Posted on 10/04/2019 7:43:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lights reflecting from inside onto the window?
It can be hard to do, but try to wrap your mind around the immensity of just the known universe, then attempt to visualize how many galaxies, stars, and planets are out there.
The sheer weight of the numbers is sobering, and should give even the most hardened skeptic pause. Simple logic dictates that, if life could arise on this one planet, it surely must have arisen on others, considering the nearly infinite number of worlds out there.
Just because we ourselves haven't figured out faster than light travel, doesn't mean that other races haven't done so. They don't even have to be thousands or millions of years more advanced than we are. They just have to have a slightly different roll of the technological advancement dice than us.
In fact, a lot of people who study this subject are convinced that our government solved the FTL problem decades ago, and now have spacecraft that are capable of interstellar travel.
Don't laugh. There are also scores of former military, civilian, and intelligence professionals who say the same thing.
Are they all lying? I really doubt it. Those people saw things in their careers that are too strange to be easily believed by those who haven't. And those are just the ones who are brave enough to speak out. Most aren't.
I can just imagine U.S. astronauts finally touching down on far a distant planet inhabited by humans similar to ourselves.
They tell the assembled natives that they’ve “come in peace”, and the natives respond by stoning them to death for being ‘fallen angels and demons’.
All sorts of interesting stuff up in the sky out on the OBX. You can watch NASA rocket launches from Wallops Island on the northern banks, and then there’s Cherry Point farther south. Really clear sky and next to no light pollution too.
I can just imagine U.S. astronauts finally touching down on far a distant planet inhabited by humans similar to ourselves.
They tell the assembled natives that they’ve “come in peace”, and the natives respond by saying “Impeach 45, Impeach 45” over and over again
Sorry, couldn’t resist
Imagine you're at home and a stranger in strange garb speaking an incomprehensible language starts walking from the street toward your front door. In his world, the way you engage with strangers is via screaming - he starts screaming. Would you:
a) run up to him and warmly greet him,
b) stand there and wait to see what happens next,
c) pull your sidearm and shoot him,
d) run back inside and call the police.
‘It is just as unscientific to impute to remote intelligences wisdom and serenity as it is to impute to them irrational and murderous impulses. We must be prepared for either possibility and conduct our searches accordingly’ (Dyson, 1964). That is fine for Mr Dyson. But not for all of us.
Looks like an IR-flare pattern fired by a C-130. Those make a very distinctive “devils-wing” pattern when viewed head-on.
I watched these 40 years ago at VAFB, CA. in similar offshore setting.
They use the heat from the flare to spin a fan which makes their rate of decent almost imperceptible.
Same thing was debated about 10 years ago when they were deployed near the Phoenix area.
“Imagine you’re at home and a stranger in strange garb speaking an incomprehensible language starts walking from the street toward your front door. In his world, the way you engage with strangers is via screaming - he starts screaming.”
I don’t know about you, but I just tell that pollster that I’m “not interested” in answering any questions. I don’t like to encourage them.
Post of the day, right there.
Bob, I’m not trying to impute any sort of motives or inclinations to probable ETs.
What I attempted to imply through metaphor was that, when we finally come face to face with these beings, they’re liable to be flesh and blood, just like you and I.
Imagine you’re at home and a stranger in strange garb speaking an incomprehensible language starts walking from the street toward your front door. In his world, the way you engage with strangers is via screaming -
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remember the Seinfeld skit where he says in todays world if you are out walking your dog with your pooper scooper and the Martians lands and see YOUR DOG leading YOU around, him taking a dump and YOU cleaning it up...VERY EASY to see who is ‘in charge’ (or something like that)
“They use the heat from the flare to spin a fan which makes their rate of decent almost imperceptible.”
I never knew that. I love easy, smart inventions like that! (Better than little parachutes for some reason I guess?)
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