This is a good thread about trying to think through the implications of the Pentagon UFO disclosures. There's several things about this mystery that make it difficult to reason about.https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1394654014596337667 …
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But whoever, or whatever they are, these entities are going to need bookmarking.
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What's outlandish and what's not in this scenario is also an interesting question. The Universe is old and the chance that autonomous probes are whizzing around and checking out planets. This might just be some extinct civilization's e-waste, its batteries slowly running down
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But if the military does have strong, real evidence of beyond-human technology, what we should really do is buckle down and build a rocket to go catch Oumuamua. If weird things are here, they're likely ubiquitous.
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What puzzles me most is how people assume UFOs would have to imply the presence of sentient beings, rather than just probes, even as we cover Mars with our own pretty crafty robots. Earth is a schlep and no one wants to be stationed here.
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Any other year I would be all over this. Now I feel like the collective attention span of the entire world is exhausted. Saving your thread for end-of-year reading.
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Hopefully in June there will be a report and stuff we can chew on
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