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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I think our planet has been subjected to stress about equal to finding an extraterrestrial in the last year. At least this country is more divided and angry than it has been in my lifetime. I don't accept that as a plausible reason.
Both you and Rubicon, one of you we know personally, are people I respect very much, and would leave our house keys with and trust in all ways.
I respect both of your judgement and fair evaluation.
I don't think the government would keep proof of aliens from us.
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I don't know GG, I think the revelation of proof of extraterrestrial visitation would be so disruptive to our religious institutions and social order that it probably would need to be kept secret, at least until society could acclimate to the possibility. Hollywood and the media have been producing movies that do this for 70 years, both good and bad aliens. I'm at a point that I would not be surprised if an alien ship landed in my backyard. When enough people feel the same way, maybe we'll have a big revelation, maybe not.
There are about a zillion things about our ancient history that we don't know, and I'm pretty convinced that the timeline of man's activity on this planet is flat out wrong. Why does that Hawasi guy continue to insist the great pyramid was built as a tomb for Khufu over a 20 year span around 2470 BC? It fit the traditional timeline of man just starting to form permanent settlements and switching from hunter-gatherers to agrarian settlements around 4-5000 BC. However, discovery of megalithic sites such as Gobeckli Teppe dating to 12,000 BC should pretty much dispel the traditional timeline, but so far it hasn't.
The ancient alien theorists can spin a lot of evidence and mysteries to make their case, but none of it is anywhere near conclusive. My main problem with it is threefold:
1) You have to be able to travel much faster than light, and then find us at a time that we had no electromagnetic footprint to follow
2) With all their advanced knowledge and technology, which would included extensive knowledge of material sciences, why would they choose to build structures out of 50 ton slabs of stone? I doubt they built their spaceships out of stone.
3) We are asked to believe that an alien race that can navigate the stars at FTL speeds, avoid stars, planets, nebulae, black holes and God knows what else, would come to Earth and have dozens of UFO crashes, a safety record worse than US Air.