10 rules for true believers to follow

Discussion in 'UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters' started by billvon, Jan 13, 2017.

  1. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Anti-rational.

    My beef with the film is it showed nothing of humanity's rational response to this amazing event. Just dorks making mountains out of mashed potato and crashing police cars. No ideas. no intellectual engagement with the challenge it obviously presented.
     
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  3. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    The scientists were rationally trying to establish a method of communication using pure tones.
     
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  5. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Ballocks. They had a whole programme developed and ready, as I have described. The crap with the tones made no sense, given that they had already made extensive preparations to meet the aliens when they landed and had even got a team of people ready to to go aboard the flying saucer. You don't do all that when you haven't even worked out to communicate. It made no sense, at any level. Great effects, for the time, but zero plot coherence.
     
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  7. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, but three years after that film came out, Carl Sagan's - Cosmos aired. Chill.

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  8. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    The aliens had no problem communicating their general intentions through some kind of telepathy. The government reaction seemed improvised.
     
  9. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    I know, I know, I have my tongue in my cheek slightly. After all, it was only a film.

    But I DID come out of the cinema feeling a bit swindled and depressed, especially given all the hype. And it has made me view Spielberg's other productions with a jaundiced eye. Though I admit I like Duel. It had no plot either, but it was an unpretentious virtuoso exercise in creating an atmosphere. Which was OK, once.
     
  10. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Well, all I can say is I'm glad you were able to rationalise it to your satisfaction. I could not.
     
  11. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    I guess I'm glad I never saw the movie then, lol.
     
  12. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Expect you're too young, eh? 1977 was a bloody long time ago now. It was all sideburns and flares then. Marc Bolan had only just seventied himself by crashing his mini into a tree.

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  13. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I doubt humanity could muster a better response if it really happened today. Part of the realism was the incompetence.
     
  14. river

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    I see , so the true believers of UFO's , are believers of UFO's in the first place ? silly.
     
  15. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    You lost me there.

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  16. river

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    belief comes before the evidence.
     
  17. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    In what?

    Like QM defied common sense and people like Einstein believed it shouldn't but couldn't tackle
    it's evidence.
     
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  18. river

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    irrelevant .

    what we talking about , discussing is UFOs . what is true and what is believed to be true , and what came first , the belief in UFOs or the evidence of UFOs .

    evidence , obviously.
     
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  19. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Which is why it's not science.

    Something we don't do in science.
     
  20. river

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    really

    we trust science everyday .
     
  21. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    No.
    Anything we're not sure of, we re-test (repeatability).
    We have independent third parties test it to see if they get different results (independent verification).
    And when we see something that doesn't fit, we modify our models, or discard them (adaptability).

    These are the pillars of science. They mean we don't have to have faith in anything.

    While UFO sightings are intriguing, they so far are too ephemeral to be a very effective subject of rigorous scientific analysis. So they attract believers instead.

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