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Ok,so my "friend" seems to think the 280 passengers from airfrance jet was somehow abducted by aliens..lol..What should my rebuttal be?
Oh I did reply..and this is what she said:(what fucken bitch):Boo damaris sucks with her real theories! I still think aliens or bermuda! Real asumptions gotta bounce!
My rebuttal comes with a bit of a caution... Note that I am a bit of a prick and already have more than enough friends to be way happy.
My response would be to ask her if she is a fucking nutcase. Then I would ask for evidence of her completely absurd claims. Finally, I would make for her a hat out of tin foil and place it on her head as I paraded her through the streets in blatant mockery.
Maybe I should have answered BEFORE drinking a bottle and a half of my new homemade wine (which turned out WAY better than I had expected).
As well as the plane being nowhere near Bermuda, there really is no such thing as "The Bermuda Triangle". See Randi's book "Flim Flam" for (very well researched) details.
Or maybe it was struck by lightning since they said there were lightning storms in the area.
I read something disturbing in the paper today though. They said that they weren't ruling out terrorism because apparently someone had called in a threat on May 27, threatening a plane that was taking off and landing from exactly the same locations as that plane. I hope they find the black box.
At least not according to a blog at discovermagazine.com This guy actually turned a extreme outside chance into the perfect armchair explanation, wildly misleading question for a title and all, about there being a bright flash of light spotted in the vicinity at the same time. How anyone spots a meteor in a lightning storm is beyond me.
Eventually the story comes down to someone claiming that 1 in 10 plane crashes could be a result of meteors and another person trying to crunch the numbers and failing to come to any reasonable conclusions. It ends on this note, "One thing, though, is clear: if we keep flying big planes at high altitude, eventually one will get hit by a meteor."
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP.
Excellent conclusion there Nostradumass. You cracked the case, eventually a meteor has to hit a plane with sufficient time for basic rules of chance to make the improbable but possible come to be.
Reasonable to assume there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
If some of this life has mastered the technology to transcend the unimaginable light year separation from us, you'd think they could pull it off undetected--no crashes in New Mexico, sightings etc. Ditto for abductions and probes.
Point two: this kind of life/intelligence would necessarily be way beyond humanity. Quite likely we would be of negligible interest, a fringe species.
I suspect alien obsession is a form of narcissism--for some, their habitat has to be unique, the center of everything. Maybe it's not about us.
It would be fun if they accually were kidnapped by aliens. But I think they just crashed. I don't think aliens will kidnap us. Though that would be quite fun too.
Depends on what they were planning to do with us. I've never be adverse to the whole 'zoo specimen' idea. As long as they recreated my natural habitat (apartment with Starbucks downstairs.
