Senior US military officer: ‘Zero doubt’ of alien life on earth | Reality Check

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Not my debate position, which was hard to be so paranoid and nihilistic on.

Well, your argument was increasingly effective, though I think that time has passed, as you do. There is no need to worry about Alien or NHI contact because we are likely up to our armpits with NHI/Alien contact issues. 

It's not difficult to insert ourselves into several of our sci-fi movie tropes, which include a Stargate theory. Hell, we could be in several different scenarios to varying degrees. 

the concept of there possibly being something akin to a Stargate left by a previous intelligent species. Like "The Ancients". Like Antarctica may have found an ancient something, not dissimilar from the debunked Boyd expedition. Maybe. Possibly.

This Boyd expedition? damn, I never heard of her, sometimes I think Ive been put on a different timeline. Ive read a decent amount about polar expeditions, especially in the context of WWII. well here's another book to read


 

I listened to a Coast2Coast interview like 15 years ago where the former Canadian Defence Minister was musing on how the Galactic Federation gets a live feed of the Olympics, because it's the only part of our social geopolitical interaction they really like.

Canada's ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we'd stop wars

Paul Hellyer, who has long insisted that aliens have visited Earth for many years, says that when aliens saw the atomic bomb they decided that we were a great threat to the cosmos.

 

it was solidified when a girlfriend described the ComicCon Stargate SG-1 panel she went too.

It wasn't your typical audience. It was half military people in Uniform, and a crazy number of USAF and Navy. It's like the only show ever that has made "top secret classification" positive. For once its not a narrative of an oppressive top secret world. The one that says, "Maybe there really is more going on, and though you cant know, it's actually in the greater good."

Hmmm If it was San Diego Comic Con, it makes sense loads of the military would casually attend. Still, it also makes sense that the military would like to use a Hollywood production to gauge societal responses to such a story. I always pondered that if there were an Atlantis perhaps that is where a potential "Stargate" was and we lost it, either accidently or the sinking of Atlantis was deliberate. I could easily see the Navy being involved after all lots of UFOs, UAPs, USOs accounts were ran through the Office of Naval Intelligence. Still are IIRC
 

I believe in silencers and agents in black. But like the positive endings in Stargate I believe even the classified has a common underlying desire to rather see subjective good topple subjective evil. Even top secret ones.

I don't like seeing the government as my nefarious enemy and prefer to believe "The nobblest good embiggens" like every copy/paste government motto suggests.

And that's a more natural point for me to take. Because it doesn't defer to a fuck the world mentality.

If I had to force this topic into a theory it would be partially in the Men in Black scenario, in as it is constantly and chaotically interacting with various entities some good and some not. I do hope our military is in charge, I could see where Aliens/NHI would be above our petty humanistic squabbles. Perhaps so much so to our detriment. I can casually mention human abduction and experiment cases with a modicum of detachment. Whereas if it happened to me personally I would be terrified and feel violated AF.