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There's a growing body of evidence that Earth has already been visited numerous times by something other than humans.

Certain classes of UAPs demonstrate flight characteristics that are not possible given our current understanding of gravity and aerodynamics.

Dozens of credible eye witnesses from multiple countries; fighter pilots, commercial pilots, nuclear physicists, and high ranking government officials.

Source "In Plain Sight", US Navy fighter pilots David Fravor and Ryan Graves, etc.

People are quick to dismiss these stories as hoaxes or bad memory, but scientific discovery almost always starts with an unusual or unexplained observation.

Uranium was discovered in 1785 and ionizing radiation wasn't discovered for another 110 years in 1895. True scientific understanding of new observations takes quite a while.

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> There's a growing body of evidence that Earth has already been visited numerous times by something other than humans.

>Certain classes of UAPs demonstrate flight characteristics that are not possible given our current understanding of gravity and aerodynamics.

Correction: there's a growing body of evidence of things that look like they're demonstrating "characteristics that are not possible given our current understanding of gravity and aerodynamics". It's a leap to conclude there are actual objects that are violating our understanding of gravity and aerodynamics. The fact that these observations are always in the context of grainy/ambiguous videos should cast some doubt on whether they belong to "something other than humans" or are just optical illusions/artifacts.

>Dozens of credible eye witnesses from multiple countries; fighter pilots, commercial pilots, nuclear physicists, and high ranking government officials.

The credentials you specified are only good insofar as to ensure they're not making shit up, but it does nothing to address concerns that they're looking at optical illusions/artifacts.

The credence given to UAPs on HN after recent declassified reports is puzzling. Ufology is a very cool field, but it's astounding to see people shape their worldviews based on such scanty "evidence." And who's to say that the whole thing isn't just a massive disinformation psyop?

Those aliens would bring own bacteria that could kill a lot of things if not everyrhing on Earth.

Somehow people have this "star trek" thinking, that hypothetical unknown microbes from other planet wont eat you alive, because you are somehow immune to them.

A species which has mastered inter-stellar travel and tractor beams (/s) probably has some higher control over their own biology and sanitation practices.

Just because they're advanced in one domain doesn't mean they are also in an unrelated one.

I've never understood why alien bacteria are a perceived threat. Viruses and bacteria share the same genetic material as we do, and literally evolved to infect organisms of that ilk. I have always supposed that alien viruses would just be inert, and alien bacteria would rapidly die off in the inhospitable environment of an earth-organism's body.

Bacteria just eat what they can, (some) emit antibiotics to kill other bacteria and (some) emit own excrement that can be poisous.

We dont know what kind of genetic material those hypoyhetical aliens have. Also didt South America die to smallpox?

Btw. I never wrote about viruses.

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