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- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -13/+171I, for one, welcome our new lame-ass cliche overlords.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+143i dugg this mostly because i used to watch the x-files. and .. that show hasn't been on for a long time now.
- mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+114"... why we didn't go back to the moon.."
Do you honestly think that the primary mission of the Apollo series of moon landings was to gather scientific data? It was an enormous part of the "space race" and the then-very active Cold War with the Soviet Union. When the SU economy began tearing itself apart, it became obvious they would never reach the moon; hence, federal funding for the program was cut. We were there to beat the Russians and for very little more. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73Who the hell was in charge of the audio production on this vid? The overlayed music makes the dialogue really hard to hear.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -29/+92"and then it made me ask the question why didn't we go back to the moon? "
Because it was extremely expensive, the public no longer found it interesting or entertaining (the movie Apollo 13 has an entire sub-plot devoted to this), most politicians at the time did not think the research opportunities made it worthwhile, the dominance over USSR's manned flight program was completely successful, and because NASA developed other priorities: space stations and unmanned probes.
Well, either that, or because of aliens. But hey, don't let rationality stand in your way.
In my personal experience, any time a conspiracy theory makes you re-examine perfectly valid and publicly acceptable answers is almost always because you don't have enough knowledge or understanding of these answers. Just look at the 9/11 conspiracy retards, and people who think we never landed on the moon. A perfect example of what I'm talking about. They don't understand why a certain answer makes sense (almost always because of their ignorance in the subject matter), so they invent their own answers.
I'm not going to vote this down as lame, however. Anything about UFOs is fun and usually entertaining. Just don't take these things to heart. Take it all with a grain of salt, and check your brain at the door. - MalaysianMafia, on 10/12/2007, -8/+69Don't blame me... I voted for Kodos.
- maus56, on 11/12/2007, -5/+66Hmm...seems that the upper atmosphere is inhabited by a race of flying bagel beasts.
- Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63So we need flamethrowers, Knives, and Cream Cheese to defeat them?
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53I love how they spend the first few minutes of the video blathering on about how UFOs will be seen on high definition video by everyone and their dog. Then proceed to show us an hour and a half of blurry pixellated footage of dots.
- Beanlover, on 11/12/2007, -3/+50What this world needs is to be "invaded" by an alien race who eat politicians and pee gasoline.
- fohat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51That's no moon, it's a space station
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45Why the hell should this scare anybody? if they were out to turn us into breakfast they'd have done it already.
- evil, on 10/12/2007, -8/+48Those aren't bagel beasts. They're meatball angels left behind by the flying spaghetti monster!
- EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -8/+41"Come on. I thought digg was supposed to be "better" than slashdot."
It is better. Just look at the quality of front page stories!
I think you mean "hipper than slashdot" ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"... why we didn't go back to the moon.."
i think most people dont realise how insanely far the moon actually is.
I laugh when people say why did we build a space station and not a base on the moon.
The space station is 200 miles away, about 3 hours by car
the moon is 250,000 miles away, about 4,000 hours(167 days) away by car.. and that is without sleep breaks.. or like driving arround the planet 10 times. - peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -19/+49I dugg this mostly becuase it shows creditable government officals (and some not so credible) but mostly credible people talking about UFO's. and then it made me ask the question why didn't we go back to the moon?
It also scares the ***** out of me......
but with all these things you have to take it with a grain of salt. A little bit of dramatic music, couple news headlines, couple people seemingly creditable talking. But damn if even a small part is true I'm scared *****. - FishPoisonCon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37"It was a planned attack, not a conspiracy."
um.. a conspiracy IS a planned attack, WTF???
con·spir·a·cy: An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
[legal] An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
so, unless you think this was planned and executed by ONE person, you believe in a conspiracy - then throw in the fact that not everything is known about ANY of the versions of the story, and you get the theory aspect. no matter what you believe, you believe in a conspiracy theory. i'm not seeing what is so hard to understand about that... - grinin, on 11/12/2007, -1/+28What makes me laugh are the people who simply throw the idea of UFO's and other life forms existing in our universe out the window. I mean.. think about the concept of "infinite space" and the fact that we cannot even fathom space and time... and you're going to tell me that in a universe of infinite possibilities... we were the one freak accident that allowed for life to exist?
- SDE06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23I can't watch this any longer! please get us a version without the retarded background music and sound effects!!!!!!
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -11/+30The beauty of it is that they show these infra-red "ships" right in the first scene so you can click stop right away, knowing you are dealing with nutjobs, and not waste the hour and a half. Very convenient.
- IzeasGT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Isn't calling it a UFO saying "I don't know" by definition? Unidentified Flying Object? Doesn't necessarily mean ETI.
- kuhnsalatlai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Try calling this a conspiracy theory:
"On Wednesday, May 9th, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. "
From the Disclosure Project:
http://www.disclosureproject.com/npcwebcast.htm
See the full press conference here:
http://www.netro.ca/disclosure/npccmenu.htm - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Show me a UFO on high definition video, with corroborating witnesses who still have their teeth, and I'll believe it.
- Phlegon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"... why we didn't go back to the moon.."
Actually, we landed on the moon during six different missions. You can see the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#List_of_manned_moon_landings - inactive, on 11/12/2007, -2/+18We are probably like a zoo, an alien tourist attraction.
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22From having read other articles and seen other shows about this, I think it is more than possible that this was a japanese balloon. The Japanese sent many balloons drifting towards the US mainland that were intended to drop from the sky on cities to start fires. Seems plausible to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20Yes. A hydrogen balloon, when impacted by high velocity bullets, can dematerialize rather quickly :)
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -34/+49The only reason the politicians of the world have kept UFOs and alien life a secret is because it woud dis-prove (or at least diminish a lot of credibility) of major religions. And major religion is how the governments keep the people in check. For thousands of years.
