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Originally posted by jfj123
I tend to believe that the vast majority of UFO sightings could be explained away rationally if they were looked into thoroughly enough.
Originally posted by Caffeine
Distances between stars are impossible to overcome by any vessel, be it man- or alien made.
Originally posted by jimmy1200
internet forums are becomin big piles of garbage, with unresourceful, lazy, bottom dwellers wanting someone to prove something to them, when they at first bring no counter evidence against what they're debating, and all replies are usually only a few sentences long, which drags out into an 8 page thread talking back and forth about, "thats not what i said, you said that", etc..., leading to absolutely nothing in the end.
to the op, what have you truly done to try to prove to yourself that aliens are not real? wait, i do think i read a reply that you said you believe they exist, but you dont see any hard evidence, ie... there isnt a high definition video of an alien getting out of a space ship. but anyways
how many documentaries have you purchased, or watched on the net, and i mean truly watched, not fast forward through until you see something cool, and then push play to see what they have to say about it. how many books have you read on the subject? have you tried to contact any individuals personally to hear their story, and see for yourself how genuine it is? the real question, as im sure has already been posted, which may be the internet cliche, but really, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO TRY TO PROVE YOURSELF WRONG/RIGHT?
why make these threads, when you know you have not done the research? i know you havent. you can pout all you want, but its the same across the web. i just truly know you havent. correct me if im wrong.
there is a large amount of evidence out there. from confessions from very respectable men who are, or were in the military, to government officials themselves. from physical evidence, to video. if you would educate yourself more, you would read, and see this stuff. but no, of course not, why do your own research, when you can come in here, and play the little baby waby, and ask the daddys for high definition videos of proof showing an alien getting out of his ship, breakdancing, and then going back in.
i will agree, that i have not seen a high definition video of a ufo landing, or in the air, whatever, but after doing my own research, it is undeniable that ufo's are out there, and more than less likely, alot, if not most, are not of this planet, and if they are, they are from a civilization that is old, and a civilization that we are unaware of. a civilization that we would probably consider alien by most standards. i would not disagree that maybe a few are of this planet, maybe from black projects going on around the world.
take abductions for an example. as crazy as an abduction might sound coming from someone, it is happening, and has happened alot more than you probably think it has. hell, sitting in my apartment right now, there is a beautiful young girl upstairs, about 24 or so, and one night i was up there fixing her computer, having a beer, and i randomly made a joke about aliens hacking her computer or something, and she was like, they're real, i know it sounds crazy, but i was abducted, and she said she used to get abducted for a while like every other night when she was young. this revelation came after a few more words about conspiracies, and aliens, but i was kinda thrown back that she out of all people you would assume, would say that. she looks like an average young lady, who you might see out at the club lookin absolutely fine, and she was pretty sincere about the fact that she used to get abducted, and she doesnt like to tell people, but i guess in the light of our small discussion, and she probably felt comfortable talking to me, she let it out. she could be lying, but it kinda makes you think.
she doesnt know about this forum, and doesnt like to talk about it, because everyone would think she is crazy, but there she is, a girl who possibly was abducted multiple times in her younger years, with maybe something new to bring to the table, but she doesnt want to bring up the memory, or really talk about it. criticism can be hard to deal with, and most people dont like to see it as worth their time to tell stories about being abducted, when it will fall mostly upon deaf ears, and she would inevitably just be pleading her case for the rest of her life. to most people they would say, well im not getting abducted now, and most people would not believe me, so why waste my time. maybe someone out there does have a high definition video of a ufo, but as crazy as it may sound to some of the "brave conan's" around here, they may be to scared to go public with it. assuming that someway, somehow, it will get linked back to them, and the big bad wolf will come knocking at their door. they might not be internet savy. maybe they dont have the internet. maybe they're concerned with being able to anonymously upload it, and dont know how. maybe they just dont care, and its going to go down as a part of their own little collection. maybe they just recorded it a year or a few months ago, and just have not had the time in their personal life to get it to someone, or load it onto the net. why? maybe they just dont care that much. might seem absured, but we can be a pretty absured race of people at times.
im just saying. just like those who demand proof of paranormal powers, maybe those truly with it, just dont care about your ventures, or what it would do to help society, or help scientist under this, or understand that. some people just dont have the resources or the tools, and, eh, some people probably just dont care, or are scared.
given the grand cover up that has been going on this long. do you think that a high definiton video of a ufo would last that long on the net. pressuming that would be the first place it would hit. i know you would assume the government is that stupid, and so are the people they hire, or whoever it is monitoring the big ordeal behind the scenes, but i would bet my car that minutes after information that sensitive hit the net, it would dissapear, and those who saw the video, their ip's would be traced, their computers cracked and scanned to see if the video was downloaded to their pc. their information stolen, or they would just get a good ol visit.
the media is controlled, so no going there with your evidence, and if you just threw it on the net expecting it to be there for all to see, you have another thing coming. thats just my opinion.
Originally posted by Common Good
heres an old school question for you..
If a tree falls over, in the middle of the woods, and nobody is around, does it make a sound?
Now apply that same question to aliens.
If an alien comes down, in the middle of the woods, and nobody is around to see it or hear it, did they still visit?
( Iknow theres holes in that question but you get my drift)
Originally posted by Hellish-D
Originally posted by Common Good
heres an old school question for you..
If a tree falls over, in the middle of the woods, and nobody is around, does it make a sound?
Now apply that same question to aliens.
If an alien comes down, in the middle of the woods, and nobody is around to see it or hear it, did they still visit?
( Iknow theres holes in that question but you get my drift)
If we applied that question.....
Then no.
A sound requires not only vibrational waves, but a receiver (ear drum, tape recorder, whatever)
So, if no one was there to see the alien, then it never came.
Originally posted by Common Good
Technically, you are right.
But on the flipside of that arguement, a sound is a sound, and a sound doesnt need a reciever to make that sound,just a transmitter(so it still makes a sound)... So without the reciever, it still makes a noise, you just cant hear it. (inaudible).
So just because you see it, doesnt mean that its not there, am I wrong?
[edit on 7-2-2009 by Common Good]
Originally posted by Hellish-D
Originally posted by Common Good
Technically, you are right.
But on the flipside of that arguement, a sound is a sound, and a sound doesnt need a reciever to make that sound,just a transmitter(so it still makes a sound)... So without the reciever, it still makes a noise, you just cant hear it. (inaudible).
So just because you see it, doesnt mean that its not there, am I wrong?
[edit on 7-2-2009 by Common Good]
Yes, you are wrong. You were talking about the sound an object makes, not the object itself. A sound does require a receiver to be a sound. If I had a violin string vibrating at an extremely high frequency to the point that it was no longer audible to human, or any ear, it is still transmitting vibrations, but it is not audible, therefore not a sound.
When we bring aliens into this, they could be there but we don't know. Your analogy isn't a real parallel.