[onlooker]

So what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? It seems that this form could relate with what Rod just stated. As to actually travel through a wormhole and emerge unscathed in a short time in another area of the Universe might require converting oneself to pure energy
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html

[Newfie]

We can’t figure out how to get through our bottle neck here.

[Newfie]

Very brief NPR interview with ex director

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/57186826 ... study-ufos

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'V')ery brief NPR interview with ex director

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/57186826 ... study-ufos

[Newfie]

Just to continue with pure speculation......

SUPPOSE there was alien life visiting Earth

How would you break it to the population?

Just dump it on them in a news conference.
“My fellow Americans we are being visited by aliens from who knows where for unknown reasons in space ships that make us look dumb.”

OR would you kinda let little bits leak out, warm up the audience with the POSSIBILITY for a few years, make it a little more real over a generation, so that it becomes a PROBABILITY, and is accepted by the public before the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

But, as MD said, how would you know?

MAYBE “THEY” are really in control and don’t want to be known so they don’t get baked for the inevitable herd culling. Why rush in when we will do it for them?

There is a SciFi story there somewhere