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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Cool drones 
Seriously though, it's one thing to believe other intelligent life forms exist on other planets but to think they broke all laws of physics to visit us is beyond belief. |
I mean, you bring a smartphone to people in the 19th century and they'd accuse you of witchcraft.
The people of north sentinel island who have remained isolated from the rest of the world for 10,000 years probably look up at aircraft flying overhead and can't comprehend what they're seeing. They've attacked helicopters when they've flown nearby, likely out of fear of disruption to their island and way of life, and when they retreat, the people just go back into the jungle and not bother to venture out and gain an understanding of what they're seeing.
Now just extrapolate that to a larger scale with us living in the twenty first century. Could we not be doing the same thing?
What if we don't know everything about physics and harnessing those laws with tech? And what if that is the equivalent of a drone to something else out there. Who knows, but you can't write it off definitively until someone comes out and busts it. But that footage has been out there for a year and no one has.
We just might be those people observing something that exists but is not yet within our understanding.
People do tend to be uncomfortable with change in perspective to their little bubble worlds of they prefer to box themselves into
Which is exactly why many laugh and scold the notion of it all. Because they've arrogant enough to believe that people know everything there is to know about the universe. And that what can exist ends at what the US/Russia/China can come up with. And yet our perspective and knowledge is expanding all the time, and we're completely reevaluating things every few decades.
The universe is a very, very big place. And if we can exist here and have accomplished and built what we have in this tiny amount of time in the vast scale of time, what else can exist out there in a universe 14 billion years old that got a massive head start on technology development?
Just don't know. But to rule it out is simply ignorance.
It's not sci fi, x-files chatter really, it's just being realistic and looking at the probability that such things can exist in such an expansive place we occupy yet are only beginning to understand/explore.
Anyways, fun conversation to be had.
Not one I expected to be touching on but 2020 is proving to be a special kind of enigma.