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Originally posted by VOTOMS VOTOMS wrote:

I'm talking about his book Childhood's End. Nothing serious, but a great idea by him.
Ah, I'd forgotten what the aliens looked like in that one.


/edited for spoilers Wink


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I agree, Strangers in the Night is a kickass album.
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I personally think that UFO is great. Nice slice of UFO in the morning. There's nothing better. 
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I'm talking about his book Childhood's End. Nothing serious, but a great idea by him.
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Originally posted by VOTOMS VOTOMS wrote:

I haven't tried it yet. Seems funny.
Just thinhking with myself about the creativity of C. Clarcke, to imagine devils riding UFOs through the space...
Eh? Do you mean Arthur C Clarke? I don't recall him ever writing about such a thing. He was a profound sceptic on the subject of UFO's: “They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth.”
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I haven't tried it yet. Seems funny.
Just thinhking with myself about the creativity of C. Clarcke, to imagine devils riding UFOs through the space...
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Saw it back in the day and promptly forgot about it, another around that time was Capricorn One, that too was pretty laughable but the conspiracy theory that inspired it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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Points: 1420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2014 at 06:04
The movie is boring til the end. The final scene randomly kills everything before the UFO mistery ends. I laughed hard. 
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^ I'm aghast to admit going to see it in a theater, I must've been about thirteen, wasn't impressed
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Do you remember Hangar 18? The movie, not the song. Hahaha the grand finale rules.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Okay. I'll try again.

Question 1: Svetonio, have you watched the longer video yourself? A simple Yes or No.

Question 2: Svetonio, do you believe the map is 100% accurate? A simple Yes or No.

Question 3: Svetonio, do you believe the map reveal information that Piri Reis could not have known from other earlier maps? A simple Yes or No.



So... all I ask is three words from you. If you can find a YouTube video of those three one-word answers I will permit that as your answer. Stern Smile
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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

By the way, I have through Fortean Times found out that the "earthquake lights" hypothesis put forth as an explanation of certain UFO sightings has finally yielded some actual evidence to back it up.
The idea has been around since the early 90s but because it is stochstic it is impossible to predict when it will appear so gathering evidence is always "after the event", but at least the anecdotal evidence can be correlated against seismic activity. Finding something supporting data to correlated with is harder for other UFO explanations.
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By the way, I have through Fortean Times found out that the "earthquake lights" hypothesis put forth as an explanation of certain UFO sightings has finally yielded some actual evidence to back it up.
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The green double decker bus with a smiling driver.

Proof.

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 11:21
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Stargate SG1?

I didn't know Stargate had a Stevenage post-code

Mind you, this would explain some of the stranger life-forms I've seen in the town centre of a Saturday
Ah, I thought, this is a topic of potentially high comedic value, there must be some local landmark that could be MacGyvered into a humorous wormhole come stargate tale ...  so I typed "Stevenage places of interest" into Google and it showed me the A1(M) bypass. Ouch So then I looked at some random images but all I could find were pictures that appear to date from the late 60s and early 70s. 

Hmm, I suspect there is a conspiratorial cover-up going on here, as we can see from this video, Stevenage is twinned with Stepford.




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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 11:05
Stargate SG1?

I didn't know Stargate had a Stevenage post-code

Mind you, this would explain some of the stranger life-forms I've seen in the town centre of a Saturday

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'ang on! I work in SG1

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 10:53
^^  LOL That's the Asgard from Stargate SG-1, how clever of the show's producers to copy their ancient astronaut from that obviously authentic piece of nazi memorabilia.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 10:52
I'm sure there's a two hour youtube video with dramatic music lifted from NCIS to explain why that picture actually really does seriously for real depict actual, as is, reality and totally legitimate history.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 10:41
^The case is, as of right now, closed. I certainly don't need anymore proof. 
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