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What We Can Learn from Studying UFOs (Avi Loeb, former chair of the Harvard astronomy department)
Scientific American ^ | Avi Loeb

Posted on 06/24/2021 6:44:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: RoosterRedux

Are the aliens 👽 going to save us from the communists?


21 posted on 06/24/2021 8:19:20 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: cgbg

The problem is science. Data, evidence, and narratives are filtered and imposed with an agenda. Especially in the fields of history. There is something they are hiding about our history. And these UFOs and what they are hiding in history may very well be the same.


22 posted on 06/24/2021 8:21:39 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Phlap

There are no UFOs. There are no aliens. There isn’t anything to study. Were there aliens with inter stellar technology, we would know.


And who told you that? Or are you just guessing?

There are trillions of galaxies each with over 300 million stars, each of those with at least one planet. How many planets are there?

If only .001% of those planets have advanced civilizations, how many planet is that?

If .001% of those planets have some form of transportation that allows them to cross stellar distances nearly instantaneously, how many planets is that?

“Humans may choose to remain ignorant forever. They can refuse to recognize a reality that does not flatter their ego, like the simple idea that we are not the smartest species that in the Milky Way.”

Where do puny Earth people get all their amazing hubris from?


23 posted on 06/24/2021 9:17:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Phlap

Gulf War I build-up, in Saudi.

I was a forward air controller with the 101st. Was in a Kiowa 2-place helo, working radio relay during an exercise.

Saw a VERY DARK AND LARGE (POSSIBLY 100-YD ACROSS) SHADOW racing from the southeast to northwest. Shadow had very sharp edges, meaning it must be close to the ground. Could see the ground in the shadow. Could not see anything except for the shadow and it was traveling about 800-1,000 knots.

It zipped by us about a few hundred yards away.

About 10-min later we saw the shadow return, reverse course. I, an A-10 pilot and the Army pilot (Apache pilot), turned to fly an intercept course, to get in front of it. As we closed to about a few hundred yards the shadow abruptly stopped, dead. It didn’t slow, it stopped.

We reflexively banked towards the shadow and it was instantaneously moving again, about 800-1,000 knots and flew away to the southeast.

It was gone.

Pilot and I looked at each other, wowed by what we saw.

When we landed there was none of that hokey “I didn’t see anything” rot you see in movies and such, instead, we couldn’t stop talking about what we saw.

Was it extraterrestrial or not, can’t say.

I can say with certainty that we saw something REAL that was extraordinary and well beyond any capabilities and limitations we “know” we are bound by.

I don’t share your absolute feeling that we have all the answers. We are not God and that means we don’t know everything so somethings may be possible, especially stuff we feel may not be possible.


24 posted on 06/24/2021 9:38:45 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: a fool in paradise

I have always been amazed at the effort to not consider, with our almost childish like capacity, there is something through space that is smarter than we are and has figured out how to expand their horizons well past our knowledge or technology. (But not our arrogantcy)

And if I was them, and oversaw the violence and idiotic actions of the highest of the food chains on this wet rock displayed, I wouldn’t walk in with an attempt to contact either. Here they’ve figured out how to handle space travel of light years, and we can’t even figure out what race or gender we are.

wy69


25 posted on 06/24/2021 9:54:46 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Hulka

Those that have never witnesed a UFO will never believe it until they have actually seen one. As a youngster growing up on the farm, with no AC, a lot of time was spent outdoors even in the evening. Not counting the hundreds of times camped out sleeping under the stars or varmint hunting or fishing at night. I have seen many unexplainable phenomina yet to try and explain that to someone who has never spent much time outside at night is near impossible, they just refuse to believe it.


26 posted on 06/24/2021 9:57:53 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: whitney69

>> and we can’t even figure out what race or gender we are.

It’s a cultist attack on foundations of society.

Destroy the language and institutions.

There is no family.
There is no man or woman.
There is no absolute truth.


27 posted on 06/24/2021 10:17:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: NWFree

It’s easy for them to process us if there is only one world government to deal with/control/conquer.


28 posted on 06/24/2021 10:19:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: eastforker

There is much truth in your observation.


29 posted on 06/24/2021 10:30:04 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: RoosterRedux

I fear a ‘President’ who threatens to nuke citizens (who believe in the Second Amendment) a LOT MORE MORE THAN I FEAR VISITORS FROM ANOTHER TIME THAT HAVEN’T DONE CRAP TO US... OVER THE CENTURIES THEY’VE BEEN VISITING.


30 posted on 06/24/2021 10:55:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (RAPE isn't penis violence. ARSON isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: a fool in paradise
There's no way of determining just how much of this is true but therapists and investigators who work with abduction "experiencers" say that these so-called aliens (whatever they are) are quite far along in creating hybrids, some of which are already blending in with our population.

In other words, their stated goals do not include conquering humans in the classic sense.

Some abductees have said that their ultimate goals seem to focus on joining with humans to share in our experiences of life on this planet by indwelling our minds, bodies, and spirits with us. How this involves the creation of hybrids is unknown at this point.

31 posted on 06/24/2021 10:56:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: PIF

We have gone to our moon a three day trip with our current technology covering 450000 miles. For aliens to travel from the closest habitable star it would take at the least 14 lightyears which is 14x((((186000x60)x60))x24)))x365))))miles away. Voyager 1 which left Earth in 1977 has yet to travel a single lightyear. There are no aliens here. Get over it.


32 posted on 06/24/2021 11:00:44 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: RoosterRedux

https://youtu.be/JhnUX5DeoyA


33 posted on 06/24/2021 11:19:35 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

You’d think that genetic differences would be detected in some patient some day (who may or may not know of his or her past heritage)

Also more species means more diseases we may have no history with.


34 posted on 06/24/2021 11:19:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: GOPJ

Well there was that one time that they built those pyramids...


35 posted on 06/24/2021 11:20:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Predator might have been a better reference.


36 posted on 06/24/2021 11:32:11 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Phlap

Not a problem if time, space, and distance is adjustable from portal jump points. Jump in a portal and pop out in another in just minutes. Wormholes are real.


37 posted on 06/24/2021 11:39:26 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Phlap

You are assuming that the tech we use now is the only means of travel the stars - I refer you to “James Clerk Maxwell: The man who changed everything”

Four of his 200 field equations were transformed into vector equations by a self taught man named Oliver Heaviside who lived in his mom’s basement.

Those 4 gave us everything we know about the electromagnetic spectrum, and without which, neither Tesla nor Einstein would have been more than obscure family names.

Maxwell postulated instantaneous travel from anyone point to any other point in the Universe as well as free energy (what Tesla was attempting), and more. No one publicly has looked at his original (now rare) work since.

So do not be so certain about what human science knows - chances are that most of what we know is wrong, and the little we do know is distorted.


38 posted on 06/24/2021 11:42:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RoosterRedux
"You can observe a lot by watching."
39 posted on 06/24/2021 11:43:15 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Phlap

The August 1863 edition of Scientific American included a discussion of whether or not the Sun was a lump of burning coal, in which case it’s age would not exceed 5,000 years. They had no knowledge then of the nuclear strong force, so the Sun being made of coal was one of the best explanations they had at the time. Today, our knowledge of Physics is certainly greater, but no less incomplete than it was then.


40 posted on 06/24/2021 11:46:20 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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