Irrefutable Proof of the Visitation of Earth by UFOs Presented to the Mexican Congress

Okay, I was skeptical of this whole "aliens" thing, but now I Believe.

Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that "we are not alone" in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country's first congressional event on UFOs.
In the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians were shown two artifacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed were the corpses of extraterrestrials.
The specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.
The two tiny "bodies," displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. Maussan said they were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. He said that they were about 1,000 years old.
Similar such finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.
"This is the first time extraterrestrial life is presented in such a form and I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that any scientific institution can investigate it," Maussan said.
"We are not alone," he added.

What were alleged to be 1,000-year-old "non-human alien corpses" were presented in glass display cases before the Mexican Congress Tuesday during its first hearing on UFOs.
"They are non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution," Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan testified under oath.
As two small, mummified specimens -- seen with three fingers on each hand -- were unveiled, Maussan said researchers at the Autonomous National University of Mexico have conducted Carbon 14 analysis that determined the corpses are around 1,000 years old.
He claimed the purported bodies were found fossilized in mines in Cusco, Peru, in a layer of diatomaceous earth, or ancient phytoplankton algae.
"These aren't beings that were found after a UFO wreckage. They were found in diatom mines, and were later fossilized," he said, later adding, "Whether they are aliens or not, we don't know, but they were intelligent, and they lived with us. They should rewrite history.... We are not alone in this vast universe, we should embrace this reality."
Through testing, Maussan claimed, Mexican scientists determined more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown." One specimen allegedly was discovered to have what appeared to be eggs or ovaries inside, while another had implants of rare metals, such as Osmium.

Wait, wait, wait, wait: They found fossilized bodies inside a metal mine and the detected metals inside the fossilized remains?

I cannot think of any possible explanation for this other than the obvious one: They're aliens.

Here are the Alien Mummies:

A close-up of one. It looks like ET mixed with Yoda mixed with Nancy Pelosi's desiccated flaptrap.

Because you Peon Idiots are so likely to believe anything -- don't worry, the heroic, White Savior media is here to explain that these are probably not aliens, just some poorly made plaster hoax-things.

Jaime Maussan--a self-proclaimed ufologist and journalist whose coverage on aliens was once debunked--presented two fossilized bodies of what he claimed were "non-human" corpses to Mexican Congress on Tuesday, claiming researchers could prove with DNA testing the bodies were not of Earth, to the fascination of social media.
The small mummified corpses, which had elongated heads, three fingers and bodily makeups similar to Hollywood depictions of aliens, were allegedly found in Peru in 2017 and were said by Maussan to be about 1,000 years old.
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Maussan has worked as a journalist for more than 50 years. The 2017 video report he participated in, which showed alleged non-human remains later debunked as a mummified child's corpse, was published by Gaia.com. The website charges $99 a year for videos on paranormal and supernatural subjects, including alien abductions. The website belongs to alternative video platform Gaia Inc.--a publicly traded company with a $52 million market cap. The bodies in the video report from Gaia are much larger than those presented to Mexican Congress on Tuesday, though all the bodies share some similarities, including three-finger hands and elongated heads. In 2010, Maussan hosted his own TV show, and by 2019 was the subject of a movie titled Maussan's UFO Files," a one-hour documentary film that covered his pursuit of "the most controversial UFO events" in Mexican history. Maussan also has a YouTube channel, Maussan TV, with nearly 1 million subscribers.

Thank you, Big Brother Media, for protecting my brain from Wrongthoughts and confirming to me that what my eyes and basic horse-sense tell me is clearly a hoax is, in fact, probably a hoax. What would we ever do without you useless puffed-up midwit cunts?

Inside An Abandoned Government UFO Research Facility 👽 pic.twitter.com/sqS8cPTlJv
— Deserted Places 🏚️ (@iDesertedPlaces) September 13, 2023

Are you kidding me??pic.twitter.com/J4jVas5UmM
— Figen (@TheFigen_) September 13, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:35 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at September 14, 2023 03:36 PM (tUCgX)

2 Are they illegal aliens though?

Posted by: NC Kate at September 14, 2023 03:36 PM (an6os)

3 Indy 4 was right!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

4 Are you kidding me??

=======

I can do that. I just don't wanna.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

5 I like how perfectly cylindrical the faces of those "aliens" are. A hard edge, like a coffee can.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 14, 2023 03:37 PM (OX9vb)

6 I wondered what ever happened to my 3rd grade Halloween art projects. Mexicans banditos!

Posted by: Art for at September 14, 2023 03:37 PM (4W+Po)

7 >>>It looks like ET mixed with Yoda mixed with Nancy Pelosi's desiccated flaptrap.

Thanks; I'm sure I'll get that mental image out of my head, ever.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 14, 2023 03:37 PM (bhRsz)

8 I told you so!

Posted by: Fox Mulder at September 14, 2023 03:38 PM (PwgSL)

9 First 10?

Huh.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 14, 2023 03:38 PM (R3yzU)

10 Authenticity Of Mexican Alien Questioned After Kid Hits It And Candy Falls Out

https://bityl.co/L7KE

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:39 PM (aD39U)

11 Those things are almost as fake as Hunter Biden's indictment.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2023 03:39 PM (7zEAH)

12 Men are from Mars,
Women are from Venus,
All the other genders are from Uranus.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (N39Ws)

13 Hilarious. Too bad they couldn't rig it up with a Yoda type voice and cadence.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (RSbhh)

14 If there are aliens in Mexico you can bet they will soon be in Texas, looking for a free phone and an EBT card.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (YUV/S)

15 The truth is down there.

Posted by: X filing at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (nHR5C)

16 "We are not alone," he added.
_________________

Hell, we knew that after one look at Lori Lightfoot.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

17 LOL.... Not even a bit realistic... Don't think it's gonna distract from Joe's woes....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (bs+z0)

18 Head looks like a Tecate can wrapped in TP.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

19 Those little alien mummies remind me of the alien mummies from an early episode of Futurama. Fry ate one, thinking it was beef jerky, and angering Farnsworth, who wanted to be the one that ate it.

Professor Farnsworth gives Fry another one later in the episode: "It's teriyaki style."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (YIVH2)

20 Authenticity of Mexican Alien Questioned After Kid Hits It And Candy Falls Out

The Bee

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gmo/4)

21 Question: why are the aliens still in Mexico and not in California?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

22 I'm ready for the alien anal probes!

Posted by: Secretary Pete! at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (2tUFv)

23 Nothing I would want to see in a dark alley

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (fwDg9)

24 OT: screamin' yellin' President of the United States speaking LIVE

https://www.c-span.org

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (AOrJZ)

25 Head looks like a Tecate can wrapped in TP.
Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

Golf clap

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (NtVYv)

26 They don't look big enough to have eaten the dinosaurs.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

27 The only aliens are the illegal kind crossing our borders.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (gmo/4)

28
Ace:

You got it wrong. They're not mummies but Bill Mumy's.

QED. Oh the pain . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (x0n13)

29 Come on! - Costco is selling Halloween aliens that are way more realistic than this! Geez - this is what you get when you buy those Chinese knock-off aliens...

Posted by: Boswell at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (K+UlC)

30 TMFINR

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (i4S1+)

31 You can tell they wanted to bolster their case by getting the biggest fraudster they could to present the evidence.

Just like how politics works!

Posted by: Gaff at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (jPS2y)

32 Take us to your leader - Hunter Biden!

Posted by: The Aliens! at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (2tUFv)

33 Babylon Bee: Authenticity Of Mexican Alien Questioned After Kid Hits It And Candy Falls Out

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (xPl2J)

34 Were they found with Reese's Pieces? 'Cuz if not, I don't believe.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (mupln)

35 13 Hilarious. Too bad they couldn't rig it up with a Yoda type voice and cadence.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 03:40 PM (RSbhh)

snort.

Wouldn't have taken much to make them look a little more convincing.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (R3yzU)

36 They're plaster like hoax things.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (NpAcC)

37 The specimens were not related to any life on Earth
determined more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown."

It has DNA. about 70% is known (if about 30% is NOT known). Sounds like the rest of the DNA might be too fragmented to register correctly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

38 Chariot of the Cods??

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (aD39U)

39 Proof positive that the Mexicans have a sense of humor.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

40 Is it an ever expanding probe?

Posted by: Heh at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (nHR5C)

41 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (20Db2)

42 33 Babylon Bee: Authenticity Of Mexican Alien Questioned After Kid Hits It And Candy Falls Out

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (xPl2J)

LOL!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

43 20 Authenticity of Mexican Alien Questioned After Kid Hits It And Candy Falls Out

The Bee

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 03:41 PM (gmo/4)

; )

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (AOrJZ)

44 Gort. Klaatu barada nikto. Klaatu barada nikto.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (UkqCM)

45 We all know the lizard people are in DC.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (cMXNt)

46

If they're missing their pinkies, contact famed architect David Vincent . . .

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061265/?
ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520invaders

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (x0n13)

47 Afternoon.

"Mexican Congress" is a bit of a mouthful. The local name is "Congreso." I think that's fine.

Posted by: Robert at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (1Yy3c)

48 It must have been entertaining-if you spoke Spanish-to be in private to hear the actual reactions of some of the Mexican Congresspeople.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (RSbhh)

49 the accents sell it big time. no tak

Posted by: 80's music fan at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (9f0ty)

50 If this is true, then the dreaded fourth Indiana Jones movie was based on fact.

Posted by: sernalty at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (mxEar)

51 This reminds me of Charles Portis's great novel Gringos which included a loony chasing all over the Yucatan looking for alien landing sites.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (N3zMI)

52 45 We all know the lizard people are in DC.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (cMXNt)

"Call us!"

- - Anita Dunn, The Gorn LLC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (x0n13)

53 If Aliens have been here, where's all the resulting super tech?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (ppBhU)

54 The truth is out there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (BdMk6)

55 That thing is an Illegal Alien and should be deported back to where it came from !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (snpvX)

56 No Smoke-o in the Congress-o, Senor.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (aD39U)

57 That looks as real as 81 million votes.

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (CaJIi)

58 No extraterrestrial is illegal!

Posted by: blaster at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (dWjpk)

59 40 Is it an ever expanding probe?
Posted by: Heh at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (nHR5C)

Let's leave Chasten Buttplugs's butt plug out of this, okay?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (x0n13)

60 I will await the experts from Ancient Aliens to weigh in on this matter.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (sAmhv)

61 If this is true, then the dreaded fourth Indiana Jones movie was based on fact.
Posted by: sernalty at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (mxEar)
_______________

PR for an upcoming movie release?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

62 Die, motherfucker, die

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (EcZ7+)

63 They look like squirrels to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (QBaJw)

64 Disinformation Ace>>> Lamont the big dummy

Posted by: Sock Monkey * clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (tfTvi)

65 Take us to your leader - Hunter Biden!
Posted by: The Aliens! at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (2tUFv)

I read that as "Take me to you dealer" - Hunter Biden

Posted by: Boswell at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (K+UlC)

66 Those look like something you'd see at a Concrete lawn Ornament Wholesaler. On Closeout. In November.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (t39oN)

67 Oh, Lord, if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Grays.
Those little gray guys with the big black eyes
From a galaxy far away.
They'll poke and probe and pull your hair
Look in your butt and such.
They'll truss you up like a Christmas turkey
And you won't like where they touch!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (MeG8a)

68 Even the most willing believers in the existence of aliens were left with questions. "This is a tough one to swallow, even for me," said UFO truther Ryan Felix. "Are we really supposed to believe they have this type of candy on some distant planet? I get the names are ‘Milky Way' and ‘Starburst,' but come on."

