We don’t know how likely life is in the universe, let alone intelligent life.

I just read your exchange with Solumbran and I must agree with them. The % could be so low as to make earth a statistical miracle. We just don’t know because we only have a sample size of 1 living planet, and a star system with dead ones. The reasonable position to take is to assume earth is the only planet with life until proven otherwise, as unlikely that may seem as first glance.

And if we go by statistics, people having hallucinations is more likely than having non-human made devices operating on Earth. Of course, this doesn’t feel satisfying at all haha.

Regarding the Nimitz, we don’t have telemetry. All we have is the testimony and video evidence, but the radar data was never published as far as I know. It’s still the most compelling case. I’m craving to learn more of this case, but nearly 5 years have passed since the pentagon admitted it was real. I don’t think they’re going to spill the beans.

At times I wish I had an answer, even if it was something prosaic. Anything is better than defaulting to hallucination haha.

I was checking out closely at the drone situation recently but they’re were moving as…drones. I know all the questions and mystery surrounding them but they still move like something that you can just dismiss and say “they’re just kids using drones for lulz”.

What I saw had instant acceleration. I can’t dismiss it that easily, save for the hallucination hypotheses. The worst part is this is a taboo topic so you get weird looks if you try and talk about it in public

Yes, I obviously go on with my life. I don’t have ‘I want to believe’ posters in my house or anything.

But from time to time I remember what I saw and I can’t help but try and figure out an answer.

I understand some people might confuse them. What I saw wasn’t the moon though. It was moving at seemingly constant speed, then stopped for a brief moment and shot away accelerating from 0 to infinity in less than a second. It at first greenish-yellow colored but turned redder as it got away.

I usually reply with “Cool, you won’t mind if I install a camera in your bathroom then”

A lot of people in the comments are missing the point that there’s nothing to defederate from yet. Adding “threads.net” to the defederation list is pointless because:

A) Threads isn’t using ActiviyPub yet, and we don’t know if they ever will. B) We don’t know if that’s gonna be the actual domain they would use on ActivityPub.

IMO the whole thing stinks of vaporware. I think Threads is gonna flop and fall into oblivion, but if the future proves me wrong they can certainly block them when that times comes.

Adding threads.net to the defederation list right now only serves to publicly make the statement “We don’t like Meta” and serves no technical purpose whatsoever.

The value is the upvotes we have along the way