Initially I did a spit take because it just seems so silly, just preposterous. But on second thought Seth Abramson is not a jokester he's a pretty serious researcher so let's wait and see but could this be the beginning of alien apocalypse dystopia blah blah blah.....??
Every single intelligent person will literally never believe any of this shit until some time after they actually show evidence. There is literally nothing to gain from a "sneak peek" or whatever
They're just trying anything to distract people from the empire imploding
So this would mean:
1.: Aliens exist, aliens that travel through space at either faster than light speeds or, if they travel slower than light, with significantly longer lifespans than us
2.: Nobody saw any indication of a spacefaring species through any telescopes, ever, no radio signals were recorded
3.: Out of the hundreds of thousands of star systems in the milky way that have existed for billions of years, this species found themselves right here, right at this time during the few thousand years humanity exists on Earth
4.: They were able to enter Earth's atmosphere, their spaceship didn't burn up with them inside and the aliens themselves didn't die within the atmosphere either (oxygen is very bad for a lot of stuff)
5.: Nobody noticed them enter our atmosphere or land anywhere, spaceships are really loud
6.: The US government found them first and managed to apprehend them and everybody involved managed to shut up about what would literally be the most significant event any of us would ever experience
No
Edit: If an alien civilization is advanced enough that they can a) travel here, b) not burn up in their ship and not have their organs torn apart by oxygen reacting with every chemical in their body and c) land a fucking spaceship stealthily without anyone noticing, then the US government doesn't stand a snowflake's chance in hell to capture them lmao
i feel like the more obvious thing is the US government is using this to find loose lips
I would love for China/Russia to do a little trolling and confirm it, ask for the US to do information sharing and watch the Yanks pull the whole thing back quietly.
imo aliens are likely to breathe oxygen themselves, if they haven't messed with their own biology too much. it's just way better than basically any other substance for powering metabolism in an organism, especially a big organism that thinks and moves around.
I know, right? Who fucking cares if aliens visit. Fuck tourists, tourists are scum.
This used to be a playground, but then aliens from the actual planet fitness made it into an embassy. Which is also a gym. They all are now
I don't believe it at all really, I mean come on. The task of interstellar travel is just... immense. I won't believe it until I see it really, I get that theoretical interstellar aliens would have some kind of incomprehensible tech that allows them to travel FTL but I don't know if that's actually even possible so yeah it's just a little ridiculous to me
FTL isn't real and there's no reason to believe it's possible. You might as well just say "Yeah they wished on a unicorn to travel the eleventeen billion light years to get here.
thank you for the response, I thought it was pretty silly myself also but then that little inner engine started spinning, and I got excited, "hey, maybe we will be able to rise above the mundane for a bit, and focus on cool, earth shattering stuff..." but yea, no.
Well, hey if they come with actual evidence, then OK that would be really really exciting. I mean, it's I guess possible, just don't believe it until I see it
Hate it break it to you, but even if we are 'able to rise above the mundane', this weird thing called the material conditions of existence keep popping up and have a far greater affect than any traveller.
The main reason I'll never believe until I see it is pretty close to yours, but also: if aliens have achieved interstellar travel, we are literal ants to them. We are less than ants, really. Why would they ever maintain secrecy? Like, what kind of weaklings or cowards would they be that they're hiding from organisms that are less than ants to them? Maybe if they wanted to do some kind of scientific study and didn't want to disturb us?
Yeah also a good point. Another thing is, we're capturing them? How exactly? Why are they such fuck ups that they manage to crash all the time also lol. The counter argument for this is to initiate contact without intimidating us, which I guess is plausible but idk seems a little far fetched
he’s a pretty serious researcher
lmao no he's not. he's a russiagate lib
i feel like my responses to these threads are getting stale but for some reason new accounts keep showing up and posting the flimsiest bullshit. either they're real cranks or they're trying to shit up the site.
HBBB, you are right, there has been a huge influx of shit accounts. There's at least one rn who is rotating through on banned accounts, but is too much of reddit level aggro to keep their chill even if they're trying to come across as 'anarchist'. My guess is it's another vaush poster, but they keep banning the new accounts so it's hard to keep track of.
inb4 the chinese just have some wild secret tech and theyre just laughing in beijing
I don't give a fuuuuck
public display of the technology or it didn't happen
Probably just another psyop like the million surrounding aliens.
oh give me a break, if they're here they're not gonna let a bunch of capitalist apes paw around with their tech, they would literally levitate the entire base a mile in the air, flip it upside down and smash it into the earth and then take their sweet-ass time picking their stuff up from the rubble
If they're actually here then we're under a well-deserved quarantine and there's no contact with governments, and there's nothing these rickety capitalist states could do to effect their decision-making
Again IF they're here
my thing is if it is real alien tech i feel like the most likely thing is some alien probe ala voyager sent out 10 million years ago or some shit. if its real its very cool but unlikely to be useful scientifically
Is this their plan to distract from the massive failures of the empire? If so its pretty weak.
traditionally they do this to cover up various experimental aircraft. Does anyone still care about that?
a group of aliens stranded on earth have to pull off a bank heist in order to get the money they need to bail out their impounded spacecraft
