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    #51
    Originally posted by Beercules View Post
    Ok. Modern engineers said this wouldn't be possible today. The stones used in Egypt are too far for humans to carry. What about all the pyramids aligning with the Sirius star system?

    There have been allegations of suppression of UFO related evidence for many decades. There are also conspiracy theories which claim that physical evidence might have been removed and/or destroyed/suppressed by some governments. Some examples follow.

    On July 7, 1947, William Rhodes photographed an unusual object over Phoenix, Arizona.[48] The photos appeared in a Phoenix newspaper and a few other papers. An Army Air Force intelligence officer and an FBI agent interviewed Rhodes on August 29 and convinced him to surrender the negatives, which he did the next day. He was informed he wouldn't be getting them back, but later he tried, unsuccessfully, to retrieve them.[49][50] The photos were analyzed and subsequently appeared in some classified Air Force UFO intelligence reports. (Randle, 34–45, full account)[18]

    A June 27, 1950, movie of a "flying disk" over Louisville, Kentucky, taken by a Louisville Courier-Journal photographer, had the USAF Directors of counterintelligence (AFOSI) and intelligence discussing in memos how to best obtain the movie and interview the photographer without revealing Air Force interest. One memo suggested the FBI be used, then precluded the FBI getting involved. Another memo said "it would be nice if OSI could arrange to secure a copy of the film in some covert manner," but if that wasn't feasible, one of the Air Force scientists might have to negotiate directly with the newspaper.[51][52] In a recent interview, the photographer confirmed meeting with military intelligence and still having the film in his possession until then, but refused to say what happened to the film after that.[53]

    In another 1950 movie incident from Montana, Nicholas Mariana filmed some unusual aerial objects and eventually turned the film over to the U.S. Air Force, but insisted that the first part of the film, clearly showing the objects as spinning discs, had been removed when it was returned to him. (Clark, 398)[20]

    According to some conspiracy theorists, during the military investigation of green fireballs in New Mexico, UFOs were photographed by a tracking camera over White Sands Proving Grounds on April 27, 1949. They claim that the final report in 1951 on the green fireball investigation claimed there was insufficient data to determine anything. Conspiracy theorists claim that documents later uncovered by Dr. Bruce Maccabee indicate that triangulation was accomplished. The conspiracy theorists also claim that the data reduction and photographs showed four objects about 30 feet in diameter flying in formation at high speed at an altitude of about 30 miles. According to conspiracy theorists, Maccabee says this result was apparently suppressed from the final report.[54]

    On January 22, 1958, when NICAP director Donald Keyhoe appeared on CBS television, his statements on UFOs were pre-censored by the Air Force. During the show when Keyhoe tried to depart from the censored script to "reveal something that has never been disclosed before," CBS cut the sound, later stating Keyhoe was about to violate "predetermined security standards" and about to say something he wasn't "authorized to release." Conspiracy theorists claim that what Keyhoe was about to reveal were four publicly unknown military studies concluding UFOs were interplanetary (including the 1948 Project Sign Estimate of the Situation and Blue Book's 1952 engineering analysis of UFO motion). (Good, 286–287; Dolan 293–295)[16][25]

    A March 1, 1967 memo directed to all USAF divisions, from USAF Lt. General Hewitt Wheless, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, stated that unverified information indicated that unknown individuals, impersonating USAF officers and other military personnel, had been harassing civilian UFO witnesses, warning them not to talk, and also confiscating film, referring specifically to the Heflin incident. AFOSI was to be notified if any personnel were to become aware of any other incidents. (Document in Fawcett & Greenwood, 236.)[55]

    John Callahan, former Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA, Washington D.C., also a Disclosure Project witness, said that following the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident that involved a giant UFO over Alaska, recorded by air and ground radar, the FAA conducted an investigation. Callahan held a briefing a few days later for President Reagan's Scientific Study Group, the FBI, and CIA. After the briefing, one of the CIA agents told everybody they "were never there and this never happened," adding they were fearful of public panic.[56]

    According to one theory related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA killed Kennedy in order to prevent him from leaking information to the Soviet Union about a covert program to reverse-engineer alien technology (i.e. Majestic 12).[57]


    Originally posted by - Righteous - View Post
    The chances of us developing consciousness out of nothingness are the same chances for a higher being developing it on a grander scale.

    What i'm trying to say is, God is no bigger miracle than we are. We're from the same cloth.

    Life at it's very definition is in itself an unfathomable miracle.
    smdh more nonsensical gibberish from young religious freaks with a lot of growing up to do.

    To Righteous and Beercules trying to ruin this great scientific thread:

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      #52
      i'm not talking about religion

      i'm talking about reality.

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        #53
        Originally posted by - Righteous - View Post
        i'm not talking about religion

        i'm talking about reality.

        reality?

        so why are you talking about god?

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          #54
          Originally posted by The Tase View Post
          reality?

          so why are you talking about God?
          That's a question you need to answer, not me. I already know the truth.

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            #55
            Originally posted by MrTambourineMan View Post
            You seem to keep picking up your Mother's self help books and are confusing them with actual Philosophy.
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              #56
              Originally posted by - Righteous - View Post
              The chances of us developing consciousness out of nothingness are the same chances for a higher being developing it on a grander scale.

              There is a fair bit of evidence that we actually exist. I think that might make your comparison slightly problematic.

              Unless God also questions our existence.....and is having the same conversation with his peeps right now!

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                #57
                Originally posted by - Righteous - View Post
                That's a question you need to answer, not me. I already know the truth.


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                  #58
                  Speaking of small, here is an article about the Scanning Transmission Electron Holography Microscope (STEHM).



                  Herring viewed gold atoms through the microscope at a resolution of 35 picometres. One picometre is a trillionth of a metre. This resolution is much better than the previous best image with 49-picometre resolution taken at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory in California, and is about 20 million times human sight.

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by ABOSWORTH View Post
                    I was just looking at this the other day and almost posted it.

                    Here is an interactive one.

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                      #60
                      Just been browsing the interactive version again and this blew me away:

                      "IC 1101 is the largest known Galaxy. It contains about 100 Trillion stars. Our Galaxy, The Milky Way, has only 250 Billion, so IC 1101 has 400 times more stars than the Milky Way."

                      Forget the question "Is there Intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe"? The numbers suggest there are hundreds if not thousands of different species of intelligent life form in the IC 1101 Galaxy alone.

                      Sadly though, until interstellar travel comes out of the realm of Science-Fiction, It's likely that we'll never know.
                      Last edited by Oasis_Lad; 01-17-2014, 02:27 AM.

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