theories associated with black holes? You know about string/superstring theory, right?

    So do you also dismiss black hole multidimensional theories as being based on ‘religious belief’?

    Are they trolling you? Maybe they are in cahoots with “ George Soros and the Reptilians”?

    It’s good to have an open mind about things, it’s how we learn and evolve.

  • @cfour said:

    @Identor said:

    Our brains are conditioned to function in this world and only use that limit.

    I disagree. We can measure plenty of things that our brain cannot sense: We can take pictures of objects that do not fall into the wavelengths that our eyes can see, we can detect frequencies that our ears cannot hear, we can predict events by purely mathematical equations that we have no control over, we can manipulate at will objects that we cannot touch... Unless you are talking about a parallel Universe of some sort. But if that is the case you providing an explanation that has zero evidence for a phenomenon that we do not even know whether it exists or is pure speculation. We might as well be trying to explain Unicorns in Saturn by Parallel Universes

    You are right, we can measure and visualise things beyond our senses, like Röntgen-photos, sources in radio-wavelength in the universe, but these are translations to fit to our senses. Math is a language to communicate with our brain, so we can explain what's happening. We use technology and science as an interface between the brain and the "outside" world, so it tells us how it works and give us a meaning.
    A chip inside a computer can accept signals, calculate it, and send signals. But, is it aware that it is inside a computer?
    Offcourse we are not chips, and we have conciseness and reason, but who are we actually in the universe that is. Are we the fish in a pond?

  • @auxmux said:
    What's the point for an alien species to randomly visit earth? Are we special as a species that advanced aliens should care for us? In the Bible, angels come to interfere in the affairs of the earth. Greek gods did the same. Is this just the same story?

    What’s the point in people visiting souvenir shops invariably filled with the same tat that nobody cares about when on holiday..…… but still they come.

  • @knewspeak said:

    @Carnbot said:
    Funny that aliens seem to appear only where there no high definition cameras, in the days where there are HD cameras everywhere.

    From the military, it has to be declassified, those videos that are available, the technology is outdated now, so they got declassified. If you manage to read the linked article I posted above, those with security clearances, state, more recent ones which are numerous, are of much better quality, as well as corroborated testimony and other separate factual corroborating data.

    A better quality of blur?
    But seriously, I'm always interested in unexplained phenonema but if they had anything convincing that they wanted different opinions of I'm sure they would release them. But yes as time goes on all recording equipment gets better, especially for the general public. That's why if there were any truth to these phenomena being alien then more data should be available and more often and it just isn't happening so far...But who knows maybe one day we'll see more convincing evidence. I'm not ruling anything out, I'm just not holding my breath. I'm just more interested in the depth of phenomena available in the universe to study as it gets richer all the time. :)

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