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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I know this sounds kinda kooky but personally my (completely no basis) guess is that UFOs (in the most convincing video evidence) are some kind of natural phenomenon that exists partially outside of our understanding of physics. If they have some sort of intelligence and they aren't just random noise, I think they would be so different from us as to be utterly unparsable. If all that is true and they interact with us, their motivations would be similarly unknowable.

I'm depressingly not convinced faster than light travel will ever be possible, especially for humans or human-like organisms...

I'm very interested in them though. I'm very hopeful that studying them seriously might lead to some incredible insights about physics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Corridor Crew has debunked the Pentagon videos as camera artifacts and optical illusions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDlfIaBEqw

These guys are filmmakers and really know cameras, optics and VFX so I have confidence in their explanations.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Not what I would call debunked. They pointed out the nothingburger of the lot as a nothingburger, and then for the hard to explain ones they just had possible guesses, and only commented on the videos themselves and accounted for none of the reported contexts of the videos. They basically contributed by talking about lenses and then saying they don't know what is in the videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gonna be real dude I have a lot more confidence in the Navy than I have in "these guys from YouTube"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. There's no serious doubt about what those videos show: image processing and sensor artifacts.

And those fake voiceovers made by UFO conspiracy theorists, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

depressingly not convinced faster than light travel will ever be possible, especially for humans or human-like organisms...

I think you're right, the only chance we'll ever have at reaching another habitual world (if we ever even detect one well enough) is with cryogenics and/or colony ships. It'll take hundreds, possibly thousands of years till we're at that point thought. Especially when our civilization puts so little into space travel. We should really have a moon base at this point.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The NHIs being discussed by Grusch and others have not been stated to be ETs, but rather the current thought is interdimensional.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That wasn't the current thought in the hearing, he expressly stated that that was one interesting possibility that was discussed in a purely theoretical context

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, but several people have brought this up as "an interesting possibility", and all of them have shyd away from saying ET. So they didn't confidently or unambiguously state it, but that's kinda the implication and where their head is at.

IIRC the proper answer is "we don't know the origin, but we haven't had any reason to think they came from space".

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like a very weird view considering the amount of people who have been saying that they communicate telepathically with us.

Could be future humans for all we know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I take peoples claims of telepathic communications with aliens with the biggest grain of salt I can find.

I can't assume there are none that are real, but I can and will assume all day that some people just have alien themed mental quirks. And I don't think poorly of people with less believable stories, I'm just interested in the evidence that is more difficult to explain away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh OK. Well that explains why you see things the way you do I guess. :)