strange feelings re Daisy posted:

He also had twins with his first wife, then triplets later with his first wife. 100% did this on purpose via IVF and some kind of weird personal eugenics plan. He's already commented that smart people aren't having enough kids.

PokeJoe posted:

How about

"Alien command room and crew of unidentified underwater phenomenon"

SavageGentleman posted:

Thanks for these creations! So one more modified try:

"Behind the green door lies a place of secrets. Faceless soldiers, veterans of numerous astral battles, rest here. In the shadows, grey aliens tend to the soldiers. They probe, they experiment, they never rest. In the background is a portal, open forever to the WARP. To the side stands Radar the grey ET with a beer drinking helmet on his head: he gives a thumbs-up.

Riot Bimbo posted:

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SniperWoreConverse posted:

Wtf this is like some kinda glitch output, what could cause it to do this? This reminds me of when I was loving around with I forget the name of it, matrix cell transforms or whatever they're called.

Real weird how certain phrases induce really strange output, it must be some odd correlation in the training data where it has made an unexpected connection

E
The fact these things work at all is sometimes baffling to me. There's a thing I read way back about how all forms of computer program can be rewritten and decompiled in various different ways and notations, I wonder if you could train up a net and then do something to it so that it shows the actual logic being used. If it has anything resembling logic.

Riot Bimbo posted:

lucid dream/astral imagery

E Depois do Adeus posted:

Something I was thinking about recently has been, let's say you get the money shot, what would you do next? Like let's say you have a few photos of a landed extraterrestrial craft and a few aliens, what do you even do then? Would you just stick it on social media and see what happens? Send it to media outlets? I feel like there's a vested interest in making sure disclosure doesn't happen like that so censorship and consequences would come down quickly right?

E Depois do Adeus posted:

Something I was thinking about recently has been, let's say you get the money shot, what would you do next? Like let's say you have a few photos of a landed extraterrestrial craft and a few aliens, what do you even do then? Would you just stick it on social media and see what happens? Send it to media outlets? I feel like there's a vested interest in making sure disclosure doesn't happen like that so censorship and consequences would come down quickly right?

Slavvy posted:

This is brilliant

Jazerus posted:

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Interview with Jim Semivan, To The Stars co-founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtL-sBhe30

Paraphrasing some highlights:
-We're not doing full disclosure because it would terrify people. The beings can remotely alter human perceptions and behavior or insert false experiences. How do you tell the populace, "ok there are otherworldly beings that can hurt and manipulate you but there's nothing the government can do about it and we don't even know what they are"
-Semivan discloses a history of personal occult involvement and compares the beings to djinn or daimons, with a frequent trickster aspect
-He urges extreme caution attempting contact, because you don't know what you'll invite
-He says he himself is an experiencer that was studied in a group. Many of the group members had horrifying experiences, some committed suicide

-Mentions the case of Chris Bledsoe which seemed scary at first but then became apparently benevolent and involved healing powers
-No idea why many experiences are terrible but some are good. Seems like a cosmic joke from something toying with us
-Addresses John Ramirez's claims of alien-human hybrid programs. He says he can't verify that claim personally but Ramirez is genuine and trustworthy
-Promotes a bunch of To the Stars entertainment projects, and explains they needed to produce fictional entertainment to satisfy investors and get money lmao. Very important to have half your business be fake paranormal stories so you can support the other half of the business that tells true facts *wink*

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Semivan needs to be regarded with extreme suspicion and skepticism constantly, as a heads up.

WEH posted:

crescent ufo over base in the phillipines

WEH posted:

disk fascinates witnesses; lost time

SKULL.GIF posted:

I really wonder what's going on with the consistent reports of "lost time".

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Interview with Jim Semivan, To The Stars co-founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtL-sBhe30

Stairmaster posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1552787247841304581?s=20&t=9BU1-f1FKDM6LNhFLCTHnw


another piece of the puzzle....

The Saucer Hovers posted:

until someone posts the texts it was some dumb fish

Jazerus posted:

they don't know yet

my bet is on those weird rear end magma vent worms tho

Objurium posted:

This is a fun one, and tracks with some of the sort of quasi anomalous cognition events I've had in the goombaverse.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1552848575561973760

Objurium posted:

This is a fun one, and tracks with some of the sort of quasi anomalous cognition events I've had in the goombaverse.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1552848575561973760

The Sausages posted:

"I don't know how these holes were made, must be Aliens"

The Sausages posted:

more likely it's Priapulida aka Penis Worms


aquatic burrowing organisms that produce holes with regular spacing have existed for hundreds of millions of years and a shitload of them still exist

vs.

"I don't know how these holes were made, must be Aliens"

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Does anyone have a link to that website that lays out all the uap quotes?

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Interview with Jim Semivan, To The Stars co-founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtL-sBhe30

Paraphrasing some highlights:
-We're not doing full disclosure because it would terrify people. The beings can remotely alter human perceptions and behavior or insert false experiences. How do you tell the populace, "ok there are otherworldly beings that can hurt and manipulate you but there's nothing the government can do about it and we don't even know what they are"
-Semivan discloses a history of personal occult involvement and compares the beings to djinn or daimons, with a frequent trickster aspect
-He urges extreme caution attempting contact, because you don't know what you'll invite
-He says he himself is an experiencer that was studied in a group. Many of the group members had horrifying experiences, some committed suicide

-Mentions the case of Chris Bledsoe which seemed scary at first but then became apparently benevolent and involved healing powers
-No idea why many experiences are terrible but some are good. Seems like a cosmic joke from something toying with us
-Addresses John Ramirez's claims of alien-human hybrid programs. He says he can't verify that claim personally but Ramirez is genuine and trustworthy
-Promotes a bunch of To the Stars entertainment projects, and explains they needed to produce fictional entertainment to satisfy investors and get money lmao. Very important to have half your business be fake paranormal stories so you can support the other half of the business that tells true facts *wink*

Azathoth posted:

the phrase penis worms fills me with a sense of existential dread

The Saucer Hovers posted:

until someone posts the texts it was some dumb fish

quote:

There Are Holes on the Ocean Floor. Scientists Don’t Know Why.

Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Their origins remain unknown. Scientists are asking the public for their thoughts.

While researchers explored the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on July 23, they noticed sets of holes in the sediment that they couldn’t explain. The laser points in the image are 10 centimeters. or about 4 inches, apart.Credit...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christine Chung

By Christine Chung
July 28, 2022

Deep in the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely operated vehicle to examine largely unexplored areas found a pattern of holes in the sand.

During the dive, north of the Azores, near Portugal’s mainland, on July 23, they saw about a dozen sets of holes resembling a track of lines on the ocean floor, at a depth of 1.6 miles.

Then about a week later, on Thursday, there were four more sightings on the Azores Plateau, which is underwater terrain where three tectonic plates meet. Those holes were about a mile deep and about 300 miles away from the site of the expedition’s initial discovery.

The scientists don’t know what the holes are, but they have encountered similar markings before and consider them to be “lebensspuren,” German for “life traces,” referring to impressions in sediments that could be the work of living organisms.

The question the scientists are posing, to themselves and to the public in posts on Twitter and Facebook, is: What is creating those marks, with the holes spaced 4 or more inches apart and the lines extending from 5 feet to more than 6 feet, on the ocean floor?

“The origin of the holes has scientists stumped,” said the post on Twitter from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ocean Exploration project. “The holes look human made, but the little piles of sediment around them suggest they were excavated by … something.”

Nearly two decades ago, just about 27 miles away from the location of the current expedition’s initial sighting, scientists spotted similar holes during an exploration, Emily Crum, a NOAA spokeswoman, said.

But the passage of time has not provided any clear answers, said Michael Vecchione, a NOAA deep-sea biologist who participated in that project and is also involved in part of this latest expedition.

“There is something important going on there and we don’t know what it is,” Dr. Vecchione said. “This highlights the fact that there are still mysteries out there.”

The holes are but one of the questions that scientists on an ambitious ocean expedition are probing, as they explore the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a section of a massive deep-ocean range of mountains and stretches for more than 10,000 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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A colony of bamboo coral, measuring nearly a meter across, among deep-ocean life seen during the fourth dive of Voyage to the Ridge 2022 in the Atlantic Ocean. The coral is believed to be at least 100 years old.Credit...NOAA
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A stalked glass sponge, observed at a depth of 1.62 miles in the Atlantic Ocean. The long stalk extends into the water for feeding.Credit...NOAA

Experts with NOAA are seeking answers during three expeditions that they are calling Voyage to the Ridge 2022, which began in May and will conclude in September, in journeys that are taking them from the waters off Newport, R.I., to the Azores and back to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.

Explorers want to know what lives along the continuous range of underwater volcanoes and what happens when geologic processes that create life-supporting heat are halted.

They are paying close attention to deep-sea coral and sponge communities, which are “some of the most valuable marine ecosystems on Earth,” said Derek Sowers, an expedition coordinator aboard the NOAA ship, the Okeanos Explorer.

Dr. Sowers said that expeditions such as the ridge voyages were “fundamental” to establishing an understanding of the biodiversity of the planet and “the novel compounds produced by all of these life-forms.”

And they want to know more about areas where seawater is heated by magma, with deep-sea life deriving energy from this source and chemicals, instead of the sun, like most life on Earth.

“This has expanded our understanding of under what conditions life on other planets may occur,” Dr. Sowers said.

After the agency turned to social media in an effort to engage the public, dozens of comments streamed in, with some delving into speculation. Are the holes man-made? Could they be a sign from extraterrestrials? Are they tracks left by a submarine? Could they be the breathing holes of a “deep-sea creature that buries itself under the sand”?

That last guess wasn’t necessarily so far-fetched, Dr. Vecchione said. In a paper about the holes spotted in 2004, Mr. Vecchione and his co-author, Odd Aksel Bergstad, a former researcher at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, proposed two main hypotheses for why the holes exist. Both involved marine life, either walking or swimming above the sediment and poking holes down, or the inverse scenario, burrowing within the sediment and jabbing holes up.

The holes seen on Thursday appeared to have been pushed out from underneath, Dr. Vecchione said.
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The remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer over the ocean seafloor during a fourth dive of the Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition on July 23.Credit...NOAA

The remotely operated vehicle’s suctioning device collected sediment samples to examine whether there was an organism inside the holes, Dr. Sowers said.

Dr. Vecchione said that while he was pleased about encountering the ocean floor holes again, he was “a little disappointed” that scientists still lacked an explanation.

“It reinforces the idea that there is a mystery that some day we will figure out,” he said. “But we haven’t figured it out yet.”

One last dive, which will be livestreamed, remains to be carried out in the second expedition of the series, NOAA said. The third expedition begins on Aug. 7.

Pooky posted:

https://uap.guide ?