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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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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That’s why they’re here.
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Watch they only use cryptocurrency
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To our new alien overlords: Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.
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I'd wager that the things that move as if they're ignoring the laws of inertia are probably some sort of fucked up reflection, but, hey, might be spaceships.

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Fucked up reflection has got to be way high on the list. That's why it's so important to know if there are classified selfies with these things up close, or if we just have lots of grainy zoomy video like what's been released
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I knew that you were eyeballing the inter-galactic bookmarking market.
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