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (aD39U)

69 It's impossible to tell from the pictures, but I want to know if the aliens have genitals. If not, how do they reproduce? If so, perhaps they can give a set to Ken, seeing as how they aren't using them.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (I/Qkd)

70 These are not the green skinned Orion 3 boobed alien babes I was hoping for

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (VTu1l)

71 So that is where I left my 4th Grade Art Class projects. Thanx for finding them ...........

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (R+nZe)

72 How do you say Alien Lawn Jockey in Mexican?

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (t39oN)

73 "THIRTEEN IN THE WORLD!!!"

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (AOrJZ)

74 Take us to your leader - Hunter Biden!
Posted by: The Aliens! at September 14, 2023 03:42 PM (2tUFv)
_______________

Send 'em Dianne Feinstein. She looks like one of them herself.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

75 What proof is there that Joe is an earthling?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (ePrC6)

76 58 No extraterrestrial is illegal!
Posted by: blaster at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (dWjpk)

By request, per Genesis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqQv3qef21A

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (x0n13)

77 The meme with *biden's petrified head on one of the "aliens" is pretty good.

Might have been at the Bee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (Q4IgG)

78 *whistles X-files theme*

Better send Special Agents Mulder and Scully down there to find out the real truth.

Bah, they're too busy nowadays trying to find "white supremacists" and other "threats to democracy".

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (uGhsv)

79 72 How do you say Alien Lawn Jockey in Mexican?
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:46 PM (t39oN)

Herve Filion . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (x0n13)

80 Those aren't aliens. They are children that had all their bodily fluids sucked out by chupacabras.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (xPl2J)

81 "Are you kidding me?"

That person clearly is missing some bones.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (Wy1BU)

82 El queso es viejo y mokoso. Como es esta momia aliengena.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (gmo/4)

83 I'm not saying they're aliens but, holy fuck just look at them!

Posted by: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (aD39U)

84 "I wish I had a chance to take your questions. I'd get in trouble for that."

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (AOrJZ)

85 Whay are Aliens always midgets with 3 or 4 fingers. Why can they not be the same size as humans ???

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (R+nZe)

86 That's no Chupacabra. Is it?

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (t39oN)

87 Do they have an OnlyFans yet?

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (3vCGB)

88 Ok, so Mexico learned how to do an alien invasion 1000 years ago from these guys, and weaponized that ancient tribal knowledge and experience against us.

Game on.

*casts baleful eye on golem instruction manual*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (0FoWg)

89 83 I'm not saying they're aliens but, holy fuck just look at them!
Posted by: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (aD39U)

They look more like Helen Thomas after a starvation diet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (x0n13)

90 This is proof that Stacey Abrams is governor of Georgia.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (JVAu3)

91 I think Joe has pure nephelim blood.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (ePrC6)

92 If anyone can bring them back to life, it's Kamala. Go, do your thing, Kamala! Mouth to ... uh ... whatever resuscitation!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

93 80 Those aren't aliens. They are children that had all their bodily fluids sucked out by chupacabras.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 14, 2023 03:47 PM (xPl2J)

I call bullshit. Chupacabras only suck goats.

Posted by: Robert at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (1Yy3c)

94 Do they have leaf blowers?

Posted by: Suburban dwellers at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (nHR5C)

95 This is so dumb. How can you take Republicans seriously when they devote time and resources to dredging up the past about aliens? What a joke.

Posted by: william ferrin at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (cBPOC)

96 87 Do they have an OnlyFans yet?
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (3vCGB)

Give them a few days.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (uGhsv)

97 That contortionist is probably legit. It's amazing what those girls can do with their bodies. And they all seem to be Eastern European . . . . Another Dastardly Putin Plot!

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

98 "This isn't a campaign speech. This is for real."

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (AOrJZ)

99 "more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown."

It would be compelling if they said "30% of the DNA base pairs identified in the specimen were unknown"--that's how they phrased it on the X-Files.

Posted by: liptock at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (mxEar)

100 LAUNCH THE F**KING NUKES BECAUSE WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (R+nZe)

101 The discovered beings had evidence that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: ... at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (JVAu3)

102 >>Whay are Aliens always midgets with 3 or 4 fingers.

It makes the anal probing easier.

But, no less dangerous.

Posted by: Tiny Alien at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (t39oN)

103 86 That's no Chupacabra. Is it?
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (t39oN)

"Pinga-cabra" = Kamala.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (x0n13)

104 Nothing inspires scientific confidence and integrity than "Autonomous National University of Mexico."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (bNf8H)

105 the internet historian's documentary on area 51 is fascinating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ7F6ELO-hQ&t=14s

Posted by: x at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (frATP)

106 I think Joe has pure nephelim blood.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (ePrC6)
----
I thought the Nephilim was a race of giants in ancient times...the offspring of angels and humans.

FJB is not a giant in any meaningful sense of the word, though he is a giant asshole.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (YIVH2)

107 There was a Reddit thread from twenty years ago showing Xrays of these Aliens.

The bones were all mismatched, and the skulls were llama heads turned around backwards with the facial bones lopped off.

Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (txtGE)

108 If this is true, then the dreaded fourth Indiana Jones movie was based on fact.
Posted by: sernalty at September 14, 2023 03:43 PM (mxEar)

So you *can* survive a nuclear bomb inside a Frigidaire!

Posted by: Dr. T at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (bhRsz)

109 What a time to be alive!

Posted by: Montec at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (HMFWC)

110 102 >>Whay are Aliens always midgets with 3 or 4 fingers.

It makes the anal probing easier.

But, no less dangerous.
Posted by: Tiny Alien at September 14, 2023 03:49 PM (t39oN)

At that size, they can just climb in like a gerbil exploring Richard Gere . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (x0n13)

111 I think Joe has pure nephelim blood.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (ePrC6)

Yeah! A Nephilim Thread!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) standing in for the say that shouts Yeah! A Nephilim Thread! at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (aD39U)

112 Jaime Maussan--a self-proclaimed ufologist

Come on, stop making up fields of study.

Posted by: Robert Langdon, renowned Harvard symbologist at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (EGPRf)

113 Those are the people used in the experiments to see what would happen if you got the recommended 100 COVID Booster shots recommended by Fauci ................

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (R+nZe)

114 Are you being serial, you guys?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (RIvkX)

115 FJB is not a giant in any meaningful sense of the word, though he is a giant asshole.

He's also a gigantic dickweed, although I confess I have no idea what a dickweed is.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (I/Qkd)

116 104 Nothing inspires scientific confidence and integrity than "Autonomous National University of Mexico."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (bNf8H)

ANUM vs ANAL. Discuss. Or not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (x0n13)

117 They've also run these through a CT scanner so we can study their internals, right?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (Bd6X8)

118 Are the Easter Island heads really aliens? How about the Sphinx?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (63Dwl)

119 The x-rays look like a body would but the outside to me doesn't, even for being dried out in the high altitude desert

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (fwDg9)

120 James Randi, the skeptic magician, was a big fan of Incan artifacts and wrote once about the huge industry of fake ones in the area. He said the good fakes were treasured almost as much as real things they were so accurate, while the bad...he said that if you told a certain person or persons your job he would be back in a day or so with an artefact of an ancient Incan doing your exact job.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (eoQWY)

121 107 There was a Reddit thread from twenty years ago showing Xrays of these Aliens.

The bones were all mismatched, and the skulls were llama heads turned around backwards with the facial bones lopped off.
Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (txtGE)

Obviously failed cloning attempts.

That's why the ayylmaos bugger cows and such. They're trying to perfect the ultimate human-ayylmao-llama-cow hybyrid.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (uGhsv)

122 The bones were all mismatched, and the skulls were llama heads turned around backwards with the facial bones lopped off.
Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (txtGE)
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Amateurs!

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (YIVH2)

123 Fiji mermaids.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (4AAHv)

124 Jaime Maussan--a self-proclaimed ufologist

Come on, stop making up fields of study.

It's pretty close to a urologist, if that helps.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (I/Qkd)

125 The. flexible. alien. woman. I'd. hit. that.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (cHOHf)

126
Aye.

Posted by: mummified alien at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (EGPRf)

127 They are made out of piloncillo. Don't get them wet.

Posted by: Roy at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (rqgpJ)

128 115 FJB is not a giant in any meaningful sense of the word, though he is a giant asshole.

He's also a gigantic dickweed, although I confess I have no idea what a dickweed is.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (I/Qkd)
______________

"It's tasty!"

-- Barack "Happy Ass" Obama

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

129 If the aliens were really 3 foot high, why are all the stairs in the pyramids they build sized for humans and not them?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

130 We are not alone.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (aD39U)

131 @107: "The bones were all mismatched, and the skulls were llama heads turned around backwards with the facial bones lopped off."

C'mon, man. Spoiler alert!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (k1Qly)

132 Jaime Maussan--a self-proclaimed ufologist

Come on, stop making up fields of study.

It's pretty close to a urologist, if that helps.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (I/Qkd)
________________

It's even closer to being a proctologist.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

133 I think I could makes these.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (NpAcC)

134 he said that if you told a certain person or persons your job he would be back in a day or so with an artefact of an ancient Incan doing your exact job.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (eoQWY)
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Ancient Incans sat in front of a computer making snide comments all day? Who knew?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (YIVH2)

135 TRUE SCIENCE FACT: Other than Owls, Llama are the only other animal that can turn their heads 360 degrees.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (t39oN)

136 I will await the experts from Ancient Aliens to weigh in on this matter.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2023 03:45 PM (sAmhv)

Goddam embarrassment. This is gonna ruin my reputation!

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

137 If the aliens were really 3 foot high, why are all the stairs in the pyramids they build sized for humans and not them?
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

Their humans carried them.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (aD39U)

138 They were found in Biden's basement because he sucked out their precious bodily fluids so he could drink the necter of eternal life ............... If Biden did not drink he would end up looking like them ....... His real Parents.......

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (R+nZe)

139 Out: Look...look space aliens flying by in saucer!

In: Look...look Mexican space aliens driving by in a landscaping truck

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (XqcwY)

140 Jaime Maussan--a self-proclaimed ufologist

Come on, stop making up fields of study.

It's pretty close to a urologist, if that helps.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (I/Qkd)

There have been credible sightings of piss.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (eoQWY)

141 They've also run these through a CT scanner so we can study their internals, right?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (Bd6X

Si, senor. Cerveza & Taco scan was positive. He was definitely at an alien fiesta before he was muerto.

Posted by: Mexican Imaging Clinic at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (0FoWg)

142 Reddit’s been around that long?

Posted by: Montec at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (HMFWC)

143 116 104 Nothing inspires scientific confidence and integrity than "Autonomous National University of Mexico."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (bNf8H)

ANUM vs ANAL. Discuss. Or not.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (x0n13)

Go Pumas!!!!

