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He's all about service to his country. Now you know why he doesn't mind these long tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. If he's lucky they will prosecute him and lock him up for the rest of his life.
Quote from 377OHMS:
Ok, at your request:
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Oh wait! Got my links mixed up LOL.
Mines a busty blonde with big blue eyes and a smokey voice like tinted glass. If I posted her pict she would have my balls removed with a butter knife and mounted in a glass display box alongside my common sense.![]()
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I feel bad about making fun of this gal in another post. Everyone is cracking jokes and she is going through a nightmare right now. I bet Petraus still cares deeply for her and would kick the crap out of any of us cracking on his lovely wife. I apologize for my part in this.
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So, you saw a long lanky grey alien with big black almond shaped eyes and you convinced yourself that you were imagining it? Of course, it was naked. Aliens are always naked.Quote from 377OHMS:
I started to type about something I saw but I've convinced myself over the years that it was nothing.

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So, you saw a long lanky grey alien with big black almond shaped eyes and you convinced yourself that you were imagining it? Of course, it was naked. Aliens are always naked.![]()


Quote from 377OHMS:
You're an engineer so I would be interested to know what you think.
For me it is getting to the point where I don't believe anything from a photograph or video. Aliens would have to land on the White House lawn and say "take me to your leader" before I would believe they existed.
There are 3 physical reasons that I don't believe in UFOs.
1) There are a lot of people who are disappointed that all of the SETI projects have never found anything. As you know, SETI listens for non-random electromagnetic signals that might represent some intelligence somewhere in our galaxy.
I read a good physics explanation of why SETI doesn't work and it is due to the noise power density or "noise figure" of our most sensitive receivers even though many are cooled by liquid hydrogen, helium or nitrogen. It is a radio astronomy problem.
Lots of electromagnetic energy is leaked from the Earth in the form of broadcast radio, television, radar et cetera. The truth is that we could not detect the Earth from a distance equivalent to the distance to the closest star. We could not detect ourselves from the distance to the closest star despite all of the RF energy being blasted out in every direction. Our receivers are just too crude (insufficient G/T or gain-over-thermal) so SETI isn't going to work unless somebody points a highly directional microwave beam straight at us and uses nuclear reactors to power the transmitter. SETI doesn't look at light wavelengths so it wouldn't detect lasers.
The money spent on SETI should be cut and used for other purposes.
2) Another consideration is that the Earth is located so freaking far out in the boondocks as to be non-existent. We are out on the end of one of the spiral arms of the Milky-Way galaxy. Total No-wheres-ville.
3) The third consideration for me is that I don't think we are very interesting. We're just a few generations evolved from running around and eating each other. Our world, our civilization and every individual is driven by the singular pursuit of... well, pussy. Nearly everything that happens on Earth can be linked to the drive to procreate. We are very very boring and I doubt that anyone would send a probe or actually travel here themselves to study us.
So I basically don't believe in UFOs.
The only thing that I ever found the least bit compelling was this audio recording of two F-15 Eagles intercepting an object over the UK. They find the object on radar and fly up to it several times looking at it visually. They both comment that it looks "like a rock":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZimV5JQQHE
That became a UFO when it turned across the wind direction. What was it? Who knows. It's not likely it was an alien space craft but it was something we don't understand - Unless there could have been some cross winds at that location and elevation that suddenly took the bag in a different direction.Quote from 377OHMS:
Ok, I'll make even more of a fool of myself than usual...
I was taking the trash out just before sunset and something caught my eye. At first it looked like a nearly inflated black trash-bag moving across the town at about 2000' AGL from west to east. Something looked strange about it so I stopped and starred at it. It was very deep black, like a black widow spider or a raven or something else from nature and was just an amorphous shape. In engineering school they called something like that a "your basic amorphous potato shaped solid".
So I'm watching it and thinking that it is a trash-bag. But it was moving in a very linear and consistent way and it was moving fast, maybe 200 kts TAS. And it kept getting bigger until it was just adjacent to my butte.
Now it looked like a black rock but I still persisted in thinking it was a trash-bag because it was moving in the direction of the wind. Too fast, too big but still registering as "trash" in my mind. After it passed it went along straight for another few seconds then abruptly turned across the wind about 45 degrees and headed out into the desert to the Southeast.
I stood there and was kind of stunned. The wind was gusting to maybe 30 kts and could not account for the speed. It was large like a small shed or outbuilding and it had turned across the wind. There wasn't any sound from it.
And thats it. I talked myself into believing it was a trash-bag but that just doesn't work if I'm being honest with myself. I don't see something and just jump to "that was a UFO!". It was unusual. There, now I'm an official UFO nutty cheese log. That F-15 audio probably grabbed my attention because they described the object as a rock.![]()
Quote from Mav88:
The DoD has a new comm system where they bury signals in kTB noise. To dig it back out at the receiver you have a modulation key. Pretty neat, all the bad guys sees is noise.
