Eeesh.
Maybe blur?
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trigger warning not enough?
ok.
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Hard to not see the still from the video when innocently scrolling . . . but NBD.
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Not clicking on it.
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Marge gonna fix it.
Iâm going to tell you right now that if they try to tell us all to stay inside, stay home, shelter in place âFOR OUR SAFETYâ from the drones, there is no way in hell I will comply with that absolute bullshit.
Not doing it.
No way.
Iâll shoot the drones down myself along with every other red blooded freedom loving American
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Sheâs gonna shoot
?
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First panel
AN UFO!!!
Whrere!?
Second panel
There!
I can´t see
Third panel
Gimme your glasses
Fourth panel
Wow, it is gone.
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David DeCoteau needs to turn that into a movie immediately.
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Iâve not heard of DeCoteau before but a google search convinces me it would be a darn good match.
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Luckily the Earth is always open.
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The belief that the âUS governmentâ reverse-engineered alien technology always drives me crazy (and I even roll my eyes at sci-fi stories that involve reverse-engineering alien/future technology). I have an uncle who believes in that shit. I do enjoy being enraged by it, though, as itâs such a fun exercise in thinking about science and technology work.
For one thing, all the technologies they point to as the ones so benefiting (e.g. computer chips), are things where we only see incremental improvements based on a lot of very public, very well-documented papers and research (involving people all around the world). They claim that the alien tech allowed for mysterious leaps in technological advancement, that we just donât see.
My main problem, however, is that Technology. Doesnât. Work. That. Way. The whole idea of that kind of leap doesnât make sense. We only âreverse engineerâ things based on comparable understandings of physics and manufacturing techniques. If you took a modern computer chip back to the end of the 1920s, less than 100 years ago, at the point where they had quantum physics all the other basic science necessary to understand how it works, it wouldnât help them build it. On the science side, building the chip requires a modern, finer understanding of quantum physics beyond what they had, science derived in part from the challenges and phenomena seen in the previous generations of chips. Then thereâs the practical side of investigating it and replicating it. Theyâd lack the tools (e.g. electron microscopes) necessary to even explore the basic structure of it (and certainly not without totally destroying it); there would be no way to look at particular parts while they functioned to see how they operated. They lacked transistors, semiconductors (etc.) Even if they could somehow derive the idea of transistors or silicon-based semiconductors, it wouldnât help much. Theyâd still have to figure out how to make them, with no understanding of the basic processes to make a crude IC. Theyâd not even have the tools (nor the tools to make the toolsâŚ) to make the equipment. Much less to make a modern IC that took generation upon generation of tool and equipment improvement and understanding of the processes. Heck, they wouldnât even have the materials needed - only a couple places on Earth have silicon of the required purity for modern chips. Take the chips back about 200 years, all they might understand is âit uses electricity, but otherwise appears to be magic.â Further back than that, it would be pure magic. I often wonder if thereâs any time in the past you could take a modern computer chip back to (say even 10 or 20 years) that would cause any sort of leap in chip development. I suspect not.
And the claim is being made about supposed alien technology that allows interstellar travel with reasonable time/energy requirements, which would violate physics as we know it. Thatâs not something thatâs based on current science, much less technology. Weâd have no basis for beginning to understand it, much less reverse-engineer it or build it.
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Sure, but theyâre talking about the more obvious alien tech: Velcro, onesies for grown-ups, eggnog, that sort of thing. /s
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Iâve seen people seriously suggest that Velcro came from aliens⌠the product based on a natural material that people frequently interacted with, that was just waiting for someone to work out a manufacturing process to make. Adult onesies seem downright plausible as alien technology in comparison.
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Maybe this is why the F-35 still sucks.
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They have an easier time believing it involved alien technology than that it involved Lynn Conwayâs work. Thatâs just un-possible.
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