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“Space ships” found hiding on Vesta...
News article:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird...t-c-waring-ufo Claims two “diamond shaped” spacecraft are resting on the surface of the large asteroid, Vesta. The photograph is certainly convincing.... If you squint real hard. |
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Ridiculous.
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Heaven's Gate refueling before returning. Whoops, no one saved their bodies.
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Their bodies were only vehicles or vessels so they didn't need them at the level beyond human.
But maybe you can find some of their testicles lying around somewhere. Apparently you also don't need those on Sirius ... |
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I, for one, welcome our new diamond shaped overlords.
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Clearly Bigfoot.
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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I wonder how big the "spaceships" are? A few meters long maybe?
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Nobody's claimed that the aliens are bigger than squirrels!
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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I see the journalistic standards of the Express have improved. Once they wouldn't even have bothered to provide a photo, just printed any fiction that came to mind. The Express is the modern version of the Sunday Sport, a copy of which always resided in our communal kitchen at Uni.
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Like the WW2 German bomber on the moon.
They had a picture for that. And a picture for when the bomber disappeared! |
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So, something equivalent to the old “Sun” tabloid over here....
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I've been seeing a lot of headlines from the Express on Google News lately, most of them implying that an eruption at Yellowstone is imminent. I've generally been ignoring them, but the "spaceships on Vesta" story seems to be confirming my impression that they publish a lot of garbage.
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The Yellowstone stuff is likely as accurate as their weather prediction headlines, such as this one from 2014 when they predicted that series of storms bringing 'carnage' and incorporating tornadoes and 'monsoons' was about to hit the UK, reminiscent of a storm 170 years previously in which a "'supercell' led to hailstones leaving craters FIVE FEET deep across England." It was with no great surprise that hailstones with the explosive force of Brimstone missiles failed to materialise, as did all the rest of the predicted phenomena.
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That's hysterical. I've experienced some serious hailstorms (I used to live in Denver, CO, and still work near there), with hailstones up to 3 in. diameter but none that made craters 5 feet deep (or 5 inches deep). I don't think a hailsone can make a "crater" at all, unless it hits some very soft dirt. Big ones often shatter when they hit the ground. They can do some pretty bad damage to cars (dents and broken windows) or to roofs or windows of houses.
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Scout ships for the coming invasion, obviously...
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