Making the news today....

[Mark J]

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

[Mesterh]

10 hours ago, peds said:

Anyone heard about the impending alien invasion in New Jersey? 

There's a lot of focus on New Jersey anyway, but there are currently reports of multiple "orbs" all over the world... Miami, Cordoba, China...

 

Lots of interesting pictures and videos surfacing, some more credible than others, of drones hovering about... some are obviously just planes flying around at night, which really does make you question the intelligence of anyone involved in the whole thing, but there are also some very convincing examples.

 

The White House seems to be being rather shady on the subject too...

 

 

 

The fact that yer man Kirby there (as the spokesperson for the US government) seems unruffled by the situation suggests that they are in fact a US military activity on a strictly need-to-know basis, and not visitors from another planet, as everyone desperately wants them to be... which, given the rise of drones in military application over recent years, is still wildly interesting. 

 

Anyone got orbs and aliens and drones in their feed?

No orbs or aliens but plenty of flashing lights and 20 foot Christmas Grinches going on around here.

From what I can see most of the vids are airplanes, domestic/commercial drones and dodgy CGI. The other stuff, who knows, it could be anything. Drones from other countries, US military stuff or even aliens from another planet.

 

[Mesterh]

25 minutes ago, Mark J said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

Yeah, creating new types of bacteria doesn't sound good. I read somewhere that they have thawed out bacteria from glaciers that are thousands of years old. They came back to life, that can't be bleedin good either. 

 

From the words of the bloke from Jurassic park. "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

 

[Steven P]

Used to be Chinese lanterns with no terms of reference to size, closer than you think, the flame moves in the wind - appearing far away - is mistaken for great speed which suddenly vanishes... and are invisible to radar too. Reckon many will be drones too - again the perspective thing they can be massive alien warships to the right mind.

 

I reckon in about 2 weeks, just under perhaps, there will be loads of sightings of strange flying object all over the globe.

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

 

Am sure there was a thread somewhere - must be buried in time by now - a microbe, bacteria or whatever it was, escaped from a lab and caused a load of hassle worldwide, infected millions. I'll have to dig out the link.

[Doug Tait]

I do believe life should exist elsewhere in the universe. Likely a whole array of life, including life forms mankind couldn't even conceptualise let alone classify in our supremely narrow and limited "knowledge" of existence.

 

I can also imagine a civilisation evolving millions of light years away from earth to such a degree that the universe is literally their oyster. With technology that is so far advanced we haven't even dreamed of it, and most likely we will be another extinct earth species long before we could ever equal their achievements.

 

I do struggle though when it comes to why, if they do exist, they would repeatedly visit the same place for decades on end studying such inferior species as ours whilst trying, yet failing spectacularly to remain unknown.

 

Them having anything more than a fleeting glance at our planet is what's unbelievable.

[Mark Bolam]

They exist Doug.

They looked at the immigrant thing and thought ‘We’re out’, then left.

 

The thing is is @Johnsond gets a bad press on here from a lot of you all the time, but the truth is on immigration he’s spot on.

It will ruin our country, and within our lifetime.

Our kids will be screwed unless we sort it out, and fast.

’Import the third world, get the third world’.

FASCIST! FAR RIGHT! RACIST!

 

How about FACT?

[tree-fancier123]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

Run for the hills! Lock up your womenfolk! Burn your bridges!

 

 

this is why there is a problem with immigration - the author of the above quote is similar to a substantial part of the electorate and similar to many of the current pool of politicians of both major parties. 

[Mesterh]

20 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

They exist Doug.

They looked at the immigrant thing and thought ‘We’re out’, then left.

 

The thing is is @Johnsond gets a bad press on here from a lot of you all the time, but the truth is on immigration he’s spot on.

It will ruin our country, and within our lifetime.

Our kids will be screwed unless we sort it out, and fast.

’Import the third world, get the third world’.

FASCIST! FAR RIGHT! RACIST!

 

How about FACT?

That went off on a tangent to say the least mate.

Can we get back to an extra-terrestrial alien invasion please, the illegal pricks invading the UK is on another thread. Which I do agree is a big problem btw.

 

 

 

[Johnsond]

45 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

That went off on a tangent to say the least mate.

Can we get back to an extra-terrestrial alien invasion please, the illegal pricks invading the UK is on another thread. Which I do agree is a big problem btw.

 

 

 

Which thread is that ?