Posted on 11/29/2014 8:44:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“The extent of his interested...”
All I needed to know.
If he stays out of politics, more power to him.
Is this what Dan is doing with his time these days? Haven’t seen him an any movies for a while.
I’m not quite getting these groups that ask for money. Do the investors get a percentage? It doesn’t appear they do. Whats the incentive?
Sorry but Dan is a bit delusional. Given the laws of physics and the immense distances involved it is simply not possible for an alien mechanical or biological entity to visit Earth or us them. However given the fact that we have been transmitting in analog for over one hundred years and in logarithmic digital for nearly forty, there is a chance an advanced civilization has heard us and return messages are on the way.
Not even with wormholes?
“Given the laws of physics and the immense distances involved it is simply not possible for an alien mechanical or biological entity to visit Earth or us them.”
Obviously you never heard the phrase, “warp speed, Mr. Sulu”
;-)
Dan Aykroyd has gone crazy, at least hes just crazy in a rather harmless way unlike obama and his cohorts
No. “Wormholes” are theoretical distortions of the time/space continuum that if they truly existed would probably last no more than a few milliseconds, much less be a pathway for interstellar travel. However that is not to say that there are not other advanced civilizations within this galaxy and given that it is speculated that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, innumerable others. Virtually impossible that they will visit us or each other but it is not impossible that they could become aware of each others existence via transmissions, have established “networks” that communicate with each other and relay information that probably takes over one hundred years to receive and answer a message. The “visit” that UFO enthusiasts can best hope for is that someone out there has received some of the enormous transmissions humans have sent over the past one hundred years into space and sees fit to answer. Now that would be interesting.
“The “visit” that UFO enthusiasts can best hope for is that someone out there has received some of the enormous transmissions humans have sent over the past one hundred years into space and sees fit to answer. Now that would be interesting.”
Waiting for extraterrestrials to notice an obviously manufactured device clinging to a comet hurtling thru space and wonder where the heck it came from...good plotline for a movie anyhow...
Actually a mechanical device clinging to an asteroid would take well over 100,000,000 million years travelling at a very rapid average speed to reach the nearest star which probably has no intelligent life even if it has orbiting planets.
Well yeah...was just pondering a possibility.
Dan’s in that new James Brown biopic, playing Brown’s agent. Haven’t seen it yet, but he got good reviews for his performance.
The “laws of physics” as we currently know it are woefully incomplete. While I am fully cognisant of the vast distances that separate the stars. (play around withe “celestia” program for a while and you’ll get a feel of it.) There is no way that I could say that anything is impossible. There is still much in the universe that we do not now understand. Heck, we still can’t say whether or not gravity is an actual force or if it is just something that arises from the nature of space itself. Personally, I think we are only scratching the surface of what can ultimately be known.
MUFON may well be way off base, but I think there is much going on in the world that we are not privy to.
~Actually a mechanical device clinging to an asteroid would take well over 100,000,000 million years travelling at a very rapid average speed to reach the nearest star which probably has no intelligent life even if it has orbiting planets.~
You are underestimating human race! In fact the fastest ever spacecraft (Helios-B?) was clocked at 240,000 km per second in 1970s. It would take no more than 22 thousand years to reach the closest star to Earth other than Sun which is Proxima Centaura at that speed.
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