Everything posted by NotActuallyALonghorn
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
See the bolded. We have no way of knowing how long our civilization might last, nor do we have any way of knowing how long any other theoretical civilization might last. To claim that our civilization has only existed for an insignificant amount of time, and therefore any other civilization in the universe has also existed for a comparatively insignificant amount of time and they wouldn't be likely to overlap has no basis in logic or science. It is just blowing smoke up one's own ass.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
We have no idea of knowing how long an intelligent civilization will last. We joke about Idiocracy becoming reality, and for good reason, but the fact is that in the history of civilizations on Earth, every time one has died out, it's technology and breadth of knowledge did not die out with it, even if it was sometimes set back a bit. All we can say that there is a probability of greater than zero that civilizations will last at least as long as ours (assuming we then define civilization as the entirety of the dominance of one species at any given place). If civilizations last indefinitely, then the time scales actually work to the benefit of the chance of there being extraterrestrial contact on earth.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
If the claim that we should see evidence of alien visitation on earth was extraordinary, then there wouldn't have been something many prominent scientists proposing solutions to the Fermi Paradox. Because most of them accept that life should be abundant enough that we should see evidence of it. If you accept the premise of the Fermi Paradox, then Occam's Razor suggests that the simplistic solution is that life has visited Earth and we simply haven't found satisfactory evidence for it. Suggesting that Unidentified Aerial/Anomolous Phenomena might be evidence of such a visitation is not extraordinary unless you claim to have solved the Drake Equation and have calculated that such an event is an improbability, something that puts you into conflict with a significant number of leading scientists. So that leaves us with the task of investigating such phenomena to try and explain it. The majority of such cases can be explained fairly easily. There is a small, but not insignificant, number of cases, however, that defy explanation. One of the interesting things that came out of Project Blue Book, was that the better the quality of data they had for a sighting, i.e., trained military observers, radar data, photographs, etc., the less likely they were to be able to find an explanation for it. Given that a significant number of scientists believe that life should be common enough enough in the universe that we have detected it elsewhere if not seen evidence of it on earth, it is not unreasonable or extraordinary to theorize that some of these unexplained phenomena may in fact be the evidence of said life. To use your fish example, we should not look at a murky pond, stick a finger in the water at the edge, swirl it around, and then proclaim that there aren't any fish, when we know that science says there should be. If someone then comes along with a sonar fish finder and shows little shapes moving around under the water, we shouldn't then claim that the shapes must have some other sort of explanation and refuse to consider that there could be fish unless sonar boy sticks his finger in the water and then pulls it out with a fish latched onto the end.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
I didn't realize we have so many government documents detailing them covering up evidence of sasquatch and actively making the topic a subject of ridicule. Because while we may not have the kind of evidence you want for UFO's or UAP, there is quite a lot of evidence of the government actively covering up the subject and working to discredit those who have studied it.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
Extraordinary claims brah. Just don't ask them for evidence that the claim is actually Extraordinary. Because to prove that the claim is actually extraordinary they would have to do a bunch of math with a tone of unknown variables and extrapolate that out from a sample size of one.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
We have already theorized ways in which one could traverse space time faster than the speed of light from an outside perspective, and we have done the math to prove that it is possible, but requires an amount of energy beyond our current capability. So to say that the laws of physics refutes the possibility of other civilizations developing ways to do so is simply not true.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
Why are you thinking on a timescale of millions of years when there are star systems billions of years older than ours? You are also making the underlying assumption that you have an idea of what technology will look like millions or billions of years from now. That's long enough for multiple intelligent species to go extinct and new ones to take their place.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
I mean, on one hand, we have skeptics saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (which isn't exactly scientific; some of the most extraordinary claims of science merely have an abundance of ordinary evidence), and then on the other hand citing the Firmi Paradox. But those things are kind of mutually exclusive. The Firmi Paradox says that life should be common enough, and so many star systems old enough, that there should be an abundance of life advanced enough to traverse our solar system. We should be seeing evidence of it. So why turn around and say that those claiming evidence of it are making extraordinary claims? Those claims should be quite ordinary.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
Not just released, but leaked and then later acknowledged to be real. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to cherry pick the data and say that our pilots can't read the SA radar that is simple enough for a third grader to read...
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UFO?
