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originally posted by: jjkenobi
There was a thought provoking video I watched a few years back that documented how as technology progressed "alien" beings that claimed to be from outer space kept moving their home planets farther and farther away so that nothing could be verified. The moon, venus, neptune, Orions Belt, another galaxy, etc etc.
originally posted by: proteus33
a reply to: schuyler
here is what would likely happen if gov admits aliens are here
1 citizens would be scared to point of hysteria
2 religions when facing aliens would collapse as their beliefs are disproven
originally posted by: Archivalist
a reply to: andy06shake
Disclosure is a bad bet, no matter what. BECAUSE of your point. We have military unknown, unknowns. On the off chance they are here and have already infiltrated humanity, we can't tip our hand. Keep the bluff up, until we figure out how to fight. Without a full knowledge set of everything, it is dangerous to touch the pot. We don't see a stove, but that doesn't mean it isn't hot.
originally posted by: 99problems
The government with all it's countless bureaucracies could fear disclosure still based on the reaction of that War of the Worlds LARP from the 30's, people actually panicked.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: DOACSTribe
I love a good conspiracy as much as the next man but breakaway civilizations really are the stuff of fiction.
It's not what i actually know, or what i have actually verified, its what science has proven and what common sense dictates.
Our Moon is not hollow, neither is our Earth, both proven by scientific study!
As to who is in control?
Same people it always has been aka the banking houses and cartels, the corporations and the military-industrial complex aka "They".
Break it down as much as you wish, but no need for Aliens or hidden civilizations. As agenda, class war, religious intolerance and our own Goddard penchant for self-destruction are all that's really required for these people to retain control.
originally posted by: neutronflux
Corrupt governments are the gatekeepers to a more enlightened spices that could interact with anyone they choose? What enlightened spices would interact with corrupt government if they offered a better way of life? Why would they hide their enlightenment?
Then you have the whole problem how are they secretly interacting? Secret ET phones? Spaceship delivery?
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: blueman12
Why does the human race need disclosure to grow? Again, why do you need the government of all things to tell you what is real? Everyime a new spices is discovered, you need the government to disclose its existence to believe? Is there not a group of extraterrestrial biologists look for extraterrestrial life? Is there not armies of grass roots ufologists?