BiBottomBoy Posted December 18, 2017 Posted December 18, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html?_r=1 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted December 20, 2017 Members Posted December 20, 2017 I have been waiting for AdamSmith to lose his shit over these reports but, so far, no joy. AdamSmith and BiBottomBoy 1 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 20, 2017 Posted December 20, 2017 29 minutes ago, MsGuy said: I have been waiting for AdamSmith to lose his shit over these reports but, so far, no joy. Lost it many years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon_Committee The energies of indignation have only so many megajoules available to hurl at these colossal stupidities. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted December 20, 2017 Members Posted December 20, 2017 I'm betting a little prostrate massage would rekindle your interest, AS. BiBottomBoy and AdamSmith 1 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 20, 2017 Posted December 20, 2017 If alien entities had traveled all this way to see us, do you really think they would have spent three hundred years lurking around in the bushes looking for a place to park? Arthur C. Clarke Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted December 20, 2017 Author Posted December 20, 2017 They'd have taken over our government. See... Trump. Lizard alien of all time. AdamSmith and MsGuy 2 Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 20, 2017 Posted December 20, 2017 10 hours ago, AdamSmith said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon_Committee The report is still available. https://www.amazon.com/Report-Scientific-Unidentified-flying-Objects/dp/B000Z3UI6S I have the 2.5-inch-thick paperback version. (Thickest paperback I've ever seen, apart from the Signet Paperbacks [I think? maybe Bantam] edition of War and Peace.) Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted December 20, 2017 Author Posted December 20, 2017 Ha! When you think about it - that is what we are paying for. Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 6 hours ago, BiBottomBoy said: Ha! When you think about it - that is what we are paying for. LMAO Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 15 hours ago, AdamSmith said: If alien entities had traveled all this way to see us, do you really think they would have spent three hundred years lurking around in the bushes looking for a place to park? Arthur C. Clarke ...The stars were all around him as Reinhold descended the little hill. Out at sea, the "Forrestal" was still sweeping the water with her fingers of light, while further along the beach the scaffolding round the "Columbus" had transformed itself into an illuminated Christmas tree. Only the projecting prow of the ship lay like a dark shadow across the stars. A radio was blaring dance music from the living quarters, and unconsciously Reinhold's feet accelerated to the rhythm. He had almost reached the narrow road along the edge of the sands when some premonition, some half-glimpsed movement, made him stop. Puzzled, he glanced from land to sea and back again; it was some little time before he thought of looking at the sky. Then Reinhold Hoffmann knew, as did Konrad Schneider at this same moment, that he had lost his race. And he knew that he had lost it, not by the few weeks or months that he had feared, but by millennia. The huge and silent shadows driving across the stars, more miles above his head than he dared to guess, were as far beyond his little "Columbus" as it surpassed the log canoes of paleolithic man. For a moment that seemed to last forever, Reinhold watched, as all the world was watching, while the great ships descended in their overwhelming majesty--until at last he could hear the faint scream of their passage through the thin air of the stratosphere. He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had laboured to take men to the stars, and in the moment of success the stars--the aloof, indifferent stars--had come to him. This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its frozen parent cliffs and goes sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All that the past ages had achieved was as nothing now; only one thought echoed and re-echoed through Reinhold's brain: The human race was no longer alone... Childhood's End Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 The thing is there probably is intelligent life out there but we are probably not interested in us. Are we really that into earthworms? Are earthworms interested in us? Same deal. AdamSmith 1 Quote