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The “X Files” They’re out there |
View Poll Results: Are we alone in the universe? | |||
We are alone in the Universe as far as intelligent life goes | 7 | 9.33% | |
We are not alone but have not been in contact with intelligent life yet | 27 | 36.00% | |
We are not alone and we have visitors but have not been in contact yet | 13 | 17.33% | |
We are not alone and we have been contacted but it is not public knowledge | 28 | 37.33% | |
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I appreciate your input and you have valid points as well. However, throughout all of your answers I still fail to see any evidence that our planet is unique in any particular way that would allow it to harbor life while countless others that we have found so far that fall under the same criteria as “habitable” and relatively speaking “nearby” to us, since we can not see very far nor go there explore them, are not.... We have only started looking and they are there next to us (relatively speaking). If these “Goldilocks” planets are there and are highly suspect for supporting life, it doesn’t necessarily mean “there is” intelligent life on them but it also doesn’t mean “there is not”. Now, if science finds that unique ingredient and it doesn’t exist elsewhere, we can probably stop looking. That won’t happen, we are not unique. We are nothing more than the ordinary basic elements that exist throughout universe and carbon based life of which there is countless variety of. Judging by our planet alone, the variety of living organisms on only one planet and surprisingly only one tree of life, (yes we are distant cousins of mushrooms and toads and birds and fish, etc), imagine the variety that can potentially exist throughout the universe. Last edited by PHC1; 05-30-2019 at 11:53 AM. |
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So we are just starting to explore what's in our own neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy. It's been less than a decade since Kepler telescope launched. Gaia also came on board about 6 years ago... What have we found so far in our own neighborhood the Milky Way Galaxy that is one of hundred of billions out there? Keep in mind, we are the equivalent of infants looking at the mobile above our cribs....
To date, NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope has discovered about 30 roughly Earth-size exoplanets in their host stars' "habitable zone" — the range of orbital distances at which liquid water can likely exist on a world's surface. Also, who's to say that life requires liquid water on the surface? A number of frozen-over moons outside our own solar system's habitable zone, such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, have buried oceans that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. (And we haven't even gotten into the possibility of life as we don't know it, which may depend on something other than water as a solvent.) In 2014, Kepler began K2, during which the craft observes a variety of cosmic objects and phenomena over shifting 80-day "campaigns." Some of these campaigns involve planet hunting; indeed, 354 of the spacecraft's 2,681 confirmed alien-world discoveries to date have come during K2. Kepler's total tally represents about 70 percent of the roughly 3,800 known exoplanets. And the Kepler count will continue to grow; nearly 3,000 planet "candidates" await confirmation by follow-up analysis or observation, and history suggests that most of these will end up being the real deal. This is just one of a hundred billion other galaxies that we think are out there.... Also keeping in mind that it is a slow process to evaluate them but... 40 billion In November 2013, astronomers reported, based on Kepler space mission data, that there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs in the Milky Way, 11 billion of which may be orbiting Sun-like stars. Source https://www.space.com/42275-habitabl...d-by-gaia.html Last edited by PHC1; 05-30-2019 at 12:31 PM. |
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Don't miss it. "Unidentified: Inside America's UFO investigation" airs tomorrow on the History Channel!
Between 2014 and 2015, seasoned pilots in the U.S. Navy experienced a number of harrowing encounters with UFOs during training missions in the U.S. While pilots were mid-flight, their aircraft cameras and radar detected seemingly impossible objects flying at hypersonic speeds at altitudes up to 30,00 feet (9,144 meters); these mysterious UFOs did so with no visible means of propulsion, The New York Times reported on May 26. In total, six pilots who were stationed on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt between 2014 and 2015 told The Times about spotting UFOs during flights along the southeastern coast of the U.S., extending from Virginia to Florida. Video of two aerial encounters appears in the series, showing clips of UFOs: one tiny white speck and one large, dark blob. These UFOs later came to be known respectively as "Go Fast" and "Gimbal." The objects had "no distinct wing, no distinct tail, no distinct exhaust plume," Lt. Danny Accoin, one of the Navy pilots who reported UFO sightings beginning in 2014, said in the documentary. "It seemed like they were aware of our presence, because they would actively move around us," Lt. Accoin said. Accoin told The Times that he encountered UFOs twice, during flights that were a few days apart. He also said that though tracking equipment, radar and infrared cameras on his aircraft detected UFOs both times, he was unable to capture them on his helmet camera. Lt. Ryan Graves, an F-18 pilot, said in the documentary that a squadron of UFOs followed his Navy strike group up and down the eastern coast of the U.S. for months. And in March, 2015, after the Roosevelt was deployed to the Arabian Gulf, Graves said the UFOs reappeared. Lt. Graves and others are speaking out now because what they saw raised concerns for them about their comrades and national security, Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, told the History Channel. In 2015, following this spate of UFO sightings, the U.S. Navy issued official guidelines for personnel to report and investigate aerial objects, according to The Times. Those Navy protocols were updated earlier this year; all data will be classified information and will not be made available to the general public Last edited by PHC1; 05-30-2019 at 06:46 PM. |
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Thanks for the heads up about the program being aired on History tomorrow. I've already set up my DVR to record it.
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I think the Solar System was mined, basically the 'asteroid belt' was a rocky planet, which was broken up to take the metal core and add it to Earth's.early on. plus more water... Then the Moon odd entry into the mix. Took a pretty calculated angle to make it work out.. The fact the molten core is turning in two separate directional layers...
So I say aliens modified the Earth to make it a better habitat for life in general. Personally I think Humans are way over rated by themselves. eventually some actual intelligent species will arise long after Humans are nothing left but a 1cm black mark in the geological record.. I bet on descendants of cuttlefish, making a way better show of intelligent life than Humans did.. Give or take several million years from now. |
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No, we are not alone.
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WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze. The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties. In the interview, Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said. For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.” But, he said, “we have to start someplace.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/u...reid.html?_r=0 |
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What creates it all dash it, that's what I want to know. Where's Inspector Holmes when you need him.
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