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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/til@lemmy.world
 

Some cephalopods are able to fly through the air for distances of up to 50 metres (160 ft). While cephalopods are not particularly aerodynamic, they achieve these impressive ranges by jet-propulsion; water continues to be expelled from the funnel while the organism is in the air. The animals spread their fins and tentacles to form wings and actively control lift force with body posture. One species, Todarodes pacificus, has been observed spreading tentacles in a flat fan shape with a mucus film between the individual tentacles, while another, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, has been observed putting the tentacles in a circular arrangement.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod#Senses

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

They've been saying that for decades...

For so long that they were able to say

Nah, that was us, we couldn't say anything till the SR-71 Blackbird was declassified tho

Why would you assume that when they say next:

But this new thing definitely isn't us

That it's not the same thing?

Hell, you're operating under the assumption they're actually things.

The stuff where pilots say "nothing can move like that" is usually from some trick of perspective because they're flying faster than the speed of sound and trying to look at something at a weird angle.

Like, something from another planet that flew here is like a 0.00000000000000001% chance.

It would be more likely to be a civilization from the center of the Earth, time travellers, something from a parallel universe...

All that stuff is also incredibly unlikely and not what any of those are. But even fucking Jesus coming back and flying around is more likely than aliens flew here through space.

Especially considering they had to fly here without us ever finding any evidence except these few videos.

If they could hide coming here, they wouldn't have any problem hiding once here.

And if they were gonna let us catch glimpses for this long, they'd have said what's up by now.