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In addition to a "Thanks" button, there's clearly a need for a "Holy Crap Dude That's F**KED UP!" button too.

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A fictional account of a such a "nuke" craft: Anathem. In which the ship uses a kind of gravel exoskeleton as a shield.

Such a downfall results in many innocent people suffering. Surely you're not insensitive to that?

But what exactly is EMF supposed to prove? There seems to be no methodology guiding the use of instruments to "detect" ghosts. When science uses them, its because their ability to measure has been previously proven & calibrated. But on the ghost shows, how exactly the instruments work and...

Nice, that would be an interesting path to investigate. I just finished reading Stephenson's Anathem, which explores this a bit in relation to Platonic reality.

Let me guess, did he look just like Howie Mandel?

It's classic story, worth contemplating alongside Tippler's vision of an Omega point containing infinite computing resources. And it was written before David Deutch theorized a working quantum computer! But the more I think about simulation theory, the less I'm sure we can assume the...

You're assuming that our viruses could "run" on their biological "operating system" -- this would be rather astonishing if so.

Thanks for the movie link. Excellent point, agreed that this is a problem if we try to use science to prove or disprove the simulation theory. Different & better modes of inquiry are needed. But notice this: that the paranormal resists scientific investigation in exactly same way that...

My thoughts exactly. This seems to be the common thread running through all of this stuff. As for the the "space crunch" -- if this only happened to Jaime & David's car and no one else, then other drivers would observe their car taking on the appearance of a super-duper stretch limo that is...

I wonder if the out/in mileage entries on Jaime's rental agreement would confirm that the car actually travelled the expected distance. I don't know what exactly that might prove, but it's another data point to consider. If we could canvas all of the other drivers that happened to observe...

Or "So use one too"?

Bump -- here's a link to some articles.

I don't mean to be obnoxious here, but what exactly makes a UFO video the "best", or "good" vs "bad"? If good = realistic, against what standard are we measuring? Do we have some imaginary ideal in our minds? What if I provided you with a DVD containing the 100 absolute finest quality UFO...

This seems to be the normal resting state every UFO researcher eventually attains. It's like the high strangeness is a black hole. The researcher stands on the event horizon, continually being sucked into the strangeness. The result is a fatal stretching into a dual identity -- a credible...

Excellent point. In noting the emotional appeal of conspiracy theories I'm not exactly debunking their factual basis. And I agree with you that one need not dig for the real truth here -- it's all quite plain as day on CNN. As the joke says, conspiracy theorists aren't paranoid enough. But...

This is the appeal of conspiracy theories. If someone else is driving and we're just passengers, then we are not responsible for our fate. Believing otherwise obligates us to speak out, protest, etc. But if all is going according to the secret sinister plan, then we can just sit on our ass...

I completely agree that we cannot apply our own human standards of fairness or clarity to an alien/bee race. Let's assume for the moment that their idea of message clarity is exotic--totally alien and incomprehensible. How are we to reconcile this with the OBE in which the alien/bee seems to...

I don't fault you at all. If the message is so urgent, isn't it only fair for us to expect the messager to deliver it in a clear, unambiguous manner?