I'm not being rude. Being a smart-ass, yes.
I'm stating the fact that many people, some of which are members of this forum, when faced with overwhelming evidence supporting a counter to their own opinion, fail to process that information and incorporate it into their knowledge.
It's like saying 1 + 2 = 3, but 1 + 2 + 5 doesn't equal 3 + 5. It's frustrating. The hope is to not have things taken at face value, but to rather use logic and reasoning to come up with the best solution possible.
Logic tells me that this is exactly what NASA and the other "evil government entities" say it is... An asteroid that has had a collision and is breaking up. The same thing happened with Shoemaker-Levi 9, only it smashed into Jupiter. But there was the exact same trail left behind it.
Just because my sources are government sources doesn't make them any less credible than some amateur with a telescope in his backyard. These are people that have hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment designed to locate stuff like this. Do I believe they've also captured UFOs and have kept it under wraps? Hell yeah. Do I believe this is one of those that happened to "leak"? Not a chance.
Again... People follow blindly. Perhaps that's part of the problem with UFOs and Paranormal Investigation... If there were more people willing to step back and say "Look, I know it looks like something from Star Trek, but it's natural, calm down" or "Yeah, I heard that loud creak, but this house is 60+ years old and is settling, as evidenced by the cracks on the walls. And since nothing else like that has happened, odds are it's not paranormal" then perhaps these types of things wouldn't be discussed as junk science.
