UFOs

[vraiblonde]

Tucker Carlson is the only major news pundit who wants to talk about it, which is why I hate everyone else.

I think it's unlikely that we are alone in the universe - so unlikely as to be impossible. Somewhere out there is at least one other civilization, even if we wouldn't recognize it as such. It stuns me when I see someone scoff at that; they seem so ignorant and unsophisticated.

Anyway, I appreciate Tucker shining a light on a subject none of the rest of them want to touch.

 

[Hijinx]

The history channel claims that everything from the Pyramids to Easter Island was built by aliens.
I suppose they could have come and helped that tribes and people of yesteryear and then left them to make it on their own, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Where are they now. ? It's possible there are other planets in the vast Universe capable of sustaining some form of life, It's also possible they once were strong and Global Warming or environmental changes or CO2 killed them off.

I am pretty sure if we had the capability to go to other planets where there is life we would introduce ourselves.
Some people believe in space aliens and some believe in God, and Heaven., and a hereafter.

Believe what you want, It doesn't cost me anything. But in reality, one is about as believable as the other.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

They are only "unidentified" until they land, or crash.

But maybe they are already here. Maybe, they are so advanced they don't fly, they just 'think' themselves here, and poof, they're here. Or maybe, just maybe, they're so advanced and smart thinkers, they poof themselves here and are flying around masked as normal airplanes? Kinda like what spies do with UPS trucks.

But of course we are not alone. With trillions of planets in the cosmos, all having been created out of the same materials, and elements, as our earth, there has to be some planet that coalesced such as ours with intelligent, human like life. However, since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, that we know of, so far, and with any possible life sustaining planet, hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions, of light years away, I'm pretty sure we won't see any visitors anytime soon. Especially seeing that humans, as far as we know so far, in modern form, being about 200,000 years young. And with our ancestors being only about six million years young. Nothing we humans have done, technologically, would ever reach the ears of interstellar intelligent life. In fact, we've been leaking radio signals, (radio signals travel at the speed of light), into space for over 100 years, but by the time they're 100 light-years away, they are so attenuated and weak, that they're basically undetectable anyway. Given the size of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, in which we reside, is roughly 110,000 light years in diameter? Well. We not on anyone's galactic tourist map.

One must also note, that the view from another galaxy, or universe, is completely different from how we view from earth. There is a whole lot to choose from out there in the expanse of things.

And, maybe, we aren't alone, if we 'think' we aren't alone. Maybe that's all it takes?

 

[Sneakers]

And like what was posted recently.... what if all the stars in the sky are really just pin holes in a giant jar lid?

 

[Monello]

They have already reached out to us. The receivers are located in Green Bank, WV. You can tour them when you visit there.

According to the CBS News article, previous radio signals coming in from space have been delivered at random intervals, making this steady, repeating pattern very unique—not to mention that its origin has yet to be determined. “A mysterious object in a galaxy 500 million light years away is confusing scientists with its signals,” the article said. “It appears to be transmitting signals that reach Earth in a repeating, 16-day pattern, but researchers have no idea why.”
The signals it broadcasts are known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs. CBS News said that the source “sends out bursts that last for four days before stopping for 12 days and then repeating.”

Looped Radio Signal 500 Million Light Years Away Baffles Astronomers (thegreatcoursesdaily.com)

 

[Kyle]

 

[SamSpade]

I guess there’s too much to unpack but here goes…

There’s possibly alien life out there. Maybe even intelligent life. But even traveling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT it would still take years to reach the nearest star. Just going that fast would take nearly infinite energy. It seems unlikely to me that in the incredibly long lifespan of the universe - any two advanced civilizations would be close to one another In anywhere close to the same timeframe. The universe is billions of years old, and we crawled out of caves in the last 25,000.

Of course from the appearances given of the spacecraft - looks like there’s LOTS of them. And they all look different. And of all the ways they could evolve - they evolved into a humanoid appearance.

And as someone observed - for advanced species they sure do CRASH here a lot.

Plus they’ve yet to make themselves KNOWN. You know, communicate with us, appear in our cities.

Sure it’s possible. But highly unlikely. It’s easier to believe people have vivid imaginations. They don’t believe in God or an afterlife - but little green men they’ve never seen. Sure.

 

[Clem72]

Tucker Carlson is the only major news pundit who wants to talk about it, which is why I hate everyone else.

I think it's unlikely that we are alone in the universe - so unlikely as to be impossible. Somewhere out there is at least one other civilization, even if we wouldn't recognize it as such. It stuns me when I see someone scoff at that; they seem so ignorant and unsophisticated.

Anyway, I appreciate Tucker shining a light on a subject none of the rest of them want to touch.

