[UFOs] watch Mellon start an intergalactic war

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bbobseq: Jul 1, 2023

So funny that someone brought up Denver Riggleman. He's on my ontological shock watch list along with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Mick West, etc-people who you are eager to watch unravel as their belief systems dissolve like cotton candy in water.

Anyway, the guy's certainly opinionated.

https://twitter.com/RepRiggleman

# ? Aug 14, 2023 07:47

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# ? May 24, 2024 18:03

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

stolen from another thread but I think they're pretty good

gradenko_2000 posted:

(credit: https://twitter.com/PAVE_vice)

# ? Aug 14, 2023 08:01

Plumps: Apr 21, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sd8B1QvGME

when viewed through the right lens this scene encapsualtes the state of discourse in the ufo 'world'

which characters represent which elements is left up to the viewer to decide

# ? Aug 14, 2023 08:52

SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

Tekne posted:

"ceci n'est pas un bird"

hell yeah, I didn't remember that particular Magritte painting, the recurring orb presence in his works sure gets a second look from me now. Thanks for sharing

painted in 1928 "la voix des airs" (the voice from the air / also wordplay on "airways").

There's also another version called "the voice from space"

I checked in a database and apparently Magritte made dozens and dozens of works with orbs in them. I never knew about them since they are less popular than his iconic works. A few others

"the silvery chasm"

"the flowers of the abyss"

"the double secret"

"the secret landscape"

"the automaton"

"the monumental shadow"

"the quest for the absolute"

"the forbidden reading", featuring the word "siren". You know, the mythic creature that is described as "the offspring of fallen angels" (book of Enoch) and "half bird/fish/half women bewitching sailors"

etc, etc, there's apparently orbs/spheres in 187 of his works so you know it's something that was very important and symbolic to him. Surrealists being heavily into things like dreams and altered consciousness it's not surprising me Magritte was a (subconscious) aitee believer and knew about the orb drones from the abyss

e:also led me down another rabbit hole where I learned they had orb-shaped coal around the same time:

SpaceGoatFarts has issued a correction as of 11:28 on Aug 14, 2023

# ? Aug 14, 2023 09:41

Sleekly: Aug 21, 2008

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

"the double secret"

so thats whats going on with zuck

# ? Aug 14, 2023 09:47

SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

Sleekly posted:

so thats whats going on with zuck

yeah people have been joking about it for years already. Magritte was just ahead of his time

# ? Aug 14, 2023 09:53

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

"ceci n'est pas un bird"

hell yeah, I didn't remember that particular Magritte painting, the recurring orb presence in his works sure gets a second look from me now. Thanks for sharing

painted in 1928 "la voix des airs" (the voice from the air / also wordplay on "airways").

There's also another version called "the voice from space"

I checked in a database and apparently Magritte made dozens and dozens of works with orbs in them. I never knew about them since they are less popular than his iconic works. A few others

"the silvery chasm"

"the flowers of the abyss"

"the double secret"

"the secret landscape"

"the automaton"

"the monumental shadow"

"the quest for the absolute"

"the forbidden reading", featuring the word "siren". You know, the mythic creature that is described as "the offspring of fallen angels" (bible) and "half bird/fish/half women bewitching sailors"

etc, etc, there's apparently orbs/spheres in 187 of his works so you know it's something that was very important and symbolic to him. Surrealists being heavily into things like dreams and altered consciousness it's not surprising me Magritte was a (subconscious) aitee believer and knew about the orb drones from the abyss

e:also led me down another rabbit hole where I learned they had orb-shaped coal around the same time:

*chuckles nervously*

# ? Aug 14, 2023 10:43

Bushmaori: Mar 8, 2009

Victor Vermis posted:

Makes a lot of sense. Like how firefighters get to keep any fair maiden they carry away from a housefire

Or how any Clinton-affiliated charity organization gets to keep the children they save from poverty.

You think we they like having to babysit a herd of humans? Do you have any idea how demanding and annoying you are?

# ? Aug 14, 2023 11:19

jackhunter64: Aug 28, 2008; Keep it up son, take a look at what you could have won

Plumps posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sd8B1QvGME

when viewed through the right lens this scene encapsualtes the state of discourse in the ufo 'world'

which characters represent which elements is left up to the viewer to decide

Getting a birthday card 'from all the lads on the tic-tac - we like you more than Eddie'

# ? Aug 14, 2023 11:53

smelly goblin: Jul 27, 2022

Nuclearmonkee posted:

If this ended up being true, those complicit should be round up and shot. Consigning us to climate death for muh profits and power.

