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Halflife Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:28 pm Post subject: UFO’s |
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Didn’t see a thread.
I am excited that we are now recognizing that creatures from other worlds may actually exist. Cuomo had a couple guys on that said we can’t automatically assume it’s our adversaries, when referencing flying objects and that we should be open minded to the other side of the spectrum that they could in fact be other worldly. |
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Ok _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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I want verifiable proof of these here flying saucers.
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Halflife Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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FernieBee wrote: | I want verifiable proof of these here flying saucers.
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We got it. |
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non-player zealot Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: UFO’s |
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Halflife wrote: | Didn’t see a thread.
I am excited that we are now recognizing that creatures from other worlds may actually exist. Cuomo had a couple guys on that said we can’t automatically assume it’s our adversaries, when referencing flying objects and that we should be open minded to the other side of the spectrum that they could in fact be other worldly. |
DT is V. V for Visitor. He eats gerbils. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: UFO’s |
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Halflife wrote: | Didn’t see a thread.
I am excited that we are now recognizing that creatures from other worlds may actually exist. Cuomo had a couple guys on that said we can’t automatically assume it’s our adversaries, when referencing flying objects and that we should be open minded to the other side of the spectrum that they could in fact be other worldly. |
I've always believed that intelligent life has to exist somewhere out in the universe. It's highly arrogant of us to think we are alone and special in such a vast expanse.
That said, it's a huge leap to say that flying objects that we can't identify are evidence that we have been visited by alien life. While that could be a possibility, it's extremely unlikely based on what we have "seen". Logic just doesn't support the idea that any alien lifer sophisticated enough to find us and travel here would lurk in the shadows and not make their presence known—be it benign or aggressive. If their mission was purely observational and they wished to remain invisible, they would use their technology to do so. They wouldn't give us occasional glimpses in shaky, out of focus and amorphous appearances only to mysteriously disappear. If their presence was nefarious, they certainly would make their presence known and definitely would not tip their hand by being occasionally "spotted".
UFO's are clearly "real". But they are just that, an unidentified sighting. The leap to the idea that because the shaky evidence is not immediately explainable in definitive terms means it must be alien is extreme.
I've been fascinated by UFO's and the possibility of alien visitation since I was a kid. And I am eager to see that possibility revealed if it were so. But despite that desire, I have seen nothing yet to even remotely demonstrate it has actually happened in any tangible sense. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
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Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Halflife wrote: | FernieBee wrote: | I want verifiable proof of these here flying saucers.
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We got it. |
We have photographs and video of apparent aerial phenomenon we can't immediately explain. That's where it ends. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Despite rapid and long term advancements in photography, all Bigfoot and UFO sightings seem required by law to be shot on low grade 1970’s Polaroid film from a distance of seven miles. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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LarryCoon Site Staff
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Omar Little wrote: | Despite rapid and long term advancements in photography, all Bigfoot and UFO sightings seem required by law to be shot on low grade 1970’s Polaroid film from a distance of seven miles. |
That's a feature, not a bug. And no matter how much our photographic technology advances, samples will still fall on a continuum from perfectly clear and in-focus to barely discernible.
The reason the barely discernible samples are held up ("blobsquatch" was a great term coined to describe them) is precisely because they're barely discernible. If they were more clear, it'd be obvious that they were mundane.
So even in a universe completely absence of anything out there, these edge cases would exist. The critical thinking errors come when people dismiss the mundane explanation for what we know has to be prevalent, in favor of an explanation that requires several new assumptions and leaps of logic. |
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Halflife Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 11:08 am Post subject: |
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crazy to assume with has vast as space is that we are the only beings. The ego that if we cant do it nothing can is laughable.
IMHO most people brush off even the possibility of other beings, creatures is because it would ruin religion. |
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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 11:46 am Post subject: |
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I just found this picture of a UFO.
Out of This World
It's not blurry, so it should prove something, right?!
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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Halflife wrote: | crazy to assume with has vast as space is that we are the only beings. The ego that if we cant do it nothing can is laughable.
IMHO most people brush off even the possibility of other beings, creatures is because it would ruin religion. |
I’m an atheist and a skeptic. I believe extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, hence why I’m an atheist. I don’t disbelieve that there was is or might be other life in the universe. I remain skeptical that any of the evidence posited for both their interstellar travel and their (repeated) presence here passes even basic muster. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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LarryCoon Site Staff
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Halflife wrote: | crazy to assume with has vast as space is that we are the only beings. The ego that if we cant do it nothing can is laughable.
