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- ligyron, on 05/29/2008, -42/+367The bottom line is if space aliens ever visited us, the entire world would know and we wouldn't have to wait for some kind of reveal. It would be all over the news and no one would be able to hold back this information
- CivicTV, on 08/14/2009, -6/+250Whether its fake or not, at least I have something to look forward too tomorrow that sounds interesting.
- spammishking, on 05/29/2008, -1/+185I'm going to call it viral marketing now, so if I turn out to be correct I can say..told you so
- dheaddy, on 05/30/2008, -1/+134I feel like I'm going to be very disappointed tomorrow when this is revealed to be a viral marketing campaign for the new X-Files movie.
I want to believe! - StayPuft21, on 05/29/2008, -7/+139This is getting more hype than the Marylin Monroe sex tape (you know, the one that was authentic)...
- whiteknives, on 05/29/2008, -2/+104Aliens, like tornadoes, just loooove trailer parks.
- inactive, on 05/29/2008, -20/+110It's a fake. Shut up.
- DinosWillDie13, on 05/29/2008, -5/+86It would be cool. But why would aliens just be chilling around on planet earth. I mean think about it... if they do exist and they were going to make a trip all the way here they wouldn't just be peeking in windows. Still a cool story though.
- insomniacal, on 05/30/2008, -4/+83My b.s. sensor is set and ready.
- lumbergh, on 05/29/2008, -7/+83Not true. After the War of the Worlds broadcast (and its very negative reaction), I'm pretty sure that all world governments got pretty paranoid about letting this kind of information get public. Here's the problem:
1) If it's a benign news article, people won't care and it won't get credence due to sheer below-the-radar-ness. For example, I thought this exchange was very interesting, but practically nobody knows about it- http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:eoU_PYnFxAkJ: ...
2) If it's sensationalist, lots of people will read it but it won't get credence due to sounding sensationalist.
So we're in a catch-22. Convincing evidence is "too convincing to be plausible", and sensationalist evidence is "too sensationalist to be convincing". People go on believing whatever it is they decided or were brainwashed into believing.
All I can say is, keep your worldview flexible at all costs. - reeder, on 05/29/2008, -8/+59What would be the best way to reveal yourself to an insane species that loves to hack itself to bits:
1) A little at a time, to cultivate an understanding that we are not alone.
Or
2) All at once, freaking out the hoople-heads in places like West Virginia that "have had enough of that Hussein."
*****, we went to war because someone who is literally retarded said WMD about 1,297 times. Slow and steady wins the race. Besides, everyone likes company. - passiveinvestor, on 05/30/2008, -4/+49Correct. Our species could not deal with this as a reality. It totally ***** with 90% of the worlds believe system.
Denial is all around us. Just like the aliens. - shondell, on 05/30/2008, -2/+46I'm surprised the Digg community hasn't provided a link to the video yet, no matter how secret it is.
- inactive, on 05/30/2008, -1/+45According to Stephen Hawkings, you have a better chance of seeing a gay man become pregnant then seeing an alien as there is no intelligent life for at minimum distance of a 100 light years from Earth.
- mattgilberg, on 05/30/2008, -2/+45This is about as fake as Pamela Anderson's boobs.
- swrostmore, on 05/29/2008, -8/+49Scepticism is the correct response to extraordinary claims, however when you pass judgement based on evidence that you've never seen, how are you different from those that blindly accept the evidence (which they haven't seen either) as proof that aliens exist?
- cslewisster, on 05/30/2008, -1/+39I'm sure that this is viral marketing for the new X-Files movie. If some gray 4 foot tall thing was running around my house I would probably attack it before I'd think to film it.
- inactive, on 05/29/2008, -3/+38the information is coming out staged it seems, little here, little there, not enough time to verify much of it before the revelation. This film is also part of a documentary, but nothing was said iirc that the documentary was on aliens. For all I know its on how easy it is to plant fake information into news sites and pull hoaxes and such on a grand scale and really get people to believe.
