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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One is that over the last few centuries, we have gotten a lot of mileage out of always favoring mundane explanations over supernatural (or in this case extraterrestrial) ones. But we also learned it is wrong to dismiss evidence that contradicts your beliefs.
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To me, the big question in the forthcoming UFO report will be exactly what the observations have shown. If small objects are accelerating at 20G with no visible means of propulsion, you could imagine that there's a military lab in China or Botswana where people are high-fiving.
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If we have a pattern sightings dating back to the 1960's where large objects are accelerating at 700G, then we are not dealing with any country's military program, and the answers have to get weirder.
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Here's an actual-speed video of our "make things go fast" capability from the 1970s. The Sprint missile accelerates at 100g, I believe it is the fastest accelerating rocket ever developed. It would turn a pilot to gravy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZV464z9g8 …
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Unfortunately, at these levels of weirdness answers like "the military is lying" become equally probable. If this is a real phenomenon, we need transnational disclosure of what everybody has seen.
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To me, the reports of UFOs hovering over a roiling sea are particularly suggestive. The ocean is a great place to hide and it wouldn't hurt to poke around down there more, particularly when the worst case outcome is that we learn an immense amount about our planet
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The most interesting and possibly significant thing about the reporting around UFOs is that credible sightings were rare and not very well documented before everyone started carrying a digital recording device... and they remain rare and unsatisfyingly documented now.
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If the phenomenon is real, if multiple militaries share gorgeous footage of this stuff, then it's also important not to get too stodgy in our hypothesizing. Maybe it's the sysadmins to our simulation. Maybe it's evolution stumbling across one hell of a propulsion system.
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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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