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edhopper

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65. As I said

Sat Jan 14, 2023, 05:16 PM

Jan 2023

scientifically grounded. Not Star Wars X-Wing fighters and such.
As for Star Trek, there is a rabbit hole in the internet for scientific explanations for everything they do, then endless debates about it.
But my point remains, we understand these concepts, even if we are not capable of them. Clarke's Theorem has been made obsolete by the genre he wrote in.

Look at this thread, people are talking about wormholes and FTL travel with clear understanding of the concepts.

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UFO reports by US troops skyrocket to over 500 [View all] nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP

I'm with you PCIntern Jan 2023 #1

Having anything happen to you first hand BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #11

I totally agree! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #13

I agree completely. I had an experience while with my girlfriend at the KPN Jan 2023 #16

I have had some odd experiences and know people who also have BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #19

If you ever want to share, PM me PCIntern Jan 2023 #27

It would be a long list BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #45

I meant your experience. PCIntern Jan 2023 #59

I know what you meant. BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #70

Have your mother and brother ever made a report about their experience? Beaverhausen Jan 2023 #39

Yes they did about 55 years ago. PCIntern Jan 2023 #41

These UFO contacts began to proliferate when we started PatrickforB Jan 2023 #2

Maybe since most orbs are not for surface air breathers GreenWave Jan 2023 #3

July 1945 would have been a big warning sign to them. roamer65 Jan 2023 #67

lot more people flying drones lapfog_1 Jan 2023 #4

While the question of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has always been intriguing, because JohnSJ Jan 2023 #5

What do you base this on? triron Jan 2023 #30

I'm a big fan of elegant explanations of complex science Arthur_Frain Jan 2023 #44

I base this on the entire size of the solar system. It is probability and distance between the JohnSJ Jan 2023 #48

A million light years away? Even traveling tge speed of light leftyladyfrommo Jan 2023 #54

Exactly JohnSJ Jan 2023 #60

Our galaxy probably has billions of worlds and has less than triron Jan 2023 #63

I suspect the sightings have always been happening, but now REPORTING it is more open than it was Shanti Shanti Shanti Jan 2023 #6

Ayep! KPN Jan 2023 #18

So 45% of the sitings by military personnel are ... Whiskeytide Jan 2023 #7

I hate it when Killer Klowns steal my ice cream. KS Toronado Jan 2023 #47

I believe IHateRonDesantis1986 Jan 2023 #8

Holy X-Files, Batman! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #10

Welcome to DU! PatSeg Jan 2023 #37

If you believe aliens are visiting earth, you are not a big believer in physics. fightforfreedom Jan 2023 #9

How do you know that aliens don't have something to transcend physics? nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #12

Nothing transcends physics genxlib Jan 2023 #17

Seems to be a semantic argument. triron Jan 2023 #69

Or common sense grantcart Jan 2023 #24

I don't know that we can even make those suppositions. edisdead Jan 2023 #40

welcome to DU gopiscrap Jan 2023 #73

LOL puny earthlings thinking they know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING, hubris, lol Shanti Shanti Shanti Jan 2023 #31

What physics? Special relativity? triron Jan 2023 #32

Gravity. roamer65 Jan 2023 #57

Or science in general or, Disaffected Jan 2023 #38

Exactly. Owl Jan 2023 #43

This message was self-deleted by its author librechik Jan 2023 #46

Check out the latest Nobel in Physics if you are a big believer in Physics librechik Jan 2023 #50

Stephen Hawking on Alien Life C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #14

And yet we watch edhopper Jan 2023 #51

Do you know why Star Trek had transporters... brooklynite Jan 2023 #64

As I said edhopper Jan 2023 #65

There is a distinction between science fiction and science fantasy. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2023 #74

I think they know we're here and want nothing to do with us Skittles Jan 2023 #15

I don't blame them. BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #20

agreed Skittles Jan 2023 #21

I think they're waiting for newdayneeded Jan 2023 #28

Whatever paleotn Jan 2023 #22

It has always been my contention that if another species figured out interstellar flight Chainfire Jan 2023 #23

Any life intelligent enough to travel here from outside our galaxy... Ligyron Jan 2023 #25

I think that it's the height of self -important pompousness to believe that among the vastness panader0 Jan 2023 #26

Do not suspend disbelief. pirsquared Jan 2023 #29

Until they are literally knocking on your front door? nobody gonna do nothing. JuJuChen Jan 2023 #33

IMO it's closed-minded not to believe something exists just because you've never seen it. Talitha Jan 2023 #34

If we are not at least curious then our own evolution has some ripples in it. Prairie_Seagull Jan 2023 #35

They're Made Out Of Meat old as dirt Jan 2023 #36

Maybe the UFO sightings are of space debris, but frogmarch Jan 2023 #42

That's easy Polybius Jan 2023 #53

I've read about magnetic fields frogmarch Jan 2023 #55

If aliens are visiting earth KS Toronado Jan 2023 #49

+1000 roamer65 Jan 2023 #56

Had an Uncle who claimed KS Toronado Jan 2023 #58

Very possible. roamer65 Jan 2023 #66

He took dad & I out to that spot KS Toronado Jan 2023 #68

Increase due, in part, to treating witnesses with respect. Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #52

Just curious edhopper Jan 2023 #61

It doesn't matter whether "we're aLone" or not... brooklynite Jan 2023 #62

I think MuseumOfTarot is on to something. Nothing to do with "aliens". More terrestrial than we nattyice Jan 2023 #71

Blame global warming. ecstatic Jan 2023 #72