IMHO most people brush off even the possibility of other beings, creatures is because it would ruin religion. |
The question of whether there is life elsewhere is a very different one, of course. One of the fallacies (a strawman argument) that frequency this is used in retort to what I said above. The dialog of the form:
Person 1: This is evidence that intelligent life is out there, and they're here!
Person 2: That's really bad evidence for anything like that
Person 1: How can you deny that life exists out there in the universe?
Of course, Person 2 said absolutely nothing about the greater question, which is what makes it a strawman.
I assume the universe is actually teeming with life, but the presumption that intelligent life is a natural result is an incorrect teleological view of evolution. Almost all of the life in the universe may turn out to be some form of slime mold.
Also, you vastly underestimate the adaptability of religion. |
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nickuku Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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The universe is too big for us to be the lone intelligent life. Its almost an impossible when consider how many planets in the habitable zone NASA has found just in the past 10 or so years. I just don't think any of them have visited Earth. _________________ Don't let perfect be the enemy of good |
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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I believe in life on other planets, but seems ridiculous that a civilization that can travel light years from their homeworld wouldn't be able to conceal themselves from humans. You are telling me they have interstellar travel technology but don't have the advancements to cloak themselves from being seen from us? |
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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I talked to some Moonies, but they didn't register as intelligent life. |
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Bol Star Player
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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lakersken80 wrote: | I believe in life on other planets, but seems ridiculous that a civilization that can travel light years from their homeworld wouldn't be able to conceal themselves from humans. You are telling me they have interstellar travel technology but don't have the advancements to cloak themselves from being seen from us? |
Could be testing our reaction to see if we're hostile. Or just trolling. |
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Halflife Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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with so much untouched ocean and no full impenetrable proof that there was ever a beginning of time who knows if they have been here. With as lush as our planet is I believe "they're here". (name that movie) |
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Halflife wrote: | with so much untouched ocean and no full impenetrable proof that there was ever a beginning of time who knows if they have been here. With as lush as our planet is I believe "they're here". (name that movie) |
Who knows any unprovable thing? So they’re all true. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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All I know about UFO's I learned from the X-Files. |
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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ChefLinda wrote: | All I know about UFO's I learned from the X-Files. |
All I learned from the x files is don’t play the drinking game where you drink every time they say Sculley or Mulder. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 1:30 am Post subject: |
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I too think there's probably some kind of life out there, but when people debate this, it amazes me how restricted their thinking is.
Life on our planet is a miracle and maybe an accident. Our planet is the perfect distance from the sun, it evolved to have water, we have oxygen and co2 in the atmosphere, etc.
Maybe water is not a requirement for life on other planets. Maybe advanced life can exist if it's 100 or more degrees above or below zero Fahrenheit. Maybe respiration doesn't require oxygen or co2.
For all we know, there may be a life form on another planet that's 100x more advanced than us that functions in a way that even our brightest scientists cannot conceive of. Or maybe, as LC said above, the only other life out there is slime mold, or no life at all. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers |
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 7:29 am Post subject: |
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slavavov wrote: | I too think there's probably some kind of life out there, but when people debate this, it amazes me how restricted their thinking is.
Life on our planet is a miracle and maybe an accident. Our planet is the perfect distance from the sun, it evolved to have water, we have oxygen and co2 in the atmosphere, etc.
Maybe water is not a requirement for life on other planets. Maybe advanced life can exist if it's 100 or more degrees above or below zero Fahrenheit. Maybe respiration doesn't require oxygen or co2.
For all we know, there may be a life form on another planet that's 100x more advanced than us that functions in a way that even our brightest scientists cannot conceive of. Or maybe, as LC said above, the only other life out there is slime mold, or no life at all. |
I'm sure life forms are fairly flexible in terms of habitats, but the vast majority of those life forms are anaerobic bacteria, or if the cocktail of ambient conditions exist, perhaps fungi, archaea, or as LarryCoon put it, a protozoan akin to slime molds. You pretty much need a massive amount of water just to regulate the surface temperature of a planet, at least in terms of developing an environment suitable for something to eventually evolve into a more advanced life form.
Chances are there's probably something advanced out there, due to the trillions of stars there has to be a combo of ambient water, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen with a temp and gravitational state conducive to advanced life. If we assume we're rather unremarkable, then there's an excellent chance that we're not alone. But any life form that advances would have to squash the known constraints of physics, and also manage to not destroy themselves by poisoning their own planet with either pollutants or violent acts of stupidity.
I strive to remain open-minded, but I need something more tangible than sketchy evidence. As the great philosopher Fox Mulder once said, "I want to believe." |
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