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@lupyuen

Why are they doing that?

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@bonifartius

The word "Boomer" is short for "Baby Boomer" which refers to people who were born after World War II and up until the early sixties. There were more births during that time than usual, which was referred to as a "baby boom", thus the name.

FYI there are more Millennials than there are "Baby Boomers".

>"boomers effectively lived their whole life in the same world we are in"

If you mean that literally, yes, everyone who has ever lived has lived in this world.

But there has been more change in the world in this short time since World War II than perhaps in any time in history, except perhaps during the late Renaissance in the 17th century.

The world today doesn't resemble the world of the late forties at all. Not even close.

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@LouisIngenthron

That book predates the internet as we know it by decades. It was available in underground bookstores as early as the 1960s, I think. Maybe earlier.

I've never read it.

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For those of you who are not familiar with the story discussed in this thread, here's a link...

thehill.com/opinion/4038159-st

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@tedherman

Here's an explanation...

qoto.org/@Pat/1105269500461608

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All of these quotes that I have just tooted out under the hashtag were the exact quotes that that guy, David Grusch and others have said that the media have picked up on and assumed meant that space aliens had landed on earth and that the government had taken their spaceship and are hiding it somewhere and not telling anybody about it.

All of those quotes are innocuous, they're just carefully worded and placed together to make everyone believe that they're talking about space aliens.

That's right, this guy, David Grusch, and the media are doing a big Truth-Be-Told on the whole country! 😂


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The International Space Station and other space vehicles were assembled in space, so we are already making space vehicles in space.

Here's another quote...

... he had briefed Defence Department officials, regarding objects from "off-world vehicles not made on this Earth."

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It would be foolish to assume that the US Defense Department does not have plans for capturing enemy satellites and analyzing them or to use them in some manner to our own advantage.

Here's another quote...

... he knew of a secret government program "involving the analysis and exploitation of materials recovered from off-world craft."

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The Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata), is a large species of spider from Japan that has come to the US. They have exceptionally strong silk and create unusual webs.

Small, young Jobo spiders may use ballooning to disperse themselves. Ballooning is when a spider releases a long strand or strands of web to catch the wind and float away for long distances. The spiders are little pilots flying their vehicles. It would be incorrect parlance to call those spacecraft.

This exotic spider silk and the ballooning have been studied for a variety of applications.

It is likely that the US Defense Dept. has studied this for possible military applications, such as for dispersal of listening devices or for use in quickly extricating soldiers from a battlefield.

As part of this research, scientists would need to recover those little spider crafts to study them.

Here's another quote...

"These are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, it’s probably not the right parlance, but no-kidding, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed."

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"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone."

This quote was made in reference to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

An overwhelming majority of scientists believe this. There is nothing extraordinary about this statement.

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"There is a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the U.S. populace, which is extremely unethical and immoral."

This statement doesn't seem extraordinary. I can imagine that there is some foreign government or entity somewhere who is probably doing this.

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"Well, naturally, when you recover something that's either landed or crashed, sometimes you encounter dead pilots and, believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it's true."

That statement sounds 100% true to me.

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@medigoth

Why do Brits pronoun methane as “ME thane”? And that extra “i” in aluminum. They seem to be stuck on “me” and “I” a lot.

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@peterdrake

Southeast Indian Ridge style pizza.

(Because it's half-way between Chicago and NY, globally speaking.)

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It's still rough out there. Please remember to wear your respirator.

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@Deglassco

People have a perception of cowboys as being white, but people of color have always been a significant portion of the cowboy culture, especially Latinos because the Southwest used to be part of Mexico until we “purchased” that territory from Mexico with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The LGBT+ community is also well represented in cowboy culture.

However, I think I have a different take on this particular one. To me I see injustice in mistreating those who happen to have differences in their DNA that make them a different species, like bovines. I think it's wrong to treat cattle the way that they do in rodeos and on ranches and in slaughter houses simply because the cattle are a different species. I think that racism and speciesism are cut from the same cloth – they both represent injustice.

