The Tunguska event

[Lavazza]

Well, we have to be fair- the purpose of the probe was to monitor human activities, and it was very likely in close proximity to many humans when it became dangerous. That they were able to detonate something that is 1000 times as powerful as Hiroshima with zero human casualties can hardly be called work of the inept! If humans pulled that off it would be nothing short of a miracle.

The take away from this discussion for me is that mistakes happen... and will continue to happen in the future. And nobody is perfect. I like how DuncanIdaho called that part a comfort. I agree.

[zenmaster]

The take away from this discussion for me is that mistakes happen...

WTF was so important in 1908 to monitor.

[BrownEye]

I'm trippin out on the arguments in some of these threads LoL. I think it's the solar flares ha ha.

[Conifer16]

@zen

Tesla maybe?

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The wright brothers? First aircraft in thousands of years is pretty important. IMO

[βαθμιαίος]

Tesla and lots of others. "You were, at that time, beginning work in a more technical sphere. We were interested in determining the extent and the rapidity of your advances."

[AnthroHeart]

I think the failure of only one drone out of how many they probably used is a pretty good track record.

[zenmaster]

Perhaps if they were wiser (no insult to the Confederation implied) the scenario of a malfunctioning nuclear drone wouldn't have come up at all because they would have some more sophisticated means.

The seeming lack of sophistication of their monitoring is the odd bit about that. Seems strangely conventional - overly conventional.

[βαθμιαίος]

Similar to their use of communication equipment, I guess. (Session 60)

[Oceania]

i thought they could read our minds.

[Parsons]

I'm assuming they communicate with ANYONE via willing parties only. These people contacting would be advanced channelers (actually, they would be remote viewers from their end, I guess). But I'm sure not every single one of them in their society might be skilled in that. So they wouldn't be able to play it back to a group of people trying to discuss it, say. Also, the human or animal instrument might not have the capacity to sense / measure accurately whatever they were interested in learning about(such as new energies being emitted in some experiment done by Tesla or other scientist).