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In reply to the discussion: What the Astronaut saw. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)67. Phillip Klass, the great debunker.
He was a professional debunker, talented in his way, wrote for Aviation Week and Space Technology.
Do you remember Donald Howard Menzel, UFO debunker from Harvard? He was the go-to UFO debunker before Klass. Air Force generals loved him.
Both great minds. Both dead wrong in their work on UFOs.
Neither gets mentioned anymore these days, on-air anyway. This guy does get the air and, like all people with weird hair and accents, gets ridiculed and debunks himself.
So the public consumes disinformation rather than learns about what should be a topic of scientific interest, as observed by J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, David Michael Jacobs and others.
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I can't quite make out the border between France and Germany or the US and Canada
pampango
Nov 2015
#1
"commonality and interdependence. We are one world." Excellent. I like to think that liberals
pampango
Nov 2015
#15
Really? I learned in elementary school that France is green and Germany is pink
struggle4progress
Nov 2015
#23
"I see Earth. It is so beautiful!" — Yuri A. Gagarin, first words in space, 12 April 1961
Octafish
Nov 2015
#8
Thanks for the beautiful image which I have adopted as my PC desktop background.
John1956PA
Nov 2015
#4
Thanks for the link to the archived images from the early NASA space missions.
John1956PA
Nov 2015
#16
there's a lot of these orgs in SoCal--Manly P Hall decided to synthesize as many occult traditions
MisterP
Nov 2015
#13
''Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality...''
Octafish
Nov 2015
#100
''I was surrounded by stars...I also felt an incredible sense of responsibility.'' -- Alexei Leonov
Octafish
Nov 2015
#96
I wonder from up there if they could hear the drums of war. They are beating very loudly
sabrina 1
Nov 2015
#32
Carl Sagan in hifiguy's COSMOS video downthread: energy usage is a sign of intelligent life.
Octafish
Nov 2015
#99
I do not believe that Ben Carson could even wrap his head around this concept.
Tipperary
Nov 2015
#36
You know many "pilots" UFO claims have been debunked correct? Even your hero....
Logical
Nov 2015
#56
Still nothing to say about UFO related aircraft disappearances and crashes, Logical.
Octafish
Nov 2015
#69
One of my favorite scenes in the series "From The Earth To The Moon"....
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2015
#72
is it the book "earthrise" or another where some of the astronauts talk about a change in
niyad
Nov 2015
#84
I've had my disagreements with you on other issues, Octafish, but that was a great quote.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2015
#94