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=== 2020 ===
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|content=I donā€™t know what to think.
But I do remember how to dream and Iā€™m letting myself believe using those videos. God I want it to be true.
https://t.co/TTlGwnEePf
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|content=On the UFO videos:
https://t.co/KthjOwbFx6
|timestamp=4:23 PM Ā· Apr 30, 2020
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|timestamp=4:27 PM Ā· Apr 30, 2020
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|content=@zcichy @SFsomaGirl @ColonelQuestion @robinhanson @BrianRoemmele @micsolana šŸ‘½!
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|content=@zcichy @SFsomaGirl @ColonelQuestion @robinhanson @BrianRoemmele @micsolana Hmmm. Not really an example of being into UFOs....
|timestamp=6:31 PM Ā· May 16, 2020
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|content=@zcichy @SFsomaGirl @ColonelQuestion @robinhanson @BrianRoemmele @micsolana Yes I want it to be true. As do most of us. But still not the same as being into UFOs.
|timestamp=6:58 PM Ā· May 16, 2020
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|content=@zcichy @SFsomaGirl @ColonelQuestion @robinhanson @BrianRoemmele @micsolana The truth is I donā€™t know what to think.
|timestamp=6:59 PM Ā· May 16, 2020
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|timestamp=7:09 PM Ā· May 16, 2020
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=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===
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|content=@jason_pontin @JamesOKeefeIII @AndrewYang @MSNBC Ok. The ā€œoverwhelming consensusā€ on the etiology of ulcers? Economists on The ā€œGreat Moderationā€?
I mean I thought that the idea of Pentagon videos of UFOs was total bullshit.
Life just isnā€™t about consensus. And overwhelming does nothing for this American STEM PhD.
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|content=Vaccines are not 100% safe.
Climate science is not simplyĀ  ā€œsettled scienceā€.
The COVID virus may well have come from the Wuhan Lab.
Not everything @JamesOKeefeIII publishes is automatically false.
@AndrewYang was never covered fairly by @msnbc.
Masks help.
Your move AP.
|timestamp=6:51 PM Ā· Jan 17, 2021
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|content=If you want to discuss cloud formation and non-linearity in climate models, or the fact that even pure water isnā€™t 100% safe, or the issues in determine COVIDā€™s origin, you are welcome to come through the ā€œLoopholeā€ that is my podcast.
You simplistic corporate sons of bitches.
|timestamp=6:55 PM Ā· Jan 17, 2021
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|timestamp=6:40 PM Ā· May 18, 2021
|timestamp=6:40 PM Ā· May 18, 2021
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|content=Clearly: We need to decrankify our mainstream.
We need to purge our institutions of our *mainstream* cranks (or Knarcs). We cannot run a nuclear and economic superpower with geopolitical rivals in this way with fake leadership lying to the public 24/7 about almost everything.
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|content=The mainstream (that dutifully reported this as a simple suicide story) are our cranks.
They told us not to wear masks when we needed to and then to wear them when we didnā€™t.
They told us UFOs werenā€™t real but tell us they are now real.
And that COVID came from a wet market...
|timestamp=1:26 AM Ā· May 22, 2021
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|timestamp=1:26 AM Ā· May 22, 2021
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|content=@regardthefrost You are getting ahead of me. I have a bunch of these... but yes. This is our new normal and needs discussion.
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|content=The quality of the authenticated UFO/UAP video is lousy. Do not imagine that this low quality video is the major data trove that has us discussing the unimaginable.
The truly major data in support of UFOs that we have as of today is simply the change in the official narrative.
|timestamp=10:42 PM Ā· May 23, 2021
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|content=Iā€™d guess that weā€™re at some point soon going to be confronted by stunningly clear reconstructions of incidents with crystal clear video, and that we have a collective freakout ahead where weā€™ll look back and marvel how they dribbled low quality video out to control our reaction.
|timestamp=10:46 PM Ā· May 23, 2021
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|timestamp=1:44 AM Ā· May 29, 2021
|timestamp=1:44 AM Ā· May 29, 2021
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|content=Historically it has helped to win hearts and minds when the protesters are smarter, wittier, and more *just* than those they oppose.
Letā€™s get back to that. Letā€™s make protesting failing institutions smart, uplifting, noble and courageous again. Might just work.
Just a thought.
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|content=This should be one of the major fronts of activism: Projection Mapping.
And: it sucks.
Itā€™s off center. Itā€™s not adapted to the faƧade. Itā€™s not very clever. Itā€™s not animated. It doesnā€™t use beveling, angles, or other architectural features beyond the two dimensional.
Why?
|timestamp=4:08 AM Ā· May 30, 2021
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|content=I donā€™t know why this is taking so long. I think that the problem may be that we are missing brain power in our activism by crowding out technical knowhow with mind numbing social justice falsehoods.
