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  1. There is a probability tree that begins to be pretty daunting. 1. Probability of intelligent life evolving. 2. Probability of intelligent life turning skyward. 3. Probability of intelligent life doing so at the same time intelligent life has evolved on earth. 4. Probability of intelligent life existing within their own technological capabilities while intelligent life exists on earth. 5. Probability of detecting or accidentally bumping into earth. I can’t classify those numbers and neither can anyone else, but it’s for sure a big number. Where I depart with the believer is simple. Reach for the terrestrial explanation(s) first. If all terrestrial explanations must be ruled out, then let’s talk. I have yet to encounter a case that meets that standard.
  2. UFO sightings are an Anglosphere obsession. Independently, this means nothing other than that UFO sightings are in absolute and per capita terms reported more in the Anglosphere than elsewhere by far. But it’s a data point nonetheless.
  3. Entirely relevant to this thread and the discussion of confusing and unexplainable things being picked up by military sensors. https://www.twz.com/air/britestorm-miniature-electronic-warfare-system-can-allow-small-drones-to-create-big-ghost-formations
  4. Also to @Brisketexan’s point— it’s been said on this thread that two non-U.S. government figures (Gary Nolan and Avi Loeb) possess samples of interstellar or non-human origin metal samples. Is it too much to ask to follow the lead of the notoriously open and transparent Vatican and hand samples over to independent labs and experts like the Shroud of Turin? If they are confident in what they have, then they would welcome this analysis?
  5. The stuff. We have interstellar fragments? Ok, turn them over to CalTech or MIT and publish the results for peer review. A whistleblower knows where the craft is? Ok, where. What facility, what day did you see it.
  6. Just noting that we are enlisting further conspiracies as a necessity of making the first conspiracy more plausible. By my account, we are up to three nesting dolls that have been explicitly invoked: 1. Firm evidence of ET visitation to earth exists and has been concealed for generations by the federal government. 2. Keeping a secret of this magnitude requires a cabal/deep state of government insiders who illegally and unconstitutionally run programs outside the knowledge of the nation’s highest elected authorities. 3. To keep the existence of this cabal/deep state secret it was forced to assassinate a U.S. president and pin the blame on a stooge. It’s conspiracy all the way down, and citing a conspiracy to make another one more plausible is the opposite of evidence. And it reflects the general trend where UFO disclosure public figures gradually slide into more and more outlandish claims to reinforce the original one (psychic powers, inter-dimensional spirits, shape-shifting, etc.)
  7. The counterpoint to this is that Donald J Trump was president for four years and we all know he would have shown everyone the aliens if they were there.
  8. Solid proof of ET life and technology on earth would be the most important announcement in human history, the only thing that could be bigger would be proof of life after death or the existence of God(s). The most implausible part of the theory is the idea that the federal government and defense contractors kept it under wraps (for no particularly good reason) for 80 years.
  9. The movie needed a different title. It’s fine as a movie but the book explains why the main character is a “legend.” And the vampires are more interesting because of it.
  10. I find this analogy interesting. Some past civilizations observed phenomena outside of their experience. They attempted to explain it via the supernatural or implausible, and it turned out to be flesh and blood people from plant earth using technology they hadn’t seen before and they had serious errors in perception (combining man and horse into one). It is a good analogy just not in support of the argument.
  11. I also think that there is life out there, and probably some sort of space faring life. I think the factors of time and speed and physics make it exceedingly unlikely it’s visited us. The neutrinos faster than light was later shown to be a calculation error: https://www.science.org/content/article/once-again-physicists-debunk-faster-light-neutrinos Aliens with FTL travel are a fun sci-fi device, but no more credible than aliens who have a philosophers stone to turn lead to gold. It’s just not how the universe or its building blocks work.
  12. This isn’t like innovation at all. Indoor plumbing works based on physical principles that have been well understood for millennia; any innovation is simply thinking of how to apply them or invest in infrastructure. Advances in how to use electricity happened incrementally via rigorous and repeated testing. It can’t be said enough that there’s nothing to study when it comes to alien visitation; there’s nothing to apply the scientific method to. There are people and organizations doing rigorous and scientific searches for life off planet but their work is not headline grabbing and hasn’t revealed anything mind-blowing.
