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2021 was so weird, that big UFO news totally went over our heads
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:18 am
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:18 am
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/29/magazine/2021-was-so-weird-we-barely-registered-that-big-ufo-news/
Controlling the raging monkeys with screens
Happy New Years ya filthy animals…
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2021 was so weird, that big UFO news totally went over our heads
Is the potential reality of extraterrestrials too overwhelming — or too frightening — for our human brains to absorb? By Will DowdUpdated December 29, 2021, 10:31 a.m.
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And yet, in the inundation of 2021 news, these UFO milestones barely registered as a blip on the public’s radar. Was the potential reality of ETs too overwhelming — or too frightening — for our human brains to absorb? Or was our attention simply exhausted by political polarization and the raging pandemic?
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Diana Walsh Pasulka, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, who wrote about extraterrestrial intelligence and technology in her 2019 book, American Cosmic, spoke to me about the public’s muted reaction to UFO news. She attributes our collective yawn to science fiction movies, which have primed us to accept the existence of ETs. At some level, we already believe.
Pasulka calls Kubrick a true visionary. Not only did 2001 prepare us for encountering extraterrestrials in the form of their mystifying technology, but the director showed us exactly how this subconscious programming would happen — namely, through a black monolith, which some film scholars believe represents the cinema screen. But I believe we can — and should — recapture an appropriate sense of wonder when it comes to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. And to do this, we must lift our eyes from the miniature black monoliths we carry with us everywhere. We must remember to look up at the sky.
Controlling the raging monkeys with screens
Happy New Years ya filthy animals…
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Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:19 am to ThinePreparedAni
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Is the potential reality of extraterrestrials too overwhelming — or too frightening — for our human brains to absorb
Among other things
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:22 am to ThinePreparedAni
What UFO news? That thing back during the summer was another big nothing burger.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:23 am to ThinePreparedAni
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that big UFO news
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:32 am to ThinePreparedAni
Trust no one.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:37 am to ThinePreparedAni
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a black monolith, which some film scholars believe represents the cinema screen.
Of course they do. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
However, I doubt Arthur C. Clarke intended the monoliths to resemble cinema screens. They were simply devices left by beings that had evolved to a pure energy state in order to allow humans to evolve along the same path.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:38 am to wareaglepete
It basically came to the same conclusion that project sign did in the 50’s, which was a more real assessment. So, we haven’t moved the needle since then with what the public knows in general. Project blue book was a whitewash, as was admitted to later by the researchers who actually came to believe ufo’s were real. They spent decades after project sign categorizing anyone who believed in the phenomenon as batshit crazy. That seems to have paused for the time being
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:42 am to ThinePreparedAni
Happy New year
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:46 am to ThinePreparedAni
Tell us aliens exist without telling us aliens exist.
It's that sort of Ivory tower, 3D chess presentation that's easiest to bury because there is no catch phrase, no real click bait, no photo, no conclusion.
Our gov went a long way around to explain that the things we're seeing, (tic tac ufos) are real, not "ours", but we don't know what they are or even if they're a threat.
Newsflash- If there actually are craft which can outmaneuver our top defenses. avoid radar/scanning systems and jet fighters, then guess what? They're a threat. Hands down.
It's that sort of Ivory tower, 3D chess presentation that's easiest to bury because there is no catch phrase, no real click bait, no photo, no conclusion.
Our gov went a long way around to explain that the things we're seeing, (tic tac ufos) are real, not "ours", but we don't know what they are or even if they're a threat.
Newsflash- If there actually are craft which can outmaneuver our top defenses. avoid radar/scanning systems and jet fighters, then guess what? They're a threat. Hands down.
This post was edited on 12/30/21 at 9:48 am
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:57 am to JawjaTigah
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Trust no one.
If the Boston Globe said water is wet, I'd have to go recheck it to confirm.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:10 am to ThinePreparedAni
Dude, there are no aliens
If you subscribe to the Big Bang origins, then all things were set into motion at the same moment. There simply hasnt been sufficient time for a species to have reached a significant population size to conquer its worlds problems, create a knowledge base of invention that would allow for it to travel vast distances to reach us and then return home without a series of 'space outposts', that we would have detected by now
In the same time frame where we are just getting into our small sphere of space
If you subscribe to the Big Bang origins, then all things were set into motion at the same moment. There simply hasnt been sufficient time for a species to have reached a significant population size to conquer its worlds problems, create a knowledge base of invention that would allow for it to travel vast distances to reach us and then return home without a series of 'space outposts', that we would have detected by now
In the same time frame where we are just getting into our small sphere of space
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:14 am to RobbBobb
It’s a little more complicated than that. Great filters are certainly a problem
This post was edited on 12/30/21 at 10:15 am
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:14 am to RobbBobb
Possibly, but we are talking billions of years. Let’s not put it past chance for another species to have started and evolved much faster than us. Its hard to look up at night and definitely say we are alone in all this.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:24 am to Yaboylsu63
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Its hard to look up at night and definitely say we are alone in all this
Mathematically, it's impossible to say there's no other complex life out there.
Water bears for example...them lil bitches can survive all sorts of nonsense.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:25 am to IceTiger
Anyone saying anything with certainty about the universe is an arrogant dumbass. Just about anything is possible
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:28 am to RobbBobb
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Dude, there are no aliens
If you subscribe to the Big Bang origins, then all things were set into motion at the same moment. There simply hasnt been sufficient time for a species to have reached a significant population size to conquer its worlds problems, create a knowledge base of invention that would allow for it to travel vast distances to reach us and then return home without a series of 'space outposts', that we would have detected by now
In the same time frame where we are just getting into our small sphere of space
You're assuming the factors that play a role in evolution are the same everywhere. Evolution can progress at varying speeds.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:31 am to xxTIMMYxx
For years, I attended a private gathering of 10-15 people at the home of the founder and owner of Beckwith Electric Co.
The Guest each year was either the Keynote Speaker or the latest headliner at the UFO Conference held in Tampa. This was an interesting gathering. We had Robert Beckwith that was developing sonar and the development of non magnetic ship hulls for minesweepers in the early 40's and Drew Craig that penned a joint paper on what really happened in the Philadelphia Experiment.
One night we reached a debate over the supposed Greys and Reptilians continued fight over the dominance over the earth. I had gotten a little bored and suddenly stated ..
"The Bible discusses
The Guest each year was either the Keynote Speaker or the latest headliner at the UFO Conference held in Tampa. This was an interesting gathering. We had Robert Beckwith that was developing sonar and the development of non magnetic ship hulls for minesweepers in the early 40's and Drew Craig that penned a joint paper on what really happened in the Philadelphia Experiment.
One night we reached a debate over the supposed Greys and Reptilians continued fight over the dominance over the earth. I had gotten a little bored and suddenly stated ..
"The Bible discusses
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:39 am to ThinePreparedAni
UFO is one thing.
Aliens are another.
Aliens are another.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:40 am to ThinePreparedAni
The important questions. Are the aliens vaccinated? Do they wear masks indoors?
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:41 am to Shaun176
No, but the Uber liberal freaks in the field say they don’t like to be called aliens because it’s racist. 
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