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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: StonedShroom]
#7889335 - 01/16/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: StonedShroom]
#7889337 - 01/16/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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well, I'll be damned, he did do an article on signs
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=signs
uhm, however, I didn't quote him. I see no mention of aliens putting on raincoats in his version.
although it's the same concept that ANYONE with a fucking brain could have figured out.
I still say signs is the worst ever b/c it was sssooooo hyped up.
at least the killer clowns from space movie has the excuse of being a "B" movie.
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: StonedShroom]
#7889352 - 01/16/08 05:47 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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It seemed like you were trying to do the same "I'm so smart look at me be condescending toward something" schtick he does. It's cool if you didn't I remember thinking it too but the similarities between your post and his article seemed really close to what i remembered.
Best movie like that though...The Thing!
Edited by trepanib (01/16/08 05:48 PM)
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: blackegg]
#7889369 - 01/16/08 05:50 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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A few years ago something similar happened in New Mexico where virtually an entire town latched onto the most implausible of all explanations too. They saw lights in the sky that "couldn't" be from Earth because there were no airports or military bases nearby, and the lights made abrupt right-angle turns.
Turns out the lights were just car traffic in a town about 60 miles away on the other side of a mountain range. You see, the lights from the distant town were being refracted off a standing thermocline in the atmosphere, like a mirage on a hot roadway.
The effective angle of the mirror varied as the temperature gradient in the atmosphere moved with the wind flowing over the mountains. This gave the illusion of the "impossible" abrupt right-angle turns and explained the lack of sound.
Interestingly, the thermocline also gave false radar returns (radio waves refract just like light does) and lent false credibility to the ET proponents who insisted that "impossible" right-angle turns were recorded on radar. Nevermind that radar operators have long known about this effect which is a common occurrence when certain temperature gradients exist in the atmosphere.
I'm sure the people of that town felt pretty silly when they found out that the least plausible explanation usually isn't the correct one.
Now, I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but I am saying that whatever these things are, they're far more likely to have an ordinary, boring, mundane explanation, than ET.
This theme repeats over and over. The Phoenix Lights is a similar event that was definitively explained even though thousands of people insisted they were looking at alien ships.
It's also interesting that there are now hundreds of millions of high-quality cell phone cameras on the planet, yet fuzzy could-be-anythings are the best images anyone can come up with.
The explanation for this is simple. When the object is far enough away that you can't tell what it is, the mind immediately jumps on the ET explanation. Movies DO influence you whether you think they do or not.
Then if the object gets close enough that you can tell it's an ordinary Earth object like an airplane or balloon, you discard the video. Why keep boring pics of airplanes and balloons right? Why show them to your friends who will laugh at you for confusing a 747 with ET?
This has the effect of filtering all the UFO images such that the ones that get close enough to be identified as an airplane or balloon are discarded, and the ones that stay far enough away that a fuzzy could-be-anything is the best pic you can get, you keep it because nobody knows what it is.
Critical thinking skills are your friend.
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: trepanib]
#7889384 - 01/16/08 05:54 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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The Thing!
damn thats my favourite movie of all times. made some great Thing avatars a while back when i was really into the movie, trying to tell when someone was taken over and so on.







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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: trepanib]
#7889393 - 01/16/08 05:56 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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trepanib said: WOW Congratulations way to read Maddox and quote his article, you are so original.
The appropriate answer for worst alien movie is Killer Klowns from Outerspace.
i thought The Brother from Another Planet was the worst that ive seen ,but they are real !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2012
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: Diploid]
#7889399 - 01/16/08 05:56 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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Diploid you are wrong it has to be aliens! The Thetans are coming to Earth to take over human bodies only the scientologists can fix! Xenu is going to enslave you for not believing either.
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Re: Forty people saw a UFO in Texas?? [Re: trepanib]
#7889414 - 01/16/08 06:00 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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i'm going to enslave myself and then set me free!!!!!!!
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