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This is the perfect example of what I was talking about Proof vs Evidence. Where is this metal? Do you have it? Can it be produced? Can you get the dozens of people to produce it? If the answer is no to these questions than you have EVIDENCE not PROOF. A second or third or forth hand story is not proof even if it is true.
I believe you (and the dozens of people) are right but my BELIEF is not PROOF.
Did any of you watch the SCI-FI channel report on Roswell last night? They are doing this the correct way taking modern science and trying to find PROOF, something that can be measured, handled, weighed, tested, etc. Not a story that a bar maids sister overheard. I am not saying that this is the only evidence by far. I have always said that this is the closest thing to a "Smoking Gun" that we have and I think if all the cards were laid on the table we would have proof, on this one at least. There is just TOO much evidence to be explained away, but again no proof.
[edit on 22-12-2004 by Amuk]
......We live in a society where secrets like this are eventually exposed by our ravenous media. NOTHING would stop these reporters from getting to the bottom of this story, IF there really was a story there.
Ratings is everything to these people, and folks, lets face it, this would be THE story, THE scoop, in the entire history of the human race.
So whats stopping the media? Is it alien mind control? Is it the Govt cracking down on naughty reporters poking their nose in where it does not belong? Is it the fact that these aliens are so godawfully powerful that their mind control now extends to the editors at Time, Newsweek and Astronomy Today?
Or is it the fact that there just IS no story here?
(guess what I think)
I've been patiently waiting for someone to respond to my original post,which I partially quoted here, it has been up for several days....could it be that there is no good answer from those who support the idea of a alien/UFO/Govt conspiracy?
Since there are no answers posted, I guess I'm going to have to assume there are no good answers from the alien conspiracy buffs.
(and I'm not talking about some special on FX, we are talking about the all time blockbuster story of the entire human race here. Ratings people, that means major media outlets, not channel 47.)
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
It seems like you have your own definition of proof. I have already produced the definition of proof.
I do not need to have the metal at hand to have proof. In the same way I do not have to go to space to have proof the Earth is round.
I look at the evidence for the proposition:
Evidence:
A dozen people handle and test the material
A counter-intelligence corp and Major Marcel, and a brigadier general(in charge of the first nuclear strike force) declare "flying saucer found" publically to the media
The subsequent cover-up is ridiculously transparent
There are some 500 witnesses who saw it
The mysterious debris is now known as shape memory alloys using nanotube technology.
A belief: The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another: My belief in you is as strong as ever.
A proof: The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as true.
The logical assumption:
As the cover-up is blatantly obvious. It must mean that the original announcement was true "Flying disks recovered" and the original testimonies. This is further corroborated by hundreds of witnesses testifying for it and the actual existence of the alloy today.
In fact, it is the other way around; it takes belief to believe otherwise.
Oh, and there is no such as a undeniable or absolute proof.
Originally posted by Frosty
IGnorance, it did take 30 years for any rumors or speculation of alien bodies found at Roswell to leak. The only ignorance revolving in this forum is you own.
Originally posted by ngage
i agree i am not being nasty but if ufos were real and have visited us y have they not made cocntact proper contact
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
I guess no one responded, because the answer is obvious; media control and stigmatization of UFO/ET. If a government can silence an entire town, silencing media is small fry. You see and hear what they want you to see and hear - illustrated example: Iraq
Obvious? If that was the case, than shutting you and me down on a site like this is taking candy from a baby.
Again, ratings is everything, NOTHING would stop these ravenous reporters if there was a story there.
No you have produced YOUR version of proof
I do not need to have the metal at hand to have proof. In the same way I do not have to go to space to have proof the Earth is round.
But arent you taking the word of the same government that you claim lied about pretty much everything else? Again we dont have PROOF just a preponderince of evidence, also I have been in several airplanes where you can see the curve of the Earth and the shadow it throws on the Moon among several other things
you even admit it yourself.....evidence and belief. I am not fighting you on this one hell, I believe it is true myself, its just that belief in something does not make it true and evidence doies not always mean proof. By your deffinition of proof if I could convince someone I was a martian then it would "prove" that I was a martian
I agree with the first part, it is obviously a cover up. There is even PROOF of the cover up because both stories could not be true, not to even mention the changes in the government version down through the years. But that does not mean it MUST be a flying saucer. YOU believe it and I believe it and so do a hell of a lot of other people and the preponderince of the evidence points to it but the only people with PROOF (alien bodies, debris, a disc, etc) are not offering it up for public viewing.
Oh, and there is no such as a undeniable or absolute proof.
Really? Stick your hand into a fire and tell me if its not proof that its hot.
Proof is not an arguement or even evidence it is proof. The evidence might have convinced you, hell it convinced me and a bunch of people a hell of a lot smarter than both of us put togather and I believe the proof is out there but I have not seen it and I doubt if you have either
Originally posted by TheBandit795
Ratings are important indeed. But the media doesn't take that kind of stuff seriously anyway. ....
.....If somebody even dares to come with such a story they're risking their career. They risking being called a crackpot for the rest of their lives and that's devastating for their career of course. Not even ratings can make people risk that.
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
Why do they need to shut us down? We are the conspiracy nuts that no one listens too.....
You obviously have no idea how journalism and media politics works. Journalists can only report what they are authorized to report and directed to report. Listen mate, you ain't going to hear it on CNN
Or perhaps the aliens are using that infernal mind control beam that I saw Kang and Kodos use? Those mind control rays come in awful handy when you are trying to rein in those naughty reporters and editors, poking around where they do not belong...
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
Your ignorance aside. But no one here is talking about mind control of the media. We are talking about the system of media poltiics....
....They are directed, as in told what to report and what to film. I did ENG(Electronic News Gathering) in film school, I know what the process entails( from pre-production to post production) When you grow up you will learn politics and hierarchy is involved in every field.
You cannot just go about harping on television about aliens, without actually.....
[edit on 23-12-2004 by Indigo_Child]