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Orbis Tertius
Feb 13, 2007



quote:

SCAN (for targets, as defined in Target List).
IF (no current target).
THEN (select New target from Current Targets list, using specified priorities).

IF (Current Position is AT Current Target).
THEN (Set Current Behavior to New Behavior, based on Behavior Priority Settings).
PERFORM (Current Behavior).

quote:

TARGET LIST (with associated Target Priority).
Space Vessel (5).
Transmission Source (4).
Astronomical Anomaly (3).
Planet Bearing Life Signature (2).
Raw Replication Materials (1).

PROBE BEHAVIORS (With assigned priorities).
Communicate (5).
Record Data (4).
Analyze Data (3).
Seek Replication Materials (999).
Move to Current Target (1).

Orbis Tertius has issued a correction as of 07:04 on Jul 27, 2021

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Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
grey goo apocalypse, but at a galactic scale :getin:

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

COMPILING latest [θ] intelligence… Insufficient justification to pursue present action…

>>CLARION RETINA BURN>>
V330CRF104MES492
AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//WARWATCH//IMPERATIVE
CONTINGENT ACTION ORDER

This is a WARWATCH ASSETS IMPERATIVE (NO HUMAN REVIEW) (secure/AUTARCHY).

Stand by for CRITERIA:

Under CARRHAE WHITE
If [θ] is INACTIVE and UNRECOVERABLE
If event rank is SKYSHOCK: OUTSIDE CONTEXT and CONTEXT is CRONUS
If VOLUSPA is ACTIVE and PRIMED [[synapse to DVALIN::ABHORRENT]]
If YUGA is ACTIVE and in ECLIPSE
If a CIVILIZATION KILL EVENT is predicted [[E<0.005]]
If tactical morality is built at MIDNIGHT

Execute DECISION POINT:

Activate LOKI CROWN

Cancel counterforce objectives

Activate NAGLFAR STEP

Activate KALKI GOLEM

Execute ALL ASSETS IMPERATIVE ACHAEA KNOX (unsecured/OUTCRY) at SM CALADBOLG

Begin transfer. Stand by for effect assessment report.

STOP STOP STOP V330CRF104MES493

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

Log082 posted:

I've always loved the idea - which is not the same as thinking it's necessarily true - that there's an entire ecosystem of von Neuman probes out there, slotting into different niches and preying on each other in a giant, mechanical food chain for resources to build more of themselves.

Now that I think about it, that'd be a great concept for a sci fi story; manned exploration craft having to navigate the extraterrestrial robotic ecosystem, learning how each probe type behaves and how to deal with them. Modern day whalers going after certain probe types with high value components/resources, fleeing from those too dangerous to handle, and so on.

The Bobiverse Series is a bit like that.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Vernii posted:

Bearing Light

Short story by Paul Burgess that's set in an alternate timeline where the Soviets conquered most of the world and the US figures out how to use projection to explore the galaxy. It's all a bunch of horrifying eldritch implications piling up on each other in a dystopic setting that deserves nothing short of atomic cleansing.

just got to the inevitable bit where the scifi author tackles women

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
I liked the bits where the non-binary people are weird sex fiends

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Communist Thoughts posted:

just got to the inevitable bit where the scifi author tackles women

check out 2312 by kim stanley robinson, at a high level it’s a mystery whodunnit adventure across the solar system, but is really a slow, thoughtful exploration of humanity, and definitely has some takes on gender and family structure

2312 is long, dense, and meandering; it’s great, the slower kids on goodreads hate it

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006


This game and Alpha Centauri shaped my worldview to a frightening degree. Just some nerd adults talking to a nerd kid out there at the end of history.