What if the protest was done by these people instead:
https://t.co/YsF1VRkqt5
|timestamp=4:08 AM Ā· May 30, 2021
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|content=I mean: couldnā€™t that change everything?
Imagine you wanted UFO disclosure & wanted to force news media to cover it. You could animate aliens and UFOs invading a government building to the tune ā€œPlanet Claireā€ by the B-52s:
https://t.co/5bSi4B1WNT
So why donā€™t we see this much?
|timestamp=4:08 AM Ā· May 30, 2021
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|content=You could own your institutional nemesis on any given night.
Get a flash mob to dance in front of it. Make it brilliant. Leave zero damage. Shoot the entire caper and put it on YouTube.
Instead we came up ā€˜mostly peacefulā€™ protests and ā€œno justice, no peace.ā€ We need better.
|timestamp=4:08 AM Ā· May 30, 2021
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|content=Iā€™m sick of the violence. Iā€™m sick of the lame chants. Iā€™m sick of the lectures about how everything is problematic. And so are most people.
But Iā€™m not sick of genius, humor and people having fun who show the hard work and ability that translates to credibility for their ideas.
|timestamp=4:08 AM Ā· May 30, 2021
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|timestamp=7:36 PM Ā· May 31, 2021
|timestamp=7:36 PM Ā· May 31, 2021
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|content=The statement Iā€™m comfortable with:
I believe there is a faction of well meaning public spirited military people who have seen mountains of better data, who believe our military is regularly visited by non human tech and are pressuring others to roll out this thy incrementally.
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|content=Pentagon UFO rollout strategy explained: https://t.co/wAba32Z0XP
|timestamp=6:01 PM Ā· Jun 5, 2021
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|content=Iā€™ve got nothing.
The declassified videos are, so far, very unimpressive to me. But the change in narrative is very impressive as are claims of sober military pilots.
The major evidence is still the Pentagonā€™s change in narrative until they stop playing footsie under the table.
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|timestamp=11:02 PM Ā· Jun 9, 2021
|timestamp=11:02 PM Ā· Jun 9, 2021
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|content=Assume China.
Assume holograms.
Assume swamp gas and weather balloons.
Assume disinformation.
Assume incompetence.
Assume itā€™s our drones.
Assume PsyOp.
Assume itā€™s an attempt at distraction.
The story is groundbreaking no matter what is going on. This has never happened.
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|content=Assuming that UFOs are not space aliens, the UFO story is the top story in the world.
Assuming that no UFOs are even ā€œrealā€ as unknown craft, the UFO story is still the top story in the world.
The UFO story is therefore being ā€œmanagedā€ as a side story. It canā€™t be a side story.
|timestamp=4:52 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|timestamp=4:55 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest I remember when Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer and also advised her husband. It was a big big deal. This dwarfs that.
I think you arenā€™t taking the implications of your own points to their logical conclusions.
https://t.co/Fokmlzh3mb
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|content=Ok. Letā€™s play it out. Iā€™m genuinely interested if I have this wrong & am open to being wrong. Iā€™ll start.
Letā€™s agree video authenticated so far isnā€™t very impressive. How are seemingly intelligent craft in restricted military airspace not a big deal for a thermonuclear nation?
|timestamp=6:42 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=What is the least interesting version of this story Mick? Forget the videos so far authenticated. Thatā€™s not the interesting part. That could be BS. There are so few and they are so low quality I donā€™t want to discuss them. I cede them for this discussion to you. Your take? šŸ™
|timestamp=6:42 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest So your argument is that all of these reports/incidents are a small number of rare mistakes? I want to make sure I donā€™t misunderstand you.
I agree that if there are a small number of rare mistakes itā€™s not a big deal. I agree that we should have expected some random reports.
|timestamp=8:18 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest So you believe that the number of incidents that have been experienced is limited to 120 that occur in the report?
|timestamp=8:23 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest I have been told it is far more extensive.
|timestamp=8:24 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest Letā€™s agree that 120 low quality incidents over 20 yrs is not very compelling. Thatā€™s one every two months on average over our entire military.
So you believe we have the cream of the crop? If so, itā€™s shocking that our top people have not shut this down. Total irresponsibility.
|timestamp=9:08 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest But not merely ā€œwow this is dumbā€. Itā€™s irresponsibility around a thermonuclearĀ  military with thermonuclear geopolitical strategic rivals. Thatā€™s would be a HUGE deal.
Iā€™ve appreciated your take. But laying off the ā€œhyperboleā€ type epithets: Is this what you are alleging?
|timestamp=9:15 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest Iā€™m not sure what is complex here.
Playing footsie with a UFO narrative that sounds like ā€œUnknown drones appear to be routinely harassing our pilots in restricted US military airspace.ā€ Is incredibly dangerous.
I would take that to be self-evident.
