Posted on 09/03/2018 7:58:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a new clip from the upcoming movie "UFO," releasing digitally and on DVD Sept. 4, characters discuss how aliens could use physical constants to navigate across space.
...Gillian Anderson.... stars as a mathematics professor, ... Alex Sharp as a college student investigating UFO sightings near U.S. airports with his girlfriend ..., as an FBI agent ... pursues them. The film's science advisor...was Space.com columnist Paul Sutter.
The fine structure constant relates to the strength of the electromagnetic force between elementary particles. Research has at times suggested that this constant might vary across the universe — so space travelers could use it to triangulate their location, the characters discuss in the clip. That process could work similarly to how pulsar navigation would work, she adds. In that method, navigators would observe the regularly pulsing neutron stars to figure out their own locations.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Catmam - I fit nicely into the “basement dwelling, fat, conservative, still working man that spends too much time on the computer.”
Does this help with *your* stereotyping?
Oh, and I have a garden as well. FWIW, I base my estimation on a person’s deeds, not their looks.
“Must not work if they end up in Cincinnati”
Maybe “they” were familiar with the quote attributed to Mark Twain: “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always 20 years behind the times.”
Reaching new levels of absurdity, if it varies than it's not a constant now is it?
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They are just doing the same thing I did when I was flying small aircraft 40 or more years ago. When I got lost, I flew down around the town watertower to read the town name to find out where I was.
Yes! UFO’s are hot babes in shiny skin tight clothes and purple hair!
Last I'd read, she and Duchnovny lived together.
No she's not, watch the trailer. She's perfect for the role and based on the trailer, it looks to be pretty good..........
Since I gave up on the NFL and MLB, I could not care less..............
There was some Netflix show with her in it as an inspector from England. She goes to Ireland(?) to help catch a serial killer. Odd to see her doing a British accent - but she was very good in it I thought. I was glad to see her doing work. I’ll need to check this movie out.
In the sense that we're dealing with SciFi fantasy, only an arrogant fool would attempt to equate today's unknown knowledge of the unknown to a genre' that never professes to dictate what our current knowledge of the universe is...............
That's why they call it "SCIENCE FICTION"................
Watch the trailer, which most of the folks here seem to have ignored........She’s a great actress.
Why...I... resemble that remark.
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Well, at least in one lifetime.
I remember when we launched Voyager.
I was a teenager. In fact, I was such a dumb kid I thought the naked woman on the gold record was hot!
That was 41 years ago. And Voyager is barely past the heliosphere of Sol. Not even close to light year. It’s about 120 AUs from the sun; a light year is over 6000 AUs.
The nearest star system. Alpha Centauri, is FOUR light years away. IF Voyager was aimed at it, how many of our lifetimes would pass before it got there?
Someday, we might be better at space travel, but as you said “We’re not there yet.”
Considering a single light year is over six trillion miles, we’re aren’t going anywhere any time soon.
And I screwed up. A light year is 63,000 AUs.
I read that Jacqueline Pearce aka Severlan from Blake’s 7 died earlier today.
I have started watching Blake’s 7, for a 1970s SF series it’s not bad. It’s special effects are slightly below Star Trek:TOS but tolerable. I find the stories to be everything from very good to so full of plot holes that you think they lost part of the script. Avon & Villa are the most interesting characters and carry the series. It is bizarre that the “hero” Roj Blake for which the series is named disappears for half its run. That’s an odd twist! Was it planned that way or the result of a contract dispute? Anyway I am mostly enjoying it.
Avon was my favorite and had great insults for the others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHLU8fwi80&t=46s
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