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Alien cloaking device?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap151118.html via #NASA_APP

A Sudden Jet on Comet 67P



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  • Here is the gif, if you don't have the NASA app. Thought it was a little strange, when you don't know what length they would go to avoid detection.
    1042 x 1042 - 1M
  • Cool! ....and remember, we didn't see it here first!!
  • My alien cloaking device of preference is a nice sized sheet of aluminum foil, fashionably shaped around my superior cranial follicles.

    I've been using the method for years, and I've yet to have anyone discover I'm an alien.
  • My alien cloaking device of preference is a nice sized sheet of aluminum foil, fashionably shaped around my superior cranial follicles.

    I've been using the method for years, and I've yet to have anyone discover I'm an alien.

    Interesting comment.

    It seems no one has figured out the meaning behind my handle.
    Odd. Isn't that your robot in his garage there, erco?

  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-11-20 06:49
    Ummm... it is all rather awkward.
    First you get into cloaks and the next thing you know you might be running around in red tights with the cloak.

    I have long suspected that the aliens have nothing to hide. They just continue to contemptously throw asteroids and meteors at us.
  • Aliens or not it's pretty dang cool we get imagery like that.
  • No, they don't need cloaking. Those are regular old steering thrusters. Everybody knows the technique is to use a whole asteroid as raw material and build it into a ship from the inside. Although they do have trouble making tights from asteroid rubble. They still have to import spandex from 1986.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2015-11-20 20:39
    Cloak = intentional hiding. Assuming the cloak is successful, no one can know of the hiding, so it's impossible to disprove -- unlike existence, it's extremely hard to prove something doesn't exist. Fodder for sensationalism and conspiracy. Like my tin hat that bounces back detector radio wave, you'd never have known unless I told you I was an alien.

    Actually, aliens will never need to attack earth. All they have to do is drop hints of hiding and cloaking, and we'll drive each other mad with suspicion. There were several Twilight Zone episode that revolved around this concept.

    My father, bless his heart, had been convinced there were ancient cities on Mars. He had some photo imagery direct from NASA that showed geometric shapes that looked -- from orbital distances -- like old city roads and buildings. I tried to explain they were image compression artifacts (something he understood, as he was an artist who in his later years dabbled in digital), but he WANTED to believe in extraterrestrials.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-11-21 15:05
    For fear factor, one doesn't need the aliens at all.... just have a passing comet disrupt the positions of the planets.

    Immanuel Velikosky authored "Worlds in Collision" that supposedly demonstrated that myths in the Bible were actually true astronomical events, including an inversion of our planet's axis and all due to a passing comet.

    Years ago, I had a friend that claimed it was all true, so I purchased a copy to read in Taiwan. It is very compelling writing, but I quickly noted that some key points in Egyptian archeology were ignored. it seems that Velikosky didn't know that several Egyptian pyramids have accurately replicated the night sky on the ceilings of their burial chambers, complete with proper compass bearing.

    If the Earth had inverted when he claimed it did, some of Egypt's tombs should have the Southern Cross painted on their ceilings because they were built before the so-claimed inversion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision

    And he went on to write his own revision of the history of the Middle East, which upset just about everyone.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_in_Chaos
  • Hope nothing happens before we can build an army of these, in case there's a chance that anyone survives.
  • Building robots for zero gravity is an unfair advantage.
  • This dude looks like he can carry his own weight, gravity or not.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    So far it seems the aliens cloaking devices are working really well.

    I have not seen any extraterrestrial aliens running around. Have you ?
  • Heater. wrote: »
    So far it seems the aliens cloaking devices are working really well.

    I have not seen any extraterrestrial aliens running around. Have you ?

    I have. They are considered to be by some to be the normal inhabitants of the Village.
    ---
    Erco, what's your robot doing back in the same neighborhood as Heater?

  • Perhaps, the G.I.B. (Girls In Black), mistakenly called Goth, are extra-terrestrial.
  • Perhaps, the G.I.B. (Girls In Black), mistakenly called Goth, are extra-terrestrial.

    I like that one. I've long supposed that the movement is indeed from someplace else.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    Perhaps, the G.I.B. (Girls In Black), mistakenly called Goth, are extra-terrestrial.

    I like that one. I've long supposed that the movement is indeed from someplace else.

    It's a movement? I thought it was a fashion statement.

    What are the movement goals?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    The movements goals are to get you to buy fashion statements.
  • Heater. wrote: »
    The movements goals are to get you to buy fashion statements.

    Yes it starts in high gear, what's an ET to think landing here, they see people rushing to the stores, stomping on whats in their way, to buy the store out of what ever they have. They are going to blend in, it's the reason for all the rude people around the holiday's.
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