Posted on 12/25/2017 7:36:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
It is... good for Harry Reid and his little-green-men-obsessed billionaire pal for keeping the flame of weird curiosity alive.
But I also doubt that such research will ever prove that the strange lights and vessels filmed by human pilots actually belong to a starfaring species that’s come to our planet to study, experiment and eventually offer us a hand up or else ruthlessly invade....
Other sapient species may indeed be out there, but the most parsimonious explanation for all the U.F.O. encounters since Roswell is not that our nuclear testing or space program finally inspired the galaxy to come see what humanity is all about.
This was the argument of Jacques Vallée, a French-born scientist and a wonderful character in the annals of ufology, who wrote a wild book in the heady year of 1969 called “Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers,” which The Times’s U.F.O.-spending scoop gave me an excuse to read.
Vallée’s conclusion is basically the reverse of Erich von Däniken’s thesis in “Chariots of the Gods,” published to better sales the prior year. Where von Däniken argued that old myths and biblical tales alike contain evidence of ancient alien visitations ...Vallée suggested that contemporary U.F.O. narratives are of piece with stories about Northern European fairies and their worldwide kith and kin — and that it’s more reasonable to think that we’re reading our space age preoccupations into a persistent phenomenon that might be much weirder than a simple visitation from the stars.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There's a great sci fi book that addresses that premise called "Genesis" by W. A. Harbinson........
I thoroughly enjoyed it...
You are not well read on the issue. You are merely reacting poorly to something outside of your psychological box. Imagine what an explanation of a cell phone would seem like to anyone in the 1600s.
How do you know that as a fact? The point is, it is just a guess. Perhaps we are a long lost colony, so long that we have forgotten our history. It is even possible that we were originally exiled to a remote place, much like Australia or Georgia, only on a planetary scale. If we are a creation, is it so hard to believe that the blueprints of life would be copy-and-pasted throughout the cosmos?
We just don't know enough to adopt opinion as dogma. Anything is possible, even something we haven't thought of yet.
Human DNA contains about 3 billion nucleotides. Life on another planet would evolve independently of our own, resulting in DNA with a completely different combination of base pairs. The odds are fantastically against even 1% of their DNA matching ours, while it takes well over a 99% match to be in the same species, therefore capable of interbreeding. It would be like a jigsaw puzzle with a billion pieces thrown into the air, and while landing on the ground form the puzzles solution just by chance.
Oh, and if we were a lost colony from some alien species, our DNA would not match any other life on Earth. But it does at least partially match every other species we have found, clearly indicating we evolved on this planet, not some other one. So I can’t really accept the theory that we are “children” of some alien species.
Telepathic Intruder, reach out with your imagination. It is a lot easier to find many ideas that fit the overwhelming "evidence" of thousands of sightings of these things compared to the two reasons some folks rely on to explain it all away. It is a short jump to assume that WE don't know everything about physics, since we've practiced it only for a couple of hundred years. Older species are likely to be FAR ahead of us technologically, including in ways we think are impossible. Heck, that is an easier reach for me that relying on out of hand dismissal.
Then there is that nagging bit about Creation, even guided evolution. Those ships might just be tending their garden.
The Ostrich Approach if funny to observe from my perspective.
It’s not really out of hand dismissal, just failed attempts at understanding. If UFO’s do represent visitors from across interstellar distances, they’re here for reasons I can’t fathom. In this case I’d prefer some basis for understanding it rather than jumping blindly to conclusions. That’s in line with the scientific method. Faith is for God.
I’d sure like to sit down with you an chat a few hours. I think that would be a lot of fun. Your head seems screwed on right.
I can argue a point when I have the facts, but I’m pretty hard hitting with them. I don’t like debating creationists, for example, because I don’t like shattering their illusions. Their beliefs don’t bother me but I can’t help correcting their misunderstandings, and somehow I feel bad about it at the same time. I also pick movies apart for their plot contradictions and scientific inaccuracies, which some people seem to think distracts from the enjoyment of them.
We all know why they’re here - ANAL PROBING!!!
Yeah, perverts from outer space. Almost as bad as Killer Klowns.
“Perverts From Outer Space” would be a great Mystery Science Fiction 3000 film!
We seem to have enough of those in Hollywood already.
Maybe they indeed are from outer space!
Creationists can be a real nuisance. One must forcibly overlook a lot of evidence in order to dismiss evolution. It always puzzles me to see people just dismiss evidence because it doesn't fit in with their initial conclusions. That is why this UFO phenomenon is so intriguing. It just doesn't seem to fit in with anything we understand; yet, it is obvious people are seeing something. Mass hallucination? Over centuries? I'd love to have some answers before I croak. I suspect that will not occur.
Field trips to study entire species gone berserk? ;-D
... and what if the other species were humans and the earthlings were their criminal filth?
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