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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No shit sherlock. Some of us have known this for decades.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Remind me again how long we have had powered flight? Pretty sure it's just over a century. Not sure if plural fits here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

20th and 21st centuries.... Checkmate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you've known something for 11 years, would you say you've known it for 2 decades?

Check, mate.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

You would say you have known it in 2 decades.

Double checkmate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

the first powered blimp was built in the 1850s so it's only 26 years away from being a 200 year old technology, first hot air balloon flight was 250ish years ago though and as long as someone couldn't tell what it was then that's technically a UFO from over 200 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The report lists new technologies that researchers believe led to spikes in UAP reports in the 1950s and 60s. They included high-altitude balloons - one of which inspired waves of UFO speculation when it crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947

oh for fuck’s sake

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention that relentless "swamp gas"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Dude in the military who runs the swamp gas generator:

Can't get any fuckin respect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Then how do you explain the X-Files then???