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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      1. No Drama Obama on the UFOs: "We can't explain how they move, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so I think that people still take seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is." Reasonable! But should we be freaking out?pic.twitter.com/RG8QjBbaV7

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      2. As people rightly insist the "u" in UFO just means "unidentified." Doesn't necessarily, or even at any serious degree probably, mean space aliens. Just means there is weird shit flying around all over the world which we can't explain. Which is interesting/worrying.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      3. Depending on you rigorously you want to define UFOs, they've been a thing since 1940s, or 1890s, or really the beginning of recorded history. Humans often see things they can't explain! And in vast majority of cases that's just optical illusion and/or delusion.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      4. The story is not UFOs (which have been around for a long time) but new respectability of UFOs: Pentagon used to be hush-hush, now they're all X-Files. NY Times, New Yorker, 60 Minutes covering. Thoughts on why this is so:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/ufos-and-the-pentagon-budget?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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        1. Alice@wonderland‏ @izzyqueenof 19 May 2021
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          1)Why would it be worrying? There is no point to it. If they wanted to kill you, they can do that any time they choose. Nothing that any human can change. Since they have been around for awhile. They could have but didn't so it might not be their 1st priority.

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        1. Dr. Geophysics‏ @Dr_Geophysics 19 May 2021
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          UFO nonsense is an interesting and time tested misdirection from the real world (hello Clinton years…). It’s always interesting to see who jumps in eh?

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        1. Alice@wonderland‏ @izzyqueenof 19 May 2021
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          2)Interesting, yes but if you think you are ever gonna understand them or their technology. Think again. 😂 Why everybody seems more accepting now? I guess Alien life is more "accepted" than 70 years ago. Tv shows did that trick. It gives people the sense they do know a bit.

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        1. Milt Ruthven‏ @MiltonRuthven 19 May 2021
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          So The Architects of Fear all over again? Brilliant Outer Limits episode.

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        1. Alice@wonderland‏ @izzyqueenof 19 May 2021
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          3) While 70 years ago, there were no tv shows like Star Trek. Human technology was not very well known. Humans feel a bit better about themselves in comparison so they feel more at easy with that idea now. I think....It's always the army first. Love or war always...

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        2. Jacob Garchik‏ @JacobGarchik 19 May 2021
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          "Traveling between suns is extremely difficult and would take a long time if the speed of light cannot be outrun" - Isn't the concept of "long time" just based on our biology? It's not a long time for an AI, for example.

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        3. david rubien‏ @dubiousraves 19 May 2021
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          Assuming we could build a robot-occupied vessel that could survive a journey to the nearest solar system, a journey that, depending on speed, could take hundreds or thousands of years by Earth time, it would take 4.25 years for each of our radio communications to reach the other.

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        1. Alice@wonderland‏ @izzyqueenof 19 May 2021
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          Also the Pentagon feels maybe they can get something if they could catch 1. 🙄They feel good about their own accomplishments too. 50 years ago, it would have been a waste of budget. It still is but it's their own perspective that changed. Humans always feel overconfident.

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        1. kennan‏ @longtweetergram 19 May 2021
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          Have you read Jodi Dean's 1998 political theory book on UFOlogy?

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        1. Sherry_Reson‏ @Sherry_Reson 19 May 2021
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          Interesting read, thank you.

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