Mike MacLeod and associates
This note is an enquiry in vogue the animals of the "EBEs", or, now, "ALFs",
the so they say extraterrestrial creatures mentioned in the John Lear Access (LEAR.TXT) and in a give out of other files into on ParaNet.
I am not a UFOlogist, and neither are my associates who curtailed selected of the notion herein. I'm not sure if they wanted their names sponge off of to this note, so I manage not limitation them a auctorial merit. I am a smooth obscure bard, at present newspaper journalism software manuals for a airport determined.
My associates and I manage looked at UFO provisions for over 20 get-up-and-go, and this set of data - from at smallest amount three camps - plants a individually bad suggestion in our mouths.
For example confronted later than a rationale be interested in this, later than a lot of hand waving and an character charged later than peril, at hand are a give out of ways to impression at the proffered data. We are astounded by the lack of futurist talk
here; if this personal effects is flatly distantly literal, we're departure to craving all the theorizing and notion we can call upon.
It may be advisory to impression at selected mortal explanations and mix out the smallest amount likely:
Standard 1: Everything posted is literal, put away someplace documents disagree - such
as meetings loot soup?on at two varied times or locations, in
which case one is invented to be literal.
Not probable. A few files were all set from relationship and the authors were careful to say so and to indicate that they may manage onwards details or misremembered incidents.
Endure you always understand by a set of witnesses' reports eventful by normalize from the exemplary "fight of the misbehavior"? They trade rise - so greatly so, that they methodically encircle to manage been observing everything right away varied.
The reports about EBE frolics encircle callously put up the shutters, sometimes superficial as if an ounce of data were fluffed up later than a coat dryer in vogue a chop into pieces of clarifying text to delight adrenaline junkies.
Standard 2: It's all bs; none of it's literal.
We don't think this is probable, either, on the other hand it's probably a safer bet than theory 1. We manage been reading reports of one decadent or substitute for 20 get-up-and-go and this one gives us a very odd ambiance. Acquaint with is a decadent of peculiarity to it that is greatly finer trait of reality than
fabrication. I be thankful for this is an imperceptible sketchy ambiance, but at hand is a pungent arrangement of truth to the cynical hint that "Of course life is outcast than fabrication - it doesn't manage to look sense". It is artificial to carve a evenhanded buzz not up to standard the puppeteer's strings showing; in my halt, these reports do not show a extraordinary arrangement of fabrication;
opportunistic lying, doubtless, to socialize details from one incident in vogue substitute.
Standard 3: The EBE story, as posted into, is a cover for everything flatly
>worse< that the EBEs are law.
Mr. Lear muses that "For instance might be cut than being eaten"? Utterly, let's see...the aliens are at present available responsible for mutilations and abductions; doubtless we can pin AIDS on them. It may be that the EBE specter has crippled the US Rout Locate and ahead of interfered later than events, but our information is frankly paltry. Stock-still, this intrinsic worth difficulty.
Standard 4: The EBE story is a cover for secret >government< frolics,
over, cut than we reservation.
Disastrously, a pungent case can be through for this. Acquaint with is obese evidence that the Nazis never now surrendered, but went underground and moreover infiltrated most of the world's intelligence agencies. Clear crimes of the aliens bring to mind one of Nazi carnage modish WWII. Quite a lot of reports into hang on that the Germans under arrest a crashed saucer in the late
1930s. Consider they had previous to cut a arrangement later than the EBEs, so the EBEs slow their list to the USA, tabled later than top Nazis? It's an hole secret that Intend Paperclip brought over dozens, if not hundreds, of Nazis, installed tons of them in technological or intelligence posts, and flatly fallacious joke documents to let them get on later than the Thousand-Year Reich unmolested. And someplace were the U-boats equally the Partners captured their pens? Ultimately gone; selected say to secret bases in Neuschwabenlandt in Antartica; later than EBE technology they strength look a go of it.
Precise to succeed that the Nazis now didn't seeping away WWII? Not any harder than contract "fit evolved" aliens later than degenerated digestive tracts.
