I was amused when Sabine said... "I have no idea what gravitic propulsion is and I'm a theoretical physicist that's been working on gravity for 20 years."

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This level of silliness makes me feel exhausted and maybe a bit sad. I've never been inclined towards conspiracy theories and finding out so many of my fellow humans love them is flat out depressing. I'm left wondering about our mental stability as a so-called intelligent species.

Edited January 25, 20251 yr by HiFlyer

 

9 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

This level of silliness makes me feel exhausted and maybe a bit sad. I've never been inclined towards conspiracy theories and finding out so many of my fellow humans love them is flat out depressing. I'm left wondering about our mental stability as a so-called intelligent species.

The dumbing down of world is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"

Carl Sagan 1995

Noel  (thanks Martin)

 

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

Noel  (thanks Martin)

So does that make Martin the "Typhoid Mary" of UFOitis?

4 minutes ago, Mike A said:

So does that make Martin the "Typhoid Mary" of UFOitis?

This video makes me think of the "Inertialess drive" that apparently got as far as being sent into space to be tested, and then...... 

 

17 hours ago, birdguy said:

Noel  (thanks Martin)

 

Here's all of Carl's words.

 

 

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"

Carl Sagan

 

 

Edited January 26, 20251 yr by martin-w

16 hours ago, Mike A said:

So does that make Martin the "Typhoid Mary" of UFOitis?

 

I sent it to Noel in a PM. 

Hey Carl!  I've felt the same way about most scientists!

Oh, don't worry, Carl. It's not as bad as you imagine.

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