Posted by: Robert at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (1Yy3c)

144 That alien looks like he passed on bench press day.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

145 Their humans carried them.

We rate this statement as true

Posted by: The cats that ruled ancient egypt at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (XqcwY)

146 Wait no ... they rode their humans, like Masterblaster.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (aD39U)

147 How can something from another planet be carbon dated?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (lCWOD)

148 TRUE SCIENCE FACT: Other than Owls, Llama are the only other animal that can turn their heads 360 degrees.
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (t39oN)

People can do that easily, just move the rest of the body with it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

149 At, carumba! Estas mi mama!

Posted by: Pedro Perdito at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (4W+Po)

150 80 Those aren't aliens. They are children that had all their bodily fluids sucked out by chupacabras.
Posted by: Mark1971

Well, that's a relief. I prefer Terra born, North American monsters.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (sAmhv)

151 Come on, stop making up fields of study.

It's pretty close to a urologist, if that helps.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (I/Qkd)

There have been credible sightings of piss.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (eoQWY)
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It's an easy typo to make--the "f" is right under the "r" on a standard keyboard layout.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (YIVH2)

152 James Randi, the skeptic magician, was a big fan of Incan artifacts and wrote once about the huge industry of fake ones in the area. He said the good fakes were treasured almost as much as real things they were so accurate, while the bad...he said that if you told a certain person or persons your job he would be back in a day or so with an artefact of an ancient Incan doing your exact job.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (eoQWY)

I liked when The Amazing Randi debunked Uri Geller.

Classic.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (UkqCM)

153 Joe is finished. He's mingling.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

154 Can't spell sphincter without sphinx.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (4AAHv)

155 speech is over

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (AOrJZ)

156 I made those.

Posted by: Cecilia Gimenez at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (rqgpJ)

157 Whay are Aliens always midgets with 3 or 4 fingers. Why can they not be the same size as humans ???
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (R+nZe)

That's the sad part. I mean, if we were going to be serious about it, and have ACTUAL aliens show up, they'd look nothing like the silly Hollowood version we've been fed for decades.

Way to be a cliche, Marvin. Why not carry a raygun.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (QBaJw)

158 A close-up of one. It looks like ET mixed with Yoda mixed with Nancy Pelosi's desiccated flaptrap.

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I'm not saying they're mummified bats, but they're mummified bats.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (FlY3K)

159 If the aliens were really 3 foot high, why are all the stairs in the pyramids they build sized for humans and not them?
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:52 PM (eoQWY)
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They didn't climb the steps, silly. They levitated up them. They built the steps for the humans.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

160 I'm on a Mexican UFO
I'm on a Mexican woah-oh UFO
I'm on a Mexican UFO
I'm on a Mexican woah-oh UFO

Posted by: Wall of Voodoo at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (XqcwY)

161 They were fossilized because of "Fossel Fuel Caused GLOBAL WARMING" over 1500 years ago............. What more proof do you need to get off of
FOSSEL FUELS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymandd at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (R+nZe)

162 You humans are so easily duped.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (gmo/4)

163 he said that if you told a certain person or persons your job he would be back in a day or so with an artefact of an ancient Incan doing your exact job.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:51 PM (eoQWY)
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Ancient Incans sat in front of a computer making snide comments all day? Who knew?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (YIVH2)

Hey, you would have PROOF

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (eoQWY)

164 The aliens from Battlefield Earth were more convincing though I admit I'd enjoy seeing these little guys reenact the Boardroom scene.

https://tinyurl.com/nhczjcee

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (RqqG5)

165 where's all the resulting super tech?

iPhones.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (Vu7A1)

166 Joe is finished. He's mingling.
Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (v0R5T)
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Nah. He's trying to find his way out.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (YqDXo)

167 I didn't look in to this at all, since, well, it looks very fake. But I know more mainstream alien-types were pissed off at this, as it detracts from the very real weird unexplained encounters US military people (and others obviously) have had with UFO's.

There was a congressional hearing recently on the subject, two former navy pilots spoke about things they saw. There is radar, cell phone video, and corroborating witnesses to back it up.

There is also a whistleblower who claims he was tasked with trying to figure out who was doing what to study UFO's (mostly for budgetary reasons, I think), and he ran in to dozens of govt witnesses who say "oh yeah, we have alien retrieval teams, dead bodies, everything."

So idk. Could all be bullshit

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (mj0Qp)

168 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

BIDEN: "I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory..."

Biden was paid $1 million, but he never taught a single class.

https://tinyurl.com/52vtsx6m

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (NpAcC)

169 Joe is finished. He's mingling.

So he's lost

Posted by: wth at September 14,

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (ePrC6)

170 Those aren't aliens. They are children that had all their bodily fluids sucked out by chupacabras.
Posted by: Mark1971

See, we have to get faster!

Posted by: George Soros at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (XqcwY)

171 Serve us you will, hmmm.

Posted by: The Aliens at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (aD39U)

172 presentation boxes=major cred. true story

Posted by: 80's music fan at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (9f0ty)

173 Reddit thread on these Aliens

https://tinyurl.com/ydrxed3y

Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (txtGE)

174 speech is over
Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:55 PM (AOrJZ)

Thank Heavens, that fuking liar

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (NtVYv)

175 Joe was just stroking and petting a male college student.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (AOrJZ)

176 >> where's all the resulting super tech?

Where do you think 'Ball in a Cup' and those tiny boxes of Chiclets came from?

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (t39oN)

177 Llama head!

Posted by: Hare lip at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (63Dwl)

178 Alien Explorer: So, then we asked them to take us to their leaders.

Alien Overlord: And what happened then?

AE: Within about five minutes, one was trying to bang me, one offered to start a war with our closest neighbor and the other one just started bleeding from his eye.

AO: Can we please stop sending our people to America?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (KbCG3)

179 Joe again says he'd like to take questions but will get in trouble if he does.

He is SHOUTING more frequently. I believe what's happening is he started out speaking softly. So the upped the gain on his mic. Now when he raises his voice a bit, it sounds like he is using a bullhorn.

The Junta's public affairs kommisars are running out of tricks to compensate for Joe's constant decline.

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (5fDan)

180 104 Nothing inspires scientific confidence and integrity than "Autonomous National University of Mexico."
Posted by: Frasier Crane

They're joining the new and improved PAC-12 next year.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

181 If the Mexicans are gonna pull our leg, we should pull theirs and come up with a Sasquatch mummy. We could base it on Michelle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

182 How can something from another planet be carbon dated?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023

***
Carbon is carbon and I'd guess decays at the same rate everywhere

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (J2vNu)

183 53 If Aliens have been here, where's all the resulting super tech?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at September 14, 2023 03:44 PM (ppBhU)

The claims are that fiber optics and much of our tech technology were the result of studying alien crafts.

Who knows though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (mj0Qp)

184 I like that he's a self-proclaimed ufologist.

'cause if someone else called me an ufologist, I'd probably smack them. How do you pronounce that? I read it like Oof-Ologist.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (Dgo06)

185 Read somewhere he, they, powers that wanta be say Sundowner will give it up to let Fake Dr Jill run

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (fwDg9)

186 Matt Walsh (the conservative commentator, not the comedian) believes in aliens and believes these are real.

Posted by: Day Man - not Night Man at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (8A3Oh)

187 I liked when The Amazing Randi debunked Uri Geller.

Classic.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM (UkqCM)

He was very important to my education. Here was a guy who was willing to put forth the effort to expose the frauds, but it was even more important to me to see there were frauds who would "credibly" pretend their bald lies were truth, and there were idiots who would credulously believe them.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (QBaJw)

188
The claims are that fiber optics and much of our tech technology were the result of studying alien crafts.

Except you can see the steps that led to all that stuff in the years before.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (XqcwY)

189 169 Joe is finished. He's mingling.

So he's lost

Posted by: wth at September 14,
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (ePrC6)

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Has he gotten to the part where he shakes hands with invisible rabbits yet?

Posted by: Just Lily at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (91Bpy)

190 186 Matt Walsh (the conservative commentator, not the comedian) believes in aliens and believes these are real.
Posted by: Day Man - not Night Man at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (8A3Oh)

Tucker too

Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (bs+z0)

191 TRUE SCIENCE FACT: Other than Owls, Llama are the only other animal that can turn their heads 360 degrees.
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 03:53 PM (t39oN)

People can do that easily...

...but only once.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (Vu7A1)

192 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

BIDEN: "I wish I had a chance to take all your questions but I'm gonna get in real trouble if I do that"

https://tinyurl.com/9mu4uref

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (NpAcC)

193 BIDEN: "I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory..."
_______________

And taught language students Ukrainian.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

194 Matt Walsh (the conservative commentator, not the comedian) believes in aliens and believes these are real.

Si

Posted by: One of the real aliens in America at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (XqcwY)

195 This is middle school Halloween prank shit. Come on man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (Q4IgG)

196 I wonder if anyone has soaked one of these in water. You know, to see if it's a Chia pet.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (I/Qkd)

197 I could buy $50 of materials at Hobby Lobby and make better alien mummies in an afternoon. Sheeesh.

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (5fDan)

198 I think Joe has pure nephelim blood.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 03:48 PM (ePrC6)
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I thought the Nephilim was a race of giants in ancient times...the offspring of angels and humans.

FJB is not a giant in any meaningful sense of the word, though he is a giant asshole.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 03:50 PM (YIVH2)

That's proof its true, the Nephilim apparently lied about themselves JUST LIKE BIDEN

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (eoQWY)

199 Voodoo chiles
They're voodoo chiles

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (lCWOD)

200 Realidad!

Posted by: Mas Realidad at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (4W+Po)

201 I'm not sure what took so long for ace to come around.

Some people, if they don't know, you can't tell em'.

Posted by: Spaceman and long time Yogi Berra fan at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (kqyg6)

202 I could buy $50 of materials at Hobby Lobby and make better alien mummies in an afternoon. Sheeesh.
Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (5fDan)

Halloween is coming

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (eoQWY)

203 190 186 Matt Walsh (the conservative commentator, not the comedian) believes in aliens and believes these are real.
Posted by: Day Man - not Night Man at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (8A3Oh)

Tucker too
Posted by: It's me donna at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (bs+z0)
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Were they laughing when they said that?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

204 173 Reddit thread on these Aliens

https://tinyurl.com/ydrxed3y
Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (txtGE)
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Very interesting. How were they able to X-Ray the "bodies"? Presumably whoever had them knew they were fake as fuck, and X-Rays would prove that.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

205 How can something from another planet be carbon dated?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 03:54 PM

Sssshhhhhh!

Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (txtGE)

206 That's the sad part. I mean, if we were going to be serious about it, and have ACTUAL aliens show up, they'd look nothing like the silly Hollowood version we've been fed for decades.

