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Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

teardrop posted:

A few months ago the Navy admitted that UFOs are real, and the Pentagon has been documenting impossible aerial maneuvers for decades.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-trnd/index.html

Nobody cares, because everything is so hosed up in general these days. Will a UFO come pay my bills? Will a UFO fix a broken social contract that destroyed our sense of community and put Right and Left at each others’ throats? Will a UFO abduct me from this dead gay Earth before climate change displaces a quarter of the population and destabilizes the entire planet? Lame.

Is it weird that nobody cares? I feel like even 20 years ago, staring down Y2K, people were collectively searching for meaning and imagining worlds beyond their everyday. Has being connected to Google 24/7 with our personal portable Skinner box made us feel saturated with information, or have people actually always given no fucks? For all of the conspiracy theories about mind control brainwashing, the punch line is that advertising and fake news breed apathy cheaper and better.

The aliens called me, and they said that you're too much of a buzzkill to take off planet.

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Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
The guy who found the lost Death Valley Germans did a really good write up on Bob Lazar.

Like you all have said, some of his stuff is plausible(he did work at area 51, but as a tech contractor and not a physicist)

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/looking-at-the-bob-lazar-story-from-the-perspective-of-2018/

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

Seconding how rad this is, as well as the linked stuff within. Thanks!

One thing about Bob Lazar's story was interesting, though.

He apparently took his friends out to watch some kind of night time display of flying lights out at Area 51(and he knew what time those lights would be showing up), and that's when he got busted by base security.

There isn't a really good explanation for the stuff he and his friends were watching. The Otherhand guy mentions that it might've been some kind of plasma generator, but he goes on to say that his info re: that was from a source that he didn't want to reveal.

I mean, I'm sure it's not aliens or crashed UFO tech, but it's still a question mark.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
All I can say is that something crashed at Roswell and it would be really neat to find out after all these years. It probably wasn't a flying saucer but what ever it was the military made a big loving deal about it and worked really hard to cover it up and keep it covered.

My long standing theory is that the USSR was working on space craft much earlier than we thought, and something from their new space program(or related experiments) crashed right in rural America and it freaked everyone out.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Frankenstyle posted:

Space is pretty empty. For space bugs to arbitrarily find even one or two planets where they could thrive their distribution would have to be so dense they'd blot out the stars, and for them to disburse enough to cover the galaxy they'd pretty much need to have formed close to the start of expansion and spread with space itself. I mean space bugs kicked up from asteroid impacts jumping bodies in the same solar system may be improbable, but it's not batshit crazy improbable. On the scale of a galaxy or universally it just doesn't work.

love finds a way...

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
Has anyone talked about loving the aliens yet? Because that is important.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Mooey Cow posted:

The military doesn't have reactionless turbo drives, those idiots can't even build that F-35 right.

Unless that's just a sham to divert money to the real projects :tinfoil:

In this case, the real projects are the bank accounts of contractors and politicians.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Julius CSAR posted:

As an electronic warfare tech this was literally my job, but you have to know ALOT of classified material, IFF Mode 4 Codes and the Emitter Data (PRI, PRF, frequency, etc) are very highly classified and the tech used to send out signals to do what you’re talking about is not something some dude on the beach at Big Sur can just set up and operate. The power requirements are astronomical for one. You need to be able to have multiple spiral, interferometer, and DF antennas to pull the signal down, a core section to signal process and convert to a video carrier signal, then send that to another stack of parts that rebuilds the signal in an exploitable fashion, followed by a transmit chain of an RF Signal Source, a high power transmitter, a beam forming unit, and finally a steerable or phased array antenna to shoot the signal back out. And that’s just for basic simple noise jamming. I’ve done specifically what you’re talking about as well but it’s quite a bit more complicated. Also, I don’t want to chat with the FBI today.

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

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

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

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

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
It makes sense that the new hot uaps are just a sphere bc that would allow you to travel through stuff like sea water and atmosphere in a predictable manner.

Also, my theory is that they are from the deep oceans or from the inside of the earth bc nobody knows what's in there. Like there's apparently a whole other ocean in there they recently discovered.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Cactus posted:

Got any links where I can read more about this extra ocean? That sounds interesting.

Edit: is it Ringwoodite?

ah that was it yeah.

But still, even if we can't live in it doesn't mean other stuff can't either.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
yo can we gently caress the aliens or not?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

naem posted:

I was thinking about how much energy it would take to grab an asteroid and tow it somewhere else. Even if it was solid gold would it be cost effective?

or like, a giant vacuum to slurp up earth’s oceans. if aliens had the capability to move resources at that scale, would they need to?

like, how many zillion pounds of cows and grass and humans and crickets etc taken to be freeze dried into jerky for the bad guy aliens makes any sense.

too little it’s not worth the trip, to much and it’s like ok how much fuel do you have to burn that costs less than HUU MEAT like how do you turn a profit

I think the aliens (if they needed anything found on planet earth) would just come use the resources here locally and displace us? or they are on such a scale that they are post-scarcity and wouldn’t bother besides filming national galactic geographic of our mating habits

well look at it this way, if you sent an email via satellite dish to Alpha Centauri, it would take like a hundred years to get there.