So although in the 19th and early 20th century black cowboys should be respected in their contemporary, historical contributions, today I think we should look back at what all cowboys did and what ranchers still do today as atrocious.

Animals suffer horribly when they are raised for food and rodeos are probably one of the worst abuses of animals because it's done purely for entertainment. They abuse animals for entertainment and that’s horrible.

That’s my take on it. (for more info see The Dreaded Comparison; Alice Walker and Marjorie Spiegel; 1996) :ablobthinking:

Thank you, for these stories about historical black leaders. It’s important that people learn about this.

@CableSt
@wndlb @NSalwen @athena_rose922

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@Kihbernetics

The directionality of time is a characteristic that is different than spatial dimensions but it is not the defining characteristic. Simply making time non-directional does not transmute it into a spatial dimension. The thing that differentiates time from the spatial dimensions is that time is a temporal dimension not a spatial dimension, irrespective of its directionality.

tldr that link…

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Virginia Caroline Rappe died at the young age of 30 under suspicious circumstances. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was falsely accused of her death in a widely publicized Hollywood scandal, but was later completely exonerated by a jury. Had she not died at such a young age, today she would be 131 years old.

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@JamesHMcLaren

>"Toaster settings:
1. Bread
2. Bread
3. Warm bread
4. Hot Bread
5. Slightly singed at the corners hot bread
6. Slightly browned bread
6.17 Toast
7. Burnt toast
8. Carbonized toast
9. Lava
10. Former bread achieves a plasma state, melts hole through to centre of the Earth"

Two #6 settings. Wonder what that's about.

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

This is one of the better-made films that I've seen in a while. The acting in this film is world class starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in the lead roles, with Anthony Mackie in the primary supporting role. John Slattery gives a good supporting performance as one the antagonists and character actor Terence Stamp delivers a stunning performance as the evil guy. The writing is very good with regard to the characters and dialogue and there's great chemistry between Damon and Blunt as the romantic couple. Overall it's very well made.

There are not a lot of technology devices shown in this film. In fact almost all of them are shown in this unauthorized trailer attached this toot. One of the issues that people might have with this film is that the technology that is demonstrated in the movie is done in a manner that makes it look like it's magic or supernatural because there aren't devices that are associated with it. (kind of hard to explain without spoilers)

In any case this film requires a little bit more suspension of disbelief than your typical scifi just because of the mode in which it's done.

I highly recommend this one.

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accessible video description:
fade in Emily Blunt's character as a ballet dancer with Matt Damon's character watching her, Terence Stamp’s character walks up and makes a comment to Damon about Blunt, then Damon and Blunt are on a bus flirting, the bus pulls up to a stop and Damon spill some coffee on Blunt's lap, cut to Damon walking into an office where some of the people are frozen in place, there are men in helmets with devices that are scanning the people who are frozen in place, the men look startled by Damon, there's a man in a suit, John Slattery, who orders others to grab Damon, cut to Damon walking through a medium-sized crowd of people to give a speech as a candidate for Senator with the Brooklyn bridge in the background, then Anthony Mackey is sitting in a very large opulent library looking pensive as music plays, he gets up to leave and walks through the large library, then cut to Damon and Mackey talking in a bar, Damon is wearing a baseball cap, Mackey is wearing a suit, then a woman bartender asks them if they need something, then Mackey's character says that they can’t talk there, and to meet him later and he leaves, then Damon and Mackey meet on a boat in the harbor, cut to Damon and Blunt dancing in a large crowded dance club with flashing lights, then cut to two men in suits looking at a book that is displaying animated graphics and looks very high tech, they are talking about inflection points, then Damon and Blunt walk out of a subway onto a city street as tense music plays, they are moving quickly then a quick cut to men in suits busting open a door, then cut back to Damon and Blunt running through the city, Blunt stops running and looks visibly confused and distressed Damon convinces her to keep running, so they continue running and almost get hit by a car but continue running, then fade out and fade in to the movie title The Adjustment Bureau, in a gold typeface.
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