Thatā€™s a top story for sure.
|timestamp=11:42 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest Hereā€™s what I hear from you: ā€œThe pentagon has lost control of a minor UFO dept. that is having fun with a UFO narrative that endangers us all by raising the Issue of Bokeh, Birds, Baloons, etc in a way that is one toggle switch away from foreign adversaries harassing USmil.ā€
|timestamp=11:46 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest Iā€™ve ceded everything you asserted to get here. And the story you seem to favor is still ENORMOUS.
Yours seems to be a story of incompetent UFO LARPers taking over a sensitive geopolitical narrative with zero adult supervision in thermonuclear geopolitical rivalry. Yes?
|timestamp=11:49 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|content=@MickWest Mick: youā€™re losing me. If the pentagon is going along with a woo narrative because woo and drones are now interwoven that is *HUGE*. You canā€™t hybridize woo with thermonuclear rivals. I feel like you arenā€™t listening to yourself. A destabilizing nuclear narrative is a big deal.
|timestamp=3:00 AM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|timestamp=3:02 AM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.
We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I canā€™t think of a single story to fit to these reports Iā€™m hearing about.
I welcome your thoughts. As always.
Warm regards,
Eric
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|content=Dear @michaelshermer,
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also donā€™t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of ā€œno isolated discontinuous innovationā€ quite interesting!
Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
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|content=Dear @EricRWeinstein Please see my argument for why [[UAP|UAPs]] cannot be foreign assets capable of physics & aerodynamics attributed to [[UAP|UAPs]] that if true would be decades or centuries ahead of us. History shows no nations/companies of comp development so lag.
https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/
|timestamp=10:13 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021
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|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically ā€œcenturies aheadā€ is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.
Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? Iā€™d have guessed ā€œmanyā€ (not .5) and been wrong.
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|content=Next challenge: doesnā€™t your line of reasoning prove that ā€œRenaissance Technologiesā€ is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Now Iā€™ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, itā€™s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
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|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.
Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty.
Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.
The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people canā€™t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.
They all exhibited the ā€œa little unlocks a lotā€ paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the worldā€™s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Itā€™s not physics exactly. But [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]] w support from a small number of folks rewrote [[Quantum Field Theory]] as geometry. If [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] geometrized gravity, then [[Ed Witten|Witten]] geometrized [[Quantum Field Theory|Quantum Field theory]] (everything else).
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=But itā€™s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, [[Ed Witten|Witten]] & Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius & power looking for its 1st application to the šŸŒŽ.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=If you gave us [[Ed Witten|E Witten]], [[Jim Simons|J Simons]], [[Isadore Singer|I Singer]], [[CN Yang]], M Atiyah, D Quillen & G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didnā€™t need much more. In fact you donā€™t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I donā€™t know those systems as well so Iā€™ll use the US example.
We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldnā€™t.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=If I thought like CCP, Iā€™d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, weā€™d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists & ML experts by a national lab & an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry & physics. But enough crazy talk..]
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (& friends) did building off [[Quantum Field Theory|Geometric Quantum Field Thy]], the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.
But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=You donā€™t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Which is to say weā€™re not monitoring. Maybe we think thatā€™s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.
How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if theyā€™re right? Price the [[Type I & Type II Error|Type I & II error]]. Nuts.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Michael, intellectually I am always very glad to have you on that wall.
Skepticism with an open mind is a lot rarer than reflexive skepticism. Thanks to you and @DrBrianKeating for a rather different UFO conversation than either wild eyed belief or knee jerk rejectionism. šŸ™
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|content=I also wanted to say to the non-ufo community that whatever I got right largely didn't come from me. It came from patriots, fellow scientists & others who were not taken in the way I was. All I did was a bit of filtering and after market analysis given the gravity of the issue.
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|content=Responsible folks share w/ me hoping that if I believe them, they wont have to share under their own name. I shared some of what was shared with me.
My market saying is [[Early is another name for wrong|"Early is another name for wrong."]]
In UFO land "Early is another name for presumed Crazy".
Time to apologize.
|timestamp=3:43 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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|content=To all the UFO people who were getting it right: I blew it. I thought you were bored, easily convinced, read too much sci-fi as kids, were easily taken in. I thought there was no way this could ambiguously exist in a world flooded with sensors. I thought you were not getting it.
|timestamp=3:43 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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|content=I am very late to your party and even having gotten the report mostly right, it has been exceptionally unpleasant to get in front of it by even a few months. I can only imagine how it feels after the many years the US has gaslight you all while knowing you were not wrong.
|timestamp=3:43 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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|content=A lot of UFO people are nutty. But you the careful community that called balls and strikes as best you could with limited information deserve not only rehabilitation in the minds of the public, but some official recognition that you are to be listened to in the future. Thank you.
|timestamp=3:43 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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|content=I believe you now when you say that there is even much more high quality data available but that it has not been released.
At a personal level: You were right, I was wrong. Thanks for letting me join you at the 'last minute' in the few months before the report. I'll listen more.
|timestamp=3:43 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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|timestamp=3:48 PM Ā· Jun 26, 2021
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