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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 18 Mar 2021, 21:46 |
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Username Protected wrote: Exactly. The military reversed engineered alien technology decades ago, but we still went ahead with the F35 project...and screwed it up? Seems a weee bit unlikely. You dramatically underestimate the incompetence of the government.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 00:02 |
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On paper the F35 does nothing particularly well. In battle it has done rather well. Is there something to the contrary out there?
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 00:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: On paper the F35 does nothing particularly well. In battle it has done rather well. Is there something to the contrary out there? Where has it been to battle?
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 00:06 |
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IAF is using it. I thought they were able to get a Russian to shoot down a Syrian or vice versa? Possible it has some sort of cloaking technology.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 06:09 |
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Username Protected wrote: Maybe we’re like a favorite pet, but if they would miss us that much why wouldn’t they just collect a few thousand of us and put us in a zoo? Maybe we are already in that zoo?
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 07:27 |
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Username Protected wrote: Those other civilizations had to evolve from the primordial ooze of their planet just like we did. It took us 4 billion years. Hi John - we are getting pretty far afield here but... Something I've always wondered - who's to say we are the first advanced species to have evolved on earth ? There could have been a completely different, earlier evolutionary path on earth, wiped out by a planetary extinction event and then the fossil record lost as the planet's crust recycles back into the mantle. A billion years passes, rinse lather repeat.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 08:01 |
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@Paul: My characterization is intended to illustrate the impression that someone might get while looking in from the outside in a judgmental fashion. Why judgmental? Because you're suggesting that some extraterrestrial power may be trying to "save" us, so I'm putting on my Chairman's hat and sitting in on the committee that's voting on the subject. Yes, I see intelligence and love and art and compassion, but I also see the other things that I do not want loose in the galaxy. I described us as (relatively) primitive in that regard and I think that compared to your proposed intergalactic community, we would have to be. Should we be exterminated to prevent us from becoming a problem? Certainly not. Should we be given the keys to the family car and told to have fun? Absolutely not, because we would pose a hazard to others, and to ourselves. We're not ready yet, and rushing it isn't helping anyone.
John M offers some good reasons why we don't have any direct evidence of extraterrestrial life. I think that one of the most credible is that when our solar system formed, there were far fewer habitable planets in the galaxy. Given the turmoil of early planetary development (ours went through two mass extinction events before we got here) perhaps we are the most developed species in the galaxy (someone has to be). If that's the case, nobody is coming to visit.
The vast distances insulate us a great deal, and if FTL travel is not possible, or hasn't been discovered yet, then, again, nobody is coming to visit.
John also touches on theology. If you want to look at it from that perspective, maybe God deliberately made it so that we couldn't reach each other. Perhaps we are but one of many isolated experiments created to raise divine creatures. Those that succeed get to meet their creator, exit the sandbox, and observe the rest of creation and measure its progress. That one we can't know the answer to.
I rather agree with John M that there are other intelligent life forms out there, but for whatever reason we have not come into contact with them.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 25 Mar 2021, 11:44 |
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Username Protected wrote: Exactly. The military reversed engineered alien technology decades ago, but we still went ahead with the F35 project...and screwed it up? Seems a weee bit unlikely. You dramatically underestimate the incompetence of the government. And yet this insanely incompetent government has possessed alien spacecraft and kept them secret for at least 74 years! Not even the most efficient and competent governments have managed that trick in the history of human civilization.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 25 Mar 2021, 18:29 |
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Username Protected wrote: I thought you were going to say they would be watching cat videos.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 25 Mar 2021, 18:59 |
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Username Protected wrote: I thought you were going to say they would be watching cat videos. I think that’s more likely.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 07 Apr 2021, 00:43 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABen_Rich#:~:text=%22We%20already%20have%20the%20means,already%20know%20how%20to%20do.%22 I read Ben Rich's book "Skunk Works" several times. Fascinating book, but zero about space travel and ET. So,,,, I am not sure where this quote comes from. Chris C.
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