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Ben Finn's avatar

One more belated point around the orbiting projectors theory, as it seems oddly burdensome: my objection was that if aliens can get actual craft at least as close as earth orbit, why wouldn't sightings of apparent alien craft close enough to see be actual craft, rather than fake craft created by actual craft?

I mean the following respectfully as a serious point, not snarky: I wonder if there's a near-far thing going on here. It seems (as with other scientists) like you're comfortable with the idea of aliens far away in other galaxies and star systems, and even (unlike most scientists) with aliens 100 miles up. But you resist the idea they're closer than that, like 1 mile away, or indeed directly interacting with humans (e.g. abducting them).

So I wonder if aliens that close seem too real and concrete (and maybe dangerous) to believe, and it's easier to deal with them as faraway things of which we know little - OK to do abstract reasoning and calculations about, but comfortably unreal.

Hence the extra, burdensome details in your account to keep alien craft at a safe distance, while the sightings are of fake craft. So the real stuff is far away, and the close stuff isn't real.

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Eric Goodemote's avatar

Uh, did you read this sentence? "Or, relatedly, they were sent to earth originally to observe life before we were here."

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