Weird Stuff (tinfoil hat wearing goons only, please) - The Bear and Badger

RedDave2

monkey wrote:

Tbf he had a tough start to the gig. He’s probably only just getting over the whole crucifixion thing. Out the way Red

He’s still cross.

Ha, nailed it.

edit: feck, didnt see Griffs post until after.

LivDiv

You'll be stigmatised for that.

b0r1s

Lot of passion in that post.

stonechalice

The minute Jeremy Corbell's name comes up in any of these conversations I do have to chuckle. The man is a grade A bullshit artist and a total prick.

Dinostar77

bad_hair_day

Nick West said it was ‘probably’ Venus.

bad_hair_day

*Crickets*

Roujin

It's because we've all been silenced by the irrefutable proof of that article I guess.

I read it and the video is cool, and the report is cool, but don't like, crews ever radio anything in?

They didn't report the apparent air safety violation to the reporting body, even though both pilots were experienced and had no way of knowing what that thing was. It could have been anything, including a military aircraft from a foreign nation, I get that the FAA says they don't want UFO reports made to them, but they can still report the air safety violation through the confidential reporting system in place. I would have thought the moment they believed the craft to be an airliner on a collision course when it shone the beam of light on them they would have been calling that shit in, and also trying to contact the craft to warn it. There are no mentions of these calls taking place in the report. The event lasted at lease half an hour, and there are no reports of the crew making any attempt to contact air traffic control and ask them what is happening.

It also says the crew are deidentified to protect their identity but the report lists the time and date of the flight as well as the route and the video they released does not disguise the voices of the crew lmao.

Also re the UAP, they love to be invisible to radar but also be a bright glowing object set against the night sky or that flash up on infra red cameras if you're in a military aircraft that you wouldn't need radar to detect, amazing technology. Obviously unless it's extra terrestrial with capabilities such that it doesn't care if it is seen or not.

Yossarian

I was just not responding as I was avoiding coming in here and shitting all over your enthusiastic credulity once again, not because I am somehow convinced by a stupidly blurry video of a light in the sky and an accompanying article from some site I’ve never heard of.

bad_hair_day

Roujin, I agree there’s no point of purposely being invisible to radar if your military aircraft emits such a bright light. Not very stealthy. Guess the top gunner was just bored, so decided to ask their mission control to fly alongside a commercial airliner for half an hour. Also agree it is cool.

Yossarian

Or it’s something very small with a light on it that was much closer than they thought.

bad_hair_day

On your bike Yoss.

Father Ted gif.

Roujin

I mean, if it was a real object, then what is it likely to be?

Probably not military, since i doubt they fly anything that glows like that at night if they don't want people spotting it.

So what else is it? Some kind of weather phenomenon? That lasts half an hour and shines a light on a plane? Nah.

So is it aliens? If aliens like to drop from high altitude, shine their torch on airliners and then match heading and speed but turn away at the border before the plane entered US air space, then yeah, it's aliens.

If I was an alien though, I doubt the concept of the invisible border between mexican and US air space is something I would have enough of an awareness of to respect.

GurtTractor

Yossarian wrote:

Or it’s something very small with a light on it that was much closer than they thought.

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monkey

The aliens have been talking to the US gov since the 1940s. They’ll have all sorts of no-fly-zone agreements.

b0r1s

Anytime I hear the alien stuff, apart from wistfully thinking about Gillian Anderson, my next thought is always Fermi paradox and I go NOPE!

Roujin

Everybody gangsta till the Aurora's get scrambled.

mk64

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!"

Diluted Dante

Roujin wrote:

Everybody gangsta till the Aurora's get scrambled.

Aurora borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?

monkey

b0r1s wrote:

Anytime I hear the alien stuff, apart from wistfully thinking about Gillian Anderson, my next thought is always Fermi paradox and I go NOPE!

The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him.

If he finds other life — another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod — there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

https://www.universetoday.com/149410/beyond-fermis-paradox-xvi-what-is-the-dark-forest-hypothesis/

bad_hair_day

Guess we shouldn’t discount the Mexican antigravity craft program from this encounter.

Yossarian

b0r1s wrote:

Anytime I hear the alien stuff, apart from wistfully thinking about Gillian Anderson, my next thought is always Fermi paradox and I go NOPE!

I’ve been reading up about the rare Earth hypothesis recently, it makes a lot of sense to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

bad_hair_day

Roujin wrote:

I mean, if it was a real object, then what is it likely to be?

Probably not military, since i doubt they fly anything that glows like that at night if they don't want people spotting it.

So what else is it? Some kind of weather phenomenon? That lasts half an hour and shines a light on a plane? Nah.

So is it aliens? If aliens like to drop from high altitude, shine their torch on airliners and then match heading and speed but turn away at the border before the plane entered US air space, then yeah, it's aliens.

If I was an alien though, I doubt the concept of the invisible border between mexican and US air space is something I would have enough of an awareness of to respect.

Like they say, we have questions.

b0r1s

Yeah I’ve watched a few vids on that. And also the fa that it’s not just the sweet spot we live in from the equator but the massive job Jupiter and Saturn have done to protect life on this planet from annihilation. Those conditions are just incredibly rare.

I definitely think there is life out there. I just don’t think they’ve made it here.

bad_hair_day

That would depend on how they could get here and how long they’ve been staying. If ‘they’ exist of course.

Yossarian

b0r1s wrote:

Yeah I’ve watched a few vids on that. And also the fa that it’s not just the sweet spot we live in from the equator but the massive job Jupiter and Saturn have done to protect life on this planet from annihilation. Those conditions are just incredibly rare.

I definitely think there is life out there. I just don’t think they’ve made it here.

Plus plate tectonics, plus the fact that our planet spins at an angle, plus the fact that we have a magnetosphere. All very rare things from what we can tell.

It seems almost inconceivable that there isn’t more life out there somewhere, but intelligent life is probably vanishingly rare, and the chances of two of these intelligent species finding each other in the vastness of the universe are practically zero.

bad_hair_day

‘But still, they come.’

Yossarian

You know that’s fiction, right?

bad_hair_day

Fact is stranger.

LivDiv

Yossarian wrote:

Or it’s something very small with a light on it that was much closer than they thought.

This is my thought on this stuff. Plus bokeh.

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