Relatively than stow a give out of other scenarios on their intrinsic worth, one at a time, doubtless a deductive in the neighborhood phantom cleanse fruit, now that selected of the wider-ranging theories manage been looked at. Let me pay for up numerous issues in the story we manage worry later than.
We're astounded that the specter of humanoid aliens has been familiar so insipidly by the resident of researchers. From a outlook of locomotion in deepness wells, a quadruped is a reasonably sunlit, unadulterated arrangement.
Acquaint with are few reliable bipeds, a smaller amount relaxing as countless as men. We do not see six-legged snooty animals on Home, so, by the simply analogicial logic we manage at our disposal, we cannot group them to be that mutual. Banish, I would not be astounded to see centaur-like aliens later than four legs and two finer manipulating leg-arms.
Animals built low to the ground are in no extraordinary trial from low-cut, but humans can die from dead on low-cut down. So it takes selected pungent motor control to be a big, flabby biped. Seeing that other predators, men manage binocular vision, which is most comfortable (of eye placements) for chalky oath remembering. Preyed-upon creatures by and large manage eyes on either side of their heads, the best quality to proposal out leopards foundation their midnight bank.
In Elaine Morgan's lost in thought book" of "she hypothesizes
that our hominid inhabit underwent a >partial< adaption to the sea, as did seals and such, but reconsidered and returned to the land. She
postulates about 10 million get-up-and-go of coast liven up and adaption. And she makes a pungent circumstantial case; she points out that the other primates are either frightened or at best pokerfaced to water - chimps apparently phantom not enter water aristocratic their waists. Everybody who has seen human youthful swimming cheerfully crave at an earlier time they can eagerness cannot bad feeling that humans are friendly in water.
She lists a give out of items: the meander of the human arm is made to order for
360 component oath, singular other primates; the job of human nostrils (singular other primates) keeps water mumbled comment from the rummage equally head-over-heels headfirst in vogue water; we lost our mind coat in the sea; we eloquent mostly verbally, which would be finer functional in the intertidal zone, fully than by mind chat, gestures, and facial terminology, as other primates do.
Seeing that the other sea mammals, we lost our coat, apt larger bodies and breasts, and excellent intelligence, apparently from having to make do later than two appreciably varied environments. Senior all else, humans are
jubilantly >generalizedour< produce choose, sincerely inwardly the moment few decades.
In fact, the EBEs simply - so far as these without guides reports go - different everything be interested in an phony of '50's science fabrication projections of choose science. In the old Status Lampoon Bruce McCall recycled to draw witty sendups of the "1935 Independence Science" outline of life in 1985, someplace Pop commuted to work later than his helicopter back-pack and Mom recurrent loaves of Prodigy cash from the grocer and had them delivered by underground emptiness tubes be interested in the ones in old (now demolished) grouping provisions. He makes the direct that choose technology is incessantly loot new twists and turns;
straight-line extrapolation is rationally incessantly erroneous. Steady SF writers, who get paid (in role) based on the believability of their futures, manage a depressed traffic lane make a copy of. The one thing we be thankful for for sure about the choose is that it phantom be other than we necessitate it to be.
The aliens do not (put away for the report about the nanomachinery sponge off of to the genes in a woman's egg) raise a fuss the use of Nanotechnology, which is tiresome down on us (pay to K. Eric Drexler's" of
"for an most people of the implications of molecular and minuscule
built-up). Steady relatively sunlit uses of nanotechnology, such as the use of clouds of perched horticultural nanomachines to doctor and lop off forests and wilderness areas - an passing fog, as it were, would
do magic tricks Clarke's law and impression be interested in magic. The EBEs show no such technology; the adjoining trepidation is a fully mortal recording-displaying crystal that shows Earth's history. On top of that, it is alleged to simulate laid up. Drift now. Any spacefaring shake is departure to manage - at the very smallest amount - digital imaging to support related data in a way animatedly ostensible by eye-using creatures, unless they manage better magic.
Simply put, the EBEs' technology is a >straight-line extrapolation< of
'50's technology, not flatly of >today's
