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Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

Rad-daddio posted:

Could you use software defined radio (SDR) and some kind of amplifier to spoof those signals?


https://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981?s=21

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Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Big Beef City posted:

lol ya the SDR USB stick I bought to turn into a makeshift full spectrum radio scanner for a hobby is gonna spoof military equipment at range hang on lemme get a pringles can so I can aim it.

lol

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

Amarcarts posted:

I'm an alien from the fourth stimpire AMA.

What is the worst kind of electricity?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
I'm more worried about Stimpires 1-3.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Doesn’t nobody care if Aliens or UFOs are real because like anybody who thought about it for like more than 1 second was just like “duh of course aliens exist” and stopped bothering?

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

I've gotten to the point of disinterest, despite the fact I'd be extremely excited to see them for myself. I think it's interesting to think about but ultimately it doesn't matter. Even if they are flying around our skies, they don't seem to be interacting with us in any meaningful way and it doesn't look like they're going to. There's no real way to actually research them or discover anything more about them either. So, anything other than an idle wonder is a complete waste of time.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Lack of imagination makes people stop thinking of them

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

member the gravity warping craft the pentagon patented, what if these are prototypes of the GWC

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

right here

https://www.metro.co.uk/2019/04/18/us-navy-secretly-designed-super-fast-futuristic-aircraft-resembling-ufo-documents-reveal-9246755/amp/

using looted alien tech they built a gravity warping craft

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

gh0stpinballa posted:

member the gravity warping craft the pentagon patented, what if these are prototypes of the GWC

I mean if they had a gravity warping thing I’m sure we wouldn’t be seeing FLIR videos from the military displaying it. Also, those videos are like fifteen years old.

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

GABA ghoul posted:

I mean, a society where some random drunken idiot has access to an interstellar space ship can't exist for very long. You point that thing in the wrong direction while you were texting and you cause total extinction of all life on the planet. The energies involved are just insane.

For similar if less extreme reasons, I'm glad the flying cars that used to be routinely promised by futurologists haven't eventuated. Imagine the carnage as drunken and drugfucked drivers lost control and their vehicles fell out of the sky onto buildings and people.

BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Apr 30, 2020

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I agree, sir.
As disagreeable as replacing the noble steed or even ignoble nag, who's simple mind and stout body has served to protect the body of man for centuries even when his own mind is not keen on it.
There exists no appreciable nor safe means by which a human mind might control or convey one of these 'horseless carriages' as the press has deemed them, with any adequate amount of reason or safety. Either for themselves or the general interest of the public. Add to it the general stupidity of the masses and the wanton licentiousness of the lower sorts of classes and it truly is a near murderous affair. The tamed pace and thoughtful mind of man's faithful servant the horse, has driven our society's progress and development for all time, and certainly has not been any undue burden during any of it! In fact, it has eased our wants considerably since creation, and now we are to subsume it simply due to this preposterous and frankly dangerous and frivolous folly? How should one adapt? How should one's household adapt? Let alone the poor cobblers, coopers, stablewrights, streetsweepers, and such. Pure whimsy of youth to be imagined away by some fanciful new creation?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
Yep, there's no such thing as autonomous control. All flying cars will be manually piloted by coked up marketing reps and everyday will be a mini 9/11

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000


I've seen this before. I think that when those videos came out and certain reports were released that these things probably exist, they tasked themselves with theorizing a probable design and then patented it so that in case something is developed that they could demand licensing fees or whatever.

fcc compliant bob
Jan 15, 2006

The must un-fantastic avitar on the forum (guranteed!)
UFOs are real. The real mystery though is does the Goon hive mind consensus agree? lol

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
UFOs are real and so are aliens
abductions are real and also anal probes

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Tarkus posted:

I've seen this before. I think that when those videos came out and certain reports were released that these things probably exist, they tasked themselves with theorizing a probable design and then patented it so that in case something is developed that they could demand licensing fees or whatever.

Yeah, you don't need a working invention to get a patent. Another example: Someone patented a time machine.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Mockery is the first defence of a mind too small to ponder an idea

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Where does 'rationality and evidence based observation' fall

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Mockery is the first defence of a mind too small to ponder an idea

Yes, don't mock flat-earthers and bleach-drinkers. Your mind is too small to comprehend those topics.

While I think aliens are quite possible, claiming that any idea that is mocked is mocked by those who 'Just aren't smart enough' is stupid.

Tenacious J
Nov 20, 2002

There was a time when believing the earth was flat was both “rational” and “evidence-based”. Rational because it looked that way, people around thought that way, and being flat was intuitive since if earth was round wouldn’t things slide off? Evidence-based because simple observations seemed flat.

So to answer your question about where “rational and evidence-based observation” falls, I’d say squarely in the realm of folks who have enough education to be dangerous.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

My complete lack of any education wins again.

Mutant Headcrab
May 14, 2007
Meanwhile ancient sailors are like, "What? No we don't think the world is flat! Look at poo poo curving 'round the horizon line, like drat we can eyeball this."

Then they die of scurvy.

Dr. Fraiser Chain
May 18, 2004

Redlining my shit posting machine


Why would you slide off of a sphere but not on a flat surface? If you fall off a flat Earth then the flat Earth is falling to somewhere and gravity isn't sticking you to it's surface. Is that the apocalypse?

