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It was extraterrestrial!

When I saw the comment count had already reached all the way up to "3," I was certain this would have been posted already. I would have been completely disappointed otherwise.

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It was extraterrestrial!

When I saw the comment count had already reached all the way up to "3," I was certain this would have been posted already. I would have been completely disappointed otherwise.

Yeah, the rules for Fark UFO threads are pretty well established.

1) Fake tan bird hair giant forehead guy
2) Streetlight

He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.

illegal.tender: 1) Fake tan bird hair giant forehead guy
2) Streetlight

Streetlight has got to be disappointed with its relegation to second-alien-fiddle. I mean, streetlight has been around since well before I hopped on in '07.

Oh, and:
3) Some form of "I want to believe"

Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

Your crazy, unkempt hair is a dead giveaway.

We need to investigate this with all available resources.

I mean, if i wre an alien or something, I would definately abduct people near Spot lights. That way no one would ever believe it was really me probing all those innocent earthlings.

/Didn't that Jackson guy have a spotlight at Neverland???

Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility.

Not completely, no, but study of and/or contact with another sentient species is a Big Farking Deal, as any species advanced enough to get out into space will no doubt understand. The means they use to study or contact us with either be so subtle that we never notice (quantum communication, light cloaking, etc), or so un-subtle that there's no way we couldn't notice (landing the fleet)

I figure that at most, some UFOs might be experimental military aircraft out on test runs. They do, after all, have to test them somewhere. The rest, though, are attributable to natrual phenomena or more mundane manmade artifacts (like the infamous streetlight), with no aliens necessary.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

Your crazy, unkempt hair is a dead giveaway.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

Your crazy, unkempt hair is a dead giveaway.

Or maybe that's just part of their plan and they show themselves to crazy man because they know we won't believe him anyway.

Jake Havechek: He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.

Now I need to see that again.

Millennium: I figure that at most, some UFOs might be experimental military aircraft out on test runs.

A lot of them are.

There's a reason that a majority of UFO sitings are in remote areas: those areas make convenient places to test experimental aircraft with a lower risk of collateral damage should something go wrong.

The only way we'd ever get to see a real alien is if it was retarded or something. The smart ones always know how to get around unseen. Maybe one will have a dumb, clumsy cousin named Blargh or Vinny that tags along and will pose for the camera or takes mirror pics.

KingoftheCheese: The only thing i want out of life is to still be alive when the inevitable first contact with intelligent life from another galaxy is established.

We've only been pumping out any sort of respectable EM signals for about a century. Best case scenario: we get noticed based on the first round of emissions and the near-continuous stream since confirms it. That means only those civilizations that happen to by 100 or fewer light-years away have any chance of noticing us, much less contacting us (which would take up to 100 more years).

I'm glad I didn't go into astrophysics... the scale of everything just makes me sad.

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KingoftheCheese: Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

The only thing i want out of life is to still be alive when the inevitable first contact with intelligent life from another galaxy is established.

I think you are either unclear on the meaning of the word inevitable or the word galaxy. Even if you downgrade it to "possible" instead of "inevitable" and "solar system" instead of "galaxy" it is still a bit optimistic. Just for reference the nearest star is 4.25 Light years away. The nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. Our own galaxy contains something like 200 to 400 billion stars and is 100 thousand light years across.

So some visitor from elsewhere in our galaxy coming to earth might just be possible if intelligent life is extremely common and humans are around for a really long time while actively drawing attention to themselves. A visitor from a distant galaxy is absurd, since the kind of technology necessary for intergalactic travel would put them several levels about what we usually imaging God to be like if we have a lot of imagination.

factoryconnection: KingoftheCheese: The only thing i want out of life is to still be alive when the inevitable first contact with intelligent life from another galaxy is established.

We've only been pumping out any sort of respectable EM signals for about a century. Best case scenario: we get noticed based on the first round of emissions and the near-continuous stream since confirms it. That means only those civilizations that happen to by 100 or fewer light-years away have any chance of noticing us, much less contacting us (which would take up to 100 more years).

I'm glad I didn't go into astrophysics... the scale of everything just makes me sad.

The law of propogation says, at one-fourth the power for each doubling of the distance, that any transmissions from Earth won't be heard past Jupiter. They gotta be in the 'hood to even know we're there...

Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

More likely, we've been attacked in the past, but due to an error in scale, the entire fleet was eaten by a small dog.


/RIP Doug Adams

Mikeyworld: The law of propogation says, at one-fourth the power for each doubling of the distance, that any transmissions from Earth won't be heard past Jupiter. They gotta be in the 'hood to even know we're there...

Like I said: best case. So ronery.

Mikeyworld: The law of propogation says, at one-fourth the power for each doubling of the distan

Uh, hmm. The propagation of radio waves applies only to the effect on radio waves when they are transmitted from one point on earth to another. The principle does not and cannot apply to radio waves traveling through space. Scientists use radio telescopes to monitor and weak radio signal sources (natural, not Xandadarians) from other galaxies.

Hold the sarcasm.
I just talk to Tom and John.

Earth has the best volcanos in the universe for killing aliens and freeing thier souls. Every extraterrestrial overlord knows this. Aliens have been here before, and they will be back as soon as the next rebellion is put down!

Just keep watching the sky above Hawaii. You'll see.

/And convert.

Cythraul: You know, the possibility of intelligent non-Earth beings visiting us isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. One day, someone is going to call the authorities about an alien sighting, and no one is going to take him seriously. That day will be the day that the Xelgoleths from Pheta Centauri 5 invade, and all humanity will be destroyed.

Think about it.

What makes you think wethey haven't already? Destruction doesn't need to be fast, or obvious.

factoryconnection: Mikeyworld: The law of propogation says, at one-fourth the power for each doubling of the distance, that any transmissions from Earth won't be heard past Jupiter. They gotta be in the 'hood to even know we're there...

Like I said: best case. So ronery.

I'm with you on this. Scientists done farked up my alien fantasies with their goddamn math again.

Came for Giorgio A Tsoukalos pics, but leaving extra thrilled with a streetlight reference

I can't wait for extraterrestrials to be discovered by the scientific community so we can cover it up and deny it.