Sextro
Aug 23, 2014

to be fair to the uap crank and various shamans, I personally have had a huge life changing journey these past 2 years, frequently spurred on by COVID-19, crack-pings, and personal growth in general forcing me to reconcile what I know to be true with how I live my life. I don’t think I’m alone in that either.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


I hope those loving aliens show up soon so I don't have to go to the second part of this meeting

Butternubs
Feb 15, 2012
I'm not a true believerTM but the thing that really keeps me coming back to this thread is the hope that I'm wrong and I can quit this 9-5 and I can finally take up my true calling:

Living in an underground bunker to avoid the extra-terrestrial slavers and only leaving to raid alien outposts for space food.

SMUG MEDIA SLUT
Dec 16, 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZD5uZOttsk

mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ThreadbareHideousBlowfish-mobile.mp4

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Butternubs posted:

I'm not a true believerTM but the thing that really keeps me coming back to this thread is the hope that I'm wrong and I can quit this 9-5 and I can finally take up my true calling:

Living in an underground bunker to avoid the extra-terrestrial slavers and only leaving to raid alien outposts for space food.

the whole ufo fandom is just religion/magic whatever, people hoping the little green men are going to save us from climate change/punish our sins

it would be cool so i can't really blame them, but the hopeful yearning for space saviours is kinda sad the same way watching someone dying of a disease getting really into religion before dying is

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!



forget what i just posted, this is incontrovertible

A MIRACLE
Sep 17, 2007

All right. It's Saturday night; I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

holy poo poo

aliens are birds from the dino era that escaped meteor apocalypse and evolved beyond us or something

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

us military pilots and radar operators encountering inexplicable religious magic multiple times a week over past few years, kinda sad

Butternubs
Feb 15, 2012

Wheeee posted:

us military pilots and radar operators encountering inexplicable religious magic multiple times a week over past few years, kinda sad

There's definitely different layers of UFO guys though.

There's the reasonable "This is some cool, possibly alien, technology we can't explain and birds don't exist." guy.

and then there's the "I can summon UFOs with my mind and I keep a piece of quartz up my rear end to amplify my psychic abilities." guy.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Wheeee posted:

us military pilots and radar operators encountering inexplicable religious magic multiple times a week over past few years, kinda sad

theres no convincing the ufo fans but the idea of the US military seeing many things in the air that they cant identify is not earth shattering or spooky, especially when you see the actual videos theyr talking about.
that footage some goon linked earlier of the night sky with all the flying objects, those are all UAPs by definition and the footage is clearer than anything we've seen so far

literally footage of a bird is a UAP since the military sensors are not set up to identify birds and from the footage of birds that have been relased its obvious that not only are the bird videos part of the x00 videos they claim to have, theyr among the best videos they have. (unless you beleive some crank who says actually they have crashed alien saucers they just released blurry footage of a plane flying away instead)
a lot of people are like "how would a professional warfighter not recognise IR footage of a bird?" but the people reviewing the footage are just random interns at this new underfunded UAP body and some con artists trying to hype their books or podcasts. what are the odds a fighter pilot even understands the sensor readings? theyr not scientists.

this is all explained in the UAP report and their subsequent request for funding and scientific personell, unless you read it with the idea that aliens are already real and theyr trying to downplay the imminent revelations, or you didnt read it at all you just read the summaries written by ufo fans

e: i was in camp "advanced drones" before seeing the actual evidence, but theres not actually any evidence of these breakthrough technologies at all.

Communist Thoughts has issued a correction as of 15:59 on Jul 27, 2021

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


those seem more like liberal thoughts than communist thoughts imho

Communist Thoughts posted:

what are the odds a fighter pilot even understands the sensor readings? theyr not scientists.

this part is very funny tho

Think Less
Dec 29, 2016
*rips bong* what if humans are the real von nueman probes, man?

