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 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 1:27 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

Since nobody bit in the thread that impelled me previously...

Extraterrestrial life is real. We already know this.

Carl Sagan famously spoke about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, which is absolutely true. Now out there in The World are all sorts of fantastical claims and half-myths pertaining to UFOs, ranging from the amusing-to-contemplate to the outrageous. A person who lives by reason hears such things and ponders the process by which new supernatural - new mythology - is created.

BUT...

... In the battle of Britain, a technology war was waged. Germany was going to crush the UK air force unless some way to smartly wield their comparatively limited air power could be found. They found it. Radar. Using the at-the-time primitive radar systems, Britain detected German planes at speed and altitude, accurately, and sent planes to intercept. Throughout this time, both sides invented and counter-invented various radar technologies to detect aerial signatures and to guide bombers onto targets.

They trusted the absolute scientific efficacy of radar.

During the Cold War, before the advent of the ICBM, the western continent feared a bomber strike from over the poles, or down through Alaska. Soviet bombers could in a short time fly over North American cities and release nuclear payloads. To thwart this threat (at least to some extent) detection systems were created. NORAD came into being. Soviet counter-parts were created. Essentially high-tech radar installations that monitored & tracked movement through the atmosphere of airborne masses.

They knew that radar worked. Concrete science.

Since then, various developments in radar-defeating craft or missiles cause alarm bells to ring. Stealth technology to counter the ever-present reliability of radar.

And now, with the heaviest of cynic hats upon you, ponder how it is that suddenly with the subject of UFOs, all these radar technologies - developed, tested, refined over the last 75 years - are suddenly untrustworthy, unreliable, and fraught with degrees of ambiguous interpretation. Bullshit.

Radar contacts, tracks, and signatures show we have constructs at various times in Earth atmosphere, executing maneuvers that are well-beyond the capacities of current and past Earth technology, and that therefore these must be engineerings of foreign intelligent life. Aliens are real.

NOW look upon that body of mythology and ask if all of it is still fanciful.

Thank you for your time.

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 1:54 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I didn't think you were serious. There's zero credible evidence intelligent life ever visited Earth. All these antidotes falls flat on their face when you consider this- Aliens have the technology to travel all the way to Earth, but they lack the stealth technology to prevent detection from any Bob or Jane with a camcorder.

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 2:00 PM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

I try to rationalize as much as possible.

I really do think flat earthers don't propel their drivel because they believe it - they don't. It's just the absolute minimalist thing to do - watch my finger. Learning about something of consequence is exactly the opposite.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 3:30 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Aliens are real?! What's next? God?

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 3:40 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

I am absolutely serious. And none of you respond to the point of logic I just made.

Furthermore: since aliens are real, two things must be absolutely possible. the means to travel across vast distances in acceptable timeframes, and an alternative means of propulsion/lift.

But back to the main point. Consider it. Think this through.

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

. There's zero credible evidence intelligent life ever visited Earth.
All these antidotes falls flat on their face....


SOLIUM is proof of that

btw its "anecdotes" not antitdotes.
brm

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 4:33 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Warlock,

i have given up debating two subjects:
Was their a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination?
Are UFOs and alien abductions really happening?

Its like debating whether the Holocaust was real.

get my drift?
bruce

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 4:48 PM   
 By:   Charles Thaxton   (Member)

I'm a UFO "believer" for decades...but just because radars track unknown objects doesn't prove said objects are aliens. We need more definitive evidence...like alloys not found on Earth, or live or dead E.T.

 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 5:08 PM   
 By:   Warlok   (Member)

Mr. Marshall - In agreement, though I am frankly tired of people disbelieving that which is plain. And continuing to disbelieve such is a reason why the world is in such a sad state (!).

Charles Thaxton - I think I would bid you to not "take a leap" but to simply reason this through to its next step.

I put this to you: if you already think UFO phenomena are real, then...

... What are they? They aren`t human craft. Weather phenomena impossible - radar is a little more sophisticated than that. Optical illusions do not register on radar. Human psychotic delusion is not a factor in radar records.

I respectively submit to you that the logical conclusion is extraterrestrial construct.

Arthur Conan Doyle`s logic applies. Its time we (mankind) stopped quibbling about basic realities.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 5:18 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

....though I am frankly tired of people disbelieving that which is plain. And continuing to disbelieve such is a reason why the world is in such a sad state (!).

I put this to you: if you already think UFO phenomena are real, then...
... What are they? They aren`t human craft. Weather phenomena impossible - radar is a little more sophisticated than that. Optical illusions do not register on radar. Human psychotic delusion is not a factor in radar records.