  13. This is just citing a lack of evidence as evidence. Beyond that, SAP projects leak all the time, and not via word of mouth rumor mills. Schematics, photos, test results, etc. They get sold to the Russians or Chinese or Israel because it’s valuable and people are greedy, or stolen because high-capacity adversaries dedicate incredible sums of money to stealing secrets and they’re good at it. What Grusch posits exist is orders of magnitude more valuable than the chemical formula for radar-absorbing paint. Ok. Gary Nolan is a medical researcher. So just take these samples to a few different excellent private and or commercial metallurgical researchers and have them take a look and publish the results. Why hasn’t this happened?
  14. I think it’s extremely relevant that none of the former officials in the relatively small circle of UAP-promoters have ever claimed that they have personally seen or had access to the headline-grabbing stuff. They have said that others who do have access have told them it exists.
  15. Boneless shoulder slices. @Party_Taco, I think a loin would get a bit too dry. If I did this again I might intersperse some belly slices.
  16. Pork gyros with eggplant spread, salad, tzatziki, pickled onions. Still dialing the right heat level for the new rotisserie attachment, so some of the edges got a bit crispier but the internal was perfect and I just sliced the char off and returned to the fire.
  17. FT reporting similar. I am not sure why this is contested, the UNIFL mission has a mandate but not the authority to actually do anything about Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon.
  18. At what point do we see some creative and hungry for winning university try a radical experiment with staffing and move to an NFL model in all but name. A general manager and staff take over NIL coordination, scouting, recruiting, portal shopping and just hire a coaching staff to take care of on the field aside from a few niceties like the formal in-home or campus visit? There is no more limit in on-the-field instruction and this seems like an experiment that has had its time come. Very few football coaches have the skill set to oversee the new system.
  19. U.S. to deploy THAAD to Israel: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3934493/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-maj-gen-pat-ryder-on-the-deployment-of-a/ This is likely part of an exchange for Israel to temper its choice of targets if/when it retaliates against Iran and the presence of U.S. troops provides a powerful deterrent effect against future Iranian action. Netanyahu also gets to tout its deployment as a win domestically. I see this as part of a descalatory effort.
  20. You have to wonder what Lincoln is feeling. Riley, OU, and maybe USC all came out for the worse.
  21. Well, but the deep sea is incredibly constraining on life, which is why whenever we go down there we find blobs and jellies and invertebrates eeking out sustenance based on whatever drifts down. And if anything it’s even more hostile to materials. There’s no way of doing metallurgy down there, let alone large scale mining or energy production.
  22. Got off a flight today and shortly into it I felt the guy in back of me firmly pressing his knee into the seat back through the fabric. First couple of times I shifted my weight back to let him know he was doing it. Third time I turned around and said “you’re shoving your knee into my back and it’s uncomfortable. Please stop.” The dude loudly protested that he wasn’t doing it, and showed me that at the moment his knee was not shoved into the seat. I just shrugged. No more issues for the rest of the flight. Why lie? Just say “sorry about that” and move along. (Before I’m asked, I was not reclining.)
  23. Breakfast is good everywhere because over easy or fried eggs can never be vacuum packed, they have to be cracked fresh. And because you cannot screw up bacon cooked on a griddle. But once you’re in the lunch rush and trying to crank out pre-formed patties or chicken breasts on a griddle, then introducing eggs into the rhythm is absolutely going to mess up the flow.
  24. It’s bullshit what’s he’s doing but the federal contractor piece does not apply to him personally.
  25. Dad is a Tech grad and I remember when mom got him the beveled Tt logo to replace the old one on his truck. I thought it looked like garbage then. The above look is their best but the red and black from the late Spike era is also great. Tech has the colors and branding there to have a fantastic look. This logo was perfect for the team and school:
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