Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lets put it this way: in the 60s, a photo was not a simple or common thing. Only a few people had a camera at hand, and films could only take 20 to 30 pictures, so they were used sparingly. Still, many UFO pictures date from back then.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera on person, and you can do thousands of pictures in a row. There are millions of recording video surveillance cameras everywhere. So if UFOs exist, there should be myriads of pictures and recordings, many of which in top notch quality, where you could read the labels on the little green mens console buttons.
So far, they remain to be seen.
There is a very reasonable explanation for this: If we are a topic of research for them, they could have simply stopped studying us in the same way
Take our own science for example. We pull out of studies when the funding dries up. Maybe the aliens’ government grant ran out. Or, perhaps they have a policy of avoiding interference with the subjects. They could have changed methodology in response to the threat of high resolution recording equipment
Nahh, any species able to come close to interstellar travel would be able to observe us from afar. We can already take good data on other planets’ atmospheres. It’s not going to be too much longer (probably still past our lifetimes, but) before we can take spy satellite quality photos of the surface.
Sure, some alien species might prefer to be more hands-on, but I’d hope they’d also recognize the destructive power humans have and stay away; It’s a lot easier to break something than to invent it, and few things remain even recognizable after being hit by bigger military weapons. A lot of older movies/media relied on that fact to make the other thing seem so fantastically strong. Like the alien ship shrugging off a nuke in Independence Day.
That may be true, but there’s only so much you can collect by remote observation. I really like the “interstellar scientists” take, because it’s something I can see us doing. If we obtained warp drive, we would want to understand how other intelligent species develop, and how similar their conditions and course of development is to our own.
I guess my point is: By the time we’d be able to travel that far, we’d have the ability to make all such observations without showing up on the planet.
Though on the other side of the coin, if interstellar travel were so ubiquitous, who’s to say all aliens would behave in such hands-off ways? Maybe any aliens that would visit Earth would be the equivalent to rednecks driving out in to the woods to shoot squirrels. Or in a more innocuous analogy, bird watching without binoculars.
The aliens are interested in bovine bowels, which are difficult to probe from afar.
Take a picture of a plane with your cellphone.
Yeah there is a reason why plane spotters use 400+mm lenses
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The problem now is authentication. The evidence needs to come from someone with authority
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Um, who is an authority on these things which dont seem to even exist?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not that they are an authority on UFOs.
The Navy is in a position of authority and doesn’t usually post prank videos.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does it really? You would think that in the times of social media and omnipresent cameras, aliens and UFOs should be omnipresent, if they existed.
And please put warnings before YT links.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are loads of sightings with videos. Take a look at r/ufo on reddit.
Ufos certainly exist. It’s the Alien part that is crackpot.
BTW. All my youtube links open with Newpipe 😉