I watched the video from the F-18s. Pretty cool stuff

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

I’m not sure it’s such a revelation. There’s something flying around that we didn’t know what it was, so we’re trying to figure it out. Not really mind blowing stuff.

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

Really???

How much were you paid by the government to troll for folks that need to be monitored?? Do you expect anyone to reply?

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev

I love that UFO now means ‘aliens’ and not simply what it is. An unidentified flying object.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Seems to suggest something I personally already believe - we're not alone in the universe.

Don't, um ... Blink

http://www.nme.com/...-tom-delonge-2177081

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Although I believe there are other civilizations in the universe. It’s hard to believe any sightings are actually an Alien UFO.

The technology to travel those distances is so advanced that it would be hard pressed for them to make it all the way here in a ship have, us not notice it entering our atmosphere and but then show itself randomly for a few seconds and then be gone.

Maybe they’re just messing with us, but I’m
Pretty skeptical on the actual visits here.

Agree with all of this.

That F-18 video is certainly interesting, but if these are aliens, why are they allowing themselves to be noticed with all that crazy-ass maneuvering out over the quiet uninteresting dead space off over the ocean?

Why not show off / get caught over something that's actually interesting for them to study, like a big populated area?

The combination of an unknown aerospace vehicle performing in an unprecedented manner in airspace that otherwise gets little/no attention all reeks of a secret DoD project, not aliens.

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I tend to see this as something like those Start Trek: Next Generation episodes where they're observing a developing species but have to cloak themselves so as not to interfere with the Prime Directive. We only see them when something messes up. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...he_Watchers_(episode)

Kodos: "Did you engage the cloaking device?"
Kang: "No, we're over the ocean. Who's going to see us here?"
Kodos: "What's that over there? Seems to be military aircraft"
Kang: "Shit"

Good point. Maybe they were dealing with a jammed rudder or the alien pilot spilled hot space-coffee on himself. Who knows.

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If there's one principle to apply to the galaxy, its that incompetence is fairly universal.

true dat!

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Sure but that’s the rub, the technological leap to get to here from another solar system is so high that something like that would be such a simple process that the failure rate would be zero, or there would be sufficient backups that you would have to have so many failures that i wouldn’t be possible to have a true system failure.

For example. Most of us use computers at work. How many times has your computer just failed to start, hardly any? If you have 2 or 3 computers what are the odds those all will not work? This is at a technology level that can get us to Mars in a few months. When we get to a technology that allows interstellar travel in a reasonable time frame, The rest of the technology around it will be so advanced that failure rate will non-existent or will have backups for it to be non-existent.

I get the premise for a tv show/movie but in reality at that level of technology it just wouldn’t occur.

So I’m much more likely to believe if stuff like this were real alien encounters, they’re just fucking with us haha.

Delonge was on the Joe Rogan podcast a while back. Hilarious interview, delonge sounded to be on drugs, making tons of outlandish claims relating to UFO's, government and military agencies, etc. Couldn't back it up with anything and couldn't name any names. At the outro, Rogan commented "well... That was interesting..." Then burst out laughing.

Maybe delonge was actually on to something?

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Long Chile was a silly place.

FIFY

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

It sure was pretty hard to take him seriously. You could even sense that Rogan was wondering what the hell he was on.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

So I’m much more likely to believe if stuff like this were real alien encounters, they’re just fucking with us haha.

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Well I have another feeling on this, if there are actually aliens around us. They would of course know what has been going on here and have a plan. Do you just drop in and scare the shit out of everyone and cause a world wide panic, or would you slowly over time place in peoples minds the possibility of aliens and when you finally showed yourself, mankind would be mentally prepared to accept the new reality?


Assuming they would not be here to destroy us( which they easily could have done already) they would be here to help us from destroying ourselves(as in most civilizations probably hit a point where most implode before they can jump across the technology discovered than can extinct them), or at the very least observe us for awhile. It makes sense to me that if here, they are slowing indoctrinating our species with the foreknowledge of their existence and its benevolent intentions.


Otherwise how do you explain Alf and ET??(-;

<<Why not show off / get caught over something that's actually interesting for them to study, like a big populated area? >>


How do you know what would be interesting for an alien life form to study on Earth?

We are a giant experiment by a more advanced alien race. They are just here observing.

Honestly my biggest concern if we were to find life or past life in another planet/moon/solar system revolves around this premise. The religious communities would turn into a shitshow.

I think we are moving to more people realizing we’re not unique and are very very unlikely to be alone in the universe. But the religious component seems to be a wild card. Especially when some people can’t even come to terms with how old the earth is.

So although I agree it would be a theoretically smart idea to plant the idea. It’ll be a shitshow anyways if it every happens haha.

Well because we have decided that we are intelligent and interesting of course. One of the best comments I’ve heard on this is from Neil De Grasse Tyson. Paraphrasing, we have about a 1 percent difference in DNA from chimps and that gives us the ability to build rocket ships vs using sticks as tools. So what if there is a species that had 1 percent difference the same from us or 2 percent whatever it may be. We’d be complete morons and would be no more interesting than studying ants. They’d have no reason to reach out to us.

Right. Or what if they are a species that doesn't have DNA. Or is only interested in liquids like water, or in mineral deposits residing under oceans. Or maybe they don't 'see' in the same wavelength spectrum that humans do, and so perhaps they don't even see us. And so on.

Why do you think that? They've pretty much just rolled along despite all kinds of new revelations that demonstrates their take on the world and the Universe is not accurate. I doubt this would be any different.