Or it could be that they don't know for sure yet, so they're qualifying their statement.Audley Strange wrote:Galaxy may be full of 80 foot clones of Simon Cowell dedicated to eating the psychic farts of The Rasprerry Jelly People.
May just means "making shit up". It's funny because with NASA they have to play down their imaginings and groups like the NSA they exaggerate them wildly.
Hmm perhaps Nasa could get funding if it hoaxed a small alien incursion....
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Seems to me like they're trying to get people excited again and rustle up some cash. I think my suggestion might excite people more.Gawdzilla wrote:Or it could be that they don't know for sure yet, so they're qualifying their statement.Audley Strange wrote:Galaxy may be full of 80 foot clones of Simon Cowell dedicated to eating the psychic farts of The Rasprerry Jelly People.
May just means "making shit up". It's funny because with NASA they have to play down their imaginings and groups like the NSA they exaggerate them wildly.
Hmm perhaps Nasa could get funding if it hoaxed a small alien incursion....
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Know somebody who doesn't beat the drum for a good cause?Audley Strange wrote:Seems to me like they're trying to get people excited again and rustle up some cash. I think my suggestion might excite people more.Gawdzilla wrote:Or it could be that they don't know for sure yet, so they're qualifying their statement.Audley Strange wrote:Galaxy may be full of 80 foot clones of Simon Cowell dedicated to eating the psychic farts of The Rasprerry Jelly People.
May just means "making shit up". It's funny because with NASA they have to play down their imaginings and groups like the NSA they exaggerate them wildly.
Hmm perhaps Nasa could get funding if it hoaxed a small alien incursion....
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You seem to be missing my point. I'm suggesting they jazz themselves up, got the homeland security route.Gawdzilla wrote:Know somebody who doesn't beat the drum for a good cause?Audley Strange wrote:Seems to me like they're trying to get people excited again and rustle up some cash. I think my suggestion might excite people more.Gawdzilla wrote:Or it could be that they don't know for sure yet, so they're qualifying their statement.Audley Strange wrote:Galaxy may be full of 80 foot clones of Simon Cowell dedicated to eating the psychic farts of The Rasprerry Jelly People.
May just means "making shit up". It's funny because with NASA they have to play down their imaginings and groups like the NSA they exaggerate them wildly.
Hmm perhaps Nasa could get funding if it hoaxed a small alien incursion....
"There is a distinct possibility that there are 3000 planets almost at local distance, that may not only host life, but host life which is technologically superior to us and MAY WELL BE HOSTILE!!! Do we really want "first contact to be the kiss of death?" We need to get out their set up bases, the OORT cloud offers some protection, but lets get listening stations and spy satellites and we need money for cold fusion research as well, oh and longevity research, open up stem cells.. Are you listening, do you really want your daughters raped by some tentacled space muslim. MONEY NOW!!!"
if that makes it clearer.
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the researchers concluded that based on what they saw, at least 361 intelligent civilizations have emerged in the Milky Way since its creation

That is a very specific number to pull out of your arse with no evidence whatsoever
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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Fair enough. Those security agencies who over-exaggerate threat and potential disaster get more government funding based on the worst prognosis.Gawdzilla wrote:Nope.
NASA needs more funding. All science does.
Getting someone to go "Look there might be planets" is, at the very best, a "cool". In order to get more funding, since they are making assertions anyway, why not go for the worst most Alarmist speculations in order to get more money?
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I was kidding, of course. But the "fake an invasion to get the people under control" meme is a very popular one with the tinfoilers. So much so that I doubt some of them would believe it if they did actually land and started fighting us. For example, one guy over at ATS stated that the release of "Skyline" and "Battle: Los Angeles" so close together was proof positive of a false flag operation about to happen.Audley Strange wrote:Fair enough. Those security agencies who over-exaggerate threat and potential disaster get more government funding based on the worst prognosis.Gawdzilla wrote:Nope.
NASA needs more funding. All science does.
Getting someone to go "Look there might be planets" is, at the very best, a "cool". In order to get more funding, since they are making assertions anyway, why not go for the worst most Alarmist speculations in order to get more money?
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Well I love all that ATS shit, (as naive but complex folk narratives, you know like the whole Jehovah cult thing or the Greek Gods) but an actual faked invasion would be very expensive. The potential of one though becomes another national security issue, a phantom menace, tenuous enough not to fight but threatening enough to mobilise against. Tell me all that money being blown so people can snoop on other people would not be better spent on advancing tech.
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Reality should never intrude on a good ATS meme. Besides, what does "the government" care? They can always print more money.Audley Strange wrote:Well I love all that ATS shit, (as naive but complex folk narratives, you know like the whole Jehovah cult thing or the Greek Gods) but an actual faked invasion would be very expensive. The potential of one though becomes another national security issue, a phantom menace, tenuous enough not to fight but threatening enough to mobilise against.
Ask Ian.Tell me all that money being blown so people can snoop on other people would not be better spent on advancing tech.

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Gawdzilla wrote:Ask Ian.Tell me all that money being blown so people can snoop on other people would not be better spent on advancing tech.
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