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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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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You can imagine some distant NASA-like entity high fiving (or high thirteening or whatever) as they receive proof that their autonomous hovering probe managed to fly in Earth’s atmosphere
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Or Glarznax the Intern at the call hive, getting ready to ask us about our extended warranty
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I told him my credit card company already offers extended protection automatically but it’s hard to argue with a guy who has five mouths, each with their own set of lungs
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