Woot, some news worth wathcing (Myself, anyhow)

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Maybe it's a viral marketing campaign for District 9's DVD release.

 

[Canadave]

I always look for proof before believing in anything. The monuments on Mars, for example. There's soooo many mathematical properties, as well as hyperdiamensional geometries, that no way in hell can the stuff on Mars, my good friend the face included, can merely be just 'a pile or rocks', despite what Nasa says officially. That's just one example of many.

Yeah, sure. Tell me more about that "hyperdimensional physics" and "monuments on Mars". Then again, don't.

My problem with some skeptics is this, even if you put proof in front of them, the best that there can be, they'll still never believe it, I call them debunkers.

The problem is something like this is not "the best proof there can be," and, if anything, this works against your case. As I noted earlier (and others have as well), there's no way something like this could actually happen and go virtually unreported.

Take, for example, the recent "Norwegian spiral." Within hours of being noticed, it was all over the internet. Dozens of major news organizations picked up the story, and Twitter was awash with speculation. We even had numerous different first-hand sources, with lots of photos and videos—all this from a country with half the population of Moscow, in the middle of the night, and in one of the least populated parts of Norway!

Now can you see why it's a little tough to swallow something like this at face value?

No. Give me actual proofs, and I'll agree with you. Give me shaky videos, grainy pictures, wacky theories, and I'll tell you it's bunch of bullshit.


Then again, call me when this happen. Before that, it's on par with the jackalope and the ouija boards.

And the funny thing is, some of these debunkers I know personally believe in a god...which is even HARDER to proove than alien existence.

Know what I mean?

Yeah, it means that you believe in UFO the same way people believes in god: faith. You just see what I want to see.

Well, what's in the skies that people say they see? And how can they move in ways that breaks the supposed laws of physics we go by? And I'm certain not everyone who takes the videos are adept with video editing/photoshop stuff.

Very true, but many are. Again, look at the photos and videos of the spiral in Norway. You aren't drawing from a very large sample population, but what made the web was of generally good quality, from multiple angles, and most wasn't blurry or fuzzy. That's more than I can say for any UFO video I've ever seen.

 

[Mark de Vries]

And I say, why even bother scrambling an air force to intercept it? If it's from a culture of suprior tech, it's going to be pointless. I seen many objects in the sky near me, and I don't run out to grab a shotgun and get ready.

Sometimes an open hand and a welcoming smile can be more effective than the machine guns and missles ready.

This is Russia we're talking about. You can bet your ass they won't be welcoming anything big and menacing hovering over their capital with a welcoming smile. Don't get me wrong; I usually like the Russians, but their government doesn't trust anything they don't have to, and a bigass hovering pyramid would certainly qualify.

This is not a question of what may or not possibly exist, but of whether or not this is an unconvincing hoax or not. And sheer lack of news about this would point to, I repeat, b*llsh*it.

 

[SPOCKED]

Can't believe there aren't hundreds of videos and other news coverage. It's the damn capital, not a cornfield in Iowa Looks awesome, though

 

[Canadave]

And I say, why even bother scrambling an air force to intercept it? If it's from a culture of suprior tech, it's going to be pointless. I seen many objects in the sky near me, and I don't run out to grab a shotgun and get ready.

Sometimes an open hand and a welcoming smile can be more effective than the machine guns and missles ready.

This is Russia we're talking about. You can bet your ass they won't be welcoming anything big and menacing hovering over their capital with a welcoming smile. Don't get me wrong; I usually like the Russians, but their government doesn't trust anything they don't have to, and a bigass hovering pyramid would certainly qualify.

I'm fairly certain the Russians would scramble the air force for an out-of-place hot air balloon...