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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
We can learn there are a lot of weird people out there.


41 posted on 06/24/2021 11:48:56 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Hulka

My uncle - who’s in his late nineties now - was an Air Force pilot in the early 1950’s. He saw one in broad daylight, chased it and had a similar OMG reaction when the thing took off at speeds he knew were not possible. In his case he only shared the event with my father and his wife.


42 posted on 06/24/2021 12:00:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (RAPE isn't penis violence. ARSON isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: Phlap

Bingo


43 posted on 06/24/2021 12:08:11 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Phlap

I did the math and Voyager 1 currently is 14.163 billion miles from earth. The time light would travel that distance is about 21.1 hours. Not even a single 24h light day yet.


44 posted on 06/24/2021 12:29:48 PM PDT by xp38
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To: a fool in paradise
Based on what the abductees have said (to David Jacobs, for example), hybrids on this planet have an elaborate support structure and each hybrid knows full-well that it is a hybrid...and knows its job (whatever that is).

Whatever is behind this scheme is purportedly quite intelligent and wily.

As an aside, we don't know what is true about any of this stuff. But as John Mack, Harvard Medical School prof and psychiatrist (now deceased), has said, something is going on here, we just have to figure out what.

45 posted on 06/24/2021 12:54:01 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Phlap

This is worth a listen—some interesting concepts you may not have considered:

https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-261-the-definitive-ufo-tape/

Even if you disagree with most of what Terence McKenna says, you will still learn some now stuff.

The guy was off the charts brilliant.


46 posted on 06/24/2021 1:33:47 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Destroy the language and institutions.

And I can assume at that point there is no belief in God, also, because the use of institutions has already precluded that?

Makes you wonder if those piloting the disregarded UFO’s have a belief in a deity?

wy69


47 posted on 06/24/2021 2:00:14 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: RoosterRedux

“The possibility that the Pentagon UFOs are human-made can potentially be excluded by identifying behavior that cannot be reproduced by our most advanced equipment. We know our technological limits because any advance that goes well beyond them would have introduced major commercial or military benefits and would have been represented in the consumer market or on the battlefield.”

I don’t think that speculation is really logically sound.


48 posted on 06/24/2021 2:30:46 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Openurmind

“Wormholes are real.”

No, wormholes are a theoretical possibility we’ve yet to observe, and one which would likely obliterate any matter that passed into them, even if they did exist.


49 posted on 06/24/2021 2:34:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
You raise a good point.

Avi Loeb, the former chair of the Harvard Astronomy Dept, said today IIRC that it can be concluded that this tech is not ours or Chinese/Russian because it has been observed for a very long time (70 years is the number being tossed around).

It is likely that such a technological development would have had some by-products which would be in evidence in the world today...but that is not the case.

50 posted on 06/24/2021 2:35:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: The Louiswu

Could you use a slightly smaller image to spam threads. This one is nothing but an eye-sore.


51 posted on 06/24/2021 2:36:37 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Boogieman
Oops. I thought my last response to you was on another thread.

Perhaps I need a late afternoon cup of coffee.

Here's what Avi Loeb said in the article above re: your question:

The possibility that the Pentagon UFOs are humanmade can potentially be excluded by identifying behavior that cannot be reproduced by our most advanced equipment. We know our technological limits because any advance that goes well beyond them would have introduced major commercial or military benefits and would have been represented in the consumer market or on the battlefield.

52 posted on 06/24/2021 2:43:29 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Boogieman

“No, wormholes are a theoretical possibility we’ve yet to observe, and one which would likely obliterate any matter that passed into them, even if they did exist.”

A theory to us at our current level of understanding and technology. By comparison the craft and technology we are seeing is way above our primitive level of understanding and technology.


53 posted on 06/24/2021 2:50:39 PM 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: Openurmind

“By comparison the craft and technology we are seeing is way above our primitive level of understanding and technology.”

I don’t think there’s much evidence to support that statement.


54 posted on 06/24/2021 2:53:31 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

I have seen them twice. And there is no technology we have that I know of that can reproduce these capabilities. I keep saying it, once seen they cannot be unseen. No amount of outside skepticism will change this.

And I am not alone here, I hope that someday you might have the chance to see one. It will indeed change your mind and skepticism from then on.


55 posted on 06/24/2021 3:07:52 PM 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

I’ll think about it.


56 posted on 06/24/2021 3:25:22 PM PDT by The Louiswu ( No one is immune to the after-effects of girls, cocaine, and dry martinis.)
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To: The Louiswu

I like it. Just a wee bit smaller.:-)


57 posted on 06/24/2021 3:27:18 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m nearly blind so it’s hard for me to see/read, sorry ‘bout that


58 posted on 06/24/2021 3:29:38 PM PDT by The Louiswu ( No one is immune to the after-effects of girls, cocaine, and dry martinis.)
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To: GOPJ

“Many stories in the city”. . .


59 posted on 06/24/2021 3:45:24 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: PIF
chances are that most of what we know is wrong, and the little we do know is distorted.

Of that there is no doubt. That said, what would attract these greatly advanced civilizations to our primitive galaxy? Just askin.

60 posted on 06/25/2021 6:00:25 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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