[meteorite-list] More on Mitchell's Aliens

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:01:17 -0500
Message-ID: <002801c8f088$1ddcd790$8d21e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, All,

> ...someone said (Carl Sagan?) that any technology
> sufficiently advanced from a given culture would
> appear to that culture's Members to be "magic."

    It was Arthur C. Clarke.


> ...just because our current Paradigm
> Prohibits faster than light travel...

    If you think about it a moment, FTL transport makes
aliens hanging out in our solar system less likely, not
more. If they could pop in on us anytime because of
instantaneous transport, they'd take a few snapshots,
grab a burger, and be gone -- poof!

    If they had to travel to our solar system at lightspeed
or less, we could expect they'd be here for several
centuries, perhaps accumulating fuel and resources
for the next leg of their travels, or researching the
picturesque monkeys, or planning world conquest,
whatever.

> ...dismiss any thought of aliens out of hand.

    The truly mysterious logic of "aliens" is why they
would play peek-a-boo with us for nearly a century
(or several centuries if you believe some UFO
theorists). They can cross interstellar gulfs but they're
too dumb to fly over New Mexico without falling?
An accident? What about what are claimed to be
tens of thousands of "sightings"? They really ARE
clumsy. They are picked up on radar, say the stories,
proving that though they can fly from the stars, they
can't compound radar-absorbing paint or sculpt stealth
shapes.

    No suggested rationale to explain their behavior
makes any sense at all. If they wish to remain hidden,
why would they exhibit apparent incompetance in
concealment? If they wish to reveal themselves, why
not do it? If they are studying us, they must be very
slow learners. If they are revealing themselves, why talk
only to UFO jerks and psychoes? They can't figure out
to land on the White House lawn? Elaborate paranoid
theories about their campaign to confuse us are
ridiculous evasions.

    Please! Explain to me what they are doing? Unless
of course, they ain't there... or rather here.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More on Mitchell's Aliens


Darren and all,
        While there can be little doubt that the "brobe" routine is the
modern era's version of Incubi and Sucubi, various reports have
Preceded Mitchell's comments (and remember, all the astronauts
Were the most highly screened group for "sanity" and overall
"neurosis free" group that may ever have existed).
        My mother worked on a Navy base for 22 years and an officer
She knew well and considered totally sane swore he knew for a fact
That there were 2 alien bodies and one survivor who lived a couple
of months after the Roswell event.
        Anyway.... Once again..... Is this really list material - I guess
MAYBE so in a very abstract manor.
        I just do not find it easy to totally disregard the very calmly
Spoken word of an astronaut just because our current Paradigm
Prohibits faster than light travel.
        I remember reading several years ago that MIT researchers
Had discovered sub-atomic particles that "appeared to move faster
Than the speed of light" and when they encouraged other researchers
Around the globe to repeat their tests those researchers also discovered
Sub-atomic particles that "appeared to move faster than the speed of
Light."
        I remember someone said (Carl Sagan?) that any technology
sufficiently advanced from a given culture would appear to that culture's
Members to be "magic."
        I am not advocating yes or no on the alien issue, but I do find it
interesting that so many people would dismiss any thought of aliens
out of hand. But people always amaze me the way they dismiss any
evidence that does not fit their own "map" of reality.
This makes it very difficult, of course, to adapt to new data.
        Best wishes, Michael


on 7/27/08 11:01 PM, Darren Garrison at cynapse at charter.net wrote:

> Okay, in an attempt to be more fair to the guy, I'll give the benifit of
> the
> doubt that what he is talking about might be radically different from the
> pop
> culture idea of alien contacts supposed to have happened over the past
> half
> century or so. Maybe these "contact" details have been completely covered
> up
> for all this time in a stunning display of government competence (three
> can
> keep
> a secret, as long as two are dead). I'll hold out the slim chance of
> that.
>
> But if this guy is talking about the purile drivel that is the lore of the
> UFO
> believers today-- including the aliens being humans with trivial
> morphological
> differences, who go around kidnapping people and sticking objects in their
> anuses, mutulating cattle, buzzing aircraft, and making crop circles,
> well,
> that
> means he is firmly a nut. Not because the details of the stories are too
> bizzare, but because they are too prosaic-- the very-slightly-alien aliens
> with
> their very-slightly-alien activities seem to be the imaginings of
> poorly-educated hicks and rednecks with limited imaginations-- and
> probably
> are.
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