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02-05-2015, 08:35 AM
Speakeasy's posts are seriously convincing me of the veracity of this L.A. UFO incident.
But if that is the case, then why are beings capable of travelling at the speed of light flying completely visible and slow-moving saucers, and on top of it are so incompetent that they can be shot by our primitive missiles?
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02-05-2015, 09:20 AM
maybe there is a planet with only woman .
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02-05-2015, 04:52 PM
I'm personally open to the hypothesis that some UFO's could be aliens, but in my opinion it's only a theoretical possibility without a single shred of credible evidence. Battle of LA, Roswell, etc were WWII and cold war hysteria-fueled mythic stories, nothing more unfortunately. No one would like it more than me if there was some advanced civilization out there (see my avatar?) but I don't see any evidence of it.
Hypothetical question for the guys that believe some UFOs might be aliens (this gets to evidence/plausibility of an amazing claim):
Say you had a best friend Joe, an average guy like you living in an average country doing the average job. You've known him for 10+ years, he's a stand up guy, intelligent like you, etc. One day over beers Joe confesses to being a time traveller from the future on a secret mission. You say bullshit, prove it. He says if I tell you the names of the teams that will play in the Superbowl next year, and the exact score, would you believe me?
Question is: He tells you the teams and score, a year goes by, and Joe is exactly right, do you believe he's a time traveller?
My answer: No. It's amazing and very very improbable but he simply guessed right. Far more likely he's a sports nut who knows the odds, and he didn't show any behavior that can only be explained by time travel.
The UFO stories have far more likely and boring explanations.
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02-05-2015, 06:31 PM
I believe there could easily be life elsewhere in the universe.
But I am pretty sure their purpose is not to come here across the stars to just mess with us.
If they're actually here, abducting people, doing experiments, flying around our cities at night, and nothing else, that would be hilarious. I think if they came here really, we'd all end up dead. How do they have technology sufficient to come here, but wouldn't just conquer us and treat us like insects?
Imagine if they really are here messing with us and nothing else.
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02-05-2015, 08:07 PM
One thing on the whole notion of belief.
Belief can mean at least three things:
1) You believe in something with no probability of an alternative. This can also be considered *knowledge*. An example would be I believe in the fact that the world is round.
2) You believe in something based on Occam's razor. That of all the likely explanations, x is the most probable explanation. You don't necessarily slam dunk tangible proof, just probability. An example would be, I believe there is life outside of earth in the universe. I can't 100% prove it, but the probability of there being life outside earth is higher than the probability of there not being life outside earth because of the sheer number of stars and the age of the universe, so I believe that life exists somewhere else in the universe.
3) You believe in something that is neither factual knowledge or the most probably explanation, i.e. a kid believing that Santa Claus left those toys under the tree.
My belief about what happened in the skies over LA I feel falls under number 2. Nobody can has given any probable alternative explanation of what it was. There were certainly enough credible witnesses both civilian and military as well as photographic evidence. So it definitely doesn't fall under 3.
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02-11-2015, 05:46 AM
Travelling in the solar system at light speed:
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In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.
I've taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I've kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.
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