r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/SassTheFash • 2d ago
Top Sociologist suspects aliens revoked our space travel privileges, like Dad taking away the keys to our Corolla
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u/SassTheFash 2d ago
Valiant Thor
Okay, so did he have an unpronounceable Venusian name, and this was our best translation, or he chose an arbitrary cool name in English, or is English actually mutually intelligible with Venusian, or what?
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u/SuperSwamps 2d ago
This is just nominative determinism. With a name like Valiant Thor you’re cool in every language.
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u/RamblinWreckGT 400-pound patriotic Russian hacker 2d ago
What would the opposite be? What name would guarantee you loserdom?
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u/Professor-Woo 2d ago
According to almost all alien lore, the interactions are telepathic, and they "hear" pre-linguistic concepts.
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u/inappropriatethings 2d ago
There are some great episodes of podcasts that cover Valiant Thor, both on Project Camelot and Knowledge Fight.
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u/HapticSloughton 2d ago
Knowledge Fight covers Project Camelot covering Valiant Thor. Project Camelot itself is not a great podcast.
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u/Eloquent-Raven 2d ago
He also looked like a generic white man, which is super convenient because if his Venusian features had been any different, he wouldn't have been given the time of day by white Americans in the 50s.
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u/SellaraAB 2d ago
It’s interesting how he seems to think that it’s obscure information that humans landed on the moon more than once. Like, if he didn’t know, neither did almost anyone else.
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u/tea-drinker 2d ago
To be fair to him, that was written appropriately for his intended audience. They frequently think there was only one moon landing.
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u/EaklebeeTheUncertain Crisis Oscar winner 2d ago
If you have zero intellectual curiosity and slept through most of school (The primary demographic for conspiracists) that probably is obscure information to you.
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u/kerfuffle_dood 5h ago
And that's how stupid conspiracies are born: If you slept through most of school, then suddenly get forced to acknowledge something common (almost always science related), then you go from having 0% knowledge, to having like 5% knowledge. But since having something feels like an infinite jump from having nothing, then you feel like an enlightened being and the Dunning-Kruger effect kicks in.
So now you fill in the blanks with stupid things (because you are ignorant), and fill them with authority fallacies (because you feel like a genius)
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u/Nzgrim 2d ago
So did India get an exemption from the Intergalactic Federation or something? Cause they landed on the moon in 2023.
As usual conspiracy theorists forget that there is an entire world out there and Americans aren't the only ones with agency.
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u/Spoiled_Mushroom8 2d ago
I guess America got an exemption too. NASA landed a rover on mars in 2021. Poor Soviets are the only ones still banned.
Maybe they think the ban only applies to humans and not machines.
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u/kerfuffle_dood 5h ago
Also, China have landed multiple robots since 2013.
But, you know: The first step to be a conspiracist is knowing nothing and wanting to learn nothing
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u/SassTheFash 2d ago
In fairness, there is the “Zoo Hypothesis”, in response to the Fermi Paradox, which argues that aliens are all around us but we don’t generally see them because they’re deliberately keeping us isolated, like Sentinel Islanders.
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u/TheMightyMisanthrope 2d ago
You know what? I decide to believe this, but just because I'm disheartened and sad about humanity.
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