On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 12:14:49 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 10:48:48 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/27/2018 5:28 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 7:00:56 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/27/2018 2:40 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 3:32:18 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/27/2018 10:10 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> > I used to work on Carl Sagan's staff and I know his views quite well. >>>> > What is striking about the YouTube videos, particularly the one >>>> > initiating the organization, where many physicists, engineers, >>>> > astronauts, etc;, were present affirming the existence of >>>> > extraterrestrials in contact with our present day civilization, is >>>> > that they are BANNED! This should tell you something about the >>>> > so-called respect for "free speech" and objective analysis of >>>> > information contradicting the conventional wisdom. >>>> >>>> When something is BANNED, but freely available, I'm reminded of how >>>> novels used to be advertised as "Banned in Boston." >>>> >>>> > You are an example of someone whose assessment on this subject is >>>> > based ENTIRELY but a negative bias. You don't actually know squat >>>> > about extra terrestrial intelligence, >>>> >>>> But then neither do you, since there's no evidence on the subject. >>>> >>> >>> >>> *Just eyewitness accounts from people of all walks of life, like those >>> reports of stones falling from the sky in the 19th Century. AG * >>> >>> >>> When people said stones fell from the sky they were asked where were the >>> stones? When a stone was found they were believed. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> There were also some spectacular events. 150 years ago a Chelyabinsk >> scale meteoroid or asteroid exploded over Poland. Lots of rocks fell out of >> the sky. This meant a lot of people saw this. A fair number of these events >> were public displays. UFOs tend not to have that feature. >> >> >> There are unexplained sights witnessed by multiple people. But that >> doesn't justify Aliens of the gap. >> >> Brent >> > > Most UFOs tend to be optical. >
*Yes, most, but not all. There are many cases of simultaneous radar and optical contact. But let's forget about those. It reduces the cognitive dissonances. AG* > The atmosphere can easily have a cold dense region a few kilometers up > that has a higher index of refraction than a warm layer below. This can > result in light from a town or city being lensed back to the ground some > distance away. This will then appear as a moving shimmering light of some > kind. This is called optical ducting. It was first noted as the Zemlya > effect, where the Soviets would detonate nuclear explosives in this arctic > island and Eskimos in Alask would see the bright burst in the sky. > > Most UFOs appear as some sort of lights, they rarely appear as some solid > object that if you spit on it the spit would stick to. > > LC > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
