They're Real

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  1. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    My review of a book about aliens sharing technology with other species and humans sharing technology with chimps was in response to O2Cs and Tuckerfans discussion about aliens sharing technology with other species and humans sharing technology with chimps.
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  2. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Okay. Thanks. Sounds interesting.
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    Sundiver is the start of the series although it also kind of a one off.

    It’s kinda like the hobbit in that while it introduces the universe it is written completely different. It’s a mystery on a space station novel whereas the other two books of that ‘trilogy’ and the other trilogy (which is written as a trilogy) are more political space opera.
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    Has anyone made sure MTG is still earthbound? She has been cosplaying a white balloon, she is full of hot air, and it was windy. She is also blonde. Perhaps China should shoot her down just in case? Maybe we should because we would not want to cause an international incident. China could use it as an excuse to do something so we have to shoot her, for world peace.

    Anyone disagree?
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    MTG is technically earthbound but mentally in orbit of Saturn.
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    By saturn you mean walking around an abandoned saturn dealership in GA.
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    Shame on you for not doing the obvious joke :bailey:
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    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    That’s exactly what the aliens would want us to think.
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    Wait, I've just found incontrovertible proof that the military is working with the aliens!

    alien.jpeg

    It doesn't appear to be our military, but still, it looks like I was wrong, and FF was right.

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    What if I just want the bridge? I have a nice river for it ...
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  17. Tuckerfan

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    For those of you playing the home version of this game, I just want to point out that a month later FF posted a video of this guy saying we'd spent more money on Ukraine than we had on our entire deployments in Afghanistan and Vietnam.

    Okay, shame on me for not catching this before now, but come on, I'm not the only one who missed it.
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    Clearly we should've reallocated that money to border security since Marjorie Three Toes says 6 billion people have illegally entered the country. :shakefist:

    No wonder the grocery store was so crowded yesterday. :(
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    Interesting trailer for a documentary about government UFO policies.
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    Theirs another hearing tomorrow. Hopefully the press will ask some pertinent questions. One thing that is new is anyone who wishes to talk to congress about UFO who had been previously under a NDA is fully protected. I wonder if anyone will come out of the woodwork and start talking about things they worked on or things they saw that they couldn't explain.

    Here are some of the questions the author of this article thinks should be asked.
    https://thehill.com/opinion/nationa...uestions-for-this-weeks-historic-ufo-hearing/
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  26. Order2Chaos

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    I'm fine with it, serious scientists should absolutely be asking the question. After all, if we discover intelligent alien life it will be the biggest scientific discovery perhaps ever. The fact that the basic building blocks of life are the some of the most abundant elements in the universe and we know that there are stars in our own galaxy that are at least 3 billion years older than Sol means we could possibly be quite young in terms of our development. Even if FTL was never invented it is quite possible that some species sent out self-replicating probes to nearby stars to investigate and monitor.

    So sure, there's no evidence to this point. But science knows the answer could be yes, so it is imperative that they keep searching. We certainly have not ruled out that there could be no intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy. We aren't even at a level to be able to truly investigate the nearest star.
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    They're real.

    https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...e-of-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-meeting

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