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AKwannabe

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124. I had so much fun reading in this OP!

Fri Aug 25, 2023, 02:56 PM

Aug 2023

Hilarious and worth the time I spent with over a hundred replies.

You have had some DUzzzy! OPs the last few days. Can’t believe I missed this one July 29 but then I remembered was traveling.

Be safe out there! 😉

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Enough b.s. about UFOs. Here's the reality. [View all] Cyrano Jul 2023 OP

makes sense to me. We crazy ZonkerHarris Jul 2023 #1

Sad, but true. peppertree Jul 2023 #75

Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2023 #2

Ahhhh wuz wonderin who changed awww dem trump votes to biden Fullduplexxx Jul 2023 #3

No sane aliens Pantagruel Jul 2023 #4

SANE ALIENS ???? Would they have 2 legs or four ??? Trueblue1968 Jul 2023 #32

+1 progressoid Jul 2023 #39

Alien - the short version. paleotn Jul 2023 #57

CATS ARE ALIENS ;;;; LOLOL Trueblue1968 Jul 2023 #64

Dogs have their points, as well.... nt DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #100

Maybe we are just average in terms of wretchedness Shermann Jul 2023 #5

Aliens passing by Danascot Jul 2023 #52

+1 n/t area51 Jul 2023 #77

I Know Your Tongue Is In Your Cheek, But... ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #6

I see you've visited 41 countries. Cyrano Jul 2023 #7

That's Up To Them! ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #8

OK, that is where I put my foot down...They don't understand Golf? Shame on them...Now, seriously Escurumbele Jul 2023 #40

i REALLY WONDER if they are not just TIME TRAVELERS YoshidaYui Jul 2023 #50

You're gonna love this! Marthe48 Jul 2023 #93

Half of us on earth do not understand that, either.... DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #101

Not necessarily. intheflow Jul 2023 #9

Because You Can't Crash At 5 Million Miles Away? ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #10

Can they crash? intheflow Jul 2023 #12

Don't anthropomorphize an alien species. paleotn Jul 2023 #60

As I understand, atmospheric visits are needed to release the pidgins sanatanadharma Jul 2023 #13

Wouldn't They Had To Have... ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #31

Perhaps they don't need to travel here to treestar Jul 2023 #33

Best Explanation So Far! ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #34

Yeah, That's My Question Beetwasher. Jul 2023 #45

Could they just beam us up I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2023 #111

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

I'm looking MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #21

Unless you've found a way to exceed the speed of light (Star Trek notwithstanding).... brooklynite Jul 2023 #27

I suppose MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #38

"Quantum Leap" was one of my favorite shows.... Remember "Ziggy"??? DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #106

The Universe is what it is anyway... WheelWalker Jul 2023 #86

Extraordinarily bad analogy. paleotn Jul 2023 #69

The one thing we should be mindful of is that we don't know what we don't know. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #97

"We don't know everything" doesn't lead to "anything in possible". brooklynite Jul 2023 #104

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

Technologically, we've only just begun.... DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #105

And it's possible we're getting attention because they've started picking up on our radio signals. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #108

That's as good a solution as any to the Fermi Paradox paleotn Jul 2023 #73

Until physicists can show a way to travel faster than the speed of light, this is doubtful. Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #14

You are talking about OUR physicists. edisdead Jul 2023 #18

And yet they are crashing here on earth millions of years ahead of us? Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #22

They are? edisdead Jul 2023 #82

Also do us a favor edisdead Jul 2023 #83

oh yeah. It is difficult to capture an airplane or a chopper even with the best phone ecstatic Jul 2023 #113

exactly! edisdead Jul 2023 #118

Maybe the flight to Earth took 15+ years or thousands of years ecstatic Jul 2023 #121

We are a product of our time and place. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #25

Unfortunately some find it Disaffected Jul 2023 #51

Post removed Post removed Jul 2023 #94

John Titor is that you? edisdead Jul 2023 #15

Timetravel_0 (2009) Celerity Jul 2023 #84

hahaha yep! edisdead Jul 2023 #96

Interesting hypothesis.... anciano Jul 2023 #17

Why do we assume that "intelligent life" cyclonefence Jul 2023 #19

We cannot get beyond being human centric, earth centric. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #61

