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clubmedia.com · Nov 18, 2002, 04:36 AM

are all our governments working together on this or what?

who do you think is behind this all?

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Nov 18, 2002, 04:40 AM

Originally posted by clubmedia.com:

who do you think is behind this all?

Anal probes

chris_h · Nov 18, 2002, 05:36 AM

i very much doubt there have ever been any real ufos here.

a conspiracy theory i find much more compelling is the whole "small group (i.e. illuminati or whatever) basically controls everything". at least that kinda makes sense, when you think about human attributes (greed, etc)

but, I quite frankly dont care if its true or not. humanity is fucked. if I can make it through life without being stabbed, I will consider myself successful (i hate knives).

yy..eah...

philzilla · Nov 18, 2002, 05:38 AM

just for chris_h...

clubmedia.com · Nov 18, 2002, 05:44 AM

people that don't believe in the possibility of ufo's really can't believe humans exist. in my opinion anyways.

you can't think we are the only planet with life can you? if it happened here, there are billions of similar places it could easily happen.

chris_h · Nov 18, 2002, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by clubmedia.com:
people that don't believe in the possibility of ufo's really can't believe humans exist. in my opinion anyways.

you can't think we are the only planet with life can you? if it happened here, there are billions of similar places it could easily happen.

no, i believe there's probably lots of other life out there... but based on what we know about physics (speed of light and so on) I very much doubt we've ever been visited.

DaKiwi2788 · Nov 18, 2002, 06:06 AM

Originally posted by clubmedia.com:
are all our governments working together on this or what?

who do you think is behind this all?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's funny! All the governments working together? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

elzinat · Nov 18, 2002, 06:20 AM

I categorically deny having ever deleted any posts from a thread about UFO cover-ups in the macnn forums.

Axo1ot1 · Nov 18, 2002, 06:37 AM

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Zimphire · Nov 18, 2002, 08:53 AM

I think UFOs exist, that is Unidentified Flying Objects. Now are they space aliens flying to this planet to observe us? I doubt it. IMHO of course.

dav · Nov 18, 2002, 09:12 AM

i absolutely don't believe any life that didn't originate from this planet has visited this planet.

wataru · Nov 18, 2002, 11:10 AM

Who's behind UFO coverups? How about the crackpots that make them up in the first place.

Jansar · Nov 18, 2002, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by dav:
i absolutely don't believe any life that didn't originate from this planet has visited this planet.

It's fun to pretend though

art_director · Nov 18, 2002, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by clubmedia.com:
are all our governments working together on this or what?

who do you think is behind this all?

you caught me...the coverups have been my doing.

and now a message to the mother ship:

:;:;""..><><?////*&"

{{}}}}}}------+++++=

ringo · Nov 18, 2002, 12:18 PM

Coverup? There isn't even any good documentation to cover up. All the government is doing is giving these crackpots enough rope to hang themselves with in the press. Works every time.

denim · Nov 18, 2002, 12:51 PM

For there to be a cover-up, there has to be an actual UFO. Since I strongly doubt that there's been any "visitors", I don't see room for a cover-up of such "visitors".

chris v · Nov 18, 2002, 12:54 PM

If you-all had been wearing your tin-foil hats like me, you wouldn't have been susceptible to their mind-erase brain scanners, and you'd KNOW the TRUTH!!

It's THEM, and THEY are doing IT to US!!

CV

Korv · Nov 18, 2002, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by clubmedia.com:
are all our governments working together on this or what?

who do you think is behind this all?

Blame Canada!

denim · Nov 18, 2002, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by Korv:
Blame Canada!

It's not a real country, anyway.

art_director · Nov 18, 2002, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by denim:
It's not a real country, anyway.

Besides, they should be punished for giving us Brian Boytono.

zigzag · Nov 18, 2002, 05:41 PM

I blame the UFO's. All they have to do is land in the middle of town, open the hatch, and introduce themselves, but they never do. They always operate in secret. It's frustrating. The bastards.

denim · Nov 18, 2002, 05:48 PM

Originally posted by zigzag:
The bastards.

Did they kill Kenny??

Yoda's Erotic Piggyback · Nov 18, 2002, 05:58 PM

Originally posted by denim:
It's not a real country, anyway.

Ya we don't need planes smashing into buildings to get some attention

PorscheBunny · Nov 18, 2002, 07:09 PM

The people to blame for UFO coverups are those who keep perpetuating the belief that there are UFO coverups.

Any civilization sufficiently advanced to make the trip between star systems would be:

1) able to to keep surveillance without us detecting them or with only one or two mistakes, certainly not the thousands if even 1% of UFO reports are legit.

2) able to make contact with the general populace without the intervention of the local governments if they so desired.

3) more interested in the Oort Cloud, the Kuiper Belt (both cometary, both huge sources of water without the need to fight a planet's gravitation), and the Asteroid belt (raw materials for new colonies) than Earth. Earth may warrant their equivalent of archaeological/sociological/biological research, but certainly not a raw material source.

thunderous_funker · Nov 18, 2002, 07:15 PM

"Ahem. OK, here's what we've got: the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people --under the supervision of the reverse vampires........ We're through the looking glass, here, people.."

