And now, the news (mid May 2022 edition)

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Ran across a few news stories worth sharing, FYI;

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/05/13/this-wee...

Congress has a full slate of budget hearings scheduled across Capitol Hill this week, but much of that attention will be abducted by UFOs on Tuesday.

Members of the House Select Intelligence Committee will hold an open hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena,” the first in more than 50 years. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray will testify before the panel on recent research and findings from the Defense Department.

The move comes almost one year after a military report outlined 144 instances of “unidentified aerial phenomena” from 2004 to 2021. Defense officials have said the mysterious aircraft are likely not alien visitors, but instead unknown new technologies developed by other countries.

But they also haven’t completely ruled out alien influence, making the hearing a prime target for jokes and conspiracy theories.

Although the hearing is scheduled to be public (and broadcast over the internet), committee members will also hold a closed session later on Tuesday to cover topics that touch on classified materials.

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https://news.usni.org/2022/05/16/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-may-...

USS Kearsarge with its battle group just started to enter The Great Belt into the Baltic Sea.  Sweden and Finland's pat on the back for requesting admission into NATO

 

Meanwhile, Sweden is glad to reroute power to Finland, maybe even sell a little back mudda rusha as a F! U 

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Thanks, Noodler. I wouldn't have known...

The Universal League of Intelligent Beings is keeping a close eye on us lately.

The Earth is the Florida of the Universe, they don't want us getting too close.

I heard a rumor that they planted Trump on us to keep us down.

Smart move, it's been working very well.

Why has humanity never been visited by aliens (that we know of)? The question has confounded scientists for decades, but two researchers have come up with a possible — and disturbing — explanation: Advanced civilizations could be doomed to either stagnate or die before they get the chance.

https://www.livescience.com/alien-civilizations-doomed-to-collapse

^I was quite high when i came across this text, and just wanted to say "thank you" :-)

"We hypothesize that once a planetary civilization transitions into a state that can be described as one virtually connected global city, it will face an 'asymptotic burnout,' an ultimate crisis where the singularity-interval time scale becomes smaller than the time scale of innovation," they wrote. 

You are welcome.

 

Yeah, the first time I read through that I was like WTF?   And then I reread and realized its just saying innovation can't keep up with demand.

It's an interesting theory,   Made me think about the first Mars mission coming up where the astronauts are on a one way trip, guaranteed not to return.   Turns out that crew may outlive us, assuming they launch before the planet gets destroyed 

The windows  for a first contact with a Vulcan like species may soon be upon us.

^ Doubtful. 

If they're really a higher intelligence, they want nuthin to fuckin do with the likes of us