A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can’t even theorize lightly about scenarios where there might have been extraterrestrial interaction with Earth in most contexts without being pretty much branded a kook.

    Well, yeah. You can speculate about those scenarios all you want, that’s why sci-fi is so much fun. But ‘theorize’ implies a serious consideration of the event having occurred and there is zero tangible evidence for that and physics itself suggests that in the span of a civilization the chances of even detecting another may be infinitesimally small. So any ‘theory’ of those scenarios would be based on nothing so- yeah- kookery.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      …and thus, it’s not an exaggeration to say:

      If evidence is declassified supporting this it seems we owe a lot of apologies to a lot of people who were written off as kooks.

      Sheesh, I’m quite sure it was just a lighthearted comment by @DarkGamer, and folks are going all “Well ackshully” about it.