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Yes I have. I posted about it in an unrelated article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198

I’d make a correction though. It was not as fast as a super fast bird but more akin to a lightning fast game of laser tag or air hokey. The weirdest thing is that for some reason it immediately impressed on me that this was technology.

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It's interesting for sure. It's a mystery. Could be intentional misdirection by the government, could be beings from another planet or dimension, could be something I can't even wrap my brain around.

It could be silicon based life reassembling itself into a super computer. And maybe it has evolved to a point where it’s capable of exploring the outside world just as we have as humans. At least that’s my leading hypothesis. After all silicon is one of the most abundant material inside the crust. It worked on the surface for carbon based life. And I can’t imagine anything being able to travel here from interstellar space. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-530...

It's arguable that beings from another world actually exist although we now know that absent almost surely impossible ftl getting here would be a tremendous effort rendering the supposition that explorers are just popping in quite silly.

Far from improving the situation positing other dimensions which we have no proof exist, and beings that we have no proof even can exist seems to make the theory much weaker not stronger.

Our understanding of physics is still primitive compared to Type I, Type II, and Type III civilizations. Be humble.

It's fairly reasonable that infinitely advanced civilizations will never have ftl travel.

Not if they are unmanned subluminal probes that are really old and took thousands of years to get here. /pet theory

Yes, because if you are unable to explain such phenomena, then surely it must be technological!

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