Unofficial Tex Murphy

DrPaul wrote:"They" have found a brilliant way to defeat Murphy's Law with a tremendous amount of disinformation. Mix in a lot of kooks, fantastic stories, official-seeming information that turns out to be a hoax, etc. Then it doesn't matter if honest to goodness information gets exposed. No matter how good the information is, most people won't believe it.

Very good! Paul's Law! (Or is that Mulder's Law?)

i'm_melting_i'm_melting wrote:

emanymton wrote:Oh please. Allow Others to have their fun.

We aliens really enjoy brevity.

Oh, emanymton, you're so silly! Everyone knows aliens deny their own existence.

But you see, by my not denying it, I thus prove us aliens don't exist. And thus everyone will know we are not here. ...

I'm so confused. Let me sit down.

DrPaul wrote:

"The more complex the conspiracy, the more likely that Murphy's Law would expose it."

This is true, but..."They" have found a brilliant way to defeat Murphy's Law with a tremendous amount of disinformation.

Ah but the very process of spreading tremendous amounts of disinformation would also have to come face to face with Murphy.

emanymton wrote:

i'm_melting_i'm_melting wrote:

emanymton wrote:Oh please. Allow Others to have their fun.

We aliens really enjoy brevity.

Oh, emanymton, you're so silly! Everyone knows aliens deny their own existence.

But you see, by my not denying it, I thus prove us aliens don't exist. And thus everyone will know we are not here. ...

I'm so confused. Let me sit down.

Don't worry, I was just playing spot-the-quote. Never mind.

i'm_melting_i'm_melting wrote:Don't worry, I was just playing spot-the-quote. Never mind.

I gotcha, Archie.

HeinzHarald wrote:Ah but the very process of spreading tremendous amounts of disinformation would also have to come face to face with Murphy.

Tex Murphy, that is. He's the only one who can beat Murphy's Law at its own game. He out-Murphys Murphy's Law.

I thought I bump this thread after year 1/2+ of being absent...

Whoa, Jerry Dan, your avatar is a little....out there.

This picture cracked me up when I saw it. Especially the <a href='http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/natures_ ... jpg'>large form</a>, which looks remarkably human-like. It's the eyes, mostly, I think. I also suspect that this picture was taken upside down.

I'm one of these skeptics who really wants to believe that there is life on other planets, but, I just can't. Here's some reasons:

1) The majority of UFO sightings take place in America or Mexico, well, the sightings that are reported anyway.

2) ANY footage of a UFO is either bad quality or has been obscured by clouds or smog. This has been a trend ever since the earliest sightings, even with today's technology, we can't take a clear picture.

3) Mysteriously, UFO's appear to be camera shy as they vanish or go to full speed when on video.

Not so. Plenty of sightings in Norway, up in some valley or other that I cannot recall the name of presently. Dunno about the activity there lately, but it was a big thing in the 90's/early 2000's.

-Fred

I was at a meeting last week for the local chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. I don't recall how the conversation afterwards turned to UFOs, but one of the guys there had a pretty interesting story to tell. This guy is NOT a wacko. He's a very intelligent and educated, engineer who has run his own engineering company for a long time.

Anyway, he said that one evening he was driving with his wife through one of the northern Detroit suburbs (Rochester Hills) when he came to an intersection at which all the cars around the intersection had stopped. The reason they had stopped was because there was a large "thing" that looked to all the world like a flying saucer, hovering a few feet above the intersection. It hovered there for several seconds and then lifted up vertically and disappeared.

I will have to check on some of the UFO reporting sites to see if this sighting was documented. I forgot to ask him how long ago this sighting occurred. Reports like this from credible witnesses are kind of scary.