10 rules for true believers to follow

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

  1. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Nobody wants to be mocked and ridiculed as the kook on the evening news who saw a ufo. Lives are routinely destroyed when people come forward about these sightings, as was the case for the Portage County officers who pursued a ufo for over 70 miles back in 1968. That's why many eyewitnesses nowadays prefer to remain anonymous. Or else don't come forward at all. The fact that people DO come forward is a testament to their courage and confidence in what they saw, not a slur on their character.
     
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  3. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    And for every kook that chooses to remain anonymous, there's a dozen who prefer the limelight and possible income that can be made in sensationalistic bullshit.

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  5. Yazata Valued Senior Member

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    That isn't a weather balloon. It's the old 1960 Echo satellite. Project Echo was a big inflatable metallic balloon put into earth orbit. The idea was to determine whether radio messages could be bounced off of it. (It was the world's first communications satellite.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo

    I'm kind of sentimental about the Echo satellite, because I still remember my parents, my brother and I going out in our back yard with binoculars one night, to see it passing over. (It looked like a small moving star-like dot.) My family was very into space-travel in those days. We used to all get up before dawn to watch space-launches live on TV.

    An interesting factoid: one of the big microwave horns built to bounce microwaves off the Echo satellite first detected the cosmic microwave background radiation.
     
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  7. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Thanks for that! I did get that photo from a list of balloons of all shapes and sizes.

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    I certainly remember Echo and certainly watched it and other Satellites in those early days, particularly of course "Sputnik"
    I was of the opinion though that the first communication/s Satellites were called "Telstar".....Another welcomed nice jog of memories of those early days of space.
     
  8. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    After googling................
    Echo 1:
    First passive reflector communications Satellite
    August 12, 1960

    Telstar 1:
    First active, direct-relay communications satellite
    First satellite to relay television, telephone and high-speed data communications
    First transatlantic television July 10, 1962

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communications_satellite_firsts
     
  9. river

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    How do You know ?
     
  10. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    He doesn't know. Like with that alleged weather balloon Yazata busted him on, he just makes up shit as he goes. Sort of like Trump..
     
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  11. river

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    As always

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  12. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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  13. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    I don't!

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    I'm just expressing bullshit in reply to MR's bullshit claim and of course your as usual support for the same bullshit.

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    We'll let our peers be the best judges of who is the best bullshitter, you or I, shall we?
    In the meantime......

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  15. Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    Looks faked to me.
    Looks like a stainless steel bowl, rather two together.
    Usually images seem too blurry yet these are too clear when compared with the surroundings.
    Alex
     
  16. river

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    Your point ?
     
  17. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Like this one?

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    Or maybe this one:

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  18. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    or this......

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    or this......

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  19. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    See? He even admits it.
     
  20. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Just more confirmation of the gist of the OP and again making sure the cap fits perfectly in every detail......
     
  21. river

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    The cap stifles the the brain .
     
  22. Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    They do not look like two stainless steel bowls stuck together.
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  23. river

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    True they don't ; post # 34 neither do the cloud formations , From posts #35 .
     

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