They could have done a poll to guess how many believe now, then after the revelation which impresses reporters or whatever how many believe later. See how something like this can influence public perception and all that.
It would be funny if the documentary is on sheeple and not on aliens :)
I want it to be real if they are peaceful and will share technology, I dont hold my breath for that though.
I will google this up later if it turns out to be true since I did say it now :P - CannedMango, on 05/30/2008, -1/+35Exactly... just because the video itself hasn't been altered, doesn't mean what's ON the video is real.
- inactive, on 05/30/2008, -0/+28so there is an A cup of truth in there?
- fr0ng, on 05/30/2008, -1/+29If someone were to ask me when the turning point was where I completely stopped believing this was real..I would tell them it was when I read the following:
"He kept the camera handy, and he saw this little gray (alien) running around his house. He saw it so he got the camera out," Hofmann said. "The thing is about 4 feet tall. The only thing that shows up in the video is his head. It pops up from underneath a window. But his eyes blink. His cheeks move. He turns his head side-to-side. This would be a very elaborate puppet."
Seriously, what a bunch of fail. - ats314, on 05/30/2008, -3/+27I don't why this is dugg up. It seems perfect common sense that a species visiting us would not make a grand entrance. They would of course be secretive about it and study us first. This video is not an interview with an alien. It's a shot of an alien spying in a house, which would explain perfectly a scenario in which they didn't want to be seen.
- Amlethus, on 05/29/2008, -5/+29Alright, I'm not a "believer," I'm definitely not caught up in the aliens visiting our planet thing. But I don't ignore the world around me, either. Did you hear about the UFO (remember, that is an Unidentified Flying Object, doesn't mean aliens) siting at the... I believe Chicago airport about eight months ago? I'm guessing on the time there by the way, I don't keep up on these things. Also, there have been other largely publicized and witnessed events of other strange occurrences. So, it has been all over the news a few times.
I'm a skeptic, but I'm not stupid. And I do wonder. - inactive, on 05/30/2008, -2/+25***** alien would have to be sitting in my lap talking to me before I'd think of NOT passing immediate judgment of ***** on it.
- DeskFlyer, on 05/30/2008, -0/+23You can summon the same alien with a cellphone and a microwave.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 05/30/2008, -0/+23*cue X-Files movie viral alien video*
- sovietninja, on 05/30/2008, -1/+21And then grill it. OMGWTFALIENBBQ!
- borez, on 05/30/2008, -1/+21The instructor at the Colorado Film School could also be on the scam payroll
- Nuggstein, on 05/30/2008, -1/+21I'm pretty sure we have enough "Rick Rolling." Calm down.
- romistrub, on 05/30/2008, -2/+21*****, I got cut off. Please digg down the above!
I still want a shot at an alien theory, though.
1) Being that these aliens are humanoid, the only reasonable solution, given the nature of evolution, is that we have similar ancestry, right? I can't imagine something so similar to a human developing independently.
2) The science of archaeology is comprehensive enough to discredit the idea that these extraterrestrials evolved in tandem with life on this planet, and left once they became sufficiently advanced.
3) However! Space is *not* the only unexplored frontier. What if some humanoids moved into caves, and gradually, deeper and deeper underground, and were allowed to evolve independently thereafter? This would account for the lack of advanced technology. It would also account for the large head/small body combination (lower gravity), as well as the big eyes (dark). Perhaps we are not looking at extraterrestrials at all, maybe these are... *dun dun dunnnn* INTRATERRESTRIALS! - abrasion, on 05/30/2008, -0/+18I do not even need to see this to know it's fake, you know it's a fake when the person releasing it strings it out for days 'you have to wait until X before you can see it!'
Oh *****.
I believe in other life forms, I can't say I believe in them not only having the ability to go faster than the speed of light but also peer in someones window. - Samas11, on 05/30/2008, -0/+17I want to believe.
*cue x-files theme song* - inactive, on 05/30/2008, -0/+17This video HAS to be on the internet somewhere right? Someone'll find it early... Go Digg Go!
