Comments on: Aliens saved Tunguska!

By: Patimus

Patimus — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:36:50 +0000

Vlarek told me he wasn’t gonna allow the thing to hit earth. If Vlarek says it, it must be true. I’ll take Vlarek’s word, science has nothing on aliens.

By: Greg in Austin

Greg in Austin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:57:38 +0000

Damon said,

“I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?”

There is photo evidence of the after effects and physical evidence to this day that an explosion did occur. And there have been many calculations and simulations made that would explain how an asteroid entering our atmosphere (an event that has been repeatedly recorded and measured) could cause such an explosion.

If you don’t think it was a meteor, then please provide the evidence you have that would explain it.

Oh, and since Phil’s post was filed under “humor,” please feel free to get a sense of one.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:19:02 +0000

I for one welcome our self-terminating alien overlords!

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:07:16 +0000

I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?

No?

I rest my case. Feel free to drop the smarmy attitude.

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:05:13 +0000

Now that you mention it, the piece in the Reader’s Digest was a condensation of “The Fire Came By”.

By: Jon Lester

Jon Lester — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:55:28 +0000

John Paradox @67: I had that book, too, in the course of the many years I spent familiarizing myself with all the major UFO literature and reporting. The spacecraft hypothesis always seemed much less plausible than a simple comet impact, and the book didn’t even propose a very good scenario for how any possible star drive would yield a thermonuclear explosion in the event of a crash. That ship never would have gotten past OSHA!

As for this new deliberate collision idea: if the visitors commanded the energies needed to get all the way here, couldn’t they accelerate something besides their own craft at the object?

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:43:25 +0000

@JB of Brisbane:

I recall reading (in my callous youth) a book, I believe it was THE FIRE CAME BY, about the same claims. It was one of the many things that drove me to skepticism.

J/P=?

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:52:59 +0000

I remember reading a piece in an old Reader’s Digest (now THERE’S a reputable source) claiming that the object was in fact an alien spaceship crashing down to Earth. The explosion was supposed to have been from the ship’s propulsion system, on the basis of “it was too big (at a yield of about 30 megatons) to have been anything but nuclear”, I think. Also, from patterns of destruction on the ground from the shock wave, it was determined that the object changed course just before the final explosion, and, as we all knew then, “Meteors don’t change course”.
My take from this was, if it was an alien spaceship, it is the only one documented ever to have obeyed the laws of physics.

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Charlie98 wrote (in part): “What’s with the irrational fear of Fox News?”

More like rational distaste.

Charlie98 wrote (in part): Just because they don’t bow to the big O?

No, because they don’t bow to the facts. What they present often contains misinformation. Like that “Alien Autopsy” piece they ran a few years back.

By: charlie98

charlie98 — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:01:26 +0000

“The bizarre paranoid racist hysteria (black men with clubs? really? I think you forgot to mention how they steal our precious white women) that considers white hetero fundie males not being allowed to oppress others as white hetero fundie males being oppressed, that is unable to argue a political point with reason or facts and so refers to deranged dystopias dreamed up by some kind of white supremacist group instead, that would make General Jack D. Ripper and his fears about the tainting of our precious bodily fluids’ essence with fluoride in the water supply look positively reasonable.”

I ran this through the Camino translate function but all I get is gibberish.

By: Daffy

Daffy — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:41 +0000

Jack,

How interesting that you were the first to bring up Nazis, therefore invoking Godwin’s Law yourself, while making a joke about Godwin’s Law. It’s a perfect circle! One so rarely sees those in nature. I may write a paper.

That said, Fox News is still a horrifying joke as a news source.

By: Mena

Mena — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:30:54 +0000

Why, because the Nazis were like The Onion? Fox News is. Hi-frickin-larious, except that people take it seriously. Ok, that’s kind of funny too. Yet they are the first to say that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are comedy and that it is somehow bad to get our news from them too. Like being intentionally funny is somehow worse that being unintentionally funny. The brain just can’t fathom the mental gymnastics involved in Fox watching and being a Conservative these days…

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:39:00 +0000

Whoa! After the past few posts I’m going to call a modified Godwin’s Law on this thread (modified to replace “Nazi” with “Fox News”).

The “Big O?” What have you guys got against Oprah?

- Jack

By: Daffy

Daffy — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:21:25 +0000

Mena,

I know! These are the same people who, when Bush was president, would call you a “traitor” or worse if you said ANYTHING against his policies. I can only assume they think the rest of us have forgotten; I, for one, have not.

Did you notice, btw, that hack/liar Rush Limbaugh was calling the current economic situation the “Obama recession” a month before he even took office? I don’t know if these people are terminally stupid, or if they just assume the rest of us are.

By: Mena

Mena — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:47:31 +0000

Daffy, don’t forget that they also come across as being extremely dumb and they are catering to the dumber who also seem to be very angry for some reason. Don’t you just love the way that people like charlie98 seem to be confusing how we react to a president of our own party with how they treated Bush? Apparently it is now patriotic to criticize a president in a time of war. How convenient.

By: zar

zar — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:09:44 +0000

charlie98, you just summed up everything wrong with Fox News. The bizarre paranoid racist hysteria (black men with clubs? really? I think you forgot to mention how they steal our precious white women) that considers white hetero fundie males not being allowed to oppress others as white hetero fundie males being oppressed, that is unable to argue a political point with reason or facts and so refers to deranged dystopias dreamed up by some kind of white supremacist group instead, that would make General Jack D. Ripper and his fears about the tainting of our precious bodily fluids’ essence with fluoride in the water supply look positively reasonable.

By: Daffy

Daffy — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:54:01 +0000

“What’s with the irrational fear of Fox News? Just because they don’t bow to the big O?”

I am not a very big Obama fan (so far). I hate FOX news because they are a pack of liars; it really is that simple. The fact that they lie in the direction you want them to doesn’t make it any less true

Btw, I have not noticed ANY news agency “bowing to the big O.”

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:02:16 +0000

Wayne, you’re right about the Fox News article. On the other hand, Fox is the network that ran the Alien Autopsy “documentary.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163521/

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:42:35 +0000

It’s just lucky for our side that the asteroid didn’t have a core of naquada, like the one Anubis threw at us.

(A nod to Daniel J. Andrews…)

By: Mully410

Mully410 — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:54:53 +0000

Thank you, Phil. I saw this article at FoxNews and was hoping you’d make a comment.

By: T.E.L.

T.E.L. — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:34:50 +0000

ND Said:

“Any superior civilization would be able to manipulate the gravitational constant to nudge objects around.”

Only if it’s possible.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:59:11 +0000

The aliens weren’t actually trying to save humans. They were trying to save the incredibly rare Tunguskan striped liverwort, which had the distinction of being the universe’s only sentient plant.

They failed.

By: charlie98

charlie98 — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:32:25 +0000

What’s with the irrational fear of Fox News? Just because they don’t bow to the big O? Don’t worry, soon Latina women with their life experiences will be on the Supreme Court and black men with batons will be stationed at polling booths making sure you vote correctly and the utopia that you so desperately crave will have arrived. BTW, if you don’t like Fox News, don’t watch, their ad revenues will dry up and they will go out of business. Good luck with that though seeing as they beat all the competition combined just about all the time.

By: blur

blur — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:29:48 +0000

russian science at its peak

By: Daffy

Daffy — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:37:22 +0000

“I understand that bashing Fox News is a favorite pastime around here…”

Yes, but do you understand WHY? OMG, that they call that a “news” channel is the most laughable thing on television (except “American idol”).