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One big takeaway from that interview is that the Navy doesn't have the time or resources to chase down UFOs and investigate them. UFO zealots seem to think that's all that Navy pilots do, and that after Gimbal for example, that there was a perfect record of who was flying where within a 100-mile...

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Do we need to explain the claims? Lots of people believe odd stuff.

If someone says without evidence that the U.S. has alien bodies from other dimensions on ice, or that there are wires poking out of their skin, or that Albert Einstein is sending them personal messages, can other psychological factors really reduce their credibility?

Does that octopus evolve humanoid form and opposable thumbs? If not, you can forget it, buddy. It's either develop humanoid morphology and opposable thumbs, or suck on sea slugs for all of eternity. The Space Shuttle proves it!

I don't get this. We survived despite there being predators larger than us, and most extant species are smaller than us, despite having predators/competitors larger than them. Further, if we entertain the trope of replacing our biological bodies with technological bodies, I see no reason why...

Very insightful. A similar kind of thing could be posited about biology: Due to the physical constraints of size regarding energy requirements, tissue support, tissue nourishment, etc., vs. the physical constraints of size regarding information processing, it's probably more likely that an...

I am talking about their form — this thread is specifically and only about their size. I am not trying to understand how they'd think.

Maybe in 200 million years, they will. You could have said the same about vertebrates 200 million years ago. And 100 years ago, that was 10 million and one species. Try to think outside our temporal bubble, folks. Live has been around for 3 billion years. Intelligence, a couple million. Space...

While I agree with the comments on limits to biological size given what we know of Earthly evolution, y'all are thinking too small, as it were. To me, an independent alien species almost necessarily takes a radically different evolutionary pathway from the start, which may result in different...

No and I noted that in the post. The Moon and Venus have also been reported as UFOs, and neither are they human-scale :p I might be tempted to say the observation holds true in the case of "legitimate UFOs," but that is problematic....

One of the things that make me skeptical that any UFOs are non-human or off-world in origin is their size. All UFOs, except perhaps in the most astonishing observer-specific experiences, are firmly stuck inside the scale of humans and their technology. This is epitomized in the classic image...

Here's one from the other day — 3 whales doing a seemingly coordinated jump: Source: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/07/28/triple-whale-breach-synchronized-jump-cprog-orig.cnn This wasn't captured from multiple angles, and the people filming were expecting to see whales...but still it's...

I don't find this image to be useful. What's the field of view angle? How far away is the field? How does that compare with what one would actually see with the naked eye on site from a certain vantage point, or what one would see when directly underneath it? There should be a way to represent...

Unless their anti-gravity tech requires emitting EM radiation in the visible spectrum!

We often hear that there have been so many up-close encounters with UFOs, there must be something to "the phenomenon." The argument from incredulity is, there's no way that all of those experiencers could be mistaken/lying/delusional! I don't know if it's accurate, but I have seen this number...

I'm not sure what can be done with this, since the 3D modeling shows that the sometimes-visible line is not the horizon; the horizon is lower and hidden by the clouds. Maybe you can work something up and present your findings here? Have you tried doing it on Sitrec?

Heady stuff indeed. Pass the bong.

The assumption is that –2.6°, on the display, is rounded to –3°, and that –2° on the display reflects anything from –1.5° to –2.5°. We have no reason to believe that –2.6° or –2.9° would be rounded down to –2° onscreen, except perhaps motivated reasoning. Of course, since we're dealing with...

–2° is definitely relative to the artificial horizon, i.e., what is level locally. The beauty of 3D modeling is you don't have to rely on intuition, which apparently in this case is wrong. You put in the data and see what happens; no intuition or thought experiments required. Nobody expected a...