Recently, I read in Slashdot a post about the book "Imminent" from Mr. Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs.

Being fascinated by the subject, I obviously bought the book and read it carefully.

I really do want to believe. That is why, I have been carrying a camera with me for about 50 years...

But I was unfortunately not convinced by this book. I myself never saw real evidence of UAP or orbs, not in general, but especially not in my backyard, as it seems to be common from Mr Elizondo's book.

Now, this post about UFO created stories seems in complete contradiction to what Mr. Elizondo is claiming.

So, my question: "Who is telling the truth?"

For example, despite me being willing to believe in UAP, or let's say "Flying saucers" to be more explicit, the explanation for Captain Robert Salas's story provided in this post looks more credible than a possible extra-terrestrial intervention.

Why Human Beings (mostly men) are always willing to fight?

I know that evolution is a very slow process...

When will we learn and understand tha twhat we need is to cooperate?

I see AI like the evolution of the concept of Encyclopedia, and more recently "Google". We can use it to get information as relevant as possible.

And so, this can be a very useful tool.

Unfortunately, most people tend to use it in the wrong way, trying to cheat as much as they can, trying to give a completely false image of themselves. And this is really bad.

So instead of banning the use of these kind of tools, couldn't we try to improve the educational system, explaining the benefits of being honest, transparent, loyal?

This is just an opportunist immature kind of person.
Unfortunately, there are many more around:-(

By the way they don't need education neither. Anyway, educationin USA did not seem to work well, considering the sad events taking place now.

I am so sad to make such statements:-(

But, we have to face reality. If research results impact negatively short terms benefits of "rich people", then they must be ignored. This is back to the time of hunting witches. And bad luck if the bomb will detonate later, bad luck for the children who will suffer and die. The less people receive education, the easier it is to manipulate themfor the benefice od the richer.

Concorde - 1969.

More than 50 years ago, Concorde did the same in Europe. Boom Supersonic is not really a pioneer in this field...

Instead of increasing the speed of transportation, which, after all is not that difficult, we should invest in finding an alternative to the combustion engines used today. The engines (over) used today are polluting our environment, destroying our habitat, and, yes, will kill our children.

Do you remember the sad even of January 6th, 2021? Yes, that one where tribes of barbarians where on their way to the Capitol, destroying anything they can. It reminded me what the Talibans were doing.

The main difference is that USA was supposed to be a democratic and civilized country.

But when someone pays voters to vote for him (what I would call "reverse corruption"), it shows clearly that the concept of democracy does not exist anymore in such a country.

When that same person escapes "justice" by appointing his friends as federal judges, it opens the door to general criminality.

I hope not! But...

With a criminal as "elected" president, it has to be expected that such a barbarian will free other criminals...

Shame on Trump!

One more eviidence showing how some people just can lot learn, can not evolve.
Unfortunately many decision makers are such people.

It is very sad for me to write such a question.
But when I am looking aroud I see mostly people preferring money to the safety of their children, despite what they hypocritically may claim.
I did my best over many years to respect the environment, switching off lights when we don't need it, biking to work in whatever meteorological conditions for example. Believe me, it is far form funny to bike in the mud, facing fallen trees on the path, etc... I tried to explain to my colleagues that they should not use their cars to go to work. etc...
But I failed. And now I am tired and depressed to see so many people packed like cockroaches in the airports waiting to pollute more and more, wasting food when other people are starving...
What about the banks? These people are even worse, focusing only on immediate profit, completely unable to see further than their nose. They exploit as much as they can people and Earth resources, ing as much as they can to manipulate whatever for their own profit.
But I have a dream: Human Kind!
Perhaps it will have to go through a full reset. Probably it will hurt a lot. But "Human Kind" would be a wonderful objective.
Maybe Trump might help with his friend Putin by starting a Global Nuclear War?
I sincerely wish you all a Happy New Year. But will this wish come true?

I think technology is evolving for too quickly.

This could be really good. But "Human Beings" are not evolving at the same speed. As a result, most people simply do not understand how to use this technology and just think about their immediate own well being, without thinking about the consequences.

It does not help to make laws with the hope that these "primitive" people will follow them. They will find a way to short-cut these laws and will continue as they like.

What we crucially, urgently need is to educate people such that they respect their environment, such that they ask yourself "What are the global consequences of what I do now" . We need to respect each other. We need to respect Nature. We need to forget the concept "Making profit", the concept "I do something expecting that I will receive something in return".

Government, please stop wasting resources in military equipment (for instance), meant basically to destroy each other. Instead Use these resources to educate people, to teach respect.

Education, education, education. All we need is education...

Over about 200 years, human beings already did geoengineering. The result is the currect "Global Warming".

Now that we are in very big trouble, we mainly do not knoow what to do. The main problem is that, although Earth is a relatively small planet, it is anyway a very big machine at our scale. Once the machine is launched, it is extremely difficult and costly to stop it, even to slow it down.

So, before implementing any "geoengineering" we should be really 200% sure about what we do. It might well transform Earth into a Venus sister.

EU, please, be very careful, especially when lobbyists are visiting you at Rondpoint Schumann in Bruxelles.

Indeed. This was my first reaction.
And I would probably add to this list "truggling with administrative procedures", although I really do not knoow about Amazon way to function.
Good managers do exist but they are outnumberd by an other kind...

I would qualify this guy as a "barbarian". Do you remember the look of his fans during the 2021-01-06 United States Capitol Attack? This is just an insult on democracy, to women, to freedom, to justice.

The question is, how can he be candidate and then even elected for the Presidency of USA with such a background, such a behavior?

Even Dr. Stephen Hawking was not really able to understand. His best explanation was “He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.” But this implies really a lot on USA people.