We're literally flying helicopters around Mars.
Right… that’s utterly incredible to me
Again, while anything is possible, I just don’t see that as plausible. We aren’t talking ball lightning here
I don’t know, to be perfectly honest. I’m not discounting aliens to be clear - or some hypothetical species of super squids from the depths of our own oceans or other such flights of imagination.
But… part of me says that leaping to the alien conclusion or “it’s intelligently controlled” may be an oversight.
Hell maybe it is “aliens” but they’re not intelligent they’re actually some sort of critter that just lives in space - like the space whale and periodically they decide to check planets out.
But that’s because an intelligent being is controlling the laser pointer
That intelligent being could be human though too right? What better technology to confuse your enemies than a something that looks like it’s accelerating at wild speeds.
I don’t think we should rule out human trickery either. Maybe we can’t build tick tacs because the stresses would make it fly apart but maybe someone’s invented some cool trick with lasers or something.
Regardless, I don’t disagree with you in principle - like I hope it’s aliens and I think that it may be… but I don’t weight that probability very highly in my mind. It’s probably something less exciting that we don’t understand like a 4D rotating space rock or some cool laser based system that can make it appear like solid structures. Hell even “space whale” sounds more plausible to me than “intelligent alien spaceships or their drones.”
You can’t tell me that tic-tac incident was some sort of weather event.
I mean, probably not I agree, but I think we should keep a really open mind here. Sprites coming out of the top of TStorms was seen as fanciful until just a few years ago. Maybe it’s not a weather event but something natural and equally strange.
But it's not even approaching likely enough to be taken seriously by grown-ups.
I disagree with this. If it is aliens then it’s basically earth shatteringly important that the grownups study this and not kooky crystal dudes or Tom Delonge.
I really appreciate the fact that this subject isn’t taboo anymore in academia.