Just going to nitpick one part of that, since I'm sure everyone else knows my thoughts on aliens. I'm the "it has to land on my front lawn" skeptic MFF is referring to.
As soon as someone states that an alien has a "1200 IQ" I'm out. IQ over a certain point is just extrapolation anyway, and 200'ish is about the maximum we ever talk about, which would be some ridiculous standard deviation (20+ I believe)...what possible method do we have to calculate something at 1200? The standard deviation on that would be astronomical. Functionally, what's the difference for us as humans if someone has a 600 IQ or 6000? No one knows what either of those numbers would look like in terms of actual intelligence. Yet this guy throws it out like it is fact. He throws it out because it makes us go "Wow!" and he thinks it lends credence to his accounts. If he said the average alien had an IQ of 100, no one would give a fuck.
I guess we're also supposed to believe that everyone from this alien race has this level of IQ? Or did they just send their best and brightest? Why is every alien race smarter than us? Because they have spacecraft? Because they are "enlightened" and didn't destroy their planet? Look at us. Not even 1 in 1,000,000 of us could tell you how to build the fucking phone in our pocket, let alone the "advanced flying craft" we use to travel all over the planet. Why do all the aliens that come here know all the intricate details of that shit? Am I supposed to believe that they were sent here specifically because of their knowledge, or bringing it along on an iPad as a gift? If so, why are they ok with living in secret underground bunkers or sneaking in under cover of night and only giving that info to shady government types? If they've watched us at all, which they must have with their 1200 IQ, they would have figured out that our governments are functionally worthless in terms of actually getting shit done, so why are they willing to let us continue to "destroy the planet" while everyone focuses on impeaching Drumpf? Unless they didn't bring us all that technology to save the planet? Then why did they bring it? And why didn't they give it to every government on the planet?
Speaking of rabbit holes, feel free to go down that one. If you apply any sort of logic at all to the stories told by people like this 92 year old guy, it falls apart the moment you start asking any reasonable questions. Sure, you can imply that Earth civilization will be thrown into chaos by the news of extraterrestrials, but would it? It might actually solve a shitload of problems too. It might be the unifying force that brings the world together. Or not, but can you honestly say that aliens watching our planet would agree with the path we are currently on? If so, why are they even here in the first place? If not, why are they allowing us to hide their existence and their potentially planet-saving technology?
That dude is fucking nuts. Sorry. I say this all the time in real life: there are people in all walks of life that appear normal in 99% of their actions, but then deviate from the norm in some small but sometimes drastic way. You've got your cops that are great at their jobs, but then turn out to be rapists. You've got firefighters that turn out to be arsonists. Surgeons that are serial killers. Navy pilots and scientists and "high ranking government officials" that believe they have seen/have evidence of/visited with aliens. Some do it because they are broken, some do it because they want attention, and some are literally delusional. There are literally billions of people in the world. If even 1% of 1% of those billions are crazy as fuck, that's still 700,000+ crazy as fuck people. And now they have the internet to spread their ideas. Just by random chance, some of those people are going to be in "trusted" positions like pilot, politician, etc. And I'd argue the number is far higher than 1% of 1%.
Also, not going to watch that video, but those EWD notes. Where are those supposedly from? I could type that page up and make it look like an old document too, so just wondering what its provenance is.
