Comments on: I can’t think of a title stupid enough to do this justice

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:19:36 +0000

I would like to know why people think that ufos and aliens will solve all of our problems? If the goerment for sake of argument has a crashed ufo the millitary would want one thing from it wepons technolgly . And I dont think aliens care one way or another about the inhabits of earth maybe thats why they have not come here .we need to stop looking to aliens to be the savior of mankind and solve our own problems.p.s. concernig my last coment on the moon hoax I am not in the Army nor a hasmat specalist and I have never been to area 51 nor do i beleve the moon landing was a fake I refered to a video game entiled area51 I palyed on my playstation 2 in witch the character you played is the above mentioned I hope people who read that dont think I am a wako I am just a video game addict.

By: morpheus

morpheus — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:22:39 +0000

By: J. Greer

J. Greer — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:14:03 +0000

Maybe we could use this retired politician as a free source to fill hot air balloons.

By: Eric Briggs

Eric Briggs — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:13:40 +0000

I think this new speech from Mr Hellyer is just promoting some new initiative from the Exopolitics people…

http://www.exopoliticstoronto.com/

Watch out, Exopolitics may be to UFOs what Intelligent Design is to Creationism.

By: Jest

Jest — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:34:51 +0000

Bad Astronomer! Bad! You should have posted his name straight away in your post. I had to skim through reams of replies to find out who it was…

I say “bad” because the Bad Astronomer looks down on crackpot reports about “this leading scientist reported” without disclosing an actual name. Otherwise it sounds like heresay.

So he was a Liberal eh? I guessed that before it was revealed.. d’oh!

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:34:40 +0000

ioresult Says:
Oh give him a break. Heâ€™s 83 years old! When Iâ€™ll be that old, I think I also will be saying all sorts of stuff to get some attention!

My first thought too, but 5 minutes of web search and you find the guy’s been going on about this stuff for several decades.

RZ Says:
Whatâ€™s really sad is that the story credits him as a â€œformer Canadian defense ministerâ€ rather than a â€œcurrent crackpotâ€.

He was defense minister almost 40 years ago, and only for about 6 years – not very long by our political standardsâ€¦

That’s one of the important issues as I see it, though this guy did have a few more political stints here and there after the minister position. The real story should have been about all the ‘government is hiding the UFO’ believers in this particular group of oddballs.

That cutepiggy.com video was quite distressing. (I only watched the first 5 minutes.) Can you imagine if your physician husband quit his emergency department head position to become a full time campaigner for governments to reveal their UFO technology files? You wouldn’t know whether to call a psychiatrist or just leave the guy.

Our politicians like most other groups seem to represent the gamut. We have a few anti-vaxers in the US House of Reps, So Africa has the HIV-AIDS denier president. Then of course, we not only have a president who believes in Creation and not evolution, but according to polls, his beliefs reflect the majority belief in the country.

Sigh to the 100th power plus a few more.

By: ABR

ABR — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:25:48 +0000

Thomas Siefert: thanks for the heads up on the Space 1999 DVDs. It looks like some of the UFO series is also available on DVD through A&E Home Video.

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:11:53 +0000

Well, ya got me there. It must be real if it happened in front of the Media!!!!!

I’m sure it’s not fake. I’m sure it really is a guy standing up there in front of an audience at the National Press Club in Washington DC making all those claims. Of course, it could be someone standing in front of a blue screen in some movie studio in Hollywood, and they filled in background footage of the National Press Club, but only a conspiracy nut would beleive something like that….

By: morpheus

morpheus — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:04:04 +0000

just becouse there are retards who see an alien spacefraft ufo in evry light in the sky, there are the better kind

couse there is no greater blindness
then that to see the truth and not wanna see it couse ur small brain refuses to comphrehend it
and to accept that u where rong:)

debunk this all smart asses around here wiill yah pls/?

HIS video is a recording of a NATIONAL PRES CLUB EVENT, TOOK PLACE IN WASHINGTON DC, with most major media present.
Warning this video is not a fake, or a hoax, all witnesses talking on tape can be verified as the event itself.!!!!!!

Over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying
to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret.!!

ONce again this is a must see.
If u didn`t watch this video u seen nothing yet.!!!

http://www.cutepiggy.com/full_disclosure_project.html

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:13:28 +0000

“No no no noâ€¦â€¦ never go for the man, go for the ball.”

Good one. I heartily agree.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:01:08 +0000

Robert Carnegie: “I may need in an argument Iâ€™m having online to work through a list of climate-change-doubting scientists, determining why each has no credibilityâ€¦”

No no no no…… never go for the man, go for the ball.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:24:06 +0000

Well, assuming they’re hiding the Heart of Gold somewhere in a US Air Force Hangar, he’s quite correct. We can solve Global Warming by turning everyone into spandex clothing.

