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I find it hard to believe someone knew how to do that back in 1678

Nowadays, quite easily to be done seeing as how we think has vastly changed since then

Anyhow, heres something that I know many people dont discuss
These "UFOs" are always thought to be of another world, with the government saying its from our world
But wot if the government is right? But they are just not from our time (remember the fact that some UFOs have been sighted in famous times)

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They had rope and sticks back then. All you'd need was someone with a little bit of time on their hands to think up the idea. People are people and have always pulled pranks on each other. Of course back then people pulled pranks and the masses blamed it on evil spirits, or leprechauns. It must be UFO's, because we are all much too rational to believe in evil spirits or leprechauns anymore. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

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A lot of people make fake money. Its pretty close, fools a lot of people, then something really tiny is spotted which makes it a fake. That doesnt make me consider all money a fake, especially the ones without the little tell-tales of fakeness. It does make me think that any money I see MIGHT be a fake and hsould maybe be checked out.

Fanaticism is always bad. In this case I would have to say that both extreme belief and extreme disbelief is probably too early to be preaching it.

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But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. And scepticism coupled with the scientific method is
the essential foundation for scientific progress - and is the only real bulwark we humans have against our irrational urges to believe all sorts of wacky things.

That is why Mulder was always wrong in the X-Files. When a person "wants to beleive" something, then their claims that something extraordinary is true are a lot harder to swallow, since they don't generally hold their theses to rigorous standards of proof.

Ok, I'm trying to get off my soapbox.

Oh, one Last thing: Yay for James Randi!

Alarik

EDIT: like a total stoopid head, I wrote "uri geller" when I meant "james randi" - polar opposites. I had a brain fart.

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I have read Uri Geller's autobiography. He said that he was contacted by aliens when he was a little boy, and they gave him his psychic abilities.

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Well, I shall remind myself never to arm my Armies with spoons to stop an alien invasion. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I'd file that one under "Failed Experiments" myself.

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Doh! I meant James Randi.

Sorry. Brain fart.

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you have memories???