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Hevach replied to the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs.The weird thing about any species developing civilization is that nature keeps remaking its greatest hits like a film studio that ran out of ideas a billion years ago. Pretty-much-whale terrestrial tetrapods have been returning to the seas since... -
59:12 [Farah] The experience you experienced was what it was like for me going down this rabbit hole. I have 34 people in the film, but I also spoke to dozens of other people who weren't comfortable going on camera for one reason or another. Some... -
It's more than just HOW we think, but WHAT we've been taught, too. Medical students see what happens in the human body after death, and may be more skeptical of ghost stories. Physicists know the limitations of travel in our atmosphere, and may...
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Makes sense. Part of a science education is building a capacity think and reason in data and math rather than the purely narrative tools we develop growing up.
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Mick West replied to the thread Fixed VIdeo not playing (Brazilian photographer films dozens of UFOs).I've made some improvements to the loading of large files. Could you see if there's any difference? -
Mick West replied to the thread Firelike object soars through the night sky!.Looks like space junk Date, time, location?
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Bamber7182 posted the thread Firelike object soars through the night sky! in Skydentify - What is that Thing in the Sky?.Can anyone tell me what this is? -
Gary C reacted to NorCal Dave's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with
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I did read that years ago. Niven used a similar concept in The Flight of The Horse. IIRC, the time-traveling protagonist ends up going sideways in time to an alternate reality where the intelligent bipedal inhabitants have evolved from bears... -
Gary C reacted to Greene's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
Which reminds me, it's been too long since I read Footfall. I came so close to posting that. A personal favorite.
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RTM reacted to NorCal Dave's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
I did read that years ago. Niven used a similar concept in The Flight of The Horse. IIRC, the time-traveling protagonist ends up going sideways in time to an alternate reality where the intelligent bipedal inhabitants have evolved from bears... -
NorCal Dave replied to the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs.I did read that years ago. Niven used a similar concept in The Flight of The Horse. IIRC, the time-traveling protagonist ends up going sideways in time to an alternate reality where the intelligent bipedal inhabitants have evolved from bears... -
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NorCal Dave reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
Well as the elephants developed culture and civilization, more nutritious crops would put downward selection pressure on body mass. One or two mutations to the trunk to allow for tool use and you get something like this ...
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NorCal Dave reacted to Scaramanga's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
Lol....this reminds me of a ridiculously lengthy argument, I forget whether it was here or at Michael Shermer's skeptic site, may have been both, about whether elephants could become a space-faring species. The context was my argument that only...
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NorCal Dave reacted to FatPhil's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
And for those who don't get the secondary joke: img url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Cow_Tools_cartoon.png via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools "Cow tools" is a cartoon from The Far Side by American cartoonist Gary...
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Greene reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
Well as the elephants developed culture and civilization, more nutritious crops would put downward selection pressure on body mass. One or two mutations to the trunk to allow for tool use and you get something like this ...
