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In reply to the discussion: Enough b.s. about UFOs. Here's the reality. [View all]Celerity
(46,795 posts)84. Timetravel_0 (2009)
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OK, that is where I put my foot down...They don't understand Golf? Shame on them...Now, seriously
Escurumbele
Jul 2023
#40
OR (just spitballing) the distances between us and likely inhabitable planets is too far for travel
brooklynite
Jul 2023
#11
It used to take a couple weeks to cross the Atlantic. Who woudda thought we could fly someday?
rickford66
Jul 2023
#16
Unless you've found a way to exceed the speed of light (Star Trek notwithstanding)....
brooklynite
Jul 2023
#27
The one thing we should be mindful of is that we don't know what we don't know.
Renew Deal
Jul 2023
#97
This assumes that another civilization perceives or experiences time the way we do.
Renew Deal
Jul 2023
#107
Believing something is true and THEN looking for evidence is equally flawed thinking.
brooklynite
Jul 2023
#109
And it's possible we're getting attention because they've started picking up on our radio signals.
Renew Deal
Jul 2023
#108
Until physicists can show a way to travel faster than the speed of light, this is doubtful.
Quixote1818
Jul 2023
#14
oh yeah. It is difficult to capture an airplane or a chopper even with the best phone
ecstatic
Jul 2023
#113
To solve the alien debate once and for all, we could launch several enormous rockets into
allegorical oracle
Jul 2023
#41
This is probably the reason we don't all have flying cars. They were promised sixty years ago.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Jul 2023
#44
I bet when they fly past us they roll up their windows and lock their doors. n/t
Mr.Bill
Jul 2023
#48
I'm guessing we've been very closely monitored ever since we detonated nuclear bombs.
OMGWTF
Jul 2023
#68
I loved that book. Supposed to be making it into a movie. A bit of a tease - this is *not* your...
electric_blue68
Jul 2023
#87
Got to thinking about this. If they are watching us then they would have killed Trump off. LOL
Quixote1818
Jul 2023
#81
I think they are here to teach us how to think in quantum physics terms as a population.
librechik
Jul 2023
#119