Someone just posted this on Facebook. Thoughts?
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-592395
Alien hoax?
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Alien hoax?
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Re: Alien hoax?
First off, Russia is legendary for fake news stories. Second, that thing looks more or less like a stereotypical gray, and looks like it's made of some kind of clay or wax. So yeah, fake.
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Re: Alien hoax?
Figured as much.
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Re: Alien hoax?
I thought this is about that alien crash report that the FBI put on their website, proving (well, more or less) that the report wasn't a hoax... Turns out this is something else. Duh.
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Re: Alien hoax?
Of course the "alien" is completely naked 
Funny, isn't it? Aliens can fly between stars, yet don't wear clothing while piloting their spacecraft - which seem to crash all the time, too. They should really have ejection seats.
Either way, it's not vetted by a respectable news source, it's supposedly a "leak" (implication: stolen from the government) yet there's only like two guys casually walking about the site. Add Russia's history of hoax videos like that, and yeah, it's incredibly unlikely the thing is real.
Funny, isn't it? Aliens can fly between stars, yet don't wear clothing while piloting their spacecraft - which seem to crash all the time, too. They should really have ejection seats.
Either way, it's not vetted by a respectable news source, it's supposedly a "leak" (implication: stolen from the government) yet there's only like two guys casually walking about the site. Add Russia's history of hoax videos like that, and yeah, it's incredibly unlikely the thing is real.
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Re: Alien hoax?
I thought this is more interesting, like I said:
http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20H ... f%201/view
Go FOIA!
http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20H ... f%201/view
Go FOIA!
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Re: Alien hoax?
A-ha! It wasn't followed further! This obviously means the government knew all about it and the FBI was ordered to drop the case or risk discovering THE TRUTH. That is OUT THERE. [/conspiracy theorist]
Observation: apparently, advanced alien control mechanisms make their saucers crash when exposed to powerful radar waves.
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Observation: apparently, advanced alien control mechanisms make their saucers crash when exposed to powerful radar waves.
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Re: Alien hoax?
That was only before SP2...PeZook wrote:Observation: apparently, advanced alien control mechanisms make their saucers crash when exposed to powerful radar waves.
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Re: Alien hoax?
The galaxy is being conned by ship dealers. Ships have a terrible safety record, think of the dozens of crashed ships, just on this planet!
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Re: Alien hoax?
I always found mindboggling that point. I mean, if you don't suffer a failure while landing, you don't end up on a planet's surface, and landing is a tiny part of the trip. If they had decent engineers they would have figured out the issue centuries ago.which seem to crash all the time, too. They should really have ejection seats.
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Re: Alien hoax?
Actually landing and launch is the most dangerous part, especially in atmosphere.
Hence my comment about ejection seats and pressure suits. But these sound so primitive and un-alien, because it's something we can recognize and use regularly and is not a tablet covered in weird symbols.
That's the same reason why you'll never see a screwdriver being presented on an alien hoax video: because in some people's mind, anything at all that's recognizable invalidates the idea that it's alien.
Despite the fact that even in the year 28 000, our post-spelling robotic bodies will still occasionally use shovels, hammers and other tools invented millenia ago.
Hence my comment about ejection seats and pressure suits. But these sound so primitive and un-alien, because it's something we can recognize and use regularly and is not a tablet covered in weird symbols.
That's the same reason why you'll never see a screwdriver being presented on an alien hoax video: because in some people's mind, anything at all that's recognizable invalidates the idea that it's alien.
Despite the fact that even in the year 28 000, our post-spelling robotic bodies will still occasionally use shovels, hammers and other tools invented millenia ago.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Re: Alien hoax?
You would expect some sort of anatomical structures to be coming out of the chopped off leg too. Bone, vessels, musculature. Something.
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Re: Alien hoax?
And burns, of course. If the body was ejected from the crashing ship by the explosion, it should be severely burned all over (especially since it's apparently naked).
Alternatively, if it limped to that place and lost the leg to wild animals, it would've been torn and in tatters, not cleanly cut off.
Etc. etc. etc.
And of course there's like two guys there, around the biggest discovery ever
Alternatively, if it limped to that place and lost the leg to wild animals, it would've been torn and in tatters, not cleanly cut off.
Etc. etc. etc.
And of course there's like two guys there, around the biggest discovery ever
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.