Though even if it were true, lmao at the idea of the rich and powerful being held to account.

Lmao imagine this being the reason why aliens keep basically harassing the military in the air

# ? Aug 14, 2023 11:58

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Bushmaori posted:

The plane was on fire because of an accident with the lithium battery cargo, fellow humans. It was moved to save the people within, but they could not be returned to earth for what they would tell. ~~We don't appreciate~~ I don't think out of Earthers would appreciate the accusations of malevolence.

I'd live to believe an act of benevolence but if ~~you~~ they are benevolent creatures, we've seen precious little else to indicate as such. The classical conundrum of "if god is good why is there so much suffering in the world" but for alien observers. Why save that plane and not people in natural disasters or other famous plane crashes or whatever.

What seems to tickle my brain is the thought of the oceanic mothership... there are plenty of stories of things getting too close and being construed as threats and then... vaporized.
What if the military drone/surveillance can be explained by the fact that the plane diverted into a known "no-fly zone" of sorts that we actively monitor... and then it got blipped by automated defenses that took its approach as hostile

# ? Aug 14, 2023 12:19

Bushmaori: Mar 8, 2009

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I'd live to believe an act of benevolence but if ~~you~~ they are benevolent creatures, we've seen precious little else to indicate as such. The classical conundrum of "if god is good why is there so much suffering in the world" but for alien observers. Why save that plane and not people in natural disasters or other famous plane crashes or whatever.

What seems to tickle my brain is the thought of the oceanic mothership... there are plenty of stories of things getting too close and being construed as threats and then... vaporized.
What if the military drone/surveillance can be explained by the fact that the plane diverted into a known "no-fly zone" of sorts that we actively monitor... and then it got blipped by automated defenses that took its approach as hostile

If humans see animals killing each other, do they intervene? Do humans stop factually unjust wars and genocides in other countries that they have the power to stop? Do you know what happened to the people who tread where they shouldn't? Do you know the agreements your governments have signed?

What's the alien version of Hanlon's Razor?

# ? Aug 14, 2023 12:31

goochtit: Nov 2, 2021

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Aha, more evidence on the pile (that I will never attempt to verify or discredit)

# ? Aug 14, 2023 13:17

Lampsacus: Oct 21, 2008

firstly, this mural was done in 2014:

secondly, this rabbit hole is v. funny 🔱
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy...1&utm_content=2
i think one thing to remember is that LOST tv show had just finished up three years previous and whoever faked the plane disapearing video had to have known it happened a few times (twice? three times?) in the LOST tv show anyway

# ? Aug 14, 2023 14:52

Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

look ok sacrifices have to be made if you want to keep the iranian nuclear program from importing fuel from australia

# ? Aug 14, 2023 14:57

ex post facho: Oct 25, 2007

Vox Nihili posted:

Saw this and thought of this thread

https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1690718842736050177

is she single???

# ? Aug 14, 2023 14:59

Petey: Nov 26, 2005; For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

from a friend in another chat

quote:

This recently-published paper, �Autonomous Restructuring of Asteroids into Rotating Space Stations,� is a wild ride and well worth the 30�90 minutes required to read it. The author (who has a PhD in astro structures technology from MIT and a long career of relevant experience) explains in considerable detail how a single launch of a Falcon Heavy and an investment of $4 billion would be sufficient to remake an entire asteroid into a habitable space station in 12 years, supporting a population�conservatively�of 700,000

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2302/2302.12353.pdf

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:02

Milosh: Oct 14, 2000; Forum Veteran

So I took a few days off from the thread because I was bummed about the Grusch treatment and the superconductor wiffing out.

To catch up ET's took MH370?

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:05

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Milosh posted:

So I took a few days off from the thread because I was bummed about the Grusch treatment and the superconductor wiffing out.

To catch up ET's took MH370?

