Hello, 4-ch.So, long story short. There's an UFO appearing in my neighbourhood almost every night.
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Also, I'm from southern Europe.
Bumps
Bump
Up
anyone?
take some pictures
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The standard response to UFO stories.
When I was in Boy Scouts, I saw a UFO once. Right after dinner I got violently ill and threw up. I remember shivering and watching a particularly bright star in the sky dancing around. Turns out someone put magic mushrooms in our food. I didn’t see a UFO at all, but I was convinced at the time (of that and a lot of other things too). Chances are you (or in fact anyone) have never seen a UFO and never will.
UFOs are a case of human arrogance. We want to think something out there gives a crap about us, but that’s not very likely. If you want to get straight the point, then UFOs are generally aircraft, stars, planets, or atmospheric phenomenon. That’s all they are. You perceive something as UFOs as a result of seeing the briefly unknown through a filter of popular culture. Nutjobs before you saw “air ships” in the skies. Before that it was gods and angels.
The UFO story itself worked wonders for covering up American intelligence operations in the 1940s and 50s. What fell to the earth in Roswell was a balloon used in a monitoring system that detected nuclear tests in the Soviet Union. The UFO story was born from the cover up and it certainly did distract from any real search for the truth for a very long time. All genuine government concern regarding UFOs was a hunt for foreign spy planes, not aliens. Thinking otherwise is absurd for many reasons.
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Let’s say there is in fact a space faring culture in the universe. It would be my own arrogance to assume what they would do should they find earth in all its glory: a ball of worthless rock covered in salt water, coated nice biological scum all over, and dominated by a bunch of constantly bickering apes… but I will try. They could simply move on and ignore us. Perhaps we are not the least bit special. Oh no, not another ape planet! These always end with nuclear annihilation… so boring!
Perhaps they’d choose to observe us (we being particularly belligerent apes). If they have advanced technology, how can we see them? Would they not be adept at hiding themselves? We’re pretty good at this skill already. Perhaps they don’t care about their impact on us apes (knowing we always blow ourselves up in the end and never infest a planet long) and would choose to observe right out in the open. If so, why even bother flying so high? Why do they only observe rural villages? Why hassle rednecks? There are more interesting things to see and surely people in urban areas would see them with the same (or greater) frequency (they don’t!). Would they choose to invade us? Why? Does the intergalactic economy run on salt water and granite? That’s mostly what we’ve got. Also there are plenty of ape-free planets full of both things right here in our solar system with absolutely no defenses whatsoever! The point is that we’re not important enough to waste these beings’ time.
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None of this particularly matters anyway. Chances are intelligence is exceedingly rare even in the scope of a vast universe. It is only through a long series of unique coincidences that we apes ever saw it necessary to come down from trees, bang rocks together, and start fires (our technology summed up, really). Given the size of the universe though, there’s likely more intelligence out there and perhaps they are party to great technology but they’re likely so far away that we’ll never bump in to one another. Think of it this way: If you had the ability to choose two stars in the universe at random, what are the chances they’d be half a universe away from one another? Even then, what if they were only a tenth of a universe away from one another? They’re still extremely far apart. Chances are we’re going to be alone for the duration of our species’ existence even if we find ourselves capable of intergalactic travel in the future. The same holds true for them.
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>@IQXS Yeah, I was wondering why some stars can shine with several different colours. On just set in the West
You are a fucking idiot.