They're Real

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    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    Um, yeah. Saying that the pyramids sit at 29.979234 degrees north latitude which matches the speed of light in meters per second. The pyramids were built thousands of years before latitude and longitude were used.
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    1) There's a difference between infinite and unbounded.

    2) Please don't endorse Orignal Series "science" unless you absolutely have to.
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    So in theory I could literally go fuck myself. That would be the weirdest day ever. Maybe.
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    You know you'd try it.
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    I was quoting an actual scientist, not Star Trek, so :dendroica:
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    Vastness? Yes. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies.

    Infinite? No. The original singularity would have had to be of infinite proportions, and/or the Big Bang would have had to have happened an infinite amount of time ago, for the universe to be infinite.

    Now, you may all go back to your speculations based on insufficient information either way.
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    We absolutely have insufficient information. I mean, we can’t even say what we know about physics is absolute.
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    More importantly, there was no such unit as a "meter" until the 18th century. So even if some lost ancient advanced civilization wanted to signal this, the number is an anachronism. That's pretty dumb.

    However, I did have the pleasure of touring Egypt earlier this year, and climbed inside the Great Khufu Pyramid with the other tourists. I'm curious to know what's inside the identified but unexplored chamber above the Grand Gallery passage. Ancient alien machinery?

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    Not necessarily. That assumes the big bang happened at a point, rather than everywhere.

    Based on current observations of the cosmic background, it is spookily even in all directions. That suggests that our observable universe is just a tiny fraction of the whole universe. If the universe is finite then it likely has a volume millions of times more than our observable patch at a minimum.

    Observations are also consistent with an infinite universe. That doesn't prove it is infinite, but we can't rule it out at this time. In that model the universe (to the extent that word has any meaning when referring to t=0 or "before" the big bang) was already infinitely large, and all that infinity is expanding.
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    Ancient alien machinery? LEGO ?????
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    Really, about the only thing we can say with any certainty is that we have no idea.

    The more we learn, the more we realize, we have no f-ing idea what is out there.
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    Pretty much. Although we are managing to rule out a bunch of things for not being out there at least
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    it really is incredible what little we do know and how much we know we don't know. I mean, for a species who, for all intents and purposes, never left it's own planet.
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    People think gravity rules spacetime but no, it's the Dunning-Kruger effect.

    By a lot.
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    This podcast episode has a really good discussion about Wilcock and his tragic end. It's interwoven with discussion about things going on in the UFO community before and after the so-called "Disclosure Day," but one thing that they absolutely do not spend enough time on, IMHO, is the clip they play of Tucker Carlson at ~the 40 minute mark, where he states that the US made a deal with the devil to get nuclear weapons. I shit you not.
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    'deal with the devil' this is one reason we are at this point. fools like this that have spent their entire lives not maturing or learning or progessing. our knowledge is growing every day in spite of people like this. the attainment of knowledge is a liftime pursuit that luckily never ends.....if you let it
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    I saw a UFO once.

    Well, technically, hundreds of times, but most were the "probably something mundane, but I didn't get a good look at it, so I couldn't identify it" kind of thing.

    But once I saw something in the sky that was doing weird shit I can't explain.

    I was roughly 10 at the time, and I was looking out of my bedroom window to check for UFOs. Because, at the time, I figured if aliens were coming to abduct me, I would be more prepared if I saw them coming first. Most of the times I checked for UFOs I didn't see anything. Most of the time when I DID see something it was just a plane or something.

    One night I look out and I see a bright light. I figured it was just something normal but I kept watching it. It just hovered for a second, then moved up and to the left, arced right, then started moving down/left, like the top half of a figure-8. As it started moving down/left, it left a long, thin stream of what looked like fire behind it. Not like a rocket engine... more like it was skywriting. It's movements were similar to a skywriting plane, only closer, a bit faster, at night, and with red/orange/yellow plasma instead of fluoridated mind control gas water vapor. I made this, it's close to what I saw:

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    I freaked out a bit and looked away. When I looked again there was no sign of it.

    Pretty sure I didn't hallucinate it. At this point in my life, I am somewhat to very familiar with what hallucinating is like, and this wasn't it. Also, knowing myself, if I was going to hallucinate stuff like this, I would have hallucinated actual abductions, not a single instance of weird sky shit.

    The most similar UFO reports I can find are of craft that appear to be sloughing molten metal from their hulls, but the footage was just a helicopter dropping flares. I've seen that in person, and knew what it was. I grew up near/on an Air National Guard base, I've seen all kinds of weird shit in the sky. But, most of the time I knew what I was looking at.

    Anyway, my point is, if the government is going to release UAP footage, I want to see shit like the plasma skywriting craft I saw when I was a kid. All this "probably just a drone/bird on nightvision cam" stuff is boring bullshit.
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    I saw a UFO myself once. It was a Boeing 747, but I didn't know the flight number, so that made it unidentified. The "flying" and "object" parts were simple observations.
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    yep i seen hunnerts of em
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    Does Trump think "illegal alien" and "space alien" are the same thing, or is whoever made that page just one of those people who thinks shit like this is clever?
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