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


unironically i'm perfectly willing to examine things through the lens of "UFOs aren't aliens that's absurd" because that's where i was before the modern UFO stuff started in 2017, but the idea of a large number of fighter pilots picking up literal birds on sensors and being completely loving flabbergasted by their performance characteristics is less realistic than extraterrestrial visitation. it's such a stupid idea that i'm amazed anyone believes it at all.

whatever these things are, they aren't literal actual birds. bizarre natural atmospheric phenomena? the apparent intelligence they show seems to contradict that idea, but that could all be a coincidence i guess. it's not impossible. birds, as an explanation, are impossible

A MIRACLE
Sep 17, 2007

All right. It's Saturday night; I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

Jazerus posted:

unironically i'm perfectly willing to examine things through the lens of "UFOs aren't aliens that's absurd" because that's where i was before the modern UFO stuff started in 2017, but the idea of a large number of fighter pilots picking up literal birds on sensors and being completely loving flabbergasted by their performance characteristics is less realistic than extraterrestrial visitation. it's such a stupid idea that i'm amazed anyone believes it at all.

whatever these things are, they aren't literal actual birds. bizarre natural atmospheric phenomena? the apparent intelligence they show seems to contradict that idea, but that could all be a coincidence i guess. it's not impossible. birds, as an explanation, are impossible

aliens... avians... aliens... avians...

makes you think :ninja:

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Think Less posted:

*rips bong* what if humans are the real von nueman probes, man?

:stonk:

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

metal boats or quartz buttplugs
YOU MUST CHOOSE

Rickshaw
Apr 11, 2004

just a coconut going for a stroll

person from 1500 posted:

Thou meanst to tell me that this advanced race has mastered thee arte of 'internal combustion' and thereby propel themselves at will across the planet, from Farthyshire to Dournemouthe, a 12 days journey, in one hours' time and with greate speed forthwith? Surely such celestial beings would hav knowledge unto the heavens and of man, and would therefore avoid all possibility of accidental crash and death, being so far in advance of ourselves who suffer death and injury

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos

Pff, that's just birds

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001


Yeah we've been sailing ships for thousands of years and even with all our knowledge and technology, those things still sink with depressing regularity.

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


the self driving uap isn't any better than our self driving cars, causing them to crash into our solar system's firetruck (the ocean)

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

0.000% of recent UAP disclosures have been debunked. Capricious pilot-bamboozling aliens still taunt the world with a poo poo-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Lue Elizondo *hosed him over* personally with his disclosure program. It has, unfortunately, made him into a very, very defensive boy with something like a schoolboy crush on Mick West. Instead of debunking UAPs, he now throws facile attempts at denial against this beautiful, inevitable reality.

Think Less
Dec 29, 2016
Has this been posted yet? Pretty wild read, and I really want to know what was on the missing page of the CIA docs

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qag/how-to-escape-the-confines-of-time-and-space-according-to-the-cia

Edit: Nevermind lol, apparently it was found and the author wrote an update

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e4g3/found-page-25-of-the-cias-gateway-report-on-astral-projection

Think Less has issued a correction as of 18:18 on Jul 27, 2021

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Ross Coulthart says he's been told that Americans involved in reverse engineering UAP tech have defected to China, which may explain Navy patents

"Now I'm not leaping to conclusions when they say they've been involved in a crash retrieval program. I'm not leaping to conclusions that's true. Because one thing you have to take into account as a journalist, and I've been on the receiving end of these before, is deliberate disinformation. A country like America might be at a strategic disadvantage, for example. It might know that, say hypothetically, the Russians have been able to develop some kind of breakthrough in anti-gravitics. Or maybe the Chinese. Maybe somebody who was working for the Americans might have defected to the Chinese. I'm told that they have. And maybe that anti-gravitics technology is now being worked on in the black by the Chinese, and maybe this behind the scenes great race going on of trying to develop this technology before anyone else...maybe that's the reason for the Dr. Salvatore Pais patents."

