It’s wild.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Here’s the deal, the ball lightning thing, it could be anything. But it’s typical of a certain kind of people to instantly jump to conclusions about aliens, illuminati, the JFK assassination and the moon landing because we don’t know.

    Like, we know the crop circles are bullshit. It was a couple of guys doing it. In the 90’s. How many crop circles are being reported in 2024? None. Did the aliens just leave? Ok.

    • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Yeah I understand the subject is rife with bs. On the other hand it’s annoying that we just immediately dismiss people who aren’t making conclusions about anything aliens or whatever, and are trying to actually investigate the real evidence in the phenomenon. Why immediately dismiss professional pilots testimony they are fucking trained to know what’s in the air if they say they don’t know what something is I’d investigate it. And you have people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson saying science is truth which doesn’t make any sense at all And if it turns out to be just secret government projects well I’m glad we figured it out

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        5 months ago

        That is a fair point. On the flip side though, a lot of people don’t take the time to educate themselves enough to be able to tell the wheat from the chaff, it that is an expression, and if it ain’t then shit.

        I must insist on recommending starting to watch Anton Petrov (Ukrainian, as myself)(in fact you and I share the same name) on https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath

        He is a wonderful person who keeps track of science news and holds us accountable to understand it.