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Delta-Wye posted:im not really aware of any big skunkworks projects after the f117 one would guess some rad-but-conventional uav platform but some exotic physics aircraft would be cool too. The X-37B is pretty cool, but not next-level like skunkworks projects. .
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May 26, 2021 04:46
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Vomik posted:its also important to point out that "very fast" (e.g., ʻOumuamua) means it only took 600,000 years for the aliens to reach us if they came from the closest star. you can tell they subtly mention "how fast" it moves because they know the universe is humongous but even their made up lies produce speeds that mean the aliens would have had to launch something before 100s of millenia before humans ever appeared on earth Which brings us back to Turtledove's series with the aliens having sent a probe in like 1200AD and being pwned by 1940s tech when they finally get here.
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May 26, 2021 04:50
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the whole idea /trope that aliens are these little humanoid bipeds doesn’t sit right with me. those are obviously from earth if they’re real. that or they created us in their image
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May 26, 2021 04:52
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Jetto Jagga posted:Was that the one supposedly responsible for the Cash-Landrum incident? I don't think so. I've never seen it treated as a UFO. Very much in the "secret government technology" conspiracy camp, not the "aliens" camp. Fun trivia: It showed up on JAG once, where the main lawyer character flew it! Child me found that episode extremely exciting. Child me also had zero taste.
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May 26, 2021 04:52
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Pooky posted:The X-37B is pretty cool, but not next-level like skunkworks projects. . quote:In 1976, the Skunk Works began production on a pair of stealth technology demonstrators for the U.S. Air Force named Have Blue in Building 82 at Burbank. These scaled-down demonstrators, built in only 18 months, were a revolutionary step forward in aviation technology because of their extremely small radar cross-section. After a series of successful test flights beginning in 1977, the Air force awarded Skunk Works the contract to build the F-117 stealth fighter on November 1, 1978.
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May 26, 2021 04:53
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Log082 posted:Very much in the "secret government technology" conspiracy camp, not the "aliens" camp. its both.
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May 26, 2021 04:56
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Log082 posted:I don't think so. I've never seen it treated as a UFO. Very much in the "secret government technology" conspiracy camp, not the "aliens" camp. Child me read the Area 51 books and I don't remember poo poo, wish I still had em to go thru now
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May 26, 2021 04:56
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*thinks back on companies with a huge successful products and almost every inventor* i can fully believe a company can do one thing and then never produce anything of value again
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May 26, 2021 04:56
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A MIRACLE posted:the whole idea /trope that aliens are these little humanoid bipeds doesn’t sit right with me. Yeah the Grey image seems like it must come out of our subconscious with the fetal imagery etc. Just way too effective not to be something from our own brains, as opposed to something truly alien.
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May 26, 2021 04:58
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All those black triangle ufos in the 80s were obviously the B-2 or that other one. Stealth planes now just look like planes. Boring as all hell.
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May 26, 2021 05:00
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Love those vicious hairy dwarfs that were beating people up in Europe and South America in the 50s before flying off in their UFOs
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May 26, 2021 05:00
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Alien ships would almost certainly be filled with some kind of horrifyingly poisonous liquid or gas
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May 26, 2021 05:01
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“Greys” interact with this level of spacetime with the beings we perceive as operating their ships, but those are merely tailored instruments of the true presence behind the veil, fingers, it calls them, pushing through, perhaps not unlike robots, but utterly unlike robots as we understand the term.
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May 26, 2021 05:05
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Look if it isn't aliens i just don't give a single gently caress. Some kind of nationalist flex? loving terrible and predictible. Some kind of "waste everyone's time while putting out poo poo that further destabilizes an already precarious populace? Absolutely evil but again, its textbook basic rear end hitlerian bullshit i don't fuckin CARE that just means their credibility is at the end of its rope. Is it a sapient bag of money masquerading as the DoD budget? Okay this is on the right track but we obv have to kill it and/or turn it communist
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May 26, 2021 05:08
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Inspector Hound posted:Alien ships would almost certainly be filled with some kind of horrifyingly poisonous liquid or gas i too eat poorly on long trips
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May 26, 2021 05:10
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Riot Bimbo posted:Look if it isn't aliens i just don't give a single gently caress. Some kind of nationalist flex? loving terrible and predictible. Some kind of "waste everyone's time while putting out poo poo that further destabilizes an already precarious populace? Absolutely evil but again, its textbook basic rear end hitlerian bullshit i don't fuckin CARE that just means their credibility is at the end of its rope. Is it a sapient bag of money masquerading as the DoD budget? Okay this is on the right track but we obv have to kill it and/or turn it communist IMO aliens aren't gonna show up until we're like 4 or 5 civs deep into the earth's crust
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May 26, 2021 05:13
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Inspector Hound posted:Alien ships would almost certainly be filled with some kind of horrifyingly poisonous liquid or gas they're us from the future so they breathe monster energy drinks that's also why sightings are getting more common as time marches forward - it's not because everyone has a HD camera in their pocket and a pirated copy of photoshop, it's because we're at the point in history where we have the maximum number of caffeine flavors
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May 26, 2021 05:16
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that’s what I’m saying. if there’s really humanoid aliens then we are definitely related genetically. future humans maybe. or maybe a homo erectus spin off like the Neanderthals. maybe we really are from Venus and they escaped because of global Venusian warming , then terraformed earth. it makes no sense that someone traveled billions of light years to earth and just happened to look like us I want to see the structures on the moon too
