New: 16 July 2024

Yesterday, 15 July 2024, I was watching a tv programme with my mum and we saw that according to a new Harvard study 'aliens might be living among us disguised as humans or in a base inside the Moon'. I did not want to take the time to look the article up so I took a picture instead to remind myself today. The article does not disappoint!

On the contrary, it is insanely hilarious. The fact it is from Harvard University makes it even more hilarious. So how can I write about this in a way to expose this idiocy? Simply: I will just cite the article and take the piss.

So with that out of the way, the article is at https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/aliens-might-be-living-among-us-according-to-new-harvard-study/.

A new paper suggests extraterrestrials could also be living underground or in a base inside the Moon.

The study by Harvard University's Human Flourishing program further puts forward the idea that UFOs, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), may be spaceships visiting their Earth-based alien friends.

Okay so what happened to the claim that in order for there to be life on other planets they need the same vital things that we humans need: like oxygen, an atmosphere and other things? That is, as I have said before, a rather arrogant and stupid assumption since if they are 'advanced' they might not have the same requirements. Also, since we keep finding new species, it might be that we find something that can survive without some of these things. It is an assumption that might or might not be true. In any case these 'scientists' now think otherwise and expect us to believe them? But it gets much better!

The researchers have investigated so-called 'cryptoterrestrials'.

These could be disguising themselves as humans to fit in, may have come from Earth's future or might have descended from intelligent dinosaurs.

Are you kidding me? Descended from intelligent dinosaurs? This is one of the most insane things I have ever seen and I have unfortunately seen a lot of insane things. The only descendants are birds. That's it. Birds. Other things certainly lived long before dinosaurs: sharks for instance. But they are not descended from dinosaurs for they are not dinosaurs. But somehow we are supposed to believe that these 'aliens' might be descended from dinosaurs! Or perhaps they've disguised themselves as humans to fit in?

That last one does remind me of something I said years ago: I have no doubt that many people, those who believe in conspiracy theories of course, fantasise with the idea that aliens are here and are secretly mating with humans. Don't get me started on the Babylon Brotherhood with the reptilian overlords of ours: supposedly but obviously rubbish.

The study was created to offer an alternate 'unconventional' explanation for UAP sightings and to hypothesize what they might mean, and 'the possibility that UAP may involve forms of non-human intelligence (NHI) that are already present in Earth's environment in some sense' that exist 'alongside us in distinct stealth'.

Exactly why would we want an unconventional explanation that is already dubious at best? Some people think that the Roswell incident was a Nazi thing even though the Second World War had ended a few years before. Certainly they were not all defeated but to suggest that a supposed crash of 'aliens' (and the body that was supposedly found) had anything to do with it is insane.

As far as non-human intelligence: why the hell are they worried about non-human intelligence when they clearly lack intelligence themselves? Do they even know what intelligence means?

Four theories on aliens living near humans are investigated.

The first are human cryptoterrestrials: A technologically advanced ancient human civilisation that was largely destroyed long ago (e.g. by flood), but continued to exist in remnant form.

Let me guess. This has to do with the flood myth that the bible talks about? Do you really think that a single person could get predators and prey on a single boat in one part of the world let alone all over the world and to not have the predators eat the prey? But it's even funnier than that!

The suggestion is Moses was only supposed to have his family, as far as the people go (which of course having the many predators in close proximity of humans would also not be safe), in which case we're all inbred. Well that would certainly explain human stupidity! But let's be honest. We do not need a bloody excuse for that: humans do perfectly fine on their own as the study clearly demonstrates.

The second are hominid or theropod cryptoterrestrials: A technologically advanced non-human civilisation consisting of some terrestrial animal which evolved to live in stealth (e.g., underground). The paper suggests these could be an ape-like hominid descendant, or descendants of 'unknown, intelligent dinosaurs'.

