It's a little Chile for a UFO

[ozma914]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/groundbreaking-ufo-video-just-released-from-chilean_us_586d37bce4b014e7c72ee56b

I'm one of those people who "wants to believe", but carries a big ol' grain of salt for stuff like this. Just the same, the Chilean authorities seem to have done their due diligence and were willing to admit that they just don't know,

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[lifefailsme]

I swear I use ten pounds of salt a month with all the pinches I take. We've got the Hubble up there and not a single starship has been seen but we can see thousands and thousands of galaxies away. The "local group" alone is unimaginable as it is...

I think I am with The Prof on the whole if aliens are there thing. Him and the notion that intelligent races tend to destroy themselves before being able to actually make it off the planet in a substantial way. But I have always been a glass half empty type so I would feel that way lol *shrug*

[ozma914]

The thing it's hard to wrap my head around is the fact that those telescopes can see objects millions of light years away more easily than stuff in our own system--but then, the distant objects are unimaginably bigger and way brighter. We're almost sure now that there's another planet many times the size of Earth here in our system, and no one's ever glimpsed it! I figure there could be hundreds of alien spacecraft near Earth, and we'd have no idea.

The way I see it, if a race survives at all long enough to develop interstellar travel, they're not going to be the type to just destroy another intelligent race. BUT, that doesn't mean they won't do it by accident.

[lifefailsme]

You're right, never thunk of it that way but stand converted :) That planet has a nickname like "Planet One" or something and I cant remember it but I watched a doco about it. They said it made our solar system a LOT bigger just by existing to where we thought it ended. Was interesting but obviously not enough for my brain to retain any of the details. *sigh* lol

I want to stand converted on the second point but I dont think I have enough faith in humanity and my brain imposes that on all other possible races. Lame reasoning I know.

[ozma914]

Planet Nine they're calling it, because the bastards demoted Pluto. Bastards! But it's so far out that some astronomer are now calling what we know as the Outer Solar System ... the Middle Solar System.