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Which raises the interesting question, where are the running TO?

I'm going to say that the connection to Flat Earth "gravity is fake" stuff, while tenuous at best, is sufficient to allow this to be posted:

Well there is some room for interpretation but ... Same species, same brains, same hands ... (edited to add text from the original that was not part of the graphic)

Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large...

I'm going to say that the connection to Flat Earth "gravity is fake" stuff, while tenuous at best, is sufficient to allow this to be posted:

Given we are at it, can you tell me what's the correct pronunciation of Shaeffer? (IPA if possible plz). Thanks.

The probability is nonzero for the Bayesian approach because it assumes you see one positive result on top of every negative result you know about. I estimated a million UFO reports and no UFO to arrive at 0.0001%. It looks impossible to me. The...

No, because we understand the physics of how things behave in our atmosphere, for example. I'm not talking about "how could an alien civilization break the laws of physics at home", because that's not something we have any way of knowing -...

I'm going to say that the connection to Flat Earth "gravity is fake" stuff, while tenuous at best, is sufficient to allow this to be posted:

I realize this is a quite late response, but I just looked into this and the utter denseness of the bolded statement " there is no indication in the audio record of communications with Houston" as if it were a major discovery is mindblowing... A...

My bad! The red plate was time stamped 8:52:00 and the blue one was 9:45:00. I mistook the 8 for a 9. I think the point is, NBC was using red and blue plates from the same session to illustrate transients, both in the intro and in the b-roll...

Some people have difficulties spelling, and names are rarely in autocorrect (and if they are, they can be wrong). I would not attribute any error to malice, unless the person persists in not correcting it if asked politely—and Schaeffer Scheaffer...

When you get to geosynchronous orbit, the Earth's umbral shadow is very small, (about 2% of the sky) and I am not particularly surprised that there are random irregularities in the distribution of 'transients' that might appear to be significant...

I'm going to say that the connection to Flat Earth "gravity is fake" stuff, while tenuous at best, is sufficient to allow this to be posted:

Absolutely wonderful! :) I'd love for first contact to involve baby elephants visiting the United Nations and shaking trunks with all the world leaders. Perhaps that's the perfect plot for Disclosure Day II?!