Okay so I already talked about the insanity of descendants of dinosaurs but what about the other ones? Underground? Unless these creatures are invisible (like the elves of Iceland that numerous Icelanders believe in, even causing a row with whether to move a rock or not for a church in fear of causing the wrath of these invisible elves - that some people claim they had sex with, too!) how come they haven't been found? Okay we have not dug everywhere but we have dug a lot. And why would they want to live in secret that long anyway? Also, if they needed oxygen (which clearly they don't according to the authors as they think they might be on the Moon too) how could they live underground for that long (I will ignore any technicalities here like the fact that there are some cities or establishments that are entirely underground simply because the entire study is so ridiculous and they could not possibly have thought of it if they even know about it)?

This is about insane as the Hollow Earth conspiracy theory where supposedly an advanced civilisation is in the Earth despite the fact that there is this thing on Earth called a volcano - to say nothing else of other complications.

The only ape-like hominid descendant are humans.

The third cryptoterrestrials are former extraterrestrial or extratempestrial cryptoterrestrials. These would have arrived on Earth from elsewhere in the cosmos or from the human future, respectively, and concealed themselves in stealth, such as in the Moon.

Former? How on Earth (or in space) does that even make sense? But the human future! It's so ridiculous it's hard to know what to say. Part of that is because of the crazy problem with time travel: it's a real paradox or more like many paradoxes. If you travel to the past to fix something you no longer have a reason to do that thing so why did you go in the first place? Also if you go that far back in time how do you manage to get back to the present? And if you don't how will you possibly fit in? You won't. You would be totally out of place. I would like to know where in the cosmos they think they might be from: I mean from the sound of it it seems to only be weasel words, this entire study.

Theory four, dubbed CTH 4, are 'magical Cryptoterrestrials': Entities which are less like homegrown aliens and more like 'earthbound angels'.

Of course they are. Angels. Yes that makes great sense to me. About as much sense as the rest of their nonsense: in other words none whatever.

The paper says these relate to the world inhabited by humans in ways that are less technological than magical, giving the examples of 'fairies, elves, nymphs'.

Elves? I wonder if the people doing this study are from Iceland. That might explain at least a little bit - even if not nearly enough.

The academics do conclude that their theories, especially the elves suggestion, might be hard to take by many people.

They add: 'The principal weakness of CTH 4, by contrast, is its utter strangeness, particularly for readers schooled to limit themselves to modes of explanation within the bounds of, say, the standard model of physics.'

The fact they point out there is a weakness is probably all one needs to know; that they try and clarify that they mean for those who are 'limited to modes of explanations within the bounds of, say, the standard model of physics' is just distraction. What they really mean is for people who are not out of touch with reality and who aren't conspiracy theorists: kind of redundant sometimes but even so not always. These claims call very much to some kinds of delusions.

'While belief in extraterrestrials is tenable, belief in (something like) fairies is simply not a live option for many scientists.'

I have yet to see any evidence at all that suggest this is tenable: perhaps more tenable than your fantasies but not tenable. The burden of proof lies on those claiming that something exists, not those who claim otherwise. Show the evidence of creatures from or on other planets and then you can argue it's tenable but until then it's not and it's utter rubbish.

The paper, 'The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis: A case for scientific openness to a concealed earthly explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' is not yet peer-reviewed.

How surprising! But I bet it would be interesting to read such a review: it would almost certainly rip it apart as utter tosh: exactly because it is utter tosh.

Ultimately, this is about as stupid as the claim that ancient civilisations could not have formed things like Stonehenge and instead that aliens helped us. Well where are they then? But even if they helped us (but they did not - it's nothing but racist bigotry and arrogance believing that ancient peoples figured out how to do things we cannot, with perhaps some delusional thinking) one of the stupidest things I have read about it is that the aliens came to help us create landing pods for them (that is the purpose of some of these ancient structures, in fact). But this is so idiotic it's hard to believe. It's easily destroyed with one single question:

If the aliens needed landing pads in order to get here (and again where are they? I mean besides in the places that this idiotic study suggest?) how did they get here in the first place to help us make landing pads that you just told us they need? Did they teleport? But if they teleported why do they need landing pads and why don't we talk about teleporting aliens and instead focus on flying saucers and the like? I'll tell you why. It's because it's utterly stupid rubbish and anyone with an ounce of critical thinking can utterly destroy it in a heartbeat.

Frankly this study is a good example of how not to conduct a study and should be used as in teaching people!