Way to be a cliche, Marvin. Why not carry a raygun.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023

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What if they're asymmetrical, like Niven & Pournelle's Moties? Two arms on the right, one slightly above the other and so set that they never get in each other's way, and one large arm with a "gripping hand" on the left?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (J2vNu)

207 Weren't the Nephelim the reason for the great flood?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (MeG8a)

208 Matt Walsh (the conservative commentator, not the comedian) believes in aliens and believes these are real.
Posted by: Day Man - not Night Man at September 14, 2023 03:58 PM (8A3Oh)

Speaking of, I get a real "fraud" vibe from this guy. Not saying I know he is, I don't pay enough attention to care, but there's something about him that screams "grift" to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (QBaJw)

209 @179: "Now when he raises his voice a bit, it sounds like he is using a bullhorn."

Maybe the DNC has brought back the sound engineers who tanked Howard Dean's campaign.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (k1Qly)

210 I did not know that Lori Lightfoot had a family.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

211 179 He is SHOUTING more frequently. I believe what's happening is he started out speaking softly. So the upped the gain on his mic. Now when he raises his voice a bit, it sounds like he is using a bullhorn.
Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 03:57 PM (5fDan)

And it's not modulated at all. It sounds crazy.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (AOrJZ)

212 Take us to your llantera.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

213 There are no aliens.

There are suckers, grifters, the people in the DoD/CIA that pay the grifters, and stupid reporters.

Remember all those "flying wing doesn't show up on radar" aliens in the 70s and 80s? When the US government was testing...stealth aircraft?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (XqcwY)

214 Are you kidding me??

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That could be a Mannix babe!

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (FlY3K)

215 I wonder if anyone has soaked one of these in water. You know, to see if it's a Chia pet.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023

***
Ch-ch-ch-Alien!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (J2vNu)

216 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (gmo/4)

217 And it's not modulated at all. It sounds crazy.

Well, that's because...

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (I/Qkd)

218 168 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

BIDEN: "I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory..."

Biden was paid $1 million, but he never taught a single class.

https://tinyurl.com/52vtsx6m
Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 03:56 PM (NpAcC)

That in itself is the lesson...

Posted by: AOS Rules Commitee at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (53oGX)

219 I have to get ready for work but I know what the aliens are and are from. Moon Men.

https://youtu.be/U7xJnKXYBs4?si=FYVM7H16gyAwjFDI

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (sAmhv)

220 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

I can't stand that guy. He's just so...fey and twee.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (I/Qkd)

221 Very interesting. How were they able to X-Ray the "bodies"? Presumably whoever had them knew they were fake as fuck, and X-Rays would prove that.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (iFTx/)
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C'mon. That would destroy the fun.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

222 "more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown."

Why would aliens have DNA?

Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (CaJIi)

223 So we finally caught some of those ass burglars.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (AMd6i)

224 206 That's the sad part. I mean, if we were going to be serious about it, and have ACTUAL aliens show up, they'd look nothing like the silly Hollowood version we've been fed for decades.

Way to be a cliche, Marvin. Why not carry a raygun.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023

***
What if they're asymmetrical, like Niven & Pournelle's Moties? Two arms on the right, one slightly above the other and so set that they never get in each other's way, and one large arm with a "gripping hand" on the left?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (J2vNu)
________

"That large one . . . that's not an arm!"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

225 196 I wonder if anyone has soaked one of these in water. You know, to see if it's a Chia pet.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (I/Qkd)

; )

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (AOrJZ)

226 I wonder if anyone has soaked one of these in water. You know, to see if it's a Chia pet.

Pretty sure you shouldn't do that.

Posted by: Mogwai at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (XqcwY)

227 >>I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

The investment in just the energy it would take to visit us from the nearest possible planet that could support identifiable life would kind of preclude the effort.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (t39oN)

228 222 "more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown."

Why would aliens have DNA?
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Cuz Pfizer.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (AMd6i)

229 BIDEN: "I wish I had a chance to take all your questions but I'm gonna get in real trouble if I do that"

https://tinyurl.com/9mu4uref
Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023

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Real Reporter: "Mr. President, you are arguably the most powerful man on Earth. Who could you possibly 'get in trouble' with?"

Biden: "GGGG --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (J2vNu)

230 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (gmo/4)

Some species had to be the first. Why not us?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (aD39U)

231 I did not know that Lori Lightfoot had a family.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

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I assumed that she was the spawn of someone like Michael Obama and a female Bigfoot.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (FlY3K)

232 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life.
______________

WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

233 He was very important to my education. Here was a guy who was willing to put forth the effort to expose the frauds, but it was even more important to me to see there were frauds who would "credibly" pretend their bald lies were truth, and there were idiots who would credulously believe them.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (QBaJw)

There was a physics prof at my Uni who was into that crap, and I knew someone doing his tests with the psychics. He said that every time they improved the system to remove ways to cheat, the results went away until the psychics learned a new way around it.

Randi sent a few young magicians in undercover and fooled him totally. Embarrassed the prof, who was an amiable guy.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (eoQWY)

234 I wonder if anyone has soaked one of these in water. You know, to see if it's a Chia pet.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (I/Qkd)

Are you trying to blow up the Earth/

Posted by: Spaceman and long time Yogi Berra fan at September 14, 2023 04:05 PM (kqyg6)

235 Maybe it's his sadness that makes Joe shout.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 04:05 PM (ePrC6)

236 222 "more than 30% of the specimens' DNA was "unknown."

Why would aliens have DNA?
Posted by: t-bird at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (CaJIi)

I'll take that question.

Posted by: Dr. Francis Crick at September 14, 2023 04:05 PM (PiwSw)

237 Except you can see the steps that led to all that stuff in the years before.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (XqcwY)

I'm sure they have an answer to that, I only vaguely pay attention to be honest. I should study up on it, I just ... haven't.

But they have witnesses saying that various crafts have allegedly been in the possession of the US govt and various military contractors since before world war two.

And the Russians claimed to have craft going back to the 1940's.

Again, I hate to misstate peoples' positions on this and sort of ridicule them when I really don't know enough to have a solid opinion. I'm not a journalist, I can't whip up a PhD in whatever subject I'm writing on in the amount of time it takes for me to snark 140 characters on Twitter!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2023 04:05 PM (mj0Qp)

238 Alien Captain: "Lt. Xabnorb, you've returned quickly. Is that the hu-mon leader?"

Xabnorb: "Not exactly, sir."

Captain: "A representative?" "Mandarin?" "Dog catcher?"

Xabnorb shakes his head after each one, then says "random hu-mon computer technician."

Captain: "Then why did you bring him here?"

Xabnorb: "Well, I demanded that he take me to his leaders. He asked if we were here to conquer the planet, and I kind of panicked and said yes..."

Captain: "I ought to have you flogged..."

Xabnorb: "Then he got all enthusiastic and asked which way to our naval recruiter."

Captain: "Seriously? What kind of hell-world did we walk into?"

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (gJKGU)

239 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

The investment in just the energy it would take to visit us from the nearest possible planet that could support identifiable life would kind of preclude the effort.
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023

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Doesn't mean we're alone. We're just separated from any other species by distances that nobody can bridge yet, or maybe ever.

Which translates in actual practice to being alone, yes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (J2vNu)

240 Why would aliens have DNA?

How else would they look like us just with random ridges on their heads?

Posted by: Star Trek Writers at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (XqcwY)

241 "That large one . . . that's not an arm!"

-- Pete Bootyjuice
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 14, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
____________

Listen to him. He's an expert on these things!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

242 What if they're asymmetrical, like Niven & Pournelle's Moties? Two arms on the right, one slightly above the other and so set that they never get in each other's way, and one large arm with a "gripping hand" on the left?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (J2vNu)

Alien life will either have evolved on its own, independent of our planet's life, or they aren't really aliens, I guess.

No reason to think ANYTHING about an alien being would be the same. Would they have mouths? Eyes? Bones? Skin? Who knows!

Nobody, that's who.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (QBaJw)

243
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
"Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie"

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (aD39U)

244 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

Scary, huh?

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (gmo/4)

245 Those look like something you'd see at a Concrete lawn Ornament Wholesaler. On Closeout. In November

Now they just need a couple metal saucer sleds and they’d have two birdbaths!

Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (j7wK6)

246 BIDEN: "I wish I had a chance to take all your questions but I'm gonna get in real trouble if I do that"

https://tinyurl.com/9mu4uref

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:00 PM (NpAcC)

For the millionth time: WHO punishes him if he actually answers questions?

Posted by: pookysgirl wants to know the puppeteers, not the Master of Puppets at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (dtlDP)

247 >>Biden was paid $1 million, but he never taught a single class.

Guess where the money came from.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (ZLI7S)

248 Ayy lmao

Posted by: Ayy lmao at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (6Xd4f)

249 How come there are no green alien babies?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (ePrC6)

250 There he is, headed straight for Long Island.

https://tinyurl.com/3uyhuks3

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (lCWOD)

251 >>How else would they look like us just with random ridges on their heads?

They are just the right height...
Maybe, the ridges are on their heads to keep your drink from sliding off when you make the jump to Hyper-Speed?

Posted by: Commander Riker at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (t39oN)

252 WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

"So whenever you are feeling very small and insecure,
think how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
cos there's bugger-all down here on Earth!"

- Eric Idle, what wants your liver

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (N3zMI)

253 Proof positive that not only was PT Barnum right but also that there's serious money to be made still in fake antiquities.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (qZdIZ)

254 But they have witnesses saying that various crafts have allegedly been in the possession of the US govt and various military contractors since before world war two.

And the Russians claimed to have craft going back to the 1940's.
______________

Typical Russian one-upmanship.

Well, WE'VE got craft from the 30s. So there!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

255 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox

He played a pretty good Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter.

Posted by: spindrift at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (EGPRf)

256 For me the most compelling argument for us being alone (or at most, extremely rare) are the innumerable & extremely narrow-ranged Goldilocks Conditions necessary for life (at least as we know it.)

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (FlY3K)

257 But they have witnesses saying that various crafts have allegedly been in the possession of the US govt and various military contractors since before world war two.

Some of the witnesses were paid to lie. Others saw advanced but very much terrestrial tech.

I mentioned before how early stealth aircraft tests led to a bunch of reports of aliens and UFOs.

What do you think the DoD/CIA/NSA are working on NOW? And...what do you think the people who see it are being told to believe it is?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (XqcwY)

258 235 Maybe it's his sadness that makes Joe shout.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 04:05 PM (ePrC6)

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It's a father's love. He wouldn't have to yell if he didn't love us so much.

Posted by: Just Lily at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (91Bpy)

259 But just to be safe, the Mexicans are offering up the hearts of their captives. Lovingly, as indigenes do.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (brAQZ)

260 Proof positive that not only was PT Barnum right but also that there's serious money to be made still in fake antiquities.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (qZdIZ)
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There are enough pieces of the True Cross out there to build a stadium.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (YqDXo)

261 Piltdown man.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (4AAHv)

262 It's a hoax. Batboy swore up and down it was something he and the Loch Ness Monster cooked up when they got drunk one night, and I know he wouldn't lie to me.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (OUMaO)

263 The claims are that fiber optics and much of our tech technology were the result of studying alien crafts.

Except you can see the steps that led to all that stuff in the years before.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (XqcwY)

The aliens had craft using every step in the process leading to fiber optics and we found them in the right order.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

264 And the Russians claimed to have craft going back to the 1940's.
______________

Typical Russian one-upmanship.

