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    Rutherford B. Hayes, caretaker presidentAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 10:50am

    This shouldn’t even be controversial position. Most scientists believe that other lifeforms most certainly exist in the universe. The quesiton is whether or not we will ever intersect, given the unimaginable distances between us.

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      Quasar FunkRutherford B. Hayes, caretaker president
      4/08/16 10:53am

      Is that what the questions is?

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      BobbySeriousRutherford B. Hayes, caretaker president
      4/08/16 10:55am

      Because of the religious implications, because it would make people start questioning everything.......ie, people might become less controllable.

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    CameropsAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 11:18am

    I will tell you why you don’t get good messages out from government WRT aliens.

    Because you’ve actually got a handful of intelligent people in government, and they’ve looked in the sky and expected to find trails in the far infrared and millimeter wave from the heating expected from interstellar travelers. And they didn’t find any.

    Any.

    This means that there is some barrier for intelligent species, across which NONE have yet crossed. Maybe it’s a technological barrier, or a laws-of-physics problem, but maybe it’s self-annihilation.

    Perhaps when a species develops the MEANS for self-annihilation in an environment of differing social, political, and religious goals, civilizations simply destroy themselves. Not on purpose, but perhaps inevitably.

    If you hand a child a hand grenade, no matter what, eventually, that child will destroy itself. It doesn’t want to, it doesn’t need to, but it WILL happen at some point in that child’s life.

    And we are but children, and we have been handed grenades by our fathers. We are still alive, but some tiny fraction of us is convinced that pulling the pin out will get them free passes into the all-day no-token video game arcade forever.

    How do we survive? And will that self-preservation path line up with liberty? Will it be compatible with privacy?

    THAT is why your government doesn’t talk a lot about aliens.

    Because aliens is less scary than no aliens.

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      Ashley FeinbergCamerops
      4/08/16 11:39am

      You ok, pal?

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      whenlifegivesyoulemonsCamerops
      4/08/16 11:42am

      Fermi paradox is old hat, yo!

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    RobertMadooAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 10:52am

    Wow he’s such an interesting, wacky dude! I see no reason to mention that he’s implicated in the Panama Papers because he’s so fun!

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      toothpetardRobertMadoo
      4/08/16 10:59am

      We’ve finally hit on a real issue, with relevance.

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      Mr_ManfrenjensendenRobertMadoo
      4/08/16 11:01am

      I mean, he’s not really implicated in the papers. His brother registered as a lobbyist for a state-owned Russian bank at the end of March, not exactly a smoking gun.

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    HoldenCashAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 10:49am

    Wasn’t there a book that had the *actual* cause behind Area 51 and the ‘alien’ thing?

    EDIT: The book exists and the author was interviewed on NPR...here it is:

    http://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136…

    The thing that crashed at Roswell was a soviet blimp made to look like an alien ship with surgically altered people or chimps.

    The whole ‘Alienz!’ thing was a Soviet hoax to destabalize the US.

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      Luke ColoradoHoldenCash
      4/08/16 10:53am

      Yes, by a retired somebody... the author of his story was interviewed on Fresh Air a few years back IIRC. Fascinating.

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      HoldenCashLuke Colorado
      4/08/16 10:57am

      the author of his story was interviewed on Fresh Air a few years back IIRC

      YES! Found it:

      http://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136…

      It really was all a Soviet hoax!!!

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    Mount_PrionAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 10:53am

    Where is Kucinich when you need him?!

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      toothpetardMount_Prion
      4/08/16 10:58am
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      kamla devitoothpetard
      4/08/16 11:06am

      damn you toothpetard!!!!! I am going to have to explain why I am laughing and no one in my cube room will get it!!!!

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    Quasar FunkAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 10:50am

    The Clintons need to quit putting this guy on a podestal.

    (I’ll see myself out.)

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      NGC 1976Quasar Funk
      4/08/16 10:53am

      Meh, that joke is Podestrian at best.

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      Quasar FunkNGC 1976
      4/08/16 10:54am

      What can I say, I wrote it on the John.

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    Ed SpockAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 11:15am

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      Demon!Ed Spock
      4/08/16 11:33am

      Look. Wholesale denials during the 80's and prior were legit.

      Here we have what should be a simple explanation, and those with knowledge seem to be further obstructing the half-a-century-old shit.

      This doesn’t lend to minimizing the rumors at all.

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      Ed SpockDemon!
      4/08/16 12:10pm

      The government isn’t going to let people into a top secret military and research facility.

      And even if they did and let people turn over every inch of the place all some people would do is say “Well they hid everything somewhere else BEFORE they let us in.”

      They could also release every piece of documentation and evidence on the Roswell crash ever created and people would still go “Yeah, but what AREN’T they showing us.

      Frankly I think the government just decided “It’s a top secret facility. If people want to think it has something to do with aliens, despite how ridiculous the mere premise is.......fine. Nothing we say or do is going to change their minds. We’ve got better things to worry about.”

      And frankly I don’t blame them. How many times can you say “Yes we’re doing shit we don’t want the public to know, but it has nothing to do with aliens.” before you decide it’s not worth the effort anymore and let people believe what they want.

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    ThenSAAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 11:01am

    -Madame President, the truth is we have discovered alien lifeforms.

    -Ok. While I am surprised, do you feel the American public should know about them?

    -I think they should know about them. But I doubt you will want them to know.

    - Don’t tell me what I should think.

    - It’s just... well... it is just the name of the planet they are from.

    - What is it?

    - Benghazi.

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      JamezyThenSA
      4/08/16 11:52am

      fucking GOLD!

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      WildaBeastThenSA
      4/08/16 12:58pm

      So much yes!

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerAshley Feinberg
    4/08/16 11:00am

    Podesta sighed, looked hard at Tapper, and pulled him into the nearest restroom. In a harsh whisper, he began: "Look, goddammit. If this shit got out, we'd all be done for! You have no idea what you're dealing with! The military advancements we made based on the discoveries, the social engineering efforts, the experiment that eventually became known as 'Ted Cruz'. You can't keep pressing this, goddammit! Just drop it, Tapper! You'll thank me later."

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      Mopy T. WhaleAshley Feinberg
      4/08/16 11:40am

      Vote for Trump: get a wall
      Vote for Sanders: get an apology for slavery
      Vote for Hillary: get aliens!

      I think we all know who wins here.

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