On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 12:14:49 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 10:48:48 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/27/2018 5:28 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 7:00:56 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/27/2018 2:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 3:32:18 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/27/2018 10:10 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> > I used to work on Carl Sagan's staff and I know his views quite well. >>>> > What is striking about the YouTube videos, particularly the one >>>> > initiating the organization, where many physicists, engineers, >>>> > astronauts, etc;, were present affirming the existence of >>>> > extraterrestrials in contact with our present day civilization, is >>>> > that they are BANNED! This should tell you something about the >>>> > so-called respect for "free speech" and objective analysis of >>>> > information contradicting the conventional wisdom. >>>> >>>> When something is BANNED, but freely available, I'm reminded of how >>>> novels used to be advertised as "Banned in Boston." >>>> >>>> > You are an example of someone whose assessment on this subject is >>>> > based ENTIRELY but a negative bias. You don't actually know squat >>>> > about extra terrestrial intelligence, >>>> >>>> But then neither do you, since there's no evidence on the subject. >>>> >>> >>> >>> *Just eyewitness accounts from people of all walks of life, like those >>> reports of stones falling from the sky in the 19th Century. AG * >>> >>> >>> When people said stones fell from the sky they were asked where were the >>> stones? When a stone was found they were believed. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> There were also some spectacular events. 150 years ago a Chelyabinsk >> scale meteoroid or asteroid exploded over Poland. Lots of rocks fell out of >> the sky. This meant a lot of people saw this. A fair number of these events >> were public displays. UFOs tend not to have that feature. >> >> >> There are unexplained sights witnessed by multiple people. But that >> doesn't justify Aliens of the gap. >> >> Brent >> > > Most UFOs tend to be optical. >
*Yes, most, but not all. There are many cases of simultaneous radar and optical contact. But let's forget about those. It reduces the cognitive dissonances. AG* > The atmosphere can easily have a cold dense region a few kilometers up > that has a higher index of refraction than a warm layer below. This can > result in light from a town or city being lensed back to the ground some > distance away. This will then appear as a moving shimmering light of some > kind. This is called optical ducting. It was first noted as the Zemlya > effect, where the Soviets would detonate nuclear explosives in this arctic > island and Eskimos in Alask would see the bright burst in the sky. > > Most UFOs appear as some sort of lights, they rarely appear as some solid > object that if you spit on it the spit would stick to. > > LC > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