I hope the people's republic succeeds in stymying the united $nakkes of Amerikka

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

lol if the us somehow lost somebody with that kind of knowledge they'd so something a lot more drastic than filing patents imo

him going "you can't patent something without proving it works!!" was also kinda :raise:

e: should point out this was on the interview he did on somewhere in skies, but it sounded consistent with what i've heard in other interviews hes done

WEH has issued a correction as of 19:44 on Jul 27, 2021

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
president xi, my people yearn for antigravity

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

WEH posted:

him going "you can't patent something without proving it works!!" was also kinda :raise:

*glances over my list of bullshit patents*
I gonna go with this one being 'lmao' pinocchios

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Communist Thoughts posted:

theres no convincing the ufo fans but the idea of the US military seeing many things in the air that they cant identify is not earth shattering or spooky

literally footage of a bird is a UAP since the military sensors are not set up to identify birds and from the footage of birds that have been relased its obvious that not only are the bird videos part of the x00 videos they claim to have, theyr among the

lmao that you would believe this. 80 of those 144 incidents were recorded across multiple sensors, meaning half of the incidents, at least, are almost certainly not loving birds or balloons. And this thread is very open to things being not aliens or timetravelers or molemen or 5th dimensional jellyfish or whatever, but that argument gets harder to make when a thing is caught on multiple sensors doing insane poo poo that seems to defy physics, a phenomenon which has been acknowledged by a ton of different governments by the way. Now Harvard is doing a study on it too. Wow must be due to a bunch of birds

you're just creating your own reality lol did u get a hand on some of those crystals

Communist Thoughts posted:

a lot of people are like "how would a professional warfighter not recognise IR footage of a bird?" but the people reviewing the footage are just random interns at this new underfunded UAP body and some con artists trying to hype their books or podcasts.

lol what are you talking about? No one in this thread idolizes the military, but pilots and radar operators generally know what a bird looks like. And AATIP was run by an intelligence officer with degrees in microbiology, immunology, math, and chemistry, while other work was subcontracted out to an aerospace company that had active NASA contracts. Various other studies on UFOs done by both the US and other nations, have involved astrophysicists. lol "Interns"


Communist Thoughts posted:

what are the odds a fighter pilot even understands the sensor readings? theyr not scientists.

pretty high you ding dong lol

they know more about it than your average mick west, at least

Communist Thoughts posted:

this is all explained in the UAP report and their subsequent request for funding and scientific personell, unless you read it with the idea that aliens are already real and theyr trying to downplay the imminent revelations, or you didnt read it at all you just read the summaries written by ufo fans

no its not, unless you read it with some NDT debunker brain going in. It clearly states that there are 144 unexplained incidents (collected almost entirely over the past two years alone), with 80 of them seen across multiple sensors, and the "other" category in the report is clearly meant as a catch all for explanations like "sentient ball lightning/aliens/interdimensional bigfoot/timetravelers/squidmen/we just dont loving know", without requiring the government to actually say "sentient ball lightning/aliens/interdimensional bigfoot/timetravelers/squidmen/we just dont loving know."

Communist Thoughts posted:

e: i was in camp "advanced drones" before seeing the actual evidence, but theres not actually any evidence of these breakthrough technologies at all.

so ur saying its aliens

:smugdon:

Rah! has issued a correction as of 20:12 on Jul 27, 2021

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Think Less posted:

Has this been posted yet? Pretty wild read, and I really want to know what was on the missing page of the CIA docs

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qag/how-to-escape-the-confines-of-time-and-space-according-to-the-cia

Edit: Nevermind lol, apparently it was found and the author wrote an update

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e4g3/found-page-25-of-the-cias-gateway-report-on-astral-projection

Man spends months investigating a missing page from a CIA report on astral projection, finally it turns up and says astral projection is impossible without first knowing yourself. Gets told to do something he feels is right with this information, so he asks for people's personal accounts of AP and turns them into an NFT. Lmao.

What's the term for wanting aliens to be real and here but only so they can wipe us out? Like posadism in reverse.

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
aliens love talking about peace and love and such and its like jeez guys get some new material my rear end is right here. cmon. cowards.

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Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the navy makes you have a college degree (and a lot of extra training of course) to fly their planes.

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