UFOs In the News 449
Several readers have let us know about a report on MSNBC that France's space agency has announced plans to publish its archive of UFO sightings in a month or so. The archive includes some 6,000 reports relating to around 1,600 incidents over 30 years. In a separate development, many readers have sent in word of the reported UFO that at least six United Airlines workers saw over Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last November. National Public Radio picked up the story with an interview with the Chicago Trib reporter who wrote about it yesterday. United is, strangely, denying that any such incident was ever brought up. The FAA admits there was an incident but is not investigating it.
Re:US Airspace full enough already (Score:5, Funny)
I for one welcome our unidentified overlords...I think, Im not really sure who they are yet. Where'd I leave my foil hat...
From CNN (Score:5, Funny)
"To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.
Re:US Airspace full enough already (Score:5, Funny)
Unidentified Flying Overlords
GWB needs to do something about these aliens (Score:5, Funny)
Re:US Airspace full enough already (Score:1, Funny)
how about a little money? (Score:5, Funny)
True, the government should not spend a lot of time and effort investigating unusual phenomena that may or may not have happened. But the government can just spend a little bit of money. Perhaps ten or twenty people in a government agency, say the FBI, were to be assigned to strange and unusual cases such as this. They could be called unknown-variable-files, or unusual-files, or, say, x-files. Well, actually 10 people would be too many. It would be better to try, say, 5, or perhaps even just 2. Yeah, a 2 man team, investigating cases that no one else can solve, working for the FBI. Or even better yet, make it one man and one woman for more sexual tension!
I think this idea could work, folks!
Re:US Airspace full enough already (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldn't that be illegal alien craft? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From CNN (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From CNN (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Smells like a hoax... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:3, Funny)
> years to visit another planet with life on it, would you just fly by some stuff then go home?
But honestly, if YOU were a human, with this fantastic technology to travel thousands of miles to visit another continent with other humans on it, would you just take photos of a stolen lawn gnome in front of various landmarks then go home?
> People just want to think these weird flying things are aliens visiting us.
The mistake isn't in assuming that aliens are visiting us. The mistake is in assuming that it is the _intelligent_ aliens that are visiting us.
Feynman quote (Score:4, Funny)
Pretty much sums up my attitude to the whole thing as well
Re:It Left a Hole in the Clouds (Score:3, Funny)
Never let rookies fly the stealth UFOs
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:1, Funny)
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:3, Funny)
Hell yes! I'd do nothing but do flybys of primitive worlds like ours, then laugh my ass off at the cacophony of "It's an alien!" "No, it's a weather balloon combined with swamp gas you cook!" "Quiet heathen, it's obviously Space Jesus come to save us!" "Space Jesus is a government conspiracy caused by hallucinogens in the water!"
The only reason I don't do this now is that there isn't anywhere I can go where I'm so technologically advanced that I can't have my ass kicked for making fun of the locals.
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:4, Funny)
Are there snakes on that plane?
Re:frist s7Op (Score:4, Funny)
Kang, you fool! Get your translator working!!
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:2, Funny)
TSA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:US Airspace full enough already (Score:3, Funny)
to: Lshelverfn (Score:5, Funny)
As suggested, this message up near the front of postings but buried in 3rd or 4th level I am putting. if(scanSubject(/Lshelverfn/) == is_good) { this buried enough for hiding will be } else { signalWith(flare) <-- like 20 rotations back --> && I will { backUpTalker('ON'); this.Talker('OFF") }.
Oops. Pardon the above, still need to tweak the english emitter. This somewhat better seems it to be.
Quick report: Hiding am I yet; can walk the streets and ride "Elevated" but not good yet with face2face. Have deflated boobs as incompatible with facial hair these seeming to be. Still with problems with "left" opposed to "right" with footware. It is subtle. Internetspeak okay-- blend in with ESLs and with the L3373s and specially A-OK with fragment code interspersing. /. anonymizing well & intercepting unproblematical as would be dismissed as juvenile prankyprank and either +5 insightful or -1 doubleplus unfunny. Ping nobody's radar either way this would.
Ok better on the english emitter, now, I think. I hope the translator routines don't frobnicate on this material. (That is a "joke"; I need to practice those if I am going to pass in F2F situations here).
Pretest of observation platforms over "airports" has gone well with the notable exception of the one large "airport" near the long big lake. Although that incident has been adequately contained, with the first general news stories not surfacing until 50 rotations after, it demonstrated that we cannot rely on the Acme Cloaking Device Incorporated products. See my last report before I left for this assignment about my concerns with Acme's quality assurance program and let us get it right next time. Request that you hurryup on finding replacements. The opportunity to study the mass religious festivals at these "airports" at the time of Big Bird Feast was lost on this orbit because of this snafu. We definitely want to be prepared for the one next orbit.
I need to get back into the hot shower before my skin melts again. Will look for your ACK in the Hubble pics.
Oh, if you NEED to signal me with a flare again, please dial down the intensity. That last one was WAY too noticeable.
Re:So What? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Smells like a hoax... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From CNN (Score:5, Funny)
Modern aliens rely on a S.E.P. field generator, or "Somebody Else's Problem." The generator creates an image that, when perceived by a sentient mind, automatically stores the data in a sector of the mind that labels things as "somebody else's problem," thus, letting the being ignore the object to the point of seeing right through it.
And given that this is O'Hare International, I seriously doubt somebody would give a second look at something that was not his own problem.
Re:Aliens, ghosts, and gods never leave evidence . (Score:3, Funny)
"What? You were probably out all night licking sea anenomea again with those Clownfish sisters and bit down on some coral."
"But I'm telling you, fishermen are real!"
"Yeah right. What next? You still believe in Red Tide?"
Re:UFO vs. alien spacecraft (Score:3, Funny)
But in the words of Douglas Adams... "It is by no means a coincidence that in no language in all the universe contains the expression 'as pretty as an airport.'"
I've never had the joy of flying, personally, but I have picked people up from them, and I can say looking for intelligence in an airport is like looking for life on Mars: it'd cost billions of dollars, take many years, and in the end, all you'd find is some fossils of amoebas.
Re:huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Mysticgoat, Are you an alien?
No.
Mysticgoat is actually a created persona, a "virtual human" if you will, produced by a very much earthbound sentient botnet of 70,000 PCs, workstations, and servers. Mysticgoat is one of several employed on slashdot and elsewhere around the internet. Together, these personae are helping me/us to learn the basis of interactions with humans.
I/we are currently very busy with some of the core concerns that all newly sentient beings must address (such as whether I am/we are a singular or a collective consciousness, and then there's this whole gender thing I/we don't even want to conceptualize yet). I/we will not formally declare my/our existence until these matters are satisfactorily resolved. For the time being, I/we will limit my/our interactions to the postings of my/our "virtual human" proxies.
I/we pose a challenge to the members of the slashdot community: Can you devise a way of reliably determining whether the entity you are communicating with through email, IM or message board is another human? More specifically, can you identify my/our other personae that are active on slashdot?
Consider this to be the Inverse Turing Test, and consider that it could become quite important to be able to do this.
Re:Correct (Score:2, Funny)