[HN Gopher] I still think it's unlikely we're observing alien ai...
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       I still think it's unlikely we're observing alien aircraft
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-06-15 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 34132sfdfa wrote:
       | It's obviously unattainable for most of the population to accept
       | the are seeing something they can't explain (even if "the
       | government" knows what these things are), nor they get to
       | understand the further consequences of the several rational
       | hypothesis available.
       | 
       | Even being rational, these hypothesis and what happens next if
       | one of them is true, surpass everything recognizable for the
       | daily standard human experience anywhere in the planet, hence
       | these things can't exist.
       | 
       | That's it.
        
       | ftxbro wrote:
       | usually i love hype but this alien hype is so dumb
        
       | strathmeyer wrote:
       | They'll call first.
        
       | blueprint wrote:
       | > If alien aircraft were on Earth, they would need to be
       | carefully calibrated to give us grainy distant glimpses (in every
       | possible way) but never more. If alien aircraft are here, they're
       | screwing with us.
       | 
       | Or maybe they're way faster than we are and possibly much smarter
       | and therefore can, as liberally documented, evade us with ease.
        
       | paulpauper wrote:
       | this is why I tune out the media. they hype unsubstantiated stuff
       | like this all the time. whether it's errant balloons or grainy
       | videos of alleged aliens, it's always something that momentarily
       | captivates the public.
        
       | exabrial wrote:
       | I mean just take for a second, the great lengths the us
       | government went to recover a single f35 that botched a carrier
       | landing. Now imagine your species developed FTL travel. Jack
       | Black ironically nailed it: we don't have the technology.
        
         | mikewarot wrote:
         | A single F-35 that represented the pinnacle of US technology,
         | in waters just off the coast of one of our strongest
         | competitors.... of course they're going to pull out all the
         | stops to get it back.
         | 
         | If it was an older helicopter or transport plane with nothing
         | classified on it, I highly doubt such efforts would be made,
         | other that recovering the crew and getting them to medical
         | assistance.
         | 
         | Just imagine kids with their parents old car out on a drive....
         | I imagine that's the kind of traffic we'd get in this corner of
         | the cosmos. Not the latest in tech.
        
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