Posted on 04/08/2015 7:25:12 AM PDT by McGruff
Not only does NASA's chief scientist believe alien life forms likely exist, but she said the space agency knows where to look and could discover signs of extraterrestrial life within the next decade.
Speaking on a panel discussion on Tuesday about water in the universe, NASA's chief scientist Ellen Stofan said she believes the first indications of alien life could come by 2025 -- with more concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life coming in 20 to 30 years.
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We've been digging around on Mars for forty years now. On Earth, where we do have life, you can't dig anywhere... from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest trenches in the sea to the desserts to Antarctica... without finding an abundance of telltale signs of life.
I would think that if Mars once did host life, that it would have traces of past life in every nook and cranny like on Earth.
The fact that there's evidence of water on Mars makes it even more likely that if there was life that we would be able to see traces of it... but so far nothing.
I'm all for continuing to look, but the more we do look and don't find anything the more it convinces me that there's nothing to find (at least on Mars).
In fact, if there is life out there in the Universe, and if life occurs out of existing materials purely at random, then life should have existed in literally billions and billions of places. Evidence of life would be hard to miss... like on Earth. Life, once started, spreads and adapts to exist everywhere... it's hard to stop and it's even harder to disguise its existence.
I asked that once and got a ton of answers about how the mass would be near impossible. I had asked if the light barrier was similar to the sound barrier.
I see aliens every day. I call them “Obama voters.”
The best theory on wormholes is that possibly you could get your matter to go through one, but you’d be quite thoroughly destroyed in the process. The gravity gradient at the entrance to the wormhole would be such as to tear matter down to elementary particles. A cloud of hydrogen dust is probably not how you want to present yourself to what is on the other end of the wormhole.
Pushing any object having mass through the acceleration required to attain speeds approaching light will cause its effective mass to grow exponentially with its approach to the speed of light, according to general relativity. Newtonian mechanics do not pertain here. Bottom line is, the growth in mass does make it impossible not just “near.” There would not be enough energy in the universe.
I read the Hawking book that explained the singularity. When I got to the part about being crushed as you entered it....I figured it was worth finding out what happens at the other end. Ha ha.
no, you will not be lucky enough to have it reconstruct you on the other end
Exactly. They are just as likely, if not more so, to be like ‘Independence Day’ aliens instead of ‘Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.’
............or E.T.........................
A character in my current novel (a Good Angel) said something the other day that kind of took me aback: "Miracles are what God does. Angels use technology. And there are good and bad angels."
My view of “UFOs” is largely based on the views of UFO writers/researchers Jacques Vallee and the late John Keel. I would recommend Vallee’s trilogy Dimensions/Revelations/Confrontations, his Passport to Magonia, and Keel’s Operation Trojan Horse as introductions to the topic. Vallee is more scientific in his approach, Keel is more of a raconteur, and both are excellent writers. Both view the phenomenon as essentially deceptive in nature, yet real in a paranormal sense.
...Barack Obama made a surprise visit at Utah’s Hill Air force base on April 2nd. He spoke with Utah dignitaries and had a secret meeting with the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. Conspiracy sites were immediately a buzz that Obama’s first time visit to the beehive state was to tell Church officials to be ready for a possible disclosure or even contact with ETI in one of at least five states, Utah included.
The states that were mentioned as possible landing sites are also coincidentally Included in the Jade Helm 15 drill.
By the way, Obama’s meeting was so secret that The White House Correspondents’ Association is reportedly crafting a list of demands to be sent to the White House, after a pool of reporters covering the president’s visit to Salt Lake City were turned away from a meeting between Obama and Mormon leaders.
Although the Salt Lake City incident appears to be the immediate cause, Obama has long had a troubled relationship with the White House press corps...
More at the link putting all the pieces together.
The media treat belief in life on other planets as a subject for derision or reasonable speculation, depending upon who is expressing that belief; Republicans who believe it are considered nut jobs, Democrats who believe it are treated with respect.
Go to Roswell!
Just because you think they are aliens doesn’t mean they are.
Yeah, well, it did get warm this afternoon, lol.
Everytime I read an article on that nonsense, I burn a bunch of plastic bale wrap, no kidding. Okay, not every time, but I burn a LOT of it, all I use each season. And I also broke a few dozen solar panels at Home Depot, they were laid flat on pallets and I just stood on them and they cracked very nicely lol. And before anyone gives me grief, unless we forget, those things are putting good Americans out of work. My brother in law was laid off from the Highland Mine thanks to people buying this junk, so no sympathy here. Places that sell (and people who buy) are hurting their country. Think about it.
Another FReeper said this about the book:
Just finished your book. Man that is a good book. Disruptive though. I had to keep reading to find out what happened next. That’s kind of the way I read though. A good book I read here and there, a not so good book once I put it down I never pick it back up and then one like yours once I start I can’t quit. After two low sleep nights because I stayed up too late reading I finished it this afternoon. Action packed doesn’t even begin to describe it. I liked it so much I left my first review on Amazon. Any freepers looking for a good book this is it.
http://www.amazon.com/Nation-One-Matthew-Harbert-ebook/dp/B00JLG3NRG/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425591800&sr=1-8&keywords=%22nation+of+one%22
Of course this is a shameless vanity, but the book does address this very issue of FTL speed and other fascinating machinations.
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