Da, da! - Ens. Chekhov

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (gmo/4)

265 BREAKING NEWS!!!!

President Biden has gotten involved with this latest example of alien specimens, and is requesting that the bodies be brought to the White House, in order for him-

to shower with them.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (QzZeQ)

266 QED. Oh the pain . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

You're neglecting your astro chores.

Posted by: bloated fumaceous gunt at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (nakGR)

267 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life.
______________

WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)
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We're doomed....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (YIVH2)

268 WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

Finest in the district!

Posted by: Welcome Sir, the Natural Cheese Emporium at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (aD39U)

269 182 How can something from another planet be carbon dated?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023

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Carbon is carbon and I'd guess decays at the same rate everywhere
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Wouldn't you have to know what sun was working on the munchkins? Wouldn't that make a difference?

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (AMd6i)

270 Cardiff giant.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (4AAHv)

271 Proof positive that not only was PT Barnum right but also that there's serious money to be made still in fake antiquities.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen?

Nobody ever went broke pandering to people with money and delusions of grandeur.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (OUMaO)

272
WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)
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We're doomed....

Well yes and no

Posted by: The Bible at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (XqcwY)

273 The one worlders are prepping the population for mandatory anal probes. Not by aliens.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (/7iym)

274 Mostly Harmless.

Posted by: SparkNotes for H2G2 at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (PiwSw)

275 There are enough pieces of the True Cross out there to build a stadium.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (YqDXo)
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Look, that's just a miracle, man, like the loaves and fishes!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

276 What if they're asymmetrical, like Niven & Pournelle's Moties? Two arms on the right, one slightly above the other and so set that they never get in each other's way, and one large arm with a "gripping hand" on the left?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:01 PM (J2vNu)

But they'll all have girthy 12-inch dicks. Their battle plan is to seduce all the womens.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (BdMk6)

277 Typical Russian one-upmanship.

Well, WE'VE got craft from the 30s. So there!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

Our craft are steam powered.

Posted by: Peruvia at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (aD39U)

278 216 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:02 PM (gmo/4)

Not one of the millions of intelligent species that have developed in our Galaxy ever got to the interstellar travel stage, because they all quickly boiled themselves to death after getting to the industrial stage by releasing too much CO2 from burning hydrocarbons.

(I hope a Leftist lurking here posts this on DU as gospel truth)

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (5fDan)

279 For the millionth time: WHO punishes him if he actually answers questions?
Posted by: pookysgirl wants to know the puppeteers, not the Master of Puppets at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (dtlDP)

His wife, of course. She's the handler.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

280 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

Scary, huh?
Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (gmo/4)
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Yeah, and depressing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (YqDXo)

281 247 >>Biden was paid $1 million, but he never taught a single class.

Guess where the money came from.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (ZLI7S)

Chy-na.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (AOrJZ)

282 Doesn't mean we're alone. We're just separated from any other species by distances that nobody can bridge yet, or maybe ever.

Which translates in actual practice to being alone, yes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (J2vNu)

One can speculate, there very well COULD be beings that are so advanced, they travel in ways we can't imagine, and visit wherever they want, including Earth, without revealing themselves.

I think of it like animals who see strange beings with cameras, following them around the wilderness. Do they know what we're doing? Of course not. So when they see us, their brains interpret what they see at the basic level: Food or threat or part of the landscrape.

So if there are visitors from outside space visiting, even if we see them, we don't have a way to register what they are, or what they're doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (QBaJw)

283 Why wouldn't a Space Alien have DNA?

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (fwDg9)

284 239 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

The investment in just the energy it would take to visit us from the nearest possible planet that could support identifiable life would kind of preclude the effort.
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023

***
Doesn't mean we're alone. We're just separated from any other species by distances that nobody can bridge yet, or maybe ever.

Which translates in actual practice to being alone, yes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (J2vNu)

Alternate theory being battered about is they have always been here... on Earth.
Just not with humans. and so advanced we don't see them (either interdimensional or hiding say in the oceans)

Posted by: AOS Rules Commitee at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (53oGX)

285 The one worlders are prepping the population for mandatory anal probes. Not by aliens.

I can't wait for the friendly phone app to identify if you and kids have been probed yet this month by your local Dem elected official or not.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (XqcwY)

286 Alien life will either have evolved on its own, independent of our planet's life, or they aren't really aliens, I guess.

No reason to think ANYTHING about an alien being would be the same. Would they have mouths? Eyes? Bones? Skin? Who knows!

Nobody, that's who.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (QBaJw)

It depends on what kind of environment they evolve in. If their environment is similar to Earth, having a similar form is possible - the same environmental stresses tend to yield similar evolutionary paths. Convergent evolution is a thing. You can see real-world examples of that in Spain and the American West, where plants look similar despite having little to no relation.

That said, even though the result might look fairly human, its internal biology and genetics would be completely different.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (gJKGU)

287 Sure whatever deniers.

Posted by: Spaceman reading "How To Serve Man". at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (kqyg6)

288 And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (OUMaO)

289 Alien contortionist, is she a 1?

Posted by: Asking for a friend at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (TLTV9)

290 268 WE are the intelligent life in the galaxy? Good God.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

Finest in the district!
Posted by: Welcome Sir, the Natural Cheese Emporium at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (aD39U)

Was actually inspired to read Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole from Cleese's reference to it in that sketch. It turned out to be pretty entertaining trash.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (N3zMI)

291 And as my man Morgoth's Review says: nobody cares about aliens anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (xcxpd)

292 There's a comic short story by Randall Garrett in which a human is captured by a race of conquering aliens and hooked up to a super-lie-detector device. He has to tell the truth.

Which he does. The whole exact truth and nothing but.

He ends up owning the aliens and maneuvers them into surrendering to him. An absolute delight of a story.

If such a race showed up here and hooked up any of our politicians, and their victim had to tell the truth? He'd explode -- and we'd be slaves for eternity!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (J2vNu)

293
Alternate theory being battered about is they have always been here... on Earth.
Just not with humans. and so advanced we don't see them (either interdimensional or hiding say in the oceans)

Oh there are "interdimensional" intelligent beings out there as well...just from a rather hot other dimension...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (XqcwY)

294 Does Joe look more like an alien or banjo banjo boy?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 14, 2023 04:12 PM (ePrC6)

295 BIDEN: "I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory..."

His signature class was PoliSci 452, "How to Play the Race Card."

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (5fDan)

296 And the Russians claimed to have craft going back to the 1940's.

With fat fenders and wide whitewalls?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (4AAHv)

297 For the millionth time: WHO punishes him if he actually answers questions?
Posted by: pookysgirl wants to know the puppeteers, not the Master of Puppets at September 14, 2023 04:07 PM (dtlDP)

His wife, of course. She's the handler.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (eoQWY)
******
I thought it was the Easter bunny.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (NpAcC)

298 Typical Russian one-upmanship.

Well, WE'VE got craft from the 30s. So there!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

Our craft are steam powered.
Posted by: Peruvia at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (aD39U)
________________

Well, ours have USB-3.0 ports on them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

299 Alternate theory being battered about is they have always been here... on Earth.

Perhaps WE are the aliens.. Does anyone doubt that we would have exterminated the diminutive fish faced race that we found here?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (aD39U)

300 they have 70% identifiable DNA. DNA, as in exactly like terrestrial beings... What are the chances that life can only happen with our specific DNA?

Posted by: astonerii at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (VcZlJ)

301 So Fox Scully and Dana Mulder were right!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Stochastic Disinformation Laundry Manager at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (PiwSw)

302 Because you Peon Idiots are so likely to believe anything -- don't worry, the heroic, White Savior media is here to explain that these are probably not aliens, just some poorly made plaster hoax-things.

Really?
Whew!!!

*Stops packing truck with bug out gear*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (uSHSS)

303 The claims are that fiber optics and much of our tech technology were the result of studying alien crafts.

Except you can see the steps that led to all that stuff in the years before.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 03:59 PM (XqcwY)

Plus, as someone (maybe Michael Crichton) pointed out, you could have given the finest, most brilliant watchmakers of the 1700s a digital watch and they'd have been unable to figure out how it works, let alone replicate it. You kind of have to assume that any technology from a species advanced enough to gallivant around the stars would be similarly far advanced from our state of knowledge.

Posted by: spindrift at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (EGPRf)

304 So, with three fingers, do the space monkeys use all three to anally probe you? They do seem excessively long.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (AMd6i)

305 What do you think the DoD/CIA/NSA are working on NOW? And...what do you think the people who see it are being told to believe it is?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (XqcwY)

Apparently not anything that might win a war in a known part of the world where they have been paid specifically to defend us against since 1945...and now is running rings around our client state who prefers antiquated Soviet equipment from the 1990s.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (eoQWY)

306 The Aliens obviously lost their muffler in space, tried to land in Mexico but overshot and wound up in Peru. Spare parts came by llama but by then they were already dead.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

307 Just not with humans. and so advanced we don't see them (either interdimensional or hiding say in the oceans)

Posted by: AOS Rules Commitee at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (53oGX)

You mean, right now they could be...IN. THE. HOUSE?!

Posted by: Paulie bag a' donuts at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (kqyg6)

308 Plus, as someone (maybe Michael Crichton) pointed out, you could have given the finest, most brilliant watchmakers of the 1700s a digital watch and they'd have been unable to figure out how it works, let alone replicate it. You kind of have to assume that any technology from a species advanced enough to gallivant around the stars would be similarly far advanced from our state of knowledge.
Posted by: spindrift at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (EGPRf)

Well if all they can do is fly metal space ships in country areas and anal probe people, they may not be all THAT advanced.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (eoQWY)

309 298 Typical Russian one-upmanship.

Well, WE'VE got craft from the 30s. So there!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

Our craft are steam powered.
Posted by: Peruvia at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (aD39U)
________________

Well, ours have USB-3.0 ports on them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

Well, ours have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms!

Posted by: MIT Class of 2026 at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (PiwSw)

310 No opposable thumbs? That's gonna make spaceship repair difficult.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

311 306 The Aliens obviously lost their muffler in space, tried to land in Mexico but overshot and wound up in Peru. Spare parts came by llama but by then they were already dead.
Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

Then the catalytic converter was stolen...

Posted by: Inogame at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (53oGX)

312 Biden sucks, Penn sucks. If he ever taught, he taught there for sure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (RIvkX)

313 Plus, as someone (maybe Michael Crichton) pointed out, you could have given the finest, most brilliant watchmakers of the 1700s a digital watch and they'd have been unable to figure out how it works, let alone replicate it. You kind of have to assume that any technology from a species advanced enough to gallivant around the stars would be similarly far advanced from our state of knowledge.
Posted by: spindrift at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (EGPRf)
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Imagine trying to explain a fax machine to the ancient Romans.

