A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

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    You can’t even theorize lightly about scenarios where there might have been extraterrestrial interaction with Earth in most contexts without being pretty much branded a kook.

    Well, yeah. You can speculate about those scenarios all you want, that’s why sci-fi is so much fun. But ‘theorize’ implies a serious consideration of the event having occurred and there is zero tangible evidence for that and physics itself suggests that in the span of a civilization the chances of even detecting another may be infinitesimally small. So any ‘theory’ of those scenarios would be based on nothing so- yeah- kookery.

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      and thus, it’s not an exaggeration to say:

      If evidence is declassified supporting this it seems we owe a lot of apologies to a lot of people who were written off as kooks.

      Sheesh, I’m quite sure it was just a lighthearted comment by @DarkGamer, and folks are going all “Well ackshully” about it.

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        Good point, and if Jesus showed up at the superbowl with Prince’s guitar we’d owe a lot of apologies to a lot of Kid Rock fans who were written off as Kid Rock fans ;)

        …and thus, (cringe) That’s not an exaggeration either, it’s just completely asinine, like babbling about ‘ancient astronaut theory’. So don’t get so upset when strangers point out that it’s asinine.

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          It would be an appropriate comment if we’d just had a congressional hearing about Jesus showing up at the superbowl with Prince’s guitar, but since we haven’t I don’t see how your analogy really works.

          I’m done with this - you folks are clearly more invested in tearing down a cute comment from another poster than I am in defending it. Please enjoy your breakfast of bitterness and bile.

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            I love when people throw a little tantrum that they’re ‘done’. People that are really ‘done’ don’t have to fuss to anonymous strangers about how done they are ;)

            It would be an appropriate comment if we’d just had a congressional hearing about Jesus showing up at the superbowl with Prince’s guitar

            The comment is a perfectly valid comparison- we have congressional hearings about religious nonsense all the time. The Prince\Kid Rock part was a goof but are you seriously unaware of how often Jesus and ‘Gods will’ are cited in congressional session?

            So if you heard religious kookery in a hearing and then said ‘Well, if God really did bring that hurricane to punish gays it would change humanity’s relationship with religion and science’ - that would be a deeply, stupidly, asinine statement. So it’s just like you adding your half-cent to the UFO kookery. Not sure you can follow that but thought I’d lay it out for you just in case.

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                Do you really not get how silly it is to say “I’m done” and then show up again to say “I’m done”?

                It’s okay if this subject is over your head and you want to leave, you can just go.