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Global Intelligence

posted 8 years ago by Motoko_Kusanagi (60)
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They seem to be a recent addition, we only see them in S2 -- I'm having difficulty picturing how and when they were installed during the Earth takeover. They're clearly a force with military training, but I thought they already eliminated anyone who posed a threat through their former careers. So who trained them when they seem to be higher than the Raps organisation-wise? That they have special clearance and access to alien-tech.

Also, I paused the show when Broussard was looking at the tablet with Bowman's info. It had various fields, one of which was Hynek rating. Is this the codex? Why he didn't grab that tablet before he left, I would have tried to.

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 8 years ago

An interesting reference. I just looked up Hynek ratings. It's the UFO Close Encounter Scale. You know, first, second, and third kind, that scale. Unless they've given it another meaning it's just one of those little easter eggs they put on screens and in documents for anyone who cares to freeze the frame and read them.

[–] neverstandinalone (641) 8 years ago

" It's the UFO Close Encounter Scale. You know, first, second, and third kind, that scale."

Cool (is there a newer word?), I learned something new today. And I am one to pause and read.

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 8 years ago

I didn't know what the Hynek Scale was until I googled it. Or at least, that it was an official scale with its very own name. Anyone who's seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind has heard the terminology before.

Afraid I'm not much of a UFO believer. Alien civilizations are out there, that's practically a given, but it's highly doubtful any human being has yet set eyes on a genuine extraterrestrial. I'd love to be around the day that changes. But even our great grandchildren probably won't see it happen in their lifetimes. Oh well.

[–] neverstandinalone (641) 8 years ago

One thing leads to another, and now I'll have to watch it again. Me not much neither, and if there are, I consider them demons. My ex & I saw something one night that shouldn't have been in that particular area though. This was way back in 1978. It's hard enough dealing with the folks on Earth now without adding to the mix.

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 8 years ago

People tend to project their hopes and fears onto aliens. That's why in the movies they're often either slime-dripping nightmares or angelic beings who can heal with a touch. The reality is, other intelligent life forms will be people. Just a different kind of people than we are. Any race of individuals like ourselves will have good and bad ones among them, the same as we do. Most will probably be decent enough. Even if they're too different for us to understand each other on a personal level we could still work together and share knowledge.

Resources are incredibly abundant in space. Anything we need is available in quantity, including planets to settle on. Just a couple of weeks ago they discovered seven earth-sized planets around a single star! Only three are at the right distance to be habitable, but that's just one system out of around 400 billion in the galaxy. The kind of scarcity that would force civilizations into competition with each other simply doesn't exist. It's an embarrassment of riches out there. What's to fight over?

[–] mobocracy (894) 8 years ago

If you buy into my theory that the aliens are repurposing human bodies, perhaps merging their consciousness into humans even, then maybe the global intelligence agents *are* former intelligence operatives who have been through the transference process already.

Maybe when the aliens transfer in their consciousness they retain human memories and training. It would explain why they had an empty stasis pod for Will and had his stats, as well as explaining why the drone on the wall didn't zap him and Charlie.