</milhouse>

Zimmerman · Nov 18, 2002, 07:29 PM

Another interesting idea is that UFO's are not extraterrestrial life forms, rather us (humans) from the future traveling BACK in time a la Sphere. *eyebrows* *eyebrows* *eyebrows*

fat mac moron · Nov 18, 2002, 07:44 PM

Originally posted by Yoda's Erotic Piggyback:

Ya we don't need planes smashing into buildings to get some attention

Watch it boy, we'll steal the last remaining respectable hockey teams you have. You can keep Calgary though.

L'enfanTerrible · Nov 18, 2002, 07:59 PM

Originally posted by fat mac moron:

Watch it boy, we'll steal the last remaining respectable hockey teams you have. You can keep Calgary though.

That will be the year Calgary brings home the cup. For good. By then Hell will have frozen over, and all the hockey players and managers and most fans can go play hockey down there.

talisker · Nov 18, 2002, 08:13 PM

I love how foolish mush-brained types often rationalise supposed UFO sightings by saying "How can you be so arrogant to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe?". My answer is always "I'm not, but how can you be so arrogant to think that any other intelligent lifeforms would want to come and visit us?"

I'm prepared to believe that there are intelligent beings from Greenland. Yet that doesnt mean they're going to come to my house does it? Or do I need to put some seal in the fridge?

fat mac moron · Nov 18, 2002, 08:18 PM

Originally posted by L'enfanTerrible:

That will be the year Calgary brings home the cup. For good. By then Hell will have frozen over, and all the hockey players and managers and most fans can go play hockey down there.

Calgary? Bring home the cup?

L'enfanTerrible · Nov 18, 2002, 08:27 PM

Originally posted by talisker:
I love how foolish mush-brained types often rationalise supposed UFO sightings by saying "How can you be so arrogant to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe?". My answer is always "I'm not, but how can you be so arrogant to think that any other intelligent lifeforms would want to come and visit us?"

I'm prepared to believe that there are intelligent beings from Greenland. Yet that doesnt mean they're going to come to my house does it? Or do I need to put some seal in the fridge?

Haha. I have a similar viewpoint. I think humanity, a technological civilization, will only have a total existence as a modern society for around 20 thousand years at the very most, Things aren't looking bright, IMO. Now, 20 thousand years is only a flash in the pan of the 14 billion year old (approx) Universe. A Flash in the Pan. What intelligent person would believe that two flashes would evolve during the same small window? Also, what makes an intelligent person think that these two hypothetical societies would ever be close enough to communicate, let alone travel to each other? It is possible, but the probablity is very....very slim.

I think there is life out there in the universe right now, most likely water-bound creatures, and others, and they are probably not a lot stranger than most of the animals on earth. I think the natural state of wildlife is the norm throughout the universe and human "intelligence" is just a curse that stops us from enjoying the gift of life.

zigzag · Nov 18, 2002, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by PorscheBunny:
Any civilization sufficiently advanced to make the trip between star systems would be:

3) more interested in the Oort Cloud, the Kuiper Belt (both cometary, both huge sources of water without the need to fight a planet's gravitation), and the Asteroid belt (raw materials for new colonies) than Earth.

Yeah, but none of those places has The Jerry Springer Show.

The Dude · Nov 18, 2002, 10:36 PM

I shouldn't be saying this but...

Patterson Air Force Base.

You'd be amazed what is kept on ice there.

Cipher13 · Nov 18, 2002, 10:54 PM

Originally posted by PorscheBunny:
The people to blame for UFO coverups are those who keep perpetuating the belief that there are UFO coverups.

Any civilization sufficiently advanced to make the trip between star systems would be:

1) able to to keep surveillance without us detecting them or with only one or two mistakes, certainly not the thousands if even 1% of UFO reports are legit.

2) able to make contact with the general populace without the intervention of the local governments if they so desired.

3) more interested in the Oort Cloud, the Kuiper Belt (both cometary, both huge sources of water without the need to fight a planet's gravitation), and the Asteroid belt (raw materials for new colonies) than Earth. Earth may warrant their equivalent of archaeological/sociological/biological research, but certainly not a raw material source.

What if they're just lonely?

Jansar · Nov 18, 2002, 10:59 PM

Ask Michael Jackson where he came from.

Jansar · Nov 18, 2002, 11:01 PM

Ask Michael Jackson where he came from.

Note that his signature move is also called the "Moonwalk" which suggests that he's also from outer space somewhere.

elzinat · Nov 19, 2002, 01:51 AM

i could swear this thread was longer this afternoon. demonhood? demonhood?.....

Last edited by gorgonzola on 11-18-2002 at 9:50 PM

PorscheBunny · Nov 19, 2002, 02:15 AM

Originally posted by The Dude:
I shouldn't be saying this but...

Patterson Air Force Base.

You'd be amazed what is kept on ice there.

Jimmy Hoffa?

And wow, mods editing each other's posts!