CODChimera posted:

why would they frame them as aliens rather than just chinese/russian superweapons if their goal was simply funding?

CODChimera posted:

the general public is probably more interested in china than aliens

The Saucer Hovers posted:

in the before times you could pay to go up a mountain near enough to groom lake to seem them projecting plasma bubbles into the atmosphere- they did the tests the same time every week folks sold tickets

Zisky posted:

Peeps really be glossing over the technological implications if these are actual vehicles.

Bideo James posted:

in the summer of 1999 i saw a ball of lightning come into my home.

i was laying on my bed which was also formerly a porch, now enclosed. My bed faced long ways, to my left and right were doors into the house and onto the new porch, beyond that a chair facing a television on a wooden center and beyond that half a pingpong table and a desk chair used for our house computer, i could see out the far window

as i laid off trying to drift off on an extremely hot summer night, i was startled up standing on my bed suddenly as every hair on my body stood up and my heart began to race and in front of me, from the back side of the wooden entertainment center a bright blue and white light emitted from the back of the television and like a ghost a pulsing glowing blue orb began to form in front of it, it slowly traveled from one side of the room, vanishing into the wall. i rushed towards my door to open it into the kitchen and dining room but there was nothing there. i realized then the power was out in the entire house and the microwave beeping to life when suddenly powered again made me flee back to my bed.

i still lay awake at night wondering what that was, but i believe it was either a real ball lightning or swamp gas. i did live in a swamp.

Gringostar posted:

since work is saying we’re back in the office in july im taking the time to binge watch the x-files

the first season has some 90s cringe but it actually holds up well

WEH posted:

x-files rules but the overarching plot episodes will only hurt you in the end

Fried Watermelon posted:

Riot Bimbo posted:

It's aliens. We're an experiment; the experiment has been crashed by other aliens, and now there's gonna be a war over what to do about the idiot sentient apes that are now no longer useful in their original design.

PawParole posted:

Looks like they are trying to let out only parts of the information and not all of it.

What they can (and now have) let out (Disclosed):

UFOs are real

Their technology is far beyond ours

We don't know where they come from

We are powerless to stop them




What they may let out:

Aliens are here

There are different types of aliens

Some look like us; others look frightening to us

We are powerless to stop them

What they will never let out:

Abductions are real

Mutilations are real

Many of you have been abducted and have had your memory erased

Some aliens have a breeding program with humans

You have been anally impregnated without consent or their knowledge

We are powerless to stop them

Riot Bimbo posted:

ya lets hope our culture generation or something else intangible is nice to them i guess.

I reckon it's like, I don't spend all day clapping my hands about aliens but probably ITT im gonna post as if it's aliens because that's the only way this is interesting in a way that's not singularly distressing, but i'm aware that worse and more boring things are far more likely!~

Shear Modulus posted:

"the government admits aliens are real but nobody notices because trump said something that day" was one of the best storylines of the trump presidency

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I don't know what this is. Please share

Delta-Wye posted:

goddamn nerds

Hatebag posted:

Venus has a lovely magnetosphere but probably has life just because such a hot planet would be producing subsurface life for millions of years. Probably not anything intelligent though, so not much different than earth

LRADIKAL posted:

SPECULATING MORONS: THE THREAD

edit: (now for the first time in a Something Awful Dot Com Thread!)

Hatebag posted:

Earliest life on earth was 3.7B years ago and the moon impact was 3.5B years ago, so if life went from earth to venus they woulda had to be some tough boys to survive. I'd assume venus would have been capable of having life formed on it independently

LRADIKAL posted:

https://www.livescience.com/tardigrades-survive-being-shot-gun.html !!!

Hatebag posted:

Tardigrades only date from 145 mya though, and they eat other earth things. They are cool as hell, but they're basically progenitors of arthropod evolution. They gave rise to a bunch of different gross bugs and they survived all the previous mass extinctions

Hatebag posted:

That's what they did with all those other secret aircraft though. They encouraged insane people to call them flying saucers by gaslighting them. I don't really get it but i guess nobody really knew about the sr71 until it was out of service or the stealth helicopters until they were used to assassinate bin laden and then mainly because they crashed one, so i guess it works

Atrocious Joe posted:

i'm just looking at wikipedia, but only one incident, not the one pictured, is the airship noted as having propellers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship#The_airship_wave_of_1896-1897

gh0stpinballa posted:

!!??

Tighclops posted:

If they want more money I'm pretty sure they can just sell more drugs or something

Shear Modulus posted:

my theory for how jeff goldblum's virus worked is that it didn't actually break or shut down any of the aliens' computers its just that the laughing skull was so spooky they all were scared to death

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

whatever happened to mass suicides

Log082 posted:

You fucker, you got a literal wink wink nudge nudge.

I've been trying to figure who to talk to get a job with the people researching these things, as a like 3/4 idle speculation 1/4 serious thing. I have a scientific background extremely relevant to analyzing captured "alien metamaterials" or whatever the gently caress.

hire me you cowards. yes you mr. nsa agent assigned to CSPAM. tell your MIB friends.

blatman posted:

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

blatman posted:

im gonna make first contact via rickroll

sorry in advance for our inevitable extinction

Log082 posted:

OP has correctly identified one of the reasons these things are loving weird. congrats.

A MIRACLE posted:

so do u guys think aliens are posting on the internet