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

Tarkus posted:

flat-earthers and bleach-drinkers

Nice false equivalency there. It always goes to that, except usually it's "why not believe in fairies and leprechauns too" instead of something actively dangerous and harmful, so points for originality I guess

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Nice false equivalency there. It always goes to that, except usually it's "why not believe in fairies and leprechauns too" instead of something actively dangerous and harmful, so points for originality I guess

I'm not equating them. I'm giving you a counterpoint for ideas that are mocked quite rightfully.

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug

Tarkus posted:

I've seen this before. I think that when those videos came out and certain reports were released that these things probably exist, they tasked themselves with theorizing a probable design and then patented it so that in case something is developed that they could demand licensing fees or whatever.

Yeah, it's basically their best guess as to how such a thing might work. It doesn't exactly use well-established physical concepts either; some of the terms relate to Stochastic Electrodynamics (a cool theory but far from mainstream), others, like "quantum vacuum plasma", may be entirely made up.

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

What is the worst kind of electricity?

I can't actually allow you to form new thoughts until you are done serving your 10 cycle sentence in the pain hives

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.

Rad-daddio posted:

I'm more worried about Stimpires 1-3.

You should be glad you don't live in the fourth stimpire. Worrying is illegal here and punishable by reverse circumcision without anesthesia.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Tenacious J posted:

There was a time when believing the earth was flat was both “rational” and “evidence-based”.

No there wasn't, unless we're talking about civilizations so ancient that they only count as "modern" in an academic context. Even the Greeks didn't discover the Earth was round so much as quantify it, with measurements taken on foot and the application of some fundamental geometry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

Necros
Jul 23, 2003

flat earth people dont believe in ufos because space isnt real its just some kind of projection or a photoshop by nasa

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
If planets are flat and whizz around in space then what if these flying saucers... oh my god

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

that's right.

Soon the intergalact-FLAT "tables" will be "set" with the flying saucers from beyond! Open your tiny, awful, feculent, disgusting, corpulent, febrile baby minds to the possibilities of interstellar cutlery advancements and more, children of the earthenware serving vessels.

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Necros posted:

ive been to kecksburg. didnt see any aliens. :(

I grew up near there and an ancient relative of mine who was in a local police department and involved in the search crew is always mentioned because of his quote about finding what looked like a crashed acorn shaped space craft. It pissed him off that they never mention his follow up quote from when he was shown a photo of a Soyuz crew vehicle and he said "Oh yeah, that's exactly what it looked like".

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!

Pontificating rear end posted:

UFOs are real and so are aliens
abductions are real and also anal probes

ball probes for sure

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Frankenstyle posted:

I grew up near there and an ancient relative of mine who was in a local police department and involved in the search crew is always mentioned because of his quote about finding what looked like a crashed acorn shaped space craft. It pissed him off that they never mention his follow up quote from when he was shown a photo of a Soyuz crew vehicle and he said "Oh yeah, that's exactly what it looked like".

I looked up Soyuz capsules and they look exactly like the cup in your avatar as well proving that this is all tableware related and that disney/baby yoda is involved now.

Butternubs
Feb 15, 2012
So, I love UFOs, unexplained poo poo is the coolest thing. I believe statistically there is life somewhere else in the universe and finding out aliens are real and can travel between planets would give me a boner that could be seen from alpha centuri. If they want to come here to kill all humans then even better sign me up.

BUT! I have never seen any footage or read any stories that have convinced me that any of these phenomena are caused by aliens. It's like a billion times more likely that a given UFO is some unexplained natural phenomenon or secret government tech than sentient life so why jump to the aliens conclusion straight away? I guess because that would be the most fun option for a lot of people but I want to hear the other cool explainations: ball lightning, hypersonic drones, earthquake lights, mass hallucinations etc.

As for people claiming they've spoke to aliens or been abducted again they're cool stories but even less believable. I WANT TO BELIEVE! but alas i'm not off my tits on yak viagra or w/e.

Necros
Jul 23, 2003

Frankenstyle posted:

I grew up near there and an ancient relative of mine who was in a local police department and involved in the search crew is always mentioned because of his quote about finding what looked like a crashed acorn shaped space craft. It pissed him off that they never mention his follow up quote from when he was shown a photo of a Soyuz crew vehicle and he said "Oh yeah, that's exactly what it looked like".

lol the strange hieroglyphics were cyrillic that owns

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Frankenstyle posted:

I grew up near there and an ancient relative of mine who was in a local police department and involved in the search crew is always mentioned because of his quote about finding what looked like a crashed acorn shaped space craft. It pissed him off that they never mention his follow up quote from when he was shown a photo of a Soyuz crew vehicle and he said "Oh yeah, that's exactly what it looked like".

gently caress, get him on tape for an interview or something because "secret crashed Russian space capsule" is an even cooler conspiracy theory than aliens and it deserves to go viral.

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Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Necros posted:

lol the strange hieroglyphics were cyrillic that owns

Yeah. We Pennsylvanians are an insular and backward people.

When I was little we'd throw cans of Tab at passing airplanes to ward off evil spirits.

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