UFOs (UAPs): Explanations?

Discussion in 'UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters' started by Magical Realist, Oct 10, 2017.

  1. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    My pleasure. I assume Armored Skeptic has simply regurgitated Mick West's original 'debunking' exercise re Gimbal = jet exhaust IR flare, and rotation was 'camera limitations' etc.
    But let's face it, the trolls here projecting that obnoxious behavior onto others aren't about to have an epiphany. Easier and more sadistic fun to keep ridiculing. Especially when 'follow the leader', who does all of that and more, rewards such behavior. But as Yazata has remarked, be careful with wording. Any slip is pounced upon and made the focus.
     
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  3. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Your post, this thread, #16.
     
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  5. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    No one has ridiculed or mocked the alien theory.

    So ... it's ... not an alien theory.

    Which is it?



    Finally, can you stop channeling Trump nonsense and just stick to the discussion? Nothing you've said in that post is on-topic. And it's directly hypocritical to your post 3647.
     
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  7. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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  8. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Had to go all the way back to 2017 for those. I've learned since then that nobody knows who is behind ufos, other than that they aren't us. In fact I said as much a few posts after those you quoted.

    http://www.sciforums.com/threads/in-defence-of-space-aliens.160045/page-2#post-3480256

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    Candidates for superintelligent non-human beings are very limited. Ironically the most scientific of them all is advanced extraterrestrials. Most scientists accept the possibility of their existence. Other possible beings can be posited, but then we get into non-human terrestrials, time travelers, interdimensionals, or even some sort of demonic entities or tricksters of a supernatural bent. I'm personally satisfied with not knowing the true identity of the ufonauts. The mystery of who or what they are and what they want remains a core issue in this phenomenon. But this does not detract in any way from the fact that they exist, are intelligent, and have capabilities far exceeding that of humans.
     
  9. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    If they aren't "us", they are, by definition, "alien".
     
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  11. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Yes. Primarily.
    Which makes it a non-exhaustive definition.
    It can refer any group that is not "us".


    All of which must run the exact same gauntlet as aliens: - all require a fully-realized civilization with technology, motive etc. to be invented out of whole cloth - for no other purpose - and with no other independently-corroborative evidence - than explaining this phenomenon.

    Which - as I said before - is what makes it highly suspect.
     
  12. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    But not aliens or extraterrestrial, which is what you were specifically bitching about. Are you done with this distracting away from ufo evidence?
     
  13. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    I'm explaining this evidence.

    Hallucinations, hoaxes, conspiracies, misidentifications, are all factual phenomena with a preponderance of independently-corroborated evidence for their existence. All your examples are suspect because the suppositions are hugely far-reaching in their scope, while at the same time having nothing to back them up.
     
  14. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Spare me the pretentious bullshit. There is nothing keeping a ufo sighting from being hugely far-reaching in its scope, particularly when they are backed up by multiple eyewitnesses, photo evidence, radar video, and/or trace evidence.
     
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  15. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    I don't think you processed what I wrote.

    The scope I refer to is that of the explanations you offer. All your explanations are predicated on their being an entire civilization of whatever kind of critter you posit - sufficiently capable in tech and resources as well as motivated - to build advanced craft and come visit us. That entire thing must be made out of whole cloth for the sole purpose of explaining this. There are many explanations that do not require the conjuring of an entire civilization for which there is no independently-corroborative evidence.

    While 'hallucination and hoax and misidentification' to explain all these sightings is implausible, it is still way more plausible than the suggestions you offer - because it has the one thing your suggestions do not - a basis in fact that is independent of UFO sightings.


    It is revealing that you won't even maintain some civility when you get what you asked for in terms of concentrating on the topic at-hand with relevant discourse (even if you disagree with it). You said that's what you wanted, but perhaps you've realized that is not an arena you're comfortable in.
     
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  16. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    That would all be fine and dandy if we knew everything about everything. But we don't. We have no idea what exists out there beyond our knowledge and perception. And ufos may in all likelihood be linked to this inherent transcendence of reality.
     
  17. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    And yet there is no need to invent new things out of whole cloth - such as entire imaginary civilizations - just to explain something when we already have explanations based in a preponderance of fact.

    It's a bit like inventing God the Creator of the Universe to explain all the weird animals we see on Earth. We have a perfectly good explanation based on fact. No need to invent an entire entity that created the universe.
     
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  18. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Noone is inventing anything when they go strictly by the evidence. And when the evidence leads to ufos being what they are, that's where we have to go. There is no luxury of choosing one explanation out other less probable ones. We go by the evidence, as always with science.
     
  19. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Except YOU, and your ilk, pick a highly technological advanced life forms, when we only SUSPECT other life might be out there, let alone advanced

    Play the numbers game. LIfe on a grain of sand on a Australian Beach has more chance of developing a transport means to visit a grain of sand in the Sahara

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  20. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Yes. Go strictly by the evidence.

    No evidence of an entire civilization with the technology to make such craft, the motivation to come visit us or the ability to come from wherever this entire civilization might be hiding.

    So don't make any of that implicit in any explanation. So: no non-human technology, no wingless craft, no physics-defying aerial ability.

    It is fact that humans misidentify, misremember, misperceive, embellish, lie and conspire. These are facts.
     
  21. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Which is what? What is it leading to?
     
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  23. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Almost a pity. I actually had him in civil debative discourse for a few posts.

    And I really wanted to know what he thinks all this evidence is (his words) leads to.

    He clearly does have an hypothesis of his own. He's being super coy with it.

    He criticizes others for offering explanations while he thinks they should remain unknown. Like the Reps, he doesn't seem to want a plausible, sincere exploration of the potential truth of this phenomenon.
     

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