Posted on 12/10/2020 6:42:40 AM PST by Red Badger
Aliens may be real. The Universe is huge and God is powerful. Life might exist elsewhere. And despite the huge distances, it’s even possible that given the time periods involved a probe or something might find its way (or have already found its way) to Earth.
But this recent series of stories is very suspicious. I agree that it almost feels like we are being prepared to be introduced to a fake “alien” enemy.
Either you accept Einstein’s theories of relativity or you beleive UFOs are visiting earth. You cannot beleive both. Given the that the speed of light is the limit that no entity can exceed, it is a physical impossibility for any biological or mechanican device to visit earth even from the nearest star. That is not to say that given the fact that earth has been transmitting broadcasts for 120 years in analog and 50 years in digital, some distant alien civilization, perhaps linked by similar signals with even more distant civilizations, has “heard” us and a reply is on the way. However biological and physical entities are not possible. Could be the aliens are using our atmosphere as a giant screen to project their images. there has been no actual physical evidence documented.
“ither you accept Einstein’s theories of relativity or you beleive UFOs are visiting earth. You cannot beleive both.”
Nonsense.
Einstein did not pretend to present a grand unifying theory.
Your statement is like “Either you accept Newton’s theories or you accept Einstein’s theory.”
No, they just apply in different situations.
After this Covid hoax, wait for the Alien hoax to commence! The elites want you scared and pliable
Most high altitude balloons appear stationary in a no wind condition.
I dunno if its a balloon, looks like pretty high altitude. Having said that, it certainly could be just about anything.
Having said THAT....it is by definition a ufo since it hasn’t been identified, but that is a long way from an intelligently controlled extraterrestrial craft.
covid was crazy successful; what’s to stop them?
In this neo pagan era, some people have a deep need to believe in UFOs.
A skim of the article reveals the aircrew was in an F-18 Hornet. I believe I have solved the mystery. Its a combination of damage to the canopy and hypoxia.
CASE CLOSED!!
Either you accept Einstein’s theories of relativity or you beleive UFOs are visiting earth. You cannot beleive both.
I choose to believe both but with the caveat mentioned in the below article.
Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. When Einstein set forth his theory of relativity, this was his inviolable postulate: that there was an ultimate cosmic speed limit, and that only massless particles could ever attain it. All massive particles could only approach it, but would never reach it. The speed of light, according to Einstein, was the same for all observers in all reference frames, and no form of matter could ever attain it.
But this interpretation of Einstein omits an important caveat: all of this is only true in the vacuum of purely, perfectly empty space. Through a medium of any type — whether that’s air, water, glass, acrylic, or any gas, liquid, or solid — light travels at a measurably slower speed. Energetic particles, on the other hand, are only bound to travel slower than light in a vacuum, not light in a medium. By leveraging this property of nature, we truly can go faster than light.
Light emitted by the Sun travels through the vacuum of space at exactly 299,792,458 m/s: the... [+] ultimate cosmic speed limit. As soon as that light strikes a medium, however, including something like Earth’s atmosphere, those photons will drop in speed as they move only at the speed of light through that medium. While no massive particle can ever attain the speed of light in a vacuum, it can easily attain or even exceed the speed of light in a medium.
Light emitted by the Sun travels through the vacuum of space at exactly 299,792,458 m/s: the... [+] FYODOR YURCHIKHIN / RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY
Imagine a ray of light that travels directly away from the Sun. In the vacuum of space, if no particles or matter are present, it will indeed travel at the ultimate cosmic speed limit, c: 299,792,458 m/s, the speed of light in a vacuum. Although humanity has produced extremely energetic particles in colliders and accelerators — and detected even more energetic particles coming from extragalactic sources — we know we cannot break this limit.
At the LHC, the accelerated protons can reach speeds up to 299,792,455 m/s, just 3 m/s below the speed of light. At LEP, which accelerated electrons and positrons instead of protons in the same CERN tunnel that the LHC now occupies, the top particle speed was 299,792,457.9964 m/s, which is the fastest accelerated particle ever created. And the highest-energy cosmic ray clocks in with an extraordinary speed of 299,792,457.999999999999918 m/s, which would lose a race with a photon to Andromeda and back by only six seconds.
It’s a bug on the windshield................
See my post # 29
Weather balloon, ignited by swamp gas….
What are you smoking? What you just said is incorrect.
That looks like a balloon.
What were the performance characteristics reported by the pilots?
Walmart bag
It does look like a balloon.
However, the Hornet is not hovering in space. It is clearly following the object at some non trivial speed. Even at stall, around 185MPH(155ish knots), you could never get a picture of it with your phone. By the time it got close, it’d be past.
Explain to everyone what I said is incorrect. It is not enough to say it is incorrect without explanation because it makes you look like you have no idea what you are talking about.
“Looks like a mylar party balloon.”
Agree.
UFO ping...
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