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@FatPhil So, is he claiming it doesn't satisfy #2: I'm lost here. Does that "clear description" need to contain clear descriptions of all precursors and/or equipment needed to make it work? Can the patent be properly issued if it references...

Calls to mind one of Ronald Reagan's favorite jokes, here abbreviated as much as I can without losing the point... One must admire the optimism of the UFO believers, I guess... however unfounded the underlying assumption.

Um, my comparison was partly tongue-in-cheek. I don't believe in fairies, and I wouldn't describe myself as being part of a subculture that "believe in the validity of one and not the other" (visiting alien craft v. fairies). I do not believe...

So, is he claiming it doesn't satisfy #2: So, for a patent to be issued, your invention must meet four conditions: 1. Able to be used (the invention must work and cannot just be a theory) 2. A clear description of how to make and use the...

I'd say that's largely correct as those "centuries of hindsight" included a lot of what we now take for granted as science and technology. Our current understanding of the laws of nature and the development of human biology and culture have...

I really want to double down on this. For all the evidence we have, NHI belong to the category of mythological/folkloric entities as well, we simply don't have the benefit of centuries of hindsight. The "UAP Science Advisory Council" might as...

I assume Avi Loeb will communicate to the media whatever he pleases, as he has done in the past. There are so many reports of fairies, they can't possibly all be false. :p

Tim Printy's analysis of the Stephenville event and the MUFON report has been online for eighteen years, and yes, MUFON (or certain individuals associated with MUFON) have responded). Indeed, one individual from Texas MUFON was quite impressed...

So you discount the possibility that we do not have authentic good pictures of truly anomalous objects because no truly anomalous objects exist?

So, is he claiming it doesn't satisfy #2: So, for a patent to be issued, your invention must meet four conditions: 1. Able to be used (the invention must work and cannot just be a theory) 2. A clear description of how to make and use the...

I really want to double down on this. For all the evidence we have, NHI belong to the category of mythological/folkloric entities as well, we simply don't have the benefit of centuries of hindsight. The "UAP Science Advisory Council" might as...

Tim Printy's analysis of the Stephenville event and the MUFON report has been online for eighteen years, and yes, MUFON (or certain individuals associated with MUFON) have responded). Indeed, one individual from Texas MUFON was quite impressed...

What is a "true report" and can you point to one that came out of the New Jersey drone flap?

Hoax signals are probably an important consideration for anyone involved in SETI. Incidental noise from terrestrial sources at least as much. The discoverers of LGM-1 (pulsar PSR B1919+21), the first pulsar detected, 1967...

No indeed, I'm rather trying logic vs. the purely rethorical assertion you made: This assertion has exactly zero epistemological value, as demonstrated by the fact that you can change the subject at will to fairies, leprechauns, angels, demons...