Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, says "there really is no doubt we are being visited."Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, says "there really is no doubt we are being visited."ping
“”Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. ...”
Oh no, now we have to ‘work with’ an extraterrestrial NATO???
Beam me up Scotty!
What's this "we" $?i+ , Edgar?
I guess when you get hit in the head by a 40lb. moon rock, it doesn’t FEEL like a 40lb. moon rock... But the effects of it still happen.
While I agree that man is probably not alone in the universe, I don’t think it matters.
To start with, let’s just forget the idea of “universe” right now, and think “Milky Way galaxy”, because the distance between galaxies is truly staggering. Whereas the distance to the next habitable planet might be a mere 200 to 400 light years away.
Let’s ponder that, in turn. If something is only 1 light year away, traveling at the speed of light, that is, if you can travel only at half the speed of light, it is 2 years away. A 10th the speed of light, 10 years away, etc.
Our fastest spaceship would reach the star closest to us, Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, in about 74,000 years. That’s at the blindingly slow speed of 38,000 miles per hour.
But that is just distance. Our other problem is time.
The Milky Way galaxy is about 13 billion years old. Earth is only about 4.5 billion years old. Life on Earth is much younger, and intelligent life perhaps only 100,000 years old. Any ability for us to communicate outside of our world is about 150 years.
150 years, or even 100,000 years, out of 13 billion years, in windows of time of which millions of civilizations could have existed for millions of years, yet not at the same time as us.
And not all parts of the Milky Way are equal. Entire sectors of the Milky Way have been sterilized by cosmic events. Which could have eradicated life on millions of worlds.
So what about alien visitations? Well, if they can travel much faster than light, can figure out which planets sustain life, and which ones have intelligent life, and done it when the human species existed and could recognize them as aliens, then good for them.
Undoubtedly, we are being visited because this planet is the greatest source of comedy this side of the galaxy.
And since Obambi was elected, I am sure they are right.
Edgar Mitchell has been saying this for several years. It isn’t news.
BTTT ping.
All I can say is “Prove it”. Until he can, it is just guesswork.
Someone has to be first in the Galaxy, until someone else comes along, we’re it.
. . . and Ed’s evidence is . . . ?
Seems to me to be just another ‘expert’ spouting off.
Wait until folks see the triple breasted prossie of Eroticon VI.
Dude would of had some credibility if he had actually landed on the moon instead of having been driven to a Burbank studio, legendary for having hosted such luminaries as Erroll Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Fatty Arbuckle and many others, to film a simulation of a moon landing.
I would assume this guy knows we don’t have ansible technology (taken from Orson Scott Card).
We are alone, get over it!
Note to Mitchell... “I’ve got some bad news for you, sunshine.”
Around the 1st of Aug. 70-71 when the Apollo landings on the moon were still a big news story and they had the Lem commander on a live hook-up, the 1st thing he said was ‘’I’ve got a boggy at 3-o’clock, I’ve got a boggy at 10-o’clock’’ etc. several times he said it. I never heard another word about it, but I’m sure he was not talking about moon rocks.
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