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Well, none of them appeared to be intelligent, have a civilization, or use complex tools. My point about this is that it doesn't appear to be any kind of convergence on the hominid body plan to produce intelligence and civilization in terrestrial history, so why would we think it would be the...

You guys might dig this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

That's true, but not for bipedal big brained primates. There's only one species of that on the Earth as far as we know. The Silurians! Such a cool idea. Yup, there's been a number, for sure. One of my favorites referenced in Hellier (you guys have to watch the series if you haven't) is the...

Sure, but by that standard sharks are way more successful than humans will ever likely be. They're basically unchanged for more than a hundred million years. They're nearly perfectly adapted to their environment... and will likely never evolve complex intelligence or tool use. Not necessarily...

Wow Burnt, great post... and I've never heard of that case before. It's a new one for me!

Sure, but even if it's carbon-based it doesn't mean that we'd be cousins. Look at the weird stuff that happened during the Precambrian explosion. 5 eyes, radial symmetry, all kinds of weird stuff that's now totally dead. Any one of those could have won out for random reasons and been our common...

I totally understand what you're saying, and agree... but if the best we can ever get to with something is a "maybe" and the worst we can get to is "totally bunk"... then from a separating signal from noise perspective I call it noise. Much bigger things to hang your hat on, I think.

It could be a purposeful deceit, sure. My point is that the least likely scenario is that MJ-12 is real. There is zero provenance for any of it, even in uncle Stan's wildest dreams.

Even on an earth like planet, life could have evolved very differently. We only breathe oxygen because plants evolved photosynthesis, for example. And there's nothing magical about DNA, it's just a fairly stable chemical method for storing information. There's no reason that it would use DNA, or...

A couple things. First of all, we're cousins with the dinosaurs. They evolved on our planet, breathed oxygen, and we had a common ancestor. Out there, anything could happen. None of those things need to be true.

No way is MJ-12 credible.

Lol, good point. Strieber, for example, claims to have had sex with one. So did Villas-Boas. There's some good points here as well. The thing is, it's so compelling once you stand back and take a look at it. I mean, look at the scrolling gif at the bottom of this page with a grey. It's...

Found it... The book is Identified Flying Objects by Michael P Masters: Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon: Masters, Dr. Michael P: 9781733634069: Books - Amazon.ca. I don't think so. I thought as you did - of a Star-Trek like universe where...

I'll have a look around to find the name of the book I read a year or so ago that fully and totally convinces me that at least some of these critters are, in fact, us. Maybe from our future, or a future, or a parallel universe... but we're kissing cousins at least. Neoteny is driving us to look...

Two of the biggest reasons for this is that there are less macs in use than windows machines, and the Unix-style multi-user architecture MacOS is built on. Windows architecture up to 10 broadly is a single-user architecture where the user is assumed to be admin. They added a bunch of stuff up...

The new M1 Macs are mind-blowing. For something like $850 CDN you can get into an M1 Mac Mini that blows the doors off of almost anything else. If you're in the market for a non-laptop, it's what I would recommend. If you want a laptop, the M1 MacBook Air is exceptional, unless you want to wait...

Did a scan of all my macs and thankfully came up clean. Apparently it doesn't have a payload and appears to be a bit of a proof-of-concept, but you never know. The biggest thing I do at home that seems to help is that I'm the only admin on every machine. Everyone else uses non-admin accounts.

I once had a debate with someone on-line years ago who was adamant that they beamed the waste out of people's bodies, so they didn't need toilets. It's a very Roddenberry solution, I guess.

I actually just watched a YouTube video on the weekend - there's only ever been one toilet shown in Star Trek, and of course it was in ST V, and of course it was the Shat that sat on that:

Maybe this is off-side, but one of my favourite memories of the paracast was with someone that claimed they were abducted consciously for many hours.... and Biedny asked them where they went to the bathroom. The answer was something like "uhh..."