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May 26, 2021 05:24
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A MIRACLE posted:that’s what I’m saying. if there’s really humanoid aliens then we are definitely related genetically. future humans maybe. or maybe a homo erectus spin off like the Neanderthals. maybe we really are from Venus and they escaped because of global Venusian warming , then terraformed earth. it makes no sense that someone traveled billions of light years to earth and just happened to look like us SF author (and amateur Holocaust denier) James P. Hogan wrote a series about humans having evolved on the 5th planet that became the asteroid belt after being taken from earth as cavemen or w/e, and then that planet blew up from nuclear warfare and some humans crashed on earth, voila
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May 26, 2021 05:30
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I mostly read Bradbury shorts as a kid. I hope he wasn’t a fascist
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May 26, 2021 05:32
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A MIRACLE posted:the whole idea /trope that aliens are these little humanoid bipeds doesn’t sit right with me. Or convergent evolution. Hands(bipedalism), big brains, forward facing eyes. Or they're robots built to look friendly and familiar to humans 
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May 26, 2021 05:41
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A MIRACLE posted:I mostly read Bradbury shorts as a kid. I hope he wasn’t a fascist Naw, just a sap
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May 26, 2021 05:46
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The Saucer Hovers posted:https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-vicious-circle-the-small-group-of-believers-behind-recent-ufo-news I was thinking that maybe the UFO news was from the Pentagon who wants to remove the stigma of pilots reporting wacky poo poo they see in the air. They know drone warfare is going to be more of a thing, especially after every military on earth watched the Azerbaijanis rinse Armenia. Also poo poo like half the US running out of gas because some dimwit in a pumping facility opened a phishing e-mail. The US has incredibly fragile infrastructure that is getting owned by normal things like winter and it wont last 5 minutes if a foreign intelligence service wants to take an actual crack at it. ] But yeah, a kooky billionaire wanting to get stories out is equally if not more plausible. I mean we had small wave of articles saying "we all live in a simulation" because Musk tweeted something like that because he's just a rich solipsist. Reading about Bob Bigelow makes me think he's trying to be the next Howard Hughes. What is it with aerospace magnates and being nuts?
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May 26, 2021 05:53
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I can’t imagine any woman dating Budd Hopkins. There aren’t any more kooks like him these days, are there? John Mack, Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe, Art Bell—they’re all dead now with nobody new to take their place. I kind of think ufo abduction and ufos belong to a different cultural era, even though the pentagon is releasing videos and saying they don’t know what’s in them. People would have gone nuts if that happened in 1996, but now it barely rises above the background noise of America’s hastening destruction.
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May 26, 2021 06:09
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I can’t imagine any woman dating Budd Hopkins. Linda's still kickin' but yeah she's on the crystal kook circuit now, not like when she first burst on the scene in 1980. I think the internet has had a real flattening effect with this stuff where you get fewer individual hucksters who can make major bank, I can't imagine how hard it'd be to make money doing the UFO circuit nowadays like these guys used to in the 90s.
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May 26, 2021 06:15
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I think aliens are probably real
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May 26, 2021 06:21
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my bony fealty posted:I think aliens are probably real What the heck is your AV from, it looks like a Shaw Bros horror
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May 26, 2021 06:24
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this believing that advanced civilizations must embody the ideals of progressive western liberalism is some peak eating from the trashcan
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May 26, 2021 07:03
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I can’t imagine any woman dating Budd Hopkins. john mack does not belong on that list where a dozen others slot in easily. dude had many legit accomplishments
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May 26, 2021 07:57
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im gonna make first contact via rickroll sorry in advance for our inevitable extinction
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May 26, 2021 08:43
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blatman posted:im gonna make first contact via rickroll There are worse first messages you could convey than Rick Astley's dulcet voice promising that we are never going to hurt or let our new friends down
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May 26, 2021 12:35
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blatman posted:they're us from the future so they breathe monster energy drinks Drinking white chocolate Starbucks double shot in the alpha quadrant rn blatman posted:im gonna make first contact via rickroll First contact should be made via rock n roll
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May 26, 2021 12:48
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aliens get rickrolled, come to earth, and discover that most humans definitely aren’t as nice and caring as Rick Astley
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May 26, 2021 14:04
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https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1397582890993598471 lol check out the replies, everyone is ufopilled now, u love to see it
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May 26, 2021 19:48
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pancake rabbit posted:https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1397582890993598471 Is this guy big on aliens or what? I don't get it I want aliens where are my aliens
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May 26, 2021 19:52
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Is this guy big on aliens or what? i looked back through his TL a bit and i guess he did a monologue about the ufos on Rising recently i too want aliens, i hate how much of my brain this is occupying lol
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May 26, 2021 19:54
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show me the aliens, I want to see them
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May 26, 2021 19:54
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stupid sexy aliens
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May 26, 2021 19:55
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I want to watch an alien tv show and eat their food. do they have alien pornography? space drugs? reveal your secrets spaceman
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May 26, 2021 19:55
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Is this guy big on aliens or what? under the pacific I think
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May 26, 2021 19:56
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