"Public disclosure will only cause panic"

[debeest]

Re: Re: "Public disclosure will only cause panic"

Originally posted by debeest
Hell, if aliens were going to land on earth, I'd panic.

Originally posted by MRT144
only idiots would panic.

Harrrumph.

[Solver]

Even if you believe that the Great Pyramid was built by aliens or 'alien technology', I see no reason to make the logical leap that some members of the Egyptian pantheon were in fact aliens.

You are correct. I am not making such a logical leap. Both the relation of Great Pyramid and belief in reality of some gods are based on a theory and evidence that would simply take too long to explain. And there are a few doubtful points in it. That's why I wouldn't insist on it 100%, again. And that's why I seriously talk about modern ufology.

[Lancer]

"Lancer, you just casually reading up on aliens, or is it more serious?"

Watched Stargate SG1 and the general used the line in the thread title.

A saw a series of light one evening back in Jersey, maybe 20 years ago. Verticle and horizontal lines that went miles up. Maybe 10 lights. They just stayed there. At first I was excited, but then I got bored. There was a football game on that I had $ on, so I went back to it. Later I checked and the lights were gone. Unexplainable but boring...

[Winston]

Yes, the least you can ask of aliens is that they're able to hold an audience.

[Solver]

Yes well I'm cool-headed enough on events like that. Lights you saw could be a UFO, and could just as well be not. Cases like this are, unfortunately, usually impossible to say with certainity just what it was.

Winston - I do know very well how these guys can hold an audience, indeed .

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Lancer
"Lancer, you just casually reading up on aliens, or is it more serious?"

Watched Stargate SG1 and the general used the line in the thread title.

A saw a series of light one evening back in Jersey, maybe 20 years ago. Verticle and horizontal lines that went miles up. Maybe 10 lights. They just stayed there. At first I was excited, but then I got bored. There was a football game on that I had $ on, so I went back to it. Later I checked and the lights were gone. Unexplainable but boring...

and thus lancer sums up what people really think about aliens

[Solver]

What the average people think and associate with aliens is truly often quite off from what really is...

[JohnT]

I'm still amazed that people think aliens built any pyramids.... what, ya' think that "block stacking" technology was too difficult for the poor widdle Egyptians?

[Solver]

Nah. Sure it's pretty advanced, but I could accept it being some nice means known to Egyptians and lost afterwards. To see the whole picture, you need to look at all the facts... that clearly leave the alien interpretation extremely possible.

[Docfeelgood]

What the average people think and associate with aliens is truly often quite off from what really is...

So true........................expecially when standing on a corner looking for work

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Solver
What the average people think and associate with aliens is truly often quite off from what really is...

lancer preferred to watch football than look at a UFO. he obviously has more important **** to deal with

[Docfeelgood]

I saw a U.F.O. once..........ugliest damn bug I ever saw....

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Solver
Nah. Sure it's pretty advanced, but I could accept it being some nice means known to Egyptians and lost afterwards. To see the whole picture, you need to look at all the facts... that clearly leave the alien interpretation extremely possible.

But it still violates Occam's (Ockham's) razor by adding an element totally unnecessary to the process. Given that Egyptian pyramid building is something that can be learned in children's books, the addition of aliens to the process is little more than wishful thinking.

[Solver]

But it still violates Occam's (Ockham's) razor by adding an element totally unnecessary to the process. Given that Egyptian pyramid building is something that can be learned in children's books, the addition of aliens to the process is little more than wishful thinking

Does not. Not when you examine a couple of facts as a whole, that do not make the traditional explanation a plausible one.

[Ben Kenobi]

We can't even build boat replicas as good as the originals sailed by Columbus.

Therefore, did an alien give Columbus boats to sail?

Progress is not a straight line. There are things that the ancients did better than us, because we no longer need to do things the way they did.