Have Aliens visited Earth?

[Unorthodox]

Change of pace, you can vote for 3!   

Because:

http://www.cnet.com/news/hillary-clinton-believes-aliens-may-well-have-paid-us-a-visit/

If you thought the presidential campaign was already slightly extraterrestrial, it just became even more so.


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Hillary Clinton, alien hunter.

Niu Xiaolei/Xinhua Press/Corbis

I come to this conclusion after learning that leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton intends to sort out the issue of whether aliens exist once and for all.

Clinton was interviewed late last month by the editorial board of the influential (in New Hampshire) Conway Daily Sun. After answering questions on foreign policy and the economy, she was reminded of a conversation she had with the reporter in 2007 about UFOs.

The reporter also brought up how her husband -- former president Bill Clinton -- mused in April to Jimmy Kimmel that he "wouldn't be surprised" if aliens had wandered down here and checked us out.




Hillary Clinton rather agreed. Having fun with the reporter, she said. "I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure," she said.

But what will she do about it? It's all very well that politicians whet our appetites, but we need to know. We've watched far too many TV shows that assume aliens exist, and frankly it's killing us.

Thankfully, Clinton says that if she's elected she would "get to the bottom of it."

In this, she's being encouraged by John Podesta, her campaign chairman and a vast enthusiast of alien theories.

"He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another," she told the Sun. "Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51." (Area 51 is a US Air Force facility in southern Nevada where evidence of alien life is allegedly hidden.)


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Given our strange and twisted political times, I can see that the promise of a task force to finally unearth evidence of alien visits will persuade more than a few voters.

It appeals both to our sense of adventure and our realization that politics as usual is painfully ineffective these days. This could out-[Sleezebag] even the most radical Donald [Sleezebag] proposal.

I can see a live stream as everything is examined. It will be called "The Aliens Awaken." I can see Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povich and Anderson Cooper co-hosting the spectacle.

The search for Bigfoot will seem like a piffling cartoon when compared to this. We'll be riveted for days, months even.

And when proof of alien life is finally placed in front of a camera, we will never be the same again. Neither will politics or television.

[Unorthodox]

Thread feels incomplete without this...

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[Lorizael]

Maybe we're the aliens!? (Real, (completely speculative) scientific hypothesis.)

[Yitzi]

Unlikely, but no real way to know for sure.

[Valka]

Ohforpetessake. 


Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Humans built the pyramids, Stonehenge, the Nazca lines, Atlantis is a myth, and I've got ZERO patience with Chariots of the Gods nonsense.

[Unorthodox]

and I've got ZERO patience with Chariots of the Gods nonsense.

But at Puma Punku (spelling) we see things we couldn't do with our technology TODAY...

[Valka]

At whut? 

[Unorthodox]

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(for whatever reason, this show is great for my insomnia, so I've "seen" a fair few partial episodes, not many full ones.)

[Valka]

 

[abc123]

Maybe we're the aliens!? (Real, (completely speculative) scientific hypothesis.)

Hmmm. Just like colonizing AC ... only we colonized Earth such a long time ago that no one remembers that we came from somewhere else?

[Lorizael]

The actual (completely speculative) scientific hypothesis is that, as microbes, we were launched toward Earth during an impact event on, say, Mars. We know that Martian ejecta can land on Earth, and we know that Mars used to be warmer and wetter, so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. (There was also some evidence in the 90s that Martian meteorites contained fossils of microbial life, but very few people today think that evidence is good.)

[ColdWizard]

I favor the Vasin-Shcherbakov Theory. Because it's more entertaining.

[Rusty Edge]

Oh. What about the theory that we arrived as frozen microbes on a comet?



I had a long reply to this yesterday, but I had hardware trouble. No. I don't believe that the aliens ever landed here, I believe that Flash, Dale, and Dr. Zharkov went to Mongo instead. The proof positive film footage is on this forum.

Where was I ?

Actually, the most compelling case for a close encounter is the book of Ezekiel. If you read it with the bias that the Angel is really a space man, and that those "scrolls" they told him to eat were actually capsules of memory RNA, ala Larry Niven's "Rammer" story, it makes much more sense than as another prophecy by another prophet.  After all, an ancient might equate a capsule with characters printed on it with a small scroll complete with hemispherical end caps.

[Rusty Edge]

Puma Punku was probably a Rebel base,  like the one on Hoth,  and met with much the same fate.

[Rusty Edge]

People often seem quick to discount the ancients.
Just because we can't figure out how to do what they did with what they had doesn't mean they couldn't do it without alien or divine intervention. They had less technology, but not less intelligence.
They had less knowledge, but not less patience. They had fewer resources, but not less resourcefulness.


Patient polishing can compensate for crude cutting. More man-hours can compensate for a horsepower deficiency.  Ramps and ropes and A frames can compensate for cranes. Materials can be substituted. Remember that Rome wasn't built in a day.