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byAnonymous Coward writes:
if someone has a really important bridge for sale.
byarglebargle_xiv ( 2212710 ) writes:
It's a proxy for "Trump doing something batshit crazy", which is quite likely. They can't actually label it as that for political reasons so they use "aliens" as their giant-WTF event instead. The statement beginning:
The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence responsible for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).
should be read as:
The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process of imploding. This is likely to induce ontological shock and provoke psychological responses with material consequences ... There might be extreme price volatility in financial markets due to catastrophising or euphoria, and a collapse in confidence if market participants feel uncertain on how to price assets using any of the familiar methods."
byKisai ( 213879 ) writes:
More or less.
UAP's (UFO's) are pretty much a fiction, part of it owing to not understanding the physics of things, and part of it because the pilots of jets/planes and other high speed military craft are not scientists and don't think logically about werid stuff.
Like breaking "the speed of sound" people often don't realize creates a shockwave which causes damage. That's why you don't see any commercial aircraft at M1+, this is also why like "breaking the speed of light" is impossible, because if you could a
byJBeretta ( 7487512 ) writes:
....part of it owing to not understanding the physics of things, and part of it because the pilots of jets/planes and other high speed military craft are not scientists
No.. Most of them aren't scientists. If they're piloting a US military aircraft, you can bet your ass they have a degree, though. While the US military, in general, doesn't usually require that your degree matches the field you operate in, there are far more people who want to be a "fighter pilot" than they have slots for. i.e. they get to be quite choosy.. The USAF (for example) gives heavy consideration to applicants with degrees in STEM fields and even higher consideration to those folks with aeronaut
byconradp ( 154683 ) writes:
Interestingly I suspect the Naval pilots who released those three videos a decade or so ago understood the science very well.
* They named one video "Gofast", because their plane was going fast while imaging something slow, but knew on the video the object looked fast.
* They named another video "Gimbal", because it showed the gimbal of a camera spinning quickly, which gives the illusion of the object jumping quickly.
* They named the last video "Flir" because that's the type of infrared camera that was used, which most people don't know how to interpret as it looks so different from visible camera images.
It was not the pilots, but the media who didn't get the joke, and paraded "expert" after "expert" to say that these videos clearly depicted physics-violating advanced alien technology.
Those smart Navy pilots are probably still laughing it up, knowing they helped kick-start the most recent, every-other-decade alien panic!
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byOl Olsoc ( 1175323 ) writes:
Interestingly I suspect the Naval pilots who released those three videos a decade or so ago understood the science very well.
* They named one video "Gofast", because their plane was going fast while imaging something slow, but knew on the video the object looked fast.
* They named another video "Gimbal", because it showed the gimbal of a camera spinning quickly, which gives the illusion of the object jumping quickly.
* They named the last video "Flir" because that's the type of infrared camera that was used, which most people don't know how to interpret as it looks so different from visible camera images.
It was not the pilots, but the media who didn't get the joke, and paraded "expert" after "expert" to say that these videos clearly depicted physics-violating advanced alien technology.
Those smart Navy pilots are probably still laughing it up, knowing they helped kick-start the most recent, every-other-decade alien panic!
Agreed! Especially the part about laughing at the tools that think everything is aliens.
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