There's a big difference between saying something exists and that statistically it probably exists. He definitely walked his answer back a bit.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
- Epstein and Maxwell
Child sex trafficking president trump isn't interested in hearing from his victims, but neither were any of the other previous presidents who could have done something. It's pretty obvious that the current administration is as rotten as it gets, but why would you selectively take out one statement that condemns the current administration to make it seem like the previous ones are less culpable in the cover up? Burn them all down. Y'all keep saying that the difference between the R's and the D's is that the D's are willing to let everything air out. And then you go on to emphasize how the R's aren't interested in hearing from the victims when the D's clearly aren't as well. They are all completely rotten and need to go.- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I feel like this post is an attack and discredit to our very own beloved @CleverNickname .- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
The sewing machine never completely replaced what a seamstress or tailor could do. It merely made a product that was inferior, but good enough. Even almost two hundred years later, a sewing machine cannot match the strength and adaptability of a backsewn seam, but it can make a seam that is significantly less durable significantly faster. It cannot sew a buttonhole as elegantly or as durable as a quality hand finished buttonhole. It's actually a pretty decent metaphor, but not for the reason the author intended. And the other thing it kind of ignores is who exactly was running those machines. The seamstresses and tailors who knew how to cut the clothes didn't loose out on their jobs, their productivity merely increased by orders of magnitude. Yes, that meant extra money going into the pockets of the folks running the operation, but it did not run them out of a job.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
You celebrated the demise of your first child?- What's happening in Iran?
Oh, come on now. It took Edison something like 2,274 tries before he got the lightbulb to work right. We clearly just need to keep trying a few thousand times and it will eventually work.- Fallout (TV Show) - Amazon prime
Apparently. I saw it was episode 8 and thought, all right, we've got two more episodes after this one! And by the end of the episode I realized it was doing season finale stuff and had the sads.- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
I'm not trying to die from alcohol poisoning.- Epstein and Maxwell
Translation: "I'm completely incapable of introspection and instead choose to make blind accusations about people who criticize the Democratic Party's incompetence and ability to snatch defeat from the hands of victory. It will never change because it's core supporters consist of people like me." I've made it quite clear on here multiple times that I detest the man and would never and have never voted for him.- The Gun Owner’s thread
Also, I would highly recommend looking into suppressors for any new gun owners, or at least a gun that is ready to accept one. Earpro will help save your hearing, but a suppressor will help save everybody's hearing, including your dog's.- The Gun Owner’s thread
If you absolutely must have the ability to send more lead down range quickly, a Super Safety or a Kabuto TURD if you 3D print and are handy is a much better option, and both are less likely to lead to unintentional discharges.- Epstein and Maxwell
Either he didn't, or his mind was too far gone for him to really make make reasonable decisions. After a significant political fight that took place a century or so ago, the people of America finally obtained the ability to have a say in who their candidat for office would be and end the corruption that had become endemic in American poitics. So what did the Biden administration do? They took that away from them and offered up a candidate who came in pretty much dead last the last time the American people got a say in who their candidate would be. One who had been told by SCOTUS that her prison system in California's conditions were so bad that they constituted cruel and unusual punishment, yet resisted any reforms as much as possible. Kamala was just a terrible candidate on pretty much every metric except any of those related to her gender or race. And then they had the nerve to say that anybody pointing out objective shortcomings of the candidate they didn't get to choose was racist. All this when faced with the greatest threat to democracy that our nation has faced in over a century and a half. The Democratic Party feels like the most incompetent and disconnected party in the history of the US. But then again, if you do much reading about political history, it is replete with similar stories of incompetence.- The Gun Owner’s thread
TC1873 looks pretty sweet, but the rubber buttplate kind of ruins the look for me.- The Gun Owner’s thread
What's the budget and use case? If he is wanting something to occasionally go out and shoot raccoons that are robbing his corn feeder and maybe a coyote here and there, then the answer is different than if he really hates pigs and/or predators with a passion and wants to start a new hobby of eradicating them regularly at night. There's not much point in spending the kind of coin it takes to get a nice thermal setup if his intentions are more in line with the former. There are decent digital night vision options that would suit that purpose just fine. But if he leans more towards the latter, then probably listen to these guys. They know what they are speaking of. - Epstein and Maxwell
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