Sorry Rramjet, you haven't conclusively shown how anyone can accurately measure by eye a light source against a black sky and black sea to be able to tell how far away it was to be able to confirm it was the same blip that was on the radar.
Until you can do this, you can not say that there was any radar visual tie up.
I get a “heads up” from the radar controller who states, “I have a target: your 2:00 at 5 miles.” I look in that direction and I see a light in that exact position. Just a random coincidence? Yeah right!
Much of science is based on reasonable causal inference. Without it we would be struggling to explain very much at all about our world. Indeed our very existence is based on a causal inference. I think, therefore I am. But according to you, perhaps I am not (maybe you are brain in a vat being fed your experiences by some mad scientist – the underlying premise of The Matrix – or maybe you are but a figment of someone else’s imagination). But once you start down that path you quickly find there is no end to an infinite progression into oblivion.
The fringe dwellers will never be swayed by reason. How else is explained astrology, homeopaths, etc. For the love of Apollo, there still is in existence a Flat Earth Society they have a web page. As is Zoroastrianism, there are remnants of this mythology still around, not that christianity is any better. Then we have the kooks who look at UFOlogy as the new gods, our new saviors. Why do people believe weird things? Wishful thinking.
Ha! Some of your very own UFO debunkers now believe that UFOs ARE “the new gods” (or old ones…who knows…”gods” they say…). Perhaps you better talk to GeeMack. He is one of the strongest proponents of that hypothesis here – and he seems to have attracted quite a few followers to this new cult. But if that is his hypothesis, then let him demonstrate its veracity. The UFO debunkers have often talked about “shifting the burden of evidence”. Here is a prime example. If they truly believed what they say, then they would be able to show me the evidence.
But of course this is absolutely typical of the UFO debunker mindset. They simply cannot tell the difference between UFOs, astrology, homeopaths, Flat Earthers, the “gods” Christianity, and so on… for them it is all the same. For people who pretend to scepticism about all of these subjects, that they can concatenate them in such a manner, merely demonstrates how remarkably little they know about ANY of the subjects they pronounce judgement on!
This may be quite an incredible revelation to many, but to others it merely confirms a long held suspicion about UFO debunkers:
“Don’t bother me with the evidence, my mind is made up”!
No-one who would pretend to the title of scholar or scientist, or researcher would concatenate these disparate elements of human belief systems. One might as easily correlate the problem gambler with the astrologer. Both have developed irrational belief systems, but they are of an entirely different character. To understand why each holds the particular belief systems they do, one must look at the historical context of how such beliefs developed. Each takes an entirely different path and the path to one cannot explain the path to the other. This applies to all the belief systems amb listed above. Each has its own set of beliefs and practices, its own rationale, its own raison d’etre. To talk about one is not to talk about the other: It is a nonsense to even suppose this might even be rationally possible. Yet here we have it, the UFO debunker concatenation of these topics.
If knowledge is power then let there be light… unfortunately however, it seems the dim witted rule the world.
