This is the questian.
Humanity is full of hubris on this point.
Fixed.
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Maybe their situation is the same as ours: simply cannot figure out how to travel millions of light years in decent a time to make physical contact. Another possibility is that they aren’t looking, they don’t care or we’re too technologically and mentally unsophisticated to be of any interest.
I didn’t forget them, I stole the line and I did it on purpose. Felt good too.
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Sometimes I feel that way but after a few hours I think " How boring! Come on… someone blow me up already"
But I’ve be lucky so far.
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Another big red flag for me that this is fantasy is that it’s exactly the kind of story we’ve been telling each other for millennia. “The reason no-one is talking between the stars is because there are scary monsters living in the darkness between.” is exactly the kind of thing a person would come up with, and therefore it isn’t the kind of thing the universe does, and is thus extremely unlikely. Life is full of surprises and this tale is not.
So that’s UFOs dealt with: They are not visitors from the stars.
As for ET, I oft thought the really odd thing about ET is how much they look and sound like elves, graceful, long-limbed, almond eyes, pointy ears, wise, kind, glowy, variable in size from taller than people to small enough to fit in your pocket etc. and also McKenna’s machine elves, which he and other’s report meeting whilst tripping on DMT, and that makes me think that these are internal and not external beings. Sure there’s something interesting going on, in that people from all parts of the world across thousands of years have reported seeing the same kind of beings when in a fugue state, which might suggest they exist outside of our heads, but it’s probably just common brain wiring.
It’s certainly not beings from other star systems tho.
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After a few hours in an so intoxicated that I then try to send secret messages to my princess
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I stated above, while I know life exists outside of Earth, we have no idea of how much intelligent life exists. I don’t believe the Earth has been visited by intelligence from beyond our system.
The people of this planet all want an alien to descend from the stars and fix our planet. People need to wake up, it’s not going to happen. We put the plastic in the ocean, we put the lead in the air we breathe, we made the soil toxic, so it is up to us to either fix or ignore until it is too late. No alien is going to come and repair what we are destroying.
We won’t simply colonize Mars, NASA wanted a manned Mars flight, and the government ( aka we the people ) said no. If everyone climbed on board the disposable Earth train to Mars plan, we are looking at 250 to 300 years in the future. Everyone wants to do these things in their lifetime and most don’t give two sh■ts about their grandchildren. They leave these problems to rest upon the future generations, if there are any future generations.
I don’t wait for others to come solve my problems. When of if I have children, I hope to provide them a better tomorrow.
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That’s so romantic. She’s a lucky gal.
For those that want to compare colonizing another planet to repairing this one, that’s like moving out of your house and into a burned down barn whose frame is still barely standing because you didn’t want to do the dishes. It will always be easier to fix this planet than it would be to move to a far far far worse one and terraform that one.
And as for Mars, I honestly don’t understand why people want to go to that rock. It’s a dead planet and will always be a dead planet. It’s 2/3 the size of Earth, has no internal heat, has almost no atmosphere, and has no magnetic sphere. Those are all super important.
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I’d not mind going there, to check it out, like we did the moon, or like we did the tops of the highest mountains and the depths of the seas (still need a bunch more of that tbh) but settling there seems unlikely.
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Oh it’d be worth it for a visit for sure. If we can work out all of the logistics.
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I’m personally more fan of Venus’ goldilocks altitude, where the man thing missing is hydrogen (but then, sulphuric acid can be reduced to water and sulphur through extreme heating, and solar energy IS a thing out there.
Mars does not have a good gravity, Venus does; Mars does not have an atmosphere, Venus does; Mars does not have a magnetosphere, Venus does; Mars has no meaningful solar energy, Venus is supercharged with it.
Venus’ main drawbacks are hydrogen scarcity, no usable surface and higher energy requirements for travelling there (delta-V for capture). But at least the surface topic is something I feel could be workable, maybe with fluidic computing and molten metal hydraulics (using high pressure and temperature as a requirement, not an obstacle). As for hydrogen, there’s little but can be used for a sustaining a small population of Earth life in closed environments.
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Unfortunately, everything sinks in Venus. Helium doesn’t last forever and it’s also not good at lifting habitats. The other problem is that the goldilocks zone rests on top of Sulfuric Acid clouds. That’s not a good bed.
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Oh, I forgot to mention: at the goldilocks altitude of Venus (some 55 km), Earth’s atmosphere at 25 C an 1000 milibar acts as a lifting gas, with a buoyancy of about 0.3 kg per m3. This can be improved with lower pressure, ideally at some 800 millibar and the same 25 C the lift capacity would be about 0.5 kg per m3, with identical pressure inside and outside so no need for structural reinforcements, just a good seal to keep CO2 out and a coating to protect against the suspended sulphuric acid.
(0.5 kg per m3 is half the buoyancy of helium at sea level, but with no difference in pressure or temperature we could afford just doubling the volume of a blimp)
Even NY Times went the “tinfoil” way and covered UFOs back in 2017.
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Also what are your thoughts on Spielberg’s Disclosure Day if you guys watched?
Complete goyslop made by a bored, tired old man who hates Christianity ( he specifically calls it an “anti-faith” movie ) and hasn’t made any good movies in years.
Haven’t watched, but read the wikipedia article with the plot.
Spielberg is selling a thumb to suck. “Don’t worry, mommy alien is real and will come and save us now that we can no longer pretend that we didn’t fucc up seriously”.
In the real world, UFOs and other paranormal events have become less common as the amount of eyes and cameras everywhere increased.
1 to 2 million people are in the air right now, at least half of them have a camera, and we’re looking at 30 years old blurry footage from the Pentagon rather that today’s 100th alien spaceship sighting.
“Ah”, they will say, “but they’ve become shier and they hide better now!”
That’s faith, not reason. Maybe never was there anything to watch unless a person was alone, without means to record or without eyewitness to verify that they weren’t tinkering with frisbees and fishing lines.
It would be cool, of course. Cooler than finding out that climate change has been underestimated and reality is getting closer to worst-case scenarios rather than those based on actually doing something about it (which would harm billionaire’s bottom line, thus, it’s always been a no-no).
So, thumbs for sucking sell. “Aliens are here, they’re friendly, and they can alien us out of our predicaments, wee!”.
It would be cool.
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Scientific analysis of the “Buga Sphere” a metal object recovered by a villager after he witnessed it flying into a nearby power line and falling down to the ground on his field:
There are tons of inspection videos of it on YouTube, but this one stood out the most to me.
Drilling into it proved that the Buga sphere is made of dirty scrap cast aluminium pieces glued together with epoxy.
(sad trombone)
I doubt I’ll like it. I haven’t liked a single thing he’s made so far. But if this is different from the rest of his stuff, I might check it out.