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David E. Roy  Ph.D.'s avatar

Hi, Billy. I have decided that instead of referring to our wealthiest overlords as plutocrats or oligarchs (ones who own the oil & plastic companies, for example), we should refer to them as the Parasite Class since they add no value to the economy and fail at supporting the common good. Instead they take what they can from the host (all of the rest of us). Like a tapeworm, if the host dies because the parasite overdid it, the parasite also will die. This covers the oil & plastic industries, plus the WSJ. The interlocking boards will reveal the truth.

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Billy Cox's avatar

I've never understood nature's game plan for parasites, getting sustenance from resources whose depletion will ensure their own demise. But it's successful and ancient, so whadda I know . . .

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David E. Roy  Ph.D.'s avatar

It’s but one form of life & not the best solution to life. The philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Alfred North Whitehead’s understanding is that the evolution of the universe points toward increased complexity. Assuming the Big Bang model has some merit to it, even if it’s part of a cycle of universes that come in into existence and perish. The CMB shows how simple the beginning was, and then as things cooled down, things started to smash into each other and, as a result, the complexity increased. You can see the same pattern for evolution of life on earth. Our species is not the only animal with high intelligence, as we are beginning to find out and these discoveries help do away with our human insecurity, where we strive to profess & demonstrate that we exceptional. We’re not.

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Billy Cox's avatar

That's what I meant.

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Freeman69's avatar

Thanks for the heads-up on Yankee Blue Billy :)

I haven't read anything else on this, except a snippet from Live Now a minute ago and my first thoughts go to motive. If the attempt was to conceal programs like the F117 which was being developed at Area 51 then all it did was to focus more attention on the secret base.

The Russians already knew about Area 51 from when the Blackbird was being tested for its radar reflectivity (or perhaps before that). The story goes that even though the workers were diligent to hide the aircraft from Russian satellites, the shaded cool patch on the ground left behind a silhouette of the aircraft that was detected by Russki IR sensors. The Russian president supposedly showed the U.S. President an outline of the aircraft by drawing it on a napkin.

The Russians could basically read the Yankee Blue efforts in 2 ways: Either there was something non-human being reverse engineered (which would be worth investigating *as well*), or the alien stories were fake in an attempt to camouflage exotic yet totally human technology. They already knew it was an important centre of development, so would it really induce them to ignore the site?

Whoever thought up Yankee Blue should have been prosecuted for wasting tax payers' money and actively compromising national security.

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Billy Cox's avatar

John Greenewald queried the AFOSI for Yankee Blue records and they haven't found anything (yet). It's interesting that the first official public release of Area 51 images occurred in Y2K by an American company with access to Russia's IKONOS satellite. Am also reminded of how Stalin knew about the atomic bomb before American taxpayers did. It begs the question about how much Moscow knows about our actual UFO research program(s). I suspect the correct answer is, "More than we taxpayers do."

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Ropr's avatar

"[H]omo plasticus." Funny, scary, brilliant.

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David E. Roy  Ph.D.'s avatar

Technically, we are Homo sapiens sapiens, being a subspecies of Homo sapiens, also designated as Modern Humans. So, now you have "discovered" Homo sapiens plasticus! Congratulations! A whole new breed of humans ... who may not be able to breed in the long run.

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