I respectively submit to you that the logical conclusion is extraterrestrial construct.


"A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence...There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics they miss out on seeing the whole thing." -REPO MAN.

So you see, yours is not the only "logical" conclusion.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 6:58 PM   
 By:   betenoir   (Member)

Have you actually seen genuine and verifiable radar tracks of such objects? Do you have access to such recorded radar tracks? If so, how can you be certain they are genuine and verifiable? Or are you just relying on anecdotes where people claim such objects have been tracked on radar, without being able to provide the physical evidence of such tracking? Those are key questions. One answer means there is some irrefutable evidence of something, the other answer goes back to anecdotes and faith in the credibility of the sources. Genuine and verifiable are critical elements.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 13, 2017 - 9:03 PM   
 By:   Joe 1956   (Member)

With all the cameras nowadays, within reach of most people, and with web cams and dash cams and millions of permanently mounted security cameras operating 24/7 all over the globe....

Well, where are they?

They're not about to travel staggering distances just to play Peek-A-Boo and practice nocturnal proctology.

UFO's sell books and magazines and videos and make for sometimes good movies and campfire yarns, but that's all.

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 4:44 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

It's all in the mind.

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 8:24 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

With all the cameras nowadays, within reach of most people, and with web cams and dash cams and millions of permanently mounted security cameras operating 24/7 all over the globe....

Well, where are they?

They're not about to travel staggering distances just to play Peek-A-Boo and practice nocturnal proctology.

UFO's sell books and magazines and videos and make for sometimes good movies and campfire yarns, but that's all.


Don't use logic and reason. Or you will be called an idiot like me.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 8:38 AM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Well, where are they?

Where? Everywhere.

We Have Irrefutable Proof That Your Cat Is, in Fact, an Alien
http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/cat-behavior-humor-5-reasons-your-cat-might-be-a-space-alien
http://catalienconspiracy.com/

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 8:50 AM   
 By:   Charles Thaxton   (Member)

I've often wondered why...if aliens are so secretive and stealthy...why they cover their ships with such dazzling nighttime light displays.

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 8:52 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)



"A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence...There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics they miss out on seeing the whole thing." -REPO MAN.




Which is a good quote.

When people talk infinity and infinite distances, they have to get to a paradox mentality, which sadly we're not at yet. We can't go politics, but that particular sphere shows that, a century after Einstein's special relativity we still think Newton rules and polarization is the way to approach everything. Which it shouldn't be. Even the Hindus and Buddhists had better understanding of interrelatedness via the big bang.

That said, as far as radar is concerned, you need to remember that the whole development of radar is shrouded in obfuscation because both sides kept their discoveries secret. I forget the details, but the Germans had effective radar too of a different kind, I think Britain used a newer triangulation system or something. And, since radar was still comparatively new, it's only to be expected that 'new' sightings of anomalies wouldn't have appeared before the late '40s, which means nothing in one way, but in another it simply implies that these anomalies are part of the normal workings and limitations of radar itself.

There's no evidence either way, but to deny the likelihood is as wrong as to swallow whole.

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 9:00 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

You dont need radar to spot weird aliens. They are in full, brazen display on FSM every day!! wink

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 10:21 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)


There's no evidence either way, but to deny the likelihood is as wrong as to swallow whole.


It depends on exactly what you're talking about: the likelihood that's there's other intelligent (like we so-called intelligent creatures) life in the universe or the likelihood that they've visited us.

The former, most certainly, the later, highly unlikely to the point of a belief in its likelihood being akin to religious faith.

I personally can't make that leap of faith, though I've entertained the idea of it when I was younger. Now, I just see absolutely zero evidence of it outside the anecdotal, which just doesn't cut for me.

 
 Posted:   Feb 14, 2017 - 10:34 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)



I personally can't make that leap of faith, though I've entertained the idea of it when I was younger. Now, I just see absolutely zero evidence of it outside the anecdotal, which just doesn't cut for me.




Add the notion that time-travel might someday be accomplished, or that it has already somewhere else, and options are still viable. It looks impossible by today's physics at our level of size, but it goes with the territory that it could be millennia before it's achieved, so the statistics about space could also be applied to time: i.e. instead of saying, the statistical probability of intelligent life out there is vast because so is the universe, try saying, 'The statistical probability of a future generation overcoming obstacles to time-travel is vast because the future is vast'. Certainly if they did visit us, they'd (a) stay discreet so as not to influence time and (b), have such a vast amount of history to pick from, they'd but rarely come to our particular time.

 
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