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UFO sightings, NY 13/10/10

Posted 10-19-2010 at 08:27 AM by Bullet Magnet

I would like to thank Fox News, whose impeccable investigative journalism made this blog possible. And the people of New York, for simply being New Yorkers.

Meanwhile, in Broadway, that very same city.

Now, as for that peculiar "star", using commercial planetarium software set to the thirteenth, what do we see?

Jupiter and its four largest moons, the Galileans.

Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.

There is simply no excuse.

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	I liked the angry black man.
	Posted 10-19-2010 at 10:07 AM by Wings of Fire

	Neil deGrasse Tyson is wonderful. His feet are large enough to fill Carl Sagan's boots.
	Posted 10-19-2010 at 10:19 AM by Bullet Magnet

	Those "reactions" were part of a viral marketing campagin for Crysis 2.
	Posted 10-19-2010 at 03:44 PM by Hazel-Rah

	I believe. Our sun is only like a dot in the milky way and the mily way is only like a dot within the millions of other galaxies and universes out there. There are bound to be other life form.
	Posted 10-19-2010 at 11:21 PM by Mudokon_Master

	Whilst me and Ridg3 were returning home a few days ago one night, there were orange lights over the horizon. He said twas merely Chinese lanterns. The news the next day explained this was not the case. Bah, these are all recon sized ship. Get a military-grade warship in atmosphere, that'll give the skeptics an excuse other than 'just a weather balloon'.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 01:51 AM by Dixanadu

	Whilst me and Ridg3 were returning home a few days ago one night, there were orange lights over the horizon. He said twas merely Chinese lanterns. The news the next day explained this was not the case. Bah, these are all recon sized ship. Get a military-grade warship in atmosphere, that'll give the skeptics an excuse other than 'just a weather balloon'.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 01:51 AM by Dixanadu

	Whilst me and Ridg3 were returning home a few days ago one night, there were orange lights over the horizon. He said twas merely Chinese lanterns. The news the next day explained this was not the case. Bah, these are all recon sized ship. Get a military-grade warship in atmosphere, that'll give the skeptics an excuse other than 'just a weather balloon'. (I double posted by accident -_-)
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 01:51 AM by Dixanadu

Triple, actually.

I believe. Our sun is only like a dot in the milky way and the mily way is only like a dot within the millions of other galaxies and universes out there. There are bound to be other life form.

There a difference between believing that other life forms exist and believing that they are here, visiting planet Earth and abucting its citizens for anal probing.

I would support the former and ridicule the latter.

Posted 10-20-2010 at 02:10 AM by Nate

	: I believe. Our sun is only like a dot in the milky way and the mily way is only like a dot within the millions of other galaxies and universes out there. There are bound to be other life form. Undoubtedly (except perhaps the universe one). However, the size and content of the universe that makes alien life so likely also makes their visitation here desperately unlikely.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 02:12 AM by Bullet Magnet

	I edited the second entry then it came up as the third. Maybe they are looking for colonies, they come into atmosphere then discover it's already populated and leave. If such is the case, eventually one such species may forcefully take Earth as a colony. I hope I live to see the day a UFO land on the White House lawn.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 02:39 AM by Dixanadu

	Why the white house?
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 04:47 AM by T-nex

	: Maybe they are looking for colonies, they come into atmosphere then discover it's already populated and leave. If such is the case, eventually one such species may forcefully take Earth as a colony. You don't get to start hypothesising motives before you've actually established that they're here. Which is so extraordinarily unlikely that its not even worth considering.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 06:27 AM by Bullet Magnet

	Nate: Did you just say...Triple?
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 08:27 AM by Hazel-Rah

	You don't know that for sure, though. It's generally accepted they aren't, but what if it's not so? I'm going by assumptions, I was just saying.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 08:46 AM by Dixanadu

	I didn't know that you and Ridge were dating. You two must make an adorable couple.
	Posted 10-20-2010 at 08:50 AM by OANST

You don't know that for sure, though. It's generally accepted they aren't, but what if it's not so? I'm going by assumptions, I was just saying.

I don't know for sure that you are not the invisible pink unicorn, but it is reasonable to assume that you are not. For aliens to be visiting here they need to have overcome several unrelated and massive odds, compounded together.

1. They need to exist at the same time as we do. This is not often considered, that there is an unimaginably long period of time stretching out into the past and into the future, in which technological civilisations exist for such a tiny fraction as to leave no impact. That there is so much time for technological civilisations to exist in makes their existance likely, but it makes their co-existance much more unlikely.

2. They have to have overcome the problems of interstellar (even intergalactic) travel. Travelling faster than the speed of light seems to be a physical impossibility, and absolutely necessary for such journeys. There may be ways to overcome this (wormholes, or a more advanced and correct science that lacks this restriction), but civilisation has a great many hurdles to leap before it can advance that far without destroying itself, ie wars, and short-sighted miserly Luddites in government, which seems to be of universal concern. The alternatives, ie sublight cryo ships or generation ships, do not correlate with the supposed behaviour of visiting aliens, nor would we expect them to be so well hidden.

3. They have to be near us. There is so much universe out there. Once again, the fact that makes alien existance likely makes their visitation unlikely. Chances are that they will be visiting places much closer to themselves, and in astronomical terms you don't have to move far away before Earth is unidentifiable and of little interest. Aliens wouldn't even know about us.

4. Following on from 3, they would have to choose us. Yet again, because there are so many worlds, there are so many potentially life-supporting worlds as well. This also means that there are a shit load of worlds to investigate and visit (if visiting is their gig). Simply being selected is a lottery, even with our seventy light-year radio bubble.

Posted 10-20-2010 at 09:53 AM by Bullet Magnet

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