An advanced civilization coming here would probably view us the way we view Andaman Islanders. Especially if they landed in an inner city.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

314 Carbon is carbon and I'd guess decays at the same rate everywhere
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Wouldn't you have to know what sun was working on the munchkins? Wouldn't that make a difference?
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023

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Oh, you mean if their home star were a hotter sun, and their planet received much more radiation? I don't know. Any chemists or physicists here have an idea?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (J2vNu)

315 239 I've watched videos of Professor Brian Cox explain why he believes we are alone, at least in our galaxy, as the only intelligent life. Very convincing stuff. I tend to believe his reasoning.

The investment in just the energy it would take to visit us from the nearest possible planet that could support identifiable life would kind of preclude the effort.
Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2023

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Doesn't mean we're alone. We're just separated from any other species by distances that nobody can bridge yet, or maybe ever.

Which translates in actual practice to being alone, yes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (J2vNu)

Eh. Any argument based on modern day science doesn't persuade me. What's possible has changed radically in just the last 100 years.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (xcxpd)

316 306 The Aliens obviously lost their muffler in space, tried to land in Mexico but overshot and wound up in Peru. Spare parts came by llama but by then they were already dead.
Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)
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On the upside, they did get hydraulic lifters and dingleballs for their windshield.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

317 So...one little crazy conspiracy theory I wonder about some times...

The US government has made contact with aliens and they are setting the direction of our government and society with the "advice" they give.

These aliens aren't from another planet though. They are from another dimension.

And it is a hot one.

And yes this is basically the plot of CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (XqcwY)

318 Prince George's Community College (where Biden's speech was)

https://www.pgcc.edu

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (AOrJZ)

319 they have 70% identifiable DNA. DNA, as in exactly like terrestrial beings... What are the chances that life can only happen with our specific DNA?

Posted by: astonerii

In all seriousness, do you know what the difference is in the DNA of nearly all species on Earth?

2%.

That's it. 2% difference.

Aliens with 70% similarity actually have credibility. It's not the DNA so much as what they're coded to do, which can be very, very different...just from the same planetary biosphere.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (OUMaO)

320 Mexico ehh?
so...fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirrors and chrome curb feelers?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (uSHSS)

321 Our craft are steam powered.

Posted by: Peruvia at September 14, 2023 04:11 PM (aD39U)

Lucky!! I flew in from Beta Bongora and boy, are my arms tired!

Posted by: Spaceman at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (kqyg6)

322 Plus, as someone (maybe Michael Crichton) pointed out, you could have given the finest, most brilliant watchmakers of the 1700s a digital watch and they'd have been unable to figure out how it works, let alone replicate it. You kind of have to assume that any technology from a species advanced enough to gallivant around the stars would be similarly far advanced from our state of knowledge.
Posted by: spindrift at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (EGPRf)
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Yup. A modern-day iPhone is a tool of black sorcery to someone in the 1700s. It's not their fault--they just don't have the knowledge that has been accumulated over 300 years to help them out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (YIVH2)

323 Salma's huge cans were way more interesting. Bless the Daily Mail.

Posted by: DOYLE at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (Z8Yh2)

324
An advanced civilization coming here would probably view us the way we view Andaman Islanders. Especially if they landed in an inner city.

Attack the Block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_the_Block

Note, not a very good movie

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (XqcwY)

325 301 So Fox Scully and Dana Mulder were right!!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Stochastic Disinformation Laundry Manager at September 14, 2023 04:14 PM (PiwSw)

That the FBI is crooked? Yeah, we....figured that out too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

326 It's a hoax. Batboy swore up and down it was something he and the Loch Ness Monster cooked up when they got drunk one night, and I know he wouldn't lie to me.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (OUMaO)

It's sad, really. Whenever Bigfoot and the Tooth Fairy leave them alone, they always get up to something.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (+K0IN)

327 Secret Service duty looks like a heck of a job

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (AOrJZ)

328 Oh, you mean if their home star were a hotter sun, and their planet received much more radiation? I don't know. Any chemists or physicists here have an idea?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:16 PM (J2vNu)
________________

It's cosmic rays that produce C-14 from N-14. Whether cosmic ray production depends on the heat of the sun I have no idea.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

329 I mentioned before how early stealth aircraft tests led to a bunch of reports of aliens and UFOs.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:08 PM (XqcwY)

Yup, and we couldn't count on our press to keep quiet (1A being what it is) so several niche gov't units were stood up.

Posted by: pookysgirl, married to a guy who knows weird stuff at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (dtlDP)

330 On the upside, they did get hydraulic lifters and dingleballs for their windshield.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

Damn it DJG. Beat me to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (uSHSS)

331 Alien contortionist, is she a 1?
Posted by: Asking for a friend at September 14, 2023

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I heard crackling noises on that video as she/it moved. A real turn-off, man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (J2vNu)

332 Alternate theory being battered about is they have always been here... on Earth.
Just not with humans.

Yeah, yeah. You got us. We're here.

But, see, the thing is that we got little quarter inch dicks about as girthy as pencil lead.

So, us fucking you guys'd be like you trying to fuck a walrus.

So mostly we hang out with hamsters. They're just about perfect.

Posted by: The Aliens at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (QzZeQ)

333 Someone commenting on an article on this from the UK "Telegraph":

"It is extraordinary that Mexican congress allowed itself to turn into a side-show alien hustle."

LOL.

Apparently, these "aliens" have been debunked before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (RSbhh)

334 An advanced civilization coming here would probably view us the way we view Andaman Islanders. Especially if they landed in an inner city.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

...well, flirzt.

Posted by: Bzarnis of Zeta Reticuli, on finding his spacecraft up on cinder blocks on MLK Jr Boulevard at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (OUMaO)

335 317 So...one little crazy conspiracy theory I wonder about some times...

The US government has made contact with aliens and they are setting the direction of our government and society with the "advice" they give.

These aliens aren't from another planet though. They are from another dimension.

And it is a hot one.

And yes this is basically the plot of CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:17 PM (XqcwY)

I've also heard that argument: Aliens are actually demons.

I'm not convinced. I could be convinced but it would take a strong line of persuasion and clear logic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

336 Alternate theory being battered about is they have always been here... on Earth.

Perhaps WE are the aliens.. Does anyone doubt that we would have exterminated the diminutive fish faced race that we found here?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (aD39U)

Not likely, since the chemical workings of all animals of a certain complexity are the same in all Earth life, and us. And there's a pretty fair number of transitional hominid forms around.

James Hogan wrote a series close to that, where a skeleton of a human 50000 years old is found on the Moon and they try and figure out how it all came about

Inherit the Stars

Its good hard SF.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

337 Yup. A modern-day iPhone is a tool of black sorcery to someone in the 1700s. It's not their fault--they just don't have the knowledge that has been accumulated over 300 years to help them out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (YIVH2)
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Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YqDXo)

338 Perhaps WE are the aliens.. Does anyone doubt that we would have exterminated the diminutive fish faced race that we found here?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (aD39U)
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In the Cthulhu Mythos, numerous races have existed here on Earth long before humans evolved.

Some races are natural products of Earth, some were imported from elsewhere by the Great Old Ones as servitors...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YIVH2)

339 327 Secret Service duty looks like a heck of a job
Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (AOrJZ)

Wheels up, rings off!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (xcxpd)

340 That the FBI is crooked? Yeah, we....figured that out too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

That's what I realized only recently, upon rewatching some season 1 episodes. The show really was about the corrupt nature of FBI and the Deep State... with aliens and monsters.

Similarly to Buffy, which was a show about teen angst... with vampires. And monsters.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (+K0IN)

341 Well if all they can do is fly metal space ships in country areas and anal probe people, they may not be all THAT advanced.
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Gay Rednecks from Space?

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (5bH6b)

342 @315: "Which translates in actual practice to being alone, yes."

Kinda fun to think through the practical implications of a universe where faster-than-light travel and communication are truly impossible. Not just slower than light, but substantially so, given realistic energy requirements for propulsion and shielding.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (k1Qly)

343 Apropos of space stuff, I found this vid interesting.

How Kilonovas Made the Earth and Killed Alternate Gravity

https://ytube.io/3jwB

Interesting how catching a Kilonova in the act, so to speak, proved that gravity propagates at the speed of light, something that was expected but never before proven.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (aD39U)

344 So mostly we hang out with hamsters. They're just about perfect.
Posted by: The Aliens at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (QzZeQ)

The word is spelled "Hampsters!!"

Posted by: Hampster Girl at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (PiwSw)

345 Halloween is coming
Posted by: Oldcat

How could you tell?

Posted by: noodle-arm guy outside Spirit Halloween at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (IG4Id)

346 It's cosmic rays that produce C-14 from N-14. Whether cosmic ray production depends on the heat of the sun I have no idea.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023

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If a star radiates in other wavelengths from Sol and emits more cosmic rays, and the star's habitable planet has an atmosphere that lets them get through, that would change things up, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (J2vNu)

347 Biden immediately told Mexico to let them cross the border

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (NtVYv)

348 I'm not convinced. I could be convinced but it would take a strong line of persuasion and clear logic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

How about a coupla hot Mexican Weather Aliens?

Posted by: Spaceman at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (kqyg6)

349 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YqDXo)
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You're not wrong. There's not a single person on planet Earth that could build an iPhone from scratch by themselves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

350 I can’t believe I slept on this thread. Obviously I’m not an intelligent life form.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (0Mn7M)

351 It's a hoax. Batboy swore up and down it was something he and the Loch Ness Monster cooked up when they got drunk one night, and I know he wouldn't lie to me.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at September 14, 2023 04:09 PM (OUMaO)

It's sad, really. Whenever Bigfoot and the Tooth Fairy leave them alone, they always get up to something.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:18 PM (+K0IN)

I won't weigh in until Santa Claus gives his opinion.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (BdMk6)

352 "Hydraulic lifters"? The shame of it all.

Posted by: DOYLE at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (Z8Yh2)

353 The meet-and-greet is over. Biden has been whisked away.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (AOrJZ)

354 The only proof here is tequila. And it's over 80.

Posted by: Roy at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (rqgpJ)

355 Someone commenting on an article on this from the UK "Telegraph":

"It is extraordinary that Mexican congress allowed itself to turn into a side-show alien hustle."

LOL.

Apparently, these "aliens" have been debunked before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 04:19 PM (RSbhh)
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Probably using too much of their main cash crop.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (uSHSS)

356 Buckaroo Banzai has entered the chat.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (lpsR4)

357
Yup, and we couldn't count on our press to keep quiet (1A being what it is) so several niche gov't units were stood up.

Another example of this is Roswell. The government, to this day, seems to consistently lie in a dumb way to encourage people to believe ALIENS

So...why would they do that?

One argument I saw that seemed persuasive...they were having former Axis scientists conducting radiation experiments on stolen corpses.

We were employing those Axis scientists doing secret "stuff". We were studying the effects of radiation on biological material. And it would still be embarrassing to this day for the US govt to admit it...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (XqcwY)

358 👽🇲🇽🌮

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (NpAcC)

359 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023

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Sorcery that they cheerfully line up to pay ridculous amounts of money for!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (J2vNu)

360

Those little guys look like a Biden.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (UCNv1)

361 I always get a chuckle when someone holds up a result of ongoing inbreeding and tells me it's an alien.

But...but...but...it's ...it's got 3 heads!!!
Yup, but you should see his brother. Eyes all over his forehead, and what a hairy bastard he is. Doubled for Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly"...No legs though...had to CGI that shit in and pull him in a little red wagon.