I think most people who accept the general science that describes our universe believe there is intelligent life out there. The Drake equation is a scientific arguments that attempts to show how likely and how often there is intelligent life in our galaxy. If you accept their arguments (and most would) there should be lots of intelligent life. And all of it likely too far away for us to ever communicate with them.

 

[Clem72]

If I may ...

They are only "unidentified" until they land, or crash.

Or until they say "We come in Peace. Show us your boobs"

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I guess there’s too much to unpack but here goes…

There’s possibly alien life out there. Maybe even intelligent life. But even traveling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT it would still take years to reach the nearest star. Just going that fast would take nearly infinite energy. It seems unlikely to me that in the incredibly long lifespan of the universe - any two advanced civilizations would be close to one another In anywhere close to the same timeframe. The universe is billions of years old, and we crawled out of caves in the last 25,000.

Of course from the appearances given of the spacecraft - looks like there’s LOTS of them. And they all look different. And of all the ways they could evolve - they evolved into a humanoid appearance.

And as someone observed - for advanced species they sure do CRASH here a lot.

Plus they’ve yet to make themselves KNOWN. You know, communicate with us, appear in our cities.

Sure it’s possible. But highly unlikely. It’s easier to believe people have vivid imaginations. They don’t believe in God or an afterlife - but little green men they’ve never seen. Sure.

I've never actually in the Big Bang Theory, just doesn't make sense to me. I think its just as likely that the universe dies out and reforms into something different every so often like a swamp drying up and turning into a desert and then a forest etc.

 

[Clem72]

And as someone observed - for advanced species they sure do CRASH here a lot.

Maybe they don't crash? Maybe the only species capable of advancing enough to visit other solar systems were only able to do so in a pacifistic society that didn't stunt it's own growth or extinct itself. They show up, expect us to be friendly because they have no frame of reference for intelligent violent species or they believe we are too barbaric to do anything to them, and then we hit them with a sidewinder and *poof* downed spacecraft.

 

[vraiblonde]

They don’t believe in God or an afterlife - but little green men they’ve never seen. Sure.

Intelligent life on other planets is more logically plausible than God or an afterlife.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Maybe they don't crash? Maybe the only species capable of advancing enough to visit other solar systems were only able to do so in a pacifistic society that didn't stunt it's own growth or extinct itself. They show up, expect us to be friendly because they have no frame of reference for intelligent violent species or they believe we are too barbaric to do anything to them, and then we hit them with a sidewinder and *poof* downed spacecraft.

Maybe they send their JPC's and HemiHaulers?

 

[Ken King]

There’s possibly alien life out there. Maybe even intelligent life. But even traveling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT it would still take years to reach the nearest star. Just going that fast would take nearly infinite energy. It seems unlikely to me that in the incredibly long lifespan of the universe - any two advanced civilizations would be close to one another In anywhere close to the same timeframe. The universe is billions of years old, and we crawled out of caves in the last 25,000.

Well based on OUR knowledge set that is pretty much true, but do WE know everything about everything, highly unlikely. We have constrained ourselves with time, but that might not be the extent or the manner for the entire universe. If time wasn't a hard and fast rule, as we treat it, then wouldn't anything be possible?

 

[vraiblonde]

And all of it likely too far away for us to ever communicate with them.

For now.

But there was a time not so long ago when the Dick Tracy two-way radio was just fantasy, and now pretty much every person in America owns one. A little more than two decades ago people were asking what this internet thing was and why they should care. Currently scientists are figuring how to teleport living beings - "faxing" them in a sense. Google "quantum entanglement".

I have no doubt that maybe not in my lifetime but at some point in the not too distant future humans will make solid and routine contact with extraterrestrials. They'll interact with aliens the way they do mental cases on Reddit and Twitter. Or maybe our human idea of what constitutes "intelligence" will be turned on its ear and we'll find out that we're universal dumbasses and some amoeba looking thing possesses exponential intelligence compared to us.

It really could be anything, things everyday people aren't capable of imagining.

 

[vraiblonde]

Maybe they send their JPC's and HemiHaulers?

Maybe Earth is an extraterrestrial penal colony and that's where Democrats come from.

 

[Sneakers]

I'm watching a documentary right now. Aliens used the earth as a toxic waste dump, and life arose from the toxin mix.

Pretty interesting. It's called "Luis and the Aliens" and it's on the Kid's Movie Club channel on Pluto TV.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Intelligent life on other planets is more logically plausible than God or an afterlife.

^^Opinion.^^

I will give you credit for capitalizing His name this time.

 

[Sneakers]

But even traveling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT it would still take years to reach the nearest star. Just going that fast would take nearly infinite energy.

I believe the speed of light is just another barrier to be broken. Used to be going faster than 30mph would cause your blood to boil, and that breaking the sound barrier was impossible. And we KNEW those facts to be true.

 

[WingsOfGold]

If they do exist I'm guessing they're live and let live. They could have eliminated us on the first voyage.