There are theorists Danascot Jul 2023 #110

Who is assuming that? brooklynite Jul 2023 #102

It's just that phrase "intelligent life-forms" cyclonefence Jul 2023 #117

If true, that would blow the big bang theory out the window ecstatic Jul 2023 #114

Nailed it! MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #20

Do you have kids? Rafi Jul 2023 #36

I don't think anyone here thinks Disaffected Jul 2023 #53

And all this time I thought the monitoring was because Mars needs women. Xavier Breath Jul 2023 #23

The rest of the Universe put yellow police tape around our solar system. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #24

Occasionally seen? There are tens of thousands of reports every year in the US. Rafi Jul 2023 #26

Amusing that someone living in Israel MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #30

WOW, must be a full moon tonight. nt Disaffected Jul 2023 #59

For the last time, Mork, you are messing up our control group! Beastly Boy Jul 2023 #28

Thread winner! AKwannabe Aug 2023 #122

And they love beef....... Goonch Jul 2023 #29

You didn't address the most important question sarisataka Jul 2023 #35

We are the Junkyard Dog nocoincidences Jul 2023 #37

To solve the alien debate once and for all, we could launch several enormous rockets into allegorical oracle Jul 2023 #41

Actually, Demobrat Jul 2023 #42

Hey, it's your fantasy, so have at it. n/t elocs Jul 2023 #43

This is probably the reason we don't all have flying cars. They were promised sixty years ago. JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2023 #44

Klaatu barada nicto nolabear Jul 2023 #46

Makes sense Wild blueberry Jul 2023 #47

I bet when they fly past us they roll up their windows and lock their doors. n/t Mr.Bill Jul 2023 #48

Nice theory but it collapses at the first sentence. Disaffected Jul 2023 #49

link? orleans Jul 2023 #54

They've done enough already. Marcuse Jul 2023 #55

To a species that's figured out how to traverse interstellar space... paleotn Jul 2023 #56

Most humans wouldn't recognize an alien intelligence if it bit them on the ass. hunter Jul 2023 #58

Big Star Trek/Sci-Fi fan here Martin Eden Jul 2023 #62

Makes Sense Jazz Jon Jul 2023 #63

NOT NEW...A MOVIE WAS MADE IN THE EARLY 50S..."DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" Stuart G Jul 2023 #65

Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still... Duncan Grant Jul 2023 #115

Maybe. moniss Jul 2023 #66

I wholeheartedly agree. Snackshack Jul 2023 #67

I'm guessing we've been very closely monitored ever since we detonated nuclear bombs. OMGWTF Jul 2023 #68

I can live with this reality. Meantime, ancianita Jul 2023 #70

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

Me, too. It would be an amazing film if Hollywood could do it. ancianita Jul 2023 #90

Definitely a whole lotta computing power for that alien! ... electric_blue68 Jul 2023 #91

Found this. Glad that Matt Damon is the lead, since his mom was a teacher. ancianita Jul 2023 #92

I always hoped this was a documentary: Pinback Jul 2023 #71

Our species orangecrush Jul 2023 #72

KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Jul 2023 #74

We are the aliens, my friends. nt chowder66 Jul 2023 #76

Klaatu barada nikto. nt AndyS Jul 2023 #78

This message was self-deleted by its author Wednesdays Jul 2023 #85

Or you can take the Stephen Hawking POV on aliens Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2023 #79

Have you seen Battleship? AKwannabe Aug 2023 #123

Man's tryin' to keep us down..... Red Mountain Jul 2023 #80

Got to thinking about this. If they are watching us then they would have killed Trump off. LOL Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #81

I know this is for shits and giggles...but... Xolodno Jul 2023 #88

It is VERY risky for them to make contact. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #98

Precisely. Xolodno Jul 2023 #120

They are here to probe our asses Kaleva Jul 2023 #89

That is one of the theories. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #95

I guess you're a "Trekkie" ??? DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #99

First sentence, numbers are wrong Snooper9 Jul 2023 #103

lol. I would not have asked how you know this, but now I have to ecstatic Jul 2023 #112

Dayum, I thought they were coming to save the world from right-wing dipshits. raccoon Jul 2023 #116

I think they are here to teach us how to think in quantum physics terms as a population. librechik Jul 2023 #119

I had so much fun reading in this OP! AKwannabe Aug 2023 #124