- berrray, on 05/30/2008, -0/+17I still want to see that. :(
- pyry, on 05/29/2008, -2/+19Yeah. You don't need to be a "believer" to question the world around you– that's just good sense.
I always wondered what happened with the O'Hare airport one. Numerous people supposedly took photos, and it made the evening news, but did the photos ever surface? - TheBadWolf, on 05/30/2008, -0/+16I think people are looking at this the wrong way. He said the video's real, right? It may very well be. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the alien is real. It just means that there wasn't any "post production" on the video.
- inactive, on 05/29/2008, -11/+27It doesnt have to be from another planet there are 3 options as I see it for non earth based beings (ok there are more but these are the most likely that I see)
Really from another star somewhere, uber advanced and can travel either super long durations, perhaps they live 5000 years old.
Future humans (goobacks for south park fans) who came back for research or whatever. You know that if we had time machines someone would go back and visit man many thousands of years ago to study him and such.
Multiverse theory, they are from a parallel universe, they look different because life evolved differently.
Now cross breeding, if even possible, could get really messy, we have 4 chemicals that make up our dna, while its likely that is what others may have if cross breeding is compatible, that isnt guaranteed, what if they had another pair of chemicals? That could add a ton of variation to the offspring, eeps! amounts of variation. - enclaved, on 05/30/2008, -4/+19Right, because everyone knows having the ability to travel through space equates to having the power of invisibility,
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/30/2008, -0/+14Actually, their genetic material would have to be extremely similar to our own for cross breeding to be possible at all. This is the same reason people can't cross breed with, say, a horse or manbearpig.
- tomzx1, on 05/30/2008, -1/+15Vid or it didn't happen.
- withincontext, on 05/30/2008, -1/+15@reeder,
"If they are really smart about how our culture works, they will start subtly and anonymously communicating with us through forums like these."
Forums like Digg? :p - Protoss, on 05/30/2008, -0/+14Screw you dad, I'll go visit Earth if I want! I won't believe some made-up story about the humans torturing one of us in Roswell!
- romistrub, on 05/30/2008, -3/+17This is a fallacy, I think.
We cannot assume that technological development of all lifeforms must be identical. There are infinite paths of evolution (both technological and biological), some of which would have lifeforms developing long distance travel long before they developed the need or the means for concealing themselves. - tayf, on 05/30/2008, -2/+16Aliens: "If you don't think its real then ***** IT. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
- sugarazor, on 05/30/2008, -2/+15So... we have experts based on things that have never before been seen by anyone, ever?
- inactive, on 05/29/2008, -0/+13oh to be clear I am not saying that I believe this, I dont currently believe that we have been visited.
I think its likely that intelligent life exists somewhere given the total number of stars, if even a small percent has planets that can support life, and if a small percent of them actually have life, and if a smaller percent of them have intelligent life that is a substantial number.
I wont reject proof just because all proof in the past so far hasnt actually proven that 1. its intelligent life and 2. that its not from earth. Blinky lights in the sky do not prove that its not some secret military project or whatever. They do not prove that its not from earth. Further in some instances they dont even prove life, it could be some type of charged particles, lightning that is abnormal, etc. All blinky lights on film prove is that there were blinky lights, anything more is a guess that is unproven.
So if this claim turns out to be real, then woohoo, I am not holding my breath, although this article did remove one concern I had about the original article, that an "unnamed expert" was used, something I generally consider an obvious sign of a fake. Although for all I know this is part of some hoax or publicity stunt, if so then odds are the town wont be pleased that he used their town meeting for this purpose. - tehbored, on 05/30/2008, -1/+14*****. What the hell would a little ET-esque creature be doing running around peeking into windows? It could be some unknown species of animal perhaps, but it's not a freaking alien. I have a feeling people just have aliens on the brain because of Indiana Jones.
- Beanstudd2, on 05/30/2008, -3/+16It's still fake
- skunks, on 05/30/2008, -0/+13"Expert" at the Colorado Film School? Boy, I can't wait for the "expert" exobiologists at the University of Phoenix online to weigh in.
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