Posted by: Orson at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (dIske)

362 In the Cthulhu Mythos, numerous races have existed here on Earth long before humans evolved.

Some races are natural products of Earth, some were imported from elsewhere by the Great Old Ones as servitors...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YIVH2)

Some "theories" speculate that civilization has formed and reformed multiple times over the course of Earth's existence, only to have some extinction event destroy it all, with the Earth swallowing up whatever evidence there would have been.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (+K0IN)

363 I've also heard that argument: Aliens are actually demons.

I'm not convinced. I could be convinced but it would take a strong line of persuasion and clear logic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

Keith Laumer wrote a funny book "The Monitors" about a secret alien invasion who were running things everywhere. The hero exposes them and defeats them, but then since they are nice and better organizers he hires them to run things for us on a contract basis.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

364 348 I'm not convinced. I could be convinced but it would take a strong line of persuasion and clear logic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

How about a coupla hot Mexican Weather Aliens?
Posted by: Spaceman at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (kqyg6)

Go on...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

365 356 Buckaroo Banzai has entered the chat.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (lpsR4)

That's a great movie.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Stochastic Disinformation Laundry Manager at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (PiwSw)

366 @340: "... show about teen angst... with vampires. And monsters."

And actors who weren't teenagers.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (k1Qly)

367 Here's what we do:

1) Get a bicycle with a basket.
2) Have the alien enthusiast put one of those mummy-dummies in the basket.
3) Enthusiast pedals at top speed toward the edge of a cliff.
4) If the bicycle floats, basket turnip is an alien.
5) If the bicycle crashes to the bottom of the cliff, the enthusiast just didn't believe enough.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (uFrU+)

368 Sorcery that they cheerfully line up to pay ridculous amounts of money for!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (J2vNu)

Which reminds me, sign up to get your iphone 15, while supplies last.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (+K0IN)

369 Covid didn't start in a lab in Wuhan.
The coke wasn't Hunter's
The tranny Ukraine spokes-thing is a truth-telling lady.
The world will end if you don't abandon your car and oil products.
Aliens are made from papier-maché.

These are irrefutable truths in 2023.

Posted by: red speck at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (0Id0S)

370 Ok, I gotta go finish painting the spaceship. And coffee.

Posted by: Spaceman at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (kqyg6)

371 Not just slower than light, but substantially so, given realistic energy requirements for propulsion and shielding.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

I still think we'll figure out the Alcubierre warp drive one day.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (IG4Id)

372 Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (AOrJZ)

So did Biden shout out exactly why our economy is so great?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (RSbhh)

373 Similarly to Buffy, which was a show about teen angst... with vampires. And monsters.

And hot chicks kicking things in minskirts

Posted by: Joss Whedon at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (XqcwY)

374 349 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YqDXo)
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You're not wrong. There's not a single person on planet Earth that could build an iPhone from scratch by themselves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

Nor a pencil.
(I, Pencil)

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (AOrJZ)

375 @349: "... could build an iPhone from scratch by themselves."

Mass producing pencils from scratch ain't easy either.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (k1Qly)

376 Piñatas!!!!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (Q4IgG)

377 And how do these aliens get into heaven?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (NpAcC)

378 >>"It is extraordinary that Mexican congress allowed itself to turn into a side-show alien hustle."

Yes, because when I think of the Mexican Congress the first thing that comes to mind is dignified.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (ZLI7S)

379 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels

Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO8)

380 I still remember the day it was announced Sundowner was getting a no work kick back job from Penn.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (fwDg9)

381 So, my pessimism about elections in WI seems to be slightly unfounded.

Republicans are apparently going hard at the people who made the changes to election rules in 2020.

I'm not that hopeful because, you know, Republicans, but who knows?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

382 Maussan has worked as a journalist for more than 50 years.
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And you KNOW how journalists lie!

Posted by: The Associated Press at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (krQz2)

383 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO

Why not. Use em or lose em

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (pVWRI)

384 338 Perhaps WE are the aliens.. Does anyone doubt that we would have exterminated the diminutive fish faced race that we found here?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:13 PM (aD39U)
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In the Cthulhu Mythos, numerous races have existed here on Earth long before humans evolved.

Some races are natural products of Earth, some were imported from elsewhere by the Great Old Ones as servitors...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YIVH2)

Once read a short story about an expedition into deepest darkest Africa that found a flying saucer that had crashed. Several bodies of humans in spacesuits were found close to the wreckage. Surrounding the spacecraft and the human bodies were hundreds of bodies of chimpanzee-like animals with spears and bows and arrows.

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (5fDan)

385 Some "theories" speculate that civilization has formed and reformed multiple times over the course of Earth's existence, only to have some extinction event destroy it all, with the Earth swallowing up whatever evidence there would have been.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:24 PM (+K0IN)

Alfred Bester's story "Adam and No Eve" has a new space drive fail disastrously and the catalytic fuel destroys the entire surface to ash on the planet. The pilot lands and instinctively heads to the ocean and dies in the surf, and his body and the life in it will repopulate the planet. The twist is that this isn't earth in our time, but an earlier one.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

386 379 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO

=======

Almost makes up for Nickelback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

387 probably already asked, but

did the Mexicans really think the world would buy this story?

Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO8)

388 @381: "I'm not that hopeful because, you know, Republicans ..."

Also, because, umm, Wisconsin.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (k1Qly)

389 374 349 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (YqDXo)
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You're not wrong. There's not a single person on planet Earth that could build an iPhone from scratch by themselves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 14, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

Nor a pencil.
(I, Pencil)
Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (AOrJZ)

375 @349: "... could build an iPhone from scratch by themselves."

Mass producing pencils from scratch ain't easy either.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (k1Qly)

Horde!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (AOrJZ)

390 And how do these aliens get into heaven?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 14, 2023 04:26 PM (NpAcC)

In my Father's house there are many mansions....

Posted by: Archer at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

391 388 @381: "I'm not that hopeful because, you know, Republicans ..."

Also, because, umm, Wisconsin.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (k1Qly)

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Wisconsin + Republicans.

Scott Walker really soured my opinion there, and I'm sure Wisconsin Republicans weren't great before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

392 Well if all they can do is fly metal space ships in country areas and anal probe people, they may not be all THAT advanced.
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Gay Rednecks from Space?
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:21 PM (5bH6b)
.......

Must be. They also like to gut cows for a quick BBQ. But they only eat the weird parts.

Posted by: wth at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

393 So, my pessimism about elections in WI seems to be slightly unfounded.

Republicans are apparently going hard at the people who made the changes to election rules in 2020.

I'm not that hopeful because, you know, Republicans, but who knows?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

If they are not found choked on wedges of Wisconsin Cheddar there is little hope.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (eoQWY)

394 Alfred Bester's story "Adam and No Eve" has a new space drive fail disastrously and the catalytic fuel destroys the entire surface to ash on the planet. The pilot lands and instinctively heads to the ocean and dies in the surf, and his body and the life in it will repopulate the planet. The twist is that this isn't earth in our time, but an earlier one.

I remember that one...gave me goose bumps.

I also remember thinking...of course the government wouldn't let someone take off in a craft that might destroy all life on earth.

Hey...I was young and naive.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (XqcwY)

395 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside

Yeah, right, start a war with Mars!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (FVME7)

396 Those look like something you'd see at a Concrete lawn Ornament Wholesaler. On Closeout. In November

Now they just need a couple metal saucer sleds and they’d have two birdbaths!

Posted by: db (lowercase since 200

at September 14, 2023 04:06 PM (j7wK6)

Take my money!

Posted by: DaisyB at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (AbL8c)

397 @389: "Horde!"

*rubs his temples knowingly*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (k1Qly)

398 I like the CJCherryh universes, where FTL propulsion is easily done, but not easily intuited. So, there are a lot of races running around the galaxy that shouldn't be, since they never developed FTL or really advanced civilizations but rather got the FTL info from traveling alien merchants in exchange for fish or bear skins or ore.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (aD39U)

399 In Search Of could have gotten to the bottom of this. But the Lord took Leonard Nimoy from us too soon. So we may never know.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (ppBhU)

400 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023

***
Sorcery that they cheerfully line up to pay ridculous amounts of money for!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:23 PM (J2vNu)
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Yep. Think about it: in the AT&T era,people used to squawk about their phone bills, which were probably $20 a month. Now they're happy paying $1500 just for a phone and $100-200 per month to use it.

Go figure.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

401 did the Mexicans really think the world would buy this story?

Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO

Hello?

Posted by: Dr. FAUCI at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (kqyg6)

402 probably already asked, but

did the Mexicans really think the world would buy this story?
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO

Somebody did or we wouldn't have heard it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

403 I saw Useless Puffed-up Midwit Cunts open for L7 at Lilith Fair '98.

Posted by: It ought to be a band name if it isn't already at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (dhxes)

404 And actors who weren't teenagers.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (k1Qly)

SMG was a 19 y/o, playing 16 when the show started. I believe Charisma Carpenter was 26 at the time.

I thought she was great. Only other things I've seen her do was a small part in the Expendables films, and a guest spot on one ep of Burn Notice.

Word is, she was pregnant during one season, and Joss Whedon was a total prick toward her.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (9b7L5)

405 In Search Of could have gotten to the bottom of this. But the Lord took Leonard Nimoy from us too soon. So we may never know.

What a polymath

Famed Actor
Explorer of the Occult and Psychic
And photographer of obese women (not kidding)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (XqcwY)

406 Are they illegal aliens though?
Posted by: NC Kate at September 14, 2023 03:36 PM (an6os)
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Possibly. I think the chant is "No human being is illegal!"

It clearly doesn't apply here.

Posted by: Axeman at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (krQz2)

407 378 >>"It is extraordinary that Mexican congress allowed itself to turn into a side-show alien hustle."

Yes, because when I think of the Mexican Congress the first thing that comes to mind is dignified.
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Their congress works for the Cartels. Ours works for the CIA. Mexican Congress has sense of humor.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (Jb8+d)

408 404 And actors who weren't teenagers.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 14, 2023 04:25 PM (k1Qly)

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Ah, someone who's seen a Friday the 13th movie...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

409 There are no ET aliens.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (XMwZJ)

410 I've seen better hillbilly chainsaw carvings.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (GXBIW)

411 Aztecs thought the conquistadors were gods

until they killed one

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (lCWOD)

412 Yeah, right, start a war with Mars!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (FVME7)

i laughed.

Posted by: Paulie bag a' donuts at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (kqyg6)

413 Yep. Think about it: in the AT&T era,people used to squawk about their phone bills, which were probably $20 a month. Now they're happy paying $1500 just for a phone and $100-200 per month to use it.

Go figure.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

These were different dollars, and the dereg dropped prices massively as people bought plans they wanted not what Ma Bell said. The tech was stagnant too.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:32 PM (eoQWY)

414 >>DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
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He must really hate those two Aliens!

