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There is a widespread belief that alien beings have traveled to Earth from some other planet and are doing reproductive experiments on a chosen few. Despite the incredible nature of this belief and a lack of credible supportive evidence, a cult has grown up around it. According to a Gallup poll done at the end of the twentieth century, about one-third of Americans believe aliens have visited us, an increase of 5% over the previous decade.
Roswell: “A Physicist’s Tale,” by Dave Thomas*, with apologies to G. Chaucer.
A physicist there was, called by his king,
To listen for fearful weapons’ eerie ring,
Yet his efforts vanish’d, into the sky,
Leaving him sadly to wonder why.
But his package was found, by caprice,
And a farmhand took it in, to the police.
The King’s best flyers were called in, and then,
The Major said “This came Not from Men.”
Now believers of aliens much ado make,
And museums honor a physicist’s mistake.
* First Read on Jan. 12, 2005, at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Physics Teachers
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
I'm afraid that I'll have to disagree with ya here, Signals... While the recent 'evidence' might be sketchy, the ancient evidence is far more compelling... The Nasca Lines, Sumerian Petroglyphs, Mayan carvings... All from an age that predates the UFO phenomenon...
Prove me wrong.
Originally posted by Signals
Yep, it's all true.
Not one single shred of "evidence" supports Planet Earth ever having been visited by anything. Not a picture, not a book, not a video. Eyewitness accounts are very unreliable, just ask our justice system.
WOW, what a statement! Not one single shred of evidence. I am just going to laugh and feel sorry for you.
Originally posted by Signals
Ever wonder over & over again the cliche' "Why are UFO pictures and videos so out of focus and fuzzy"?
Because it's all a SHAM to distract us.
Prove me wrong.
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by DeltaPan
Yes, I've seen that show, Ancient Aliens. 3 times now I think . It is fascinating.
Part of me finds it insulting though. Humankind couldn't possibly have genius ideas and accomplishments on its on? No way we were way more advanced than previously thought and somehow lost our place and memory? (through a cataclysmic event)
Who is behind shows like that? They do like ratings, that's for sure.
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
reply to post by Signals
I expected more from you than a bottom feeding, pot stirring thread Signals.
Poor form man! Don't go the way of the 'dime-a-dozen' point whores! It's not like ATS needs another one.
While I understand some of the points your trying to make, I believe you could have expressed it in a better way... and all you've really done is swap out one conspiracy for another which makes you look kinda silly to be honest.
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Originally posted by drew hempel
Hawkins is claiming original proof for a secret harmonic ratio in Euclidian geometry. I did the same thing with Archtyas "doubling of the cube" proof -- I discovered the secret harmonic ratios for his solution 1:5/4::8/5:2
5/4 is the major third and 8/5 is the minor 6th.
My math is correct as is Hawkins -- but there's no historical evidence for my math. So, just like Hawkins, there can be no proof that this was a secret Euclidian harmonic ratio solution from geometry.
Archimedes used harmonic ratios for his Euclidian geometry solutions and the ratio 5/4 was the approximation for the cube root of 2, which launched three dimensional spatial perspective.
What Hawkins has done is not without precedence -- but it just doesn't fit into normal Western axiomatic math so harmonic ratios are continued proportions. Kepler also used harmonic ratios for his geometry but Kepler was against the "closed form" solutions of geometry using algebra -- yet the closed form solutions are the standard geometric solutions now.
That's why there was no response to Hawkins.
reply to post by The X