Seems like

If not someone's paying bots to push a debunk narrative for the fun of it

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:09

Rynn: Jul 23, 2003

Vox Nihili posted:

Saw this and thought of this thread

https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1690718842736050177

What dat dirigible do

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:13

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

Rynn posted:

What dat dirigible do

float, probably

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:30

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

D-Pad posted:

Anyway, have two Soviet UFO stories:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005517761.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/world/ufo-landing-is-fact-not-fantasy-the-russians-insist.html

So in one of these the aliens themselves turn into orbs. We've been assuming the orbs are drones of some sort but what if jrooti just shifts into an orb whenever he needs to run an errand?

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:33

Petey: Nov 26, 2005; For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

https://twitter.com/lericdax/status/1690912304672464896?s=46&t=b23kGbnuFi54qJQa-UIGzw

# ? Aug 14, 2023 15:38

DiscountDildos: Nov 8, 2017

D-Pad posted:

Anyway, have two Soviet UFO stories:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005517761.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/world/ufo-landing-is-fact-not-fantasy-the-russians-insist.html

quote:

ACCORDING TO THE KGB MATERIALS, A QUITE LOW-FLYING SPACESHIP IN THE SHAPE OF A SAUCER APPEARED ABOVE A MILITARY UNIT THAT WAS CONDUCTING ROUTINE TRAINING MANEUVERS. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, SOMEBODY UNEXPECTEDLY LAUNCHED A SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE AND HIT THE *UFO. IT FELL TO EARTH NOT FAR AWAY, AND FIVE SHORT HUMANOIDS WITH "LARGE HEADS AND LARGE BLACK EYES" EMERGED FROM IT.

IT IS STATED IN THE TESTIMONIES BY THE TWO SOLDIERS WHO REMAINED ALIVE THAT, AFTER FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE DEBRIS, THE ALIENS CAME CLOSE TOGETHER AND THEN "MERGED INTO A SINGLE OBJECT THAT ACQUIRED A SPHERICAL SHAPE." THAT OBJECT BEGAN TO BUZZ AND HISS SHARPLY, AND THEN BECAME BRILLIANT WHITE. IN A FEW SECONDS, THE SPHERES GREW MUCH BIGGER AND EXPLODED BY FLARING UP WITH AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT LIGHT. AT THAT VERY INSTANT, 23 SOLDIERS WHO HAD WATCHED THE PHENOMENON TURNED INTO... STONE POLES. ONLY TWO SOLDIERS WHO STOOD IN THE SHADE AND WERE LESS EXPOSED TO THE LUMINOUS EXPLOSION SURVIVED.

* THE KGB REPORT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THE REMAINS OF THE UFO AND TH "PETRIFIED SOLDIERS" WERE TRANSFERRED TO A SECRET SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTION NEAR MOSCOW. SPECIALISTS ASSUME THAT A SOURCE OF ENERGY THAT IS STILL UNKNOWN TO EARTHLINGS INSTANTLY CHANGED THE STRUCTURE OF THE SOLDIERS' LIVING ORGANISMS, HAVING TRANSFORMED IT INTO A SUBSTANCE WHOSE MOLECULAR COMPOSITION IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF LIMESTONE.

Hell yeah very cool

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:03

Tekne: Feb 15, 2012; It's-a me, motherfucker

this isn't even my final ~~form~~shape!

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:03

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

Tekne posted:

this isn't even my final ~~form~~shape!

god dammit this is all a marketing campaign for the final season of destiny 2 gently caress

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:05

Brain Curry: Feb 15, 2007; People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school

DiscountDildos posted:

Hell yeah very cool

I too get rock hard for aliens

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:09

papersack: Jul 27, 2003

DiscountDildos posted:

Hell yeah very cool

This is what really happened at Sodom and Gomorrah

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:16

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Petey posted:

https://twitter.com/lericdax/status/1690912304672464896?s=46&t=b23kGbnuFi54qJQa-UIGzw

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:19

DiscountDildos: Nov 8, 2017

papersack posted:

This is what really happened at Sodom and Gomorrah

Aliens got annoyed because freaky Sodomites kept trying to gently caress them in the mouth so they orbed up and did what they had to do

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:21

inchworm: Jun 23, 2023

neutral milf hotel posted:

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:22

WEH: Feb 22, 2009

neutral milf hotel posted:

lmfao

# ? Aug 14, 2023 16:22

Brain Curry: Feb 15, 2007; People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school