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BarkellWH
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 RE: Pentagon "black money" (in reply to Ricardo)
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It confirms my low opinion of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The whole lot of them mentioned in the article as supporters of the project--Reid, Bigelow, Elizondo, et al--appear to have never gotten over their "Roswell, NM"-"Area 51" fantasies. The only sane statement in the article is from the MIT Astro-Physicist Sara Seager.
"While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. 'When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,' she said. But, she added, 'what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.'”
The conspiracy theorists no doubt will consider Professor Seager's statement confirmation of the cover-up.
Bill
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Date Dec. 16 2017 18:03:33
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BarkellWH
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RE: Pentagon "black money" (in reply to BarkellWH)
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I mentioned this in a previous thread, but it seems especially appropriate now.
From 1975 until 1989, former Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire bestowed upon various U.S. government offices and officials the "Golden Fleece" award ("fleecing" the taxpayer) for wasteful government spending of taxpayer money. On one occasion in the early 1980s, Proxmire presented the award to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for funding the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program.
Proxmire's reasoning, stated as part of the award, was, "It is hard enough to find intelligent life in Washington. Why are we looking for it in outer space?" Given our current crop of poseurs and lightweights in the Executive and Legislative branches, it is hard to argue with him.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Dec. 17 2017 12:28:19
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Ruphus
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RE: Pentagon "black money" (in reply to Ricardo)
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Taken from a German news site and sent through Google translator (Which appears to be wokring better and better, thanks to AI):
"Most scientists who deal with the subject have a simple answer to that. Even the optimists among them suspect that there are a few thousand intelligent civilizations in our Milky Way. Sounds pretty good. But even if one of these civilizations has a space program and is interested in looking for intelligent life, the Milky Way is unimaginably large.
With its 100 to 300 billion stars, it has a diameter of about 100,000 light years at a thickness of 3000 light-years. Even with a few thousand sly alien peoples, the mean distance between two civilizations would be around 1000 light-years."
This is like discussing current whereabouts by means of alchemy.
If extraterrestrial or any advanced life was to considerably be moving through space, it would certainly not be happening by our currently explored options of steam engines.
Our current means make even just Mars excursions a nonesense. These means are not up to any cosmic travel worth mentioning. Yet, it doesn´t mean that there could be no ways to bridge any cosmic dimension within a blink of an eye, or at least within realistic period of time.
What would you have said if I had told you only just decades ago that there would be music and data on plastic discs which could he read by laser beam? And that the data could even be erased and rewritten? USB sticks of TB capacity?
Nano? 3D-printers?
To lots of current tech you might have said: "Impossible".
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I mentioned it before. Coincidentally in the year 2007 (when "Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" was started) me witnessed diverse occurrences over a Middle Eastern metropolis that could not be had with known technology.
But good to know that some of you know already that me must have had a crack pipe then. Religion (= predetermined perception) is good to have, innit?
I understand that. Until ~ 15 years ago, me used to be first in line to reject possible space travel, for not having heard of hypothetical physical options outside of empirics yet.
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Date Dec. 17 2017 14:30:00
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. I guess we consider it lucky it was only 5 years of research that we were getting ripped off? 
