Well, somebody put a big metal monolith up somewhere in Southeast Utah. Like everything else, it's probably gonna end up being an ad for a new Marvel movie. We'd love to say aliens or ancient prophecies aren't off the table, but for now it looks like a big piece of metal some artist or publicity team crammed into the ground.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about some of the most supernatural experiences that people have ever had. At the very least, it's threads like this that can invite folks to consider there's a whole lot more going on in this universe than we will ever fully understand.
We're intellectually obligated to believe things with some amount of evidence, but damn if hunches aren't compelling. Everyone has their personal conspiracy theories and stupid beliefs that they will believe to their dying day, no matter how little actual proof they have.
One of the biggest problems with archaeology is having to make enormous guesses about what things must have looked like with no meat on them. Sure, Jurassic Park's visual effects were cool but there's constant reinterpretations of what dinosaurs actually looked like, and mistakes like having bones backwards and not realizing it for decades. Tumblr has a vivid imagination of how aliens would interact with earth's wildlife, and these memes do a fun job of combining our own archaeological difficulties with the sci-fi-ness of an alien who has no clue what they're looking at.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the terrifying things to consider when thinking about aliens. Let's just say that you shouldn't dive on into this rabbit hole, unless you're ready to explore some dark recesses of the mind. Aliens can be a scary idea, and one that we just as much conveniently forget about as we go about our daily existence.
This fun Tumblr story imagines a scenario involving an alien invasion, that ultimately suffers many struggles by not anticipating the power of the earth's wildlife. Kind of fun when you allow your mind to wander down potential situations involving bizarre alien species, squaring off against hordes of bears or swarms of cicadas or armies of mosquitoes.
It's compelling and somewhat flattering to think of Earth as the most dangerous place in the galaxy, with humans being the only ones crazy enough to tame it. This thought brings fun ideas such as the idea of humans as super resilient space orcs, or the idea that aliens trying to invade Earth could be stopped by local wildlife. It's informative, fun, and somewhat self indulgent.
After the surreal debacle that was the "Storm Area 51" Facebook event that actually ended up inspiring some Kyles to get out there with their Monster energy drinks in tow, the Area 51 memes have been flowing. It's still ridiculous to think about people showing up for the event, and going so far as to mix it up with military officials so that they could try and "break into Area 51." Twitter users are cracking all kinds of funny jokes about the crazy shit one could find in the notoriously eerie Area 51.
After all the hype and the buildup, "Storm Area 51" is here. People actually showed up. Not only that, but we've got Kyles out there already photobombing live news broadcasts with legendary "Naruto Runs." So, with an event of such amazingly ridiculous proportions, we had to round up some of our favorite tweets from the madness.
Those viral videos of strange and unexplained aircraft that were going around the web, have now been confirmed as real, by Joseph Gradisher, a spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.
Um. So, there it is. There are strange aircraft flying around the world, that escape all logic and our understanding of the laws of physics, and a high ranking official from the Navy is confirming that none of us were supposed to see the footage in the first place.
