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originally posted by: duaneology
a reply to: DJW001
Personally I enjoy off topic posts in my threads.
They keep things interesting
As for this threads topic, as long as people continue to have dreams of UFO's and Aliens and to follow them up in the real world, then this forum will never die and never be undermined.
Sightings are not required to have a passion for some seriously interesting phenomena to be discussed, since the Drake equation points the way to advanced civilizations far beyond our own.
Dream On!
originally posted by: ForeverMan
a reply to: draknoir2
Uhmm ... it was a personal reply by me to GUT on an issue they raised in thread.
I addressed their point of comment and returned to the threads topic at hand and I said ...
As for this threads topic, as long as people continue to have dreams of UFO's and Aliens and to follow them up in the real world, then this forum will never die and never be undermined.
Sightings are not required to have a passion for some seriously interesting phenomena to be discussed, since the Drake equation points the way to advanced civilizations far beyond our own.
Dream On!
And so I think your comment is a bit rough considering that I made a decent effort to maintain forum decorum!
Paid posters are all over the internet, most are ex-military or government employees with no other job prospects, and have decided to sell-out mankind for a paycheck. It is not a matter of whether they exist, it is only a matter of who they are.
originally posted by: ForeverMan
a reply to: draknoir2
I am sorry that I misread your post as lacking sarcasm and in light of the threads topic of derailing topics I was in no mood to play any games.
The dead pan delivery appeared a bit overly critical and an emoticon would have toned down that affect.
Let this be an example of when a single emoticon would have been highly informative and essential to getting the real meaning of your post across to your fellow ATS members.
originally posted by: NoRulesAllowed
On a fringe site (and ATS *is* a fringe site), the idea is hideous since it's already full with all kinds of stories and tales, where serious stories are mixed with hoaxes, bigfoot etc....
Not really. Snowden merely exposed the extent of programs that everyone already knew about and revealed the degree f cooperation that NSA gt from the private sector.
I like your phrase "breakaway civilization," but I don't see how government paper pushers can acquire more knowledge about the nature of reality than anyone else can. Certainly, there is research into weapons systems going on that remains classified, but the fundamentals of the physical world are universal and can be explored by all. In other words, if there is some sort of anti-gravity machine that is possible, it is as likely to come from a lab in Copenhagen as it is from a secret one in the US.