- coldfusion055, on 11/12/2007, -1/+14Although this film contains cheesy on-screen dialog ("What you always knew...") and over-dramatic tear-jerking "Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck" type music, I feel that there's way too much evidence to all be deemed as rubbish. After watching that all with a grain of salt, I still cannot brush it off as a hoax. I believe it would be silly not to be open to the possibility of other interstellar life forms unknown to us just chilling all around our solar system.
- everywhereasign, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21They lost me when they started claiming that hotspots on infrared film are UFO's.
They're common, identified, and not flying. - CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Threat? I dunno...why would Aliens want to attack us if they existed? If you can travel from one solar system to another, I'm sure that there's other solar systems with far more resources than our own. Why buy candy from a candystore that's infected with ants?
- maehem, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Does anyone know if the MythBusters have gone after some of these claims? Most of the footage looks like camera aberations ( lens flares, dust, etc.). I think if the MythBusters can get the same results, it would put a pretty big dent in alot of this stuff.
- celopes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Can they eat religious nuts too?
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16@dmsean - Nationalistic... you on crack, junior? We DID land on the moon. No question about it. It is only doubted by crackpots and wackos. Damn... people will latch onto the flimsiest, most unlikely things right in the face of overwhelming, clear evidence. What is next? The Civil War never happened and all of the photos of it are from large scale dioramas? The Hindenburg wasn't an accident... it was shot down by the worlds first anti-zeppelin guided missile and if you look at photos you can see the flash of it impacting? The color purple is actually orange and the purple dye cartel has been fooling us all along?
BTW, I am most certainly not some whacked out nationalist, go USA, rah, rah we're number 1 kind of person. I tend to believe in things like logic, reason, the scientific method, proof, facts, reason... you know, that kind of wacky stuff. - Brokenmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I really enjoyed that movie, props to the makers, and to the government employees who spoke of it.
- SgnDave, on 11/12/2007, -1/+12"Earth: Mostly harmless."
- hiopilot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Ah yes.. During WWII, the US Mainland was attacked! The US suffered casualties in Oregon. The attacker was Japanese. A Japanese balloon scored a single hit in Oregon killing 6 people.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=11 - eoliveri, on 11/12/2007, -0/+10And crap ice cream.
- sokz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ok, but the entire movie is definitely NOT about rods...
- MurderMystery, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13"From the late fall of 1944 through the early spring of 1945, the Japanese launched more than 9,000 of these fire balloons..."
The Battle of Los Angeles took place on February 25, 1942. - sokz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I see a lot of people claiming all of this is ridiculous and I have no idea what the stuff in this video IS, however, can some people explain to me specifically:
What that tether is at about 20 minutes in to about 26 minutes in, and the weird donut things circling it? The astronauts discuss it quite clearly... Supposedly 12 miles long? What could explanations for that be? Something wrong with the camera, the UV/infrared film? - subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.digg.com/design/Need_More_Proof_of_E_T_The_Disclosure_Project
http://www.disclosureproject.org/ - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Speaking for myself, I do not deny the possible existence of extra-terrestrial life. Indeed, I support Sagan's "napkin calculation" of the possible number of habitable planets. That being said, there has been 0 evidence in our planet's history that have shown we have been visited or observed.
There is a BIG difference in saying you support the potential for something to happen and saying it HAS happened with no physical evidence. - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10As much as I want to believe, everyone seems to think that a 90 minute video on youtube makes something fact nowadays.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Hopefully they won't interfere with the flying spaghetti monster
- syuusuke, on 11/12/2007, -1/+9fast forward to 39:49, pretty interesting footage.
- paradoxy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11hypothetically, if the UFOs do exist, then that would mean there is an extraterrestrial presence near or on the Earth. The people of earth is just not ready for aliens. I mean, come on, from inconsiderate people like the rude photographer girl, to the guy who fired the coach for not playing his kid on defense in football, you have to realize most ppl on earth are stupid, prejudiced, and not very accepting of change. Imagine the mass hysteria that announcing aliens on earth would cause. The middle east would call it western propaganda, lies, etc. the vatican would denounce them as lies too, or else call the aliens demons sent by satan to make us turn away from god, or something like that. there's probably more than one organization that will form to be essentially terrorists to these aliens. Any fan of sci-fi could name you a dozen ways humans will react negatively to aliens. And besides, come on, if a press conference did happen that told us that aliens exist, what would be the initial reaction? ridicule? laughter? and besides, who would issue such a press release? NASA? politicians?
- inactive, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7Did you know that there are countless of cases in which UFOs were tracked by radar and some even by sonar? Time for a real scientific investigation!
- BossX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Why is it that www.disclosureproject.org is a .org non-profit domain, and they really want everyone to know about all this...
Yet when I try to access any information..."A modest donation of only $5 is requested which will give you unlimited access to this secure area. Also, anyone who purchases any of the products from our shopping cart will be granted access."
It costs money to get access to the information they want us all to know? Hmmm... There's also a myriad of Disclosure Project "merchandise" available... Hmmm... It's really fishy - karianna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10If world governments (USA in particular) were truly convinced and worried about an alien presence then I don't think that the space program(s) out there would've died off after the moon landing. It would after all represent the largest opportunity/threat the world has ever seen and nations that want to stay ahead would definitely want to prepare for that.
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