Highly improbable.

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Little Green Men go green,2007-03-03 « Skeptigator — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:22:32 +0000

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By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:28:08 +0000

What we would need is a few really big fusion reactors that could power some giant electrolysis machines to convert the CO2 into graphite and oxygen. I think that is pretty much what they did in Aliens.

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:45:45 +0000

Oh – for another argument – or possibly the same one, I forget – any tips on “science fiction” ways to interrupt climate change? Someone’s proposed a giant sunshade -or- a carefully placed cloud of space dust, or doing something with volcanoes. I recall a serious BBC radio discussion of some such exotic plans but I don’t see it online – it may not be. It won’t be unique. John Byrne’s graphic novel [2112] for instance had two gigantic pyramid-shaped machines built in about 100 years from now, one on Antarctica to make enough ozone for the planet, on in South America I think to suck up carbon dioxide – I guess to make up for the rainforest. Extraordinarily fanciful.

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:33:09 +0000

I may need in an argument I’m having online to work through a list of climate-change-doubting scientists, determining why each has no credibility… one category I’m considering is retirement age. This guy is getting up to Linus Pauling old-and-crazy. Actually, my father lived to his late 80s, but he didn’t have the same incisive intellect as before.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:17:55 +0000

ABR: Space 1999 is already out on DVD!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:53:21 +0000

And speaking of photos…. Now that there are millions of digital cameras built into mobile phones, why don’t we see a lot more pictures of alien craft?

By: b_nichol

b_nichol — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:38:49 +0000

Again, sorry for old Paul. Every once in a while he jumps out of the bushes and yells boo. It’s rare when he makes the mainstream media.

By: Feo Amante

Feo Amante — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:58:22 +0000

Okay, in short order:

1. I think we should use alien technology to build machines that can prove once and for all that aliens exist.

2. I can prove beyond all reasonable doubt that UFOs exist. I have photo of an unidentified flying object. I look at the picture and I can’t identify it. It could be a blurred photo of a baseball, but I can’t be sure and I don’t accept things on faith.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:16:32 +0000

Could it be that people described in this thread:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/sapolsky_on_belief_and_biology.php

are the ones now into UFOs…?

By: MaxwellsDemon

MaxwellsDemon — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:31:42 +0000

I used to plane-spot quite a bit (the house I grew up in is under one of the approach/holding flight patterns for an airport) and I remember one time there was this peculiar silver object that caught my eye. It was something of an ovoid shape, like someone had partly squashed a BB, and was tumbling end-over-end. My guess is that it was a weather balloon that have become separated from its gondola and was being tossed around by winds aloft, but I guess I can understand why someone else might have been confused by the sight. But it’s quite a leap from saying, “Huh, that’s a weird looking thing up there” to expecting Marvin the Martian to hop out of it…

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:36:50 +0000

Great Scot! Sigh^100?

That’s a sighgol, I guess.

Would Sigh^(Sigh^100) be a sighgolplex?

Nice shot from the UFO series, BTW. Best. Flying. Saucers. Ever.

>>> How do you control a population of 300 million, self serving,
>>> occasionally greedy, self deluded people?

With a system designed just for them: the free market.

>>> Hell, Iâ€™m fraking amazed the system works at all,,,

Q.E.D.

By: Drbuzz0

Drbuzz0 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:23:39 +0000

I would say this: generally speaking, having a lot of people within a society, especially those in high positions of authority believe in things which are false or unproven tends to impede the progress of the human race to move forward.

One of the common arguments is that “we need to keep an open mind” or even that “science cannot disprove something.” Well, be a purist if you want to, but there are many things which have been studied thoroughly and which fall apart when one considers the evidence and the claims. In this case, it can be said that it is effectively disproven.

That’s not to say that there aren’t UFO’s. In the sense of “Unidentified Flying Objects.” I have no doubt that many of the sitings of UFO’s are indeed flying objects which the observer cannot identify. They may be meteors, satellites, distant aircraft, military projects or drones, atmospheric phenomina.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:09:57 +0000

The highest theoretical thrust one could get from a matter/energy propulsion device would require one to expell only light. With the intensity required to propel a massive object into space, such a pure light engine would likely vaporize the ground beneath it for several miles around the launch point. Not a really good idea, from a PR standpoint,,,

,,,and yes, TANSTAFFL is still the rule in this universe.

Look at all the PR problems we got just from the research on nuclear rockets in the sixties(Phoenix, Orion, etc).
Nuclear power is still the best option for going to Mars, but how much flak will we likely receive just getting a nuc. power plant into orbit, where it can safely be used?
I still think keeping the energy source for the launcher on the ground, as in magnetic launchers, is the most efficient way to get to space, barring the development of a space elevator.

Gary 7