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (bNf8H)

415 411 Aztecs thought the conquistadors were gods

until they killed one
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (lCWOD)

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I always figured that Daniel in The Man Who Would Be King would have gotten away with marrying Roxane if he had done some kind of public ceremony of cleansing that made him "turn off his godlike killing lovemaking powers".

Essentially just a public shower.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

416 Let's face it: an iPhone is viewed as black sorcery by 99% of the population now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023
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It isn't?

What'd Cook sacrifice all those infants for, then?

Posted by: Axeman at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (krQz2)

417 I see no issue putting Hellfire armed drones into Mexico

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (fwDg9)

418 I like the CJCherryh universes, where FTL propulsion is easily done, but not easily intuited. So, there are a lot of races running around the galaxy that shouldn't be, since they never developed FTL or really advanced civilizations but rather got the FTL info from traveling alien merchants in exchange for fish or bear skins or ore.

That seems a little off.

Grignak the Rustic: Me have bearskin What you have, Traveller?

Traveller: *deep sigh* Nothing really. I spent all my quintards at that Indian Casino on the reservation planet. I mean, I guess I do have this spare FTL propulsion drive. Any interest?

Grignak the Rustic: Yes. Now I Traveller too. Space bears shall know fear. The fear of Grignak the Traveller.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (ppBhU)

419 I knew it was bullshit when I looked at the ilium (the big flat hip bone) I looks just like a human one.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM (JNTt1)

420 What a polymath

Famed Actor
Explorer of the Occult and Psychic
And photographer of obese women (not kidding)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (XqcwY)

Photos of obese women >>>>> "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 14, 2023 04:34 PM (N3zMI)

421 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO

Check's in the mail, my boy.

Posted by: Raytheon at September 14, 2023 04:34 PM (9b7L5)

422 387 probably already asked, but

did the Mexicans really think the world would buy this story?
Posted by: DB - running loose in the countryside at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO

Click bait!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (AOrJZ)

423 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels

I READ THE BOOK!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (aD39U)

424 Remember long distance?
Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

425 believe Charisma Carpenter was 26 at the time.""

Smoking Hot

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (NtVYv)

426 What a polymath

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (XqcwY)
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I was told there would be no maths here.

Posted by: Brit Moron at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (krQz2)

427 Time to break out some PT Barnum quotes:

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.

The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.

There's one born every minute.

And finally, "I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (zHuJr)

428 Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

Nights and weekends. I remember only being able to afford to call my girlfriend for 10 minutes on Saturday.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 14, 2023 04:36 PM (aD39U)

429 And photographer of obese women (not kidding)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:31 PM (XqcwY)
________________

"He'll be missed." - Lena Dunham

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2023 04:36 PM (YqDXo)

430 Yep. Think about it: in the AT&T era,people used to squawk about their phone bills, which were probably $20 a month. Now they're happy paying $1500 just for a phone and $100-200 per month to use it.
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Other side of the coin, the phone now replaces television, movies, magazines, newspapers, want ads, for sale ads, hell, even books. And then there is the question what would a 1967 $20 be worth today?

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:36 PM (aGbyj)

431 I looked up radiocarbon dating. Part of what determines how fast the atmospheric nitrogen is changed into carbon-14 is interaction with cosmic rays. And what determines how much energy those have when they get here is the particles from the sun, their energy, and how much of them gets through thanks to our planet's magnetic field.

So if you have a star which pumps out considerably more radiation on its solar wind than does Sol, and a planet with a weaker magnetic field than Earth's, you could have carbon decay quite a bit different from that on Earth. Not to mention a higher rate of mutation among life forms on that planet.

Whole new ball game, man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

432 430 Other side of the coin, the phone now replaces television, movies, magazines, newspapers, want ads, for sale ads, hell, even books. And then there is the question what would a 1967 $20 be worth today?
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:36 PM (aGbyj)

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I could take my pig into the city for $20 back in 1967.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 14, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

433 This can only mean that the Mexican government also has a Hunter Biden story in need of a distraction.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at September 14, 2023 04:37 PM (iOt02)

434 NOOOOOOD.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Stochastic Disinformation Laundry Manager at September 14, 2023 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

435 Disney nood

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:38 PM (AOrJZ)

436 I'd rather be a "self-proclaimed ufologist" than an accredited journalist ... and I used to be a journalist.

Posted by: The_Hoser at September 14, 2023 04:38 PM (N66D6)

437 The natural circadian rhythm of humans is closer to 25 hours than 24 hours. This was determined by a number of studies putting humans, singly, in spacious, comfortable isolation rooms for a couple of months. No clocks, no TV shows or movies, no way to judge time passage. No outside light. The subjects turned lighting on and off as they wished.

Guess how long the days are on Mars.

Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:38 PM (5fDan)

438 Late again… looks like I missed a great thread?? Was it… was it.. great???

Posted by: tubal at September 14, 2023 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

439 423 DeSantis suggests he is open to launch missiles into Mexico to kill drug cartels
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One missile one sicario.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:39 PM (lCWOD)

440 Remember long distance?
Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

I remember it. One needed a damn good job in order to afford long-distance calls.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2023 04:39 PM (BdMk6)

441 I like the CJCherryh universes, where FTL propulsion is easily done, but not easily intuited. So, there are a lot of races running around the galaxy that shouldn't be, since they never developed FTL or really advanced civilizations but rather got the FTL info from traveling alien merchants in exchange for fish or bear skins or ore. . . .

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at September 14, 2023

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It's implied in the Known Space stories that Larry Niven's ferocious, warlike kzinti not only didn't develop their star drive (a slower-than light one) by themselves, they stole it from another race conquered them and took the technology. It didn't have to be trade, it could have been outright theft.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2023 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

442 Naming your kid Charisma? That seems like a lot of pressure ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:41 PM (eUEaT)

443 I could take my pig into the city for $20 back in 1967.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And back then your pig would be safe in the city.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 14, 2023 04:41 PM (aGbyj)

444 I remember that one...gave me goose bumps.

I also remember thinking...of course the government wouldn't let someone take off in a craft that might destroy all life on earth.

Hey...I was young and naive.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2023 04:29 PM (XqcwY)

I think in the story it wasn't a government project, it was just the guy and a small team. The oppo was a mob whipped up by someone who thought it was too dangerous, also private. The story was written in 1941, even SF writers couldn't forsee the admin state we got instead. Heinlein's early stories about moon travel are simiarly private ventures.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)

445 Remember long distance?
Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

I remember it. One needed a damn good job in order to afford long-distance calls.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 14, 2023 04:39 PM (BdMk6)

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My first few months in college almost broke me financially, talking with the girlfriend back home.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:44 PM (eUEaT)

446 The natural circadian rhythm of humans is closer to 25 hours than 24 hours. This was determined by a number of studies putting humans, singly, in spacious, comfortable isolation rooms for a couple of months. No clocks, no TV shows or movies, no way to judge time passage. No outside light. The subjects turned lighting on and off as they wished.

Guess how long the days are on Mars.
Posted by: Blue Sky at September 14, 2023 04:38 PM (5fDan)

H Beam Piper's stories are based on having a Mars civilization dying out and one colony ship making it to earth, but blowing up close to earth and only a lifeboat of people making it, and killing the Neanderthals and taking over.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:44 PM (eoQWY)

447 385 Alfred Bester's story "Adam and No Eve" has a new space drive fail disastrously and the catalytic fuel destroys the entire surface to ash on the planet. The pilot lands and instinctively heads to the ocean and dies in the surf, and his body and the life in it will repopulate the planet. The twist is that this isn't earth in our time, but an earlier one.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

This sounds great.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:45 PM (AOrJZ)

448 There's a Disney nood.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:45 PM (AOrJZ)

449 I see no issue putting Hellfire armed drones into Mexico
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2023 04:33 PM

============

War is always a two way shooting range. What's to stop the Cartels from buying a bunch of Chinese commercial or even Iranian Shahed drones and blowing up parts of the United States?

Or if not drones? A cartel hit team visiting a government official's home at midnight.

Have you seen how bizarrely ruthless those people are? They think nothing of wiping out an entire family, just to teach a lesson.

Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 04:46 PM (EpCmD)

450 Remember long distance?
Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

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Yes, I got a runaround.

Posted by: Axeman at September 14, 2023 04:47 PM (krQz2)

451 My first few months in college almost broke me financially, talking with the girlfriend back home.
Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 14, 2023 04:44 PM (eUEaT)

I remember in college getting a 200 dollar phone bill with a long distance call to Israel that nobody made. Lucky for us the phone company took it off the bill when I called in and denied we made the call. This was in 1980.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

452 Remember long distance?
Call after 9PM it'll be cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 14, 2023 04:35 PM (lCWOD)

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Yes, I got a runaround.
Posted by: Axeman at September 14, 2023 04:47 PM (krQz2)

i still remember the dream there

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

453 War is always a two way shooting range. What's to stop the Cartels from buying a bunch of Chinese commercial or even Iranian Shahed drones and blowing up parts of the United States?

Or if not drones? A cartel hit team visiting a government official's home at midnight.

Have you seen how bizarrely ruthless those people are? They think nothing of wiping out an entire family, just to teach a lesson.
Posted by: rd at September 14, 2023 04:46 PM (EpCmD)

I heard that the Ukes have already sold products we sent them to the Cartels on the black market

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:50 PM (eoQWY)

454 Alfred Bester's story "Adam and No Eve" has a new space drive fail disastrously and the catalytic fuel destroys the entire surface to ash on the planet. The pilot lands and instinctively heads to the ocean and dies in the surf, and his body and the life in it will repopulate the planet. The twist is that this isn't earth in our time, but an earlier one.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

This sounds great.
Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:45 PM (AOrJZ)

Bester relates a time when someone, hearing he was a SF writer, told of a story he read years back that always haunted him.....and it was Adam and No Eve.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:52 PM (eoQWY)

455 454 Alfred Bester's story "Adam and No Eve" has a new space drive fail disastrously and the catalytic fuel destroys the entire surface to ash on the planet. The pilot lands and instinctively heads to the ocean and dies in the surf, and his body and the life in it will repopulate the planet. The twist is that this isn't earth in our time, but an earlier one.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

This sounds great.
Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 04:45 PM (AOrJZ)

Bester relates a time when someone, hearing he was a SF writer, told of a story he read years back that always haunted him.....and it was Adam and No Eve.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 14, 2023 04:52 PM (eoQWY)

Very cool.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2023 05:13 PM (AOrJZ)

456 What? What does "white savior media" mean?

Posted by: Ju at September 14, 2023 05:27 PM (aTmM/)

457 The Martians have been living here on earth for a very long time. We call ourselves Hungarians.

https://tinyurl.com/2a2ry3bj

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at September 14, 2023 05:31 PM (Zvtjl)

458 LOL. Yes, I will persist.

Posted by: The guy that says Yay! A Nephilim thread! at September 14, 2023 05:40 PM (FyQnD)

459 Anyone that doesn't believe in space aliens has never shopped at Walmart.

I suddenly have the urge to sculpt Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Jumbo Mumbo Gumbo at September 14, 2023 07:33 PM (vLvKG)

460 That contortionist will have major joint problems when she gets old.

Posted by: Beverly at September 14, 2023 08:53 PM (Epeb0)

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