Just Don’t Call Them UFOs

[shunyadragon]

it has nothing to do with them noticing us. We should be picking up stray signals. We put out a ton of them ourselves.

Actually no, considering the vastness of time and distances, it is unlikely. It possible, but unlikely. Planets with advance civilizations could have already come and gone.

[Tassman]

Francis Crick thought we came from Panspermia and we were seeded by Aliens

Then again, we may be simulations living in a virtual realm created by a clever teenager living in an advanced civilization.

[Seeker]

Then again, we may be simulations living in a virtual realm created by a clever teenager living in an advanced civilization.

Matrix or solipsism comes to mind?

[tabibito]

If were living in part of a sim run by a teenager living in an advanced civilisation ... god would be a teenager living in an advanced civilisation.

[Bret]

I remember one conversation back in the Project Blue Book days where the recording has the pilot radioing in an unidentified object pacing him, and flight control asked "are you declaring you are seeing a UFO".... there was a pause, then the pilot said "negative". A number of recordings like that.

That's part of the opening scenes of Close Encounter of the Third Kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiRnvppAaM

[Bret]

Considering how everybody and their brother has a camera in their cell phone one would think we'd seen some clear images or video of something by now. I mean images of tornadoes were relatively rare decades ago but now they're everywhere yet we still only get a handful of of "flying saucers" and the quality of them usually sucks.

On the other hand Navy gun cameras have captured some very interesting video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RlbqOl_4NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as73FeKi2ls

[Cow Poke]

That's part of the opening scenes of Close Encounter of the Third Kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiRnvppAaM

Come to think if it, you're right!!!

[Tassman]

If we were living in part of a sim run by a teenager living in an advanced civilisation ... god would be a teenager living in an advanced civilisation.

We may well think that, but the "clever teenager living in an advanced civilisation" would know better.

[tabibito]

We may well think that, but the "clever teenager living in an advanced civilisation" would know better.

Relative terms are valid enough.

[JimL]

Just Don’t Call Them UFOs

The U.S. military wants pilots to report strange sightings in the sky, but doesn’t want any of the stigma that comes with it.

Pilots are about to receive a new memo from management: If you encounter an unidentified flying object while on the job, please tell us.

The U.S. Navy is drafting new rules for reporting such sightings, according to a recent story from Politico. Apparently, enough incidents have occurred in “various military-controlled ranges and designated airspace” in recent years to prompt military officials to establish a formal system to collect and analyze the unexplained phenomena. Members of Congress and their staffs have even started asking about the claims, and Navy officials and pilots have responded with formal briefings.

The Washington Post provided more details in its own story:

In some cases, pilots—many of whom are engineers and academy graduates—claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they’ve seen white, Tic Tac–shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust.

The Navy knows how this sounds. It knows what you must be thinking. But the fact stands that some pilots are saying they’ve seen strange things in the sky, and that’s concerning. So the Navy is trying to assure pilots that they won’t be laughed out of the cockpit or deemed unhinged if they bring it up. “For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the Navy said in a statement to Politico.

Considering the vastness of this universe, the billions of galaxies with their billions of stars with orbiting planets, I have little doubt that there are other life forms out there, somewhere. But I also doubt that they have, or that they are capable of, reaching us, anymore than we are capable of reaching them. If they could, if they were that far advanced, they would probably have let us know by now.

[Tassman]

Considering the vastness of this universe, the billions of galaxies with their billions of stars with orbiting planets, I have little doubt that there are other life forms out there, somewhere. But I also doubt that they have, or that they are capable of, reaching us, anymore than we are capable of reaching them. If they could, if they were that far advanced, they would probably have let us know by now.

Exactly. So far advanced that they would probably dismiss us as primitive life forms

[Cow Poke]

Exactly. So far advanced that they would probably dismiss us as primitive life forms

Especially you and JimL.

[Tassman]

Especially you and JimL.

More likely the primitive creatures that believe in mythical entities such as gods.

[Seeker]

More likely the primitive creatures that believe in mythical entities such as gods.

Good comeback.....

[Cow Poke]

Good comeback.....

Made me feel like one of Samson's Philistines - slain by the jaw of an ass.