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Mikey4

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  1. 38 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

    The united states is 1.867% of the earth's total surface area. We are very lucky these alien craft crashed in the most technologically advanced nation and not anywhere else.

    This is all probably bullshit, but the primary claim is that Italy recovered the craft during WWII, and the U.S. learned about it and worked with the Vatican to obtain it somehow.

  2. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    So what? This guy seems to be a respected, legitimate resource that was in a position to capture leaks from within these programs. And, he appears at this time to have no personal agenda. This story should be all over the news, imo, unless I’m missing something. 

    I'd love for this to be true. But when confronting exceptional claims, what is more likely? That we've secretly recovered alien spaceships with dead aliens inside, and no hard evidence of the recovery has ever escaped? Or that this guy talked to someone whom he finds to he credible and convincing, but in fact his source is mistaken, exaggerating, or flat out lying? The hearsay element of this, combined with the extreme nature of the claims, makes me very skeptical.

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  3. 6 hours ago, NaTeWHO said:

    Picking up what you're putting down, but stop typing THAT. It's incredibly distracting.

    Here's a fun exercise, delete every THAT and reread your posts. Let me know how many added value.

    Derail alert:

    I'm in the "that" camp. Over the years, I've read a lot of writing by the anti-that crowd, and removing all the thats is what I find distracting and borderline unreadable. Why? It differs from 80%+ of what I'm reading. So I stumble over awkward clauses and then remember, "oh yeah, this guy is deleting all the thats," mentally re-insert the missing that, and then continue. Situationally, it can be OK, especially if you have a real need for efficiency, but normally there's no need to delete every "that" in a peice of writing.

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  4. 19 hours ago, Goredho said:

    Riddle me this, star children...

    If an extra-terrestrial species were masters of physics and could manipulate its laws to bend space-time so as to allow them to traverse distances hundreds or thousands of light years far...

    How come they can't approach our level of stealth technology so as to stay out of the Weekly World News?

    As a preface, I'm pretty convinced that the crafts spotted by pilots have terrestrial explanations and that the whistlebower's claims will be debunked with investigation. But to address your question....

    Think about the steps of the Drake equation. We should expect that habitable planets are more common than planets with life, planets with life are more common than planets with intelligent life, and, probably, planets with intelligent life are more common than planets with intelligent life and the capability to detect and shoot down spacecraft.

    So assume that an intelligent civilization studies star systems like we do -- detects exoplanets and does spectral analyses to look for chemical signatures consistent with life -- and then sends scouts out to explore interesting planets. They may do this for thousands of years or longer without ever encountering planets in that last category -- where intelligent life could detect and shoot down their crafts. In that case, it would be logical for the crafts not be equipped with stealth tech... because why would they need it?

  5. Just now, ChickenNuggets said:

    I for one don't think our national security is furthered by having Congress know everything about our top secret stuff... Yes, yes, they are our constitutional representatives in government charged with oversight... But they are political creatures who would torpedo America's national security interests in a heartbeat if it meant helping them get re-elected... imho.

     

    This is 100% true. The problem is, our Constitution sets up 3 branches of government, and everyone working for the federal government is ultimately accountable to (falls under) at least one branch. The Constitution doesn't allow for some shadow agency that doesn't report to Congress or the President.

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  6. 42 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    At this point it's either a psy-op or it's real. If you think a former intelligence official testifying in a congressional hearing under oath is just him fucking with people trying to perpetuate a hoax you're being rather obtuse. 

    So I haven't followed this super closely, but am I correct that 100% of his testimony is hearsay? In other words, he is relating what others have told him but has not personally seen the ships or aliens? If so, then it really doesn't matter how credible *he* is. He could 100% believe the things he has been told, but those things may still be untrue because the person he talked to was confused, crazy, combining elements of truth with speculation or exaggeration, etc.

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    Edit here: Also, keep in mind that it's been ~80 years since the world superpowers had the opportunity and incentive to put their most top-secret tech on display for the world to see. We don't know what's locked up in research labs. It's entirely possible that this guy talked to someone who knew we had recovered wild and unexplained technology but drew an incorrect conclusion that the tech was extraterrestrial.

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    It sounds like they have the wrong guy testifying. Give us the names of the people you talked to, who claim to have first-hand knowledge, and let's get them under oath.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    A couple of weeks before he passed, he had almost completely lost the ability to make any kind of words, only some noises.   I was sitting in a chair beside him.  He reached out for my hand, looked at me, took a deep breath, and thanked me for taking care of his daughter.  I lost it.

     

    Carry on everyone.

     

     

    Damn, sorry for your loss. I had a similar experience when my FIL was in the final days of his battle with cancer. I promised to take care of his wife and daughter. I don't think anyone could keep his eyes dry in such a surreal moment.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Edit: also, lulz for "I'm not denying it, but it sure doesn't seem to be happening!" jlawok.gif

    I haven't seen any predictions that American cities will be "under water" 27 years from now. But I'm land locked and don't pay super close attention to this stuff, so maybe I've missed it.

  9. 2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    If we can have a healthy OL and Neyor, Whittington, Worthy, Sanders and Mitchell all contribute, this offense has potential.

    Don't forget our "depth" (/s) players -- Cook, Niblett, Moore. I don't recall Texas ever having a wr room with this much potential.

    2008 got it done with Shipley, Cosby, Collins, and Kirkendall, but they also had the most accurate qb in CFB history throwing the ball and a big running threat (Colt) to keep defenses honest. In terms of pure wr talent and potential, it's hard to improve on what we have now.

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