Imagine if you had a thumb drive full of woods porn, and you brought it with you on your FTL space ship. It'd be very valuable.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
My bro was stationed at Guam about 25 years ago when he was in the Air Force. I jokinly asked him if he ever saw any UFOs, or other weird stuff that he couldn't talk about.

He said there were two instances where that happened. The first one was he and some other guys were walking around the hangars, and they happened to see something in an open hangar, and right when they realized they were seeing something they weren't supposed to, they turned around and saw some high ranking superior that told them to forget what they saw and don't talk to anyone about it or else it was court marshal time. The gist I got was that he might've seen some kind of new plane or weapon that he wasn't supposed to see, but he was rattled enough by the warning that he still wouldn't talk about it even years later.

The other time he was with his wife and they witnessed something oblong fly overhead and into the water, but it didn't make any noise. Hs wife was talking with one of the other wives at the BX, and they said that they saw the same thing and her husband got all weird about it and told her never to tell anyone else what they saw. idk if it was because they were sworn to secrecy, of it the guy was just worried it would tank his career if he was labeled a ufo nut.

The overall impression I got from him was that sightings were almost commonplace, but they were all taught to keep quiet about them.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

500excf type r posted:

UFOs are like masturbation, everyone does it but no one wants to talk about it and the ones that do are fuckin weirdos

too long for a thread title.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

maybealabia posted:

fwiw (nothing really) I've been to Guam, know people from Guam, Saipan, and NMI and have never heard anything about UFO poo poo there

We did find a cave with a human skeleton and a Japanese flag and a lot of sake bottles once and reported it to the authorities

Well no poo poo they're not allowed to talk about it.

Also, you're find was way cooler anyways.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
can we at least gently caress the missing passengers from MH370?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

NoiseAnnoys posted:

aliens are pretty fugly

Nice try, CIA.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Vakal posted:

Are there any records of the airforce or other orgs using jockey sized humans for test pilots?

I always figured it would make sense to use the smallest people available to keep weight down when designing prototype aircraft but wanted something a bit more reliable at the controls than a chimpanzee.

Tbh, a chimpanzee flying an experimental aircraft and shrieking in excitement is probably the coolest thing ever.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

redshirt posted:

"Skafish" would be a good named for an ocean themed ska band.

Turn the Radio Telescope Off

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
so is it credible that the private sector has some kind of physical evidence of UAP/UFOs landing on earth?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Jamsque posted:

The private sector? What, have we given up on the Vatican already?

they won't return my calls

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
bummer

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Vakal posted:

Can you patent something without knowing how to make it?

Technically, yes. But your claims and figures in your patent submission have to cover enough details so that someone "skilled in the art" would be able to make or understand your patented invention.

One time, I had patent clerk literally request that I test a geometric feature that my company was trying to patent so that we could prove that it was functionally better than a competing prior art patent.


Also, I'm very disappointed that the Mexican alien doesn't have a fat dump truck rear end.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
Bringing my dusty pottery flavored alien across the border only to have it seized by customs bc it's got lead paint on it.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

ThinkTank posted:

Graves was literally just paid to show up in Mexico to lend credence to that scammer's farce. Grusch will go the same in short order. He probably already is given he's been on a bunch of podcasts and is quickly delving into crackpot territory with the stuff he's speculating about.

the ufo fame pipeline

I think the missing 411 guy finally went the same route too.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
Reddit dorks give way too much credit to NASA for being able to cover things up.

I think they have to dig around in the couch to find money for each satellite launch. How would they have the time or resources to cover up visits from an advanced spacefaring civilization?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Yeah there's always been hoaxers and bandwagoneers who jump onto the latest woo trend and they do it for a whole variety of reasons, there's no single explanation for their behaviour. Sometimes it's an attempted grift right from the start (there's a long LONG history of these fakers touring their 'discoveries' around the country and charging admission at state fairs so people could gawk at it) and sometimes they just do it for shits & giggles, like the crop circle fakers. Sometimes an attempted hoax takes on a life of its own and the truth isn't revealed until many many decades later:

Bigfoot started out as a similar prank back in '58 when workers discovered giant footprints around a logging camp and a local reporter ran a story about it:

.... and the culprit wasn't revealed until almost half a century later when his family gave the game away after he died


Of course, sometimes the explanation for a hoax is just plain mental illness. :shrug:

Lmao the origin of all cryptozoology is just bored dudes having fun in the wilderness.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The sasquatch hunting threads are also oddly erotic, maybe goons just like their piece of strange to be heavy on the strange

There's a lady who makes 30k a month selling sasquatch erotica on Kindle direct.

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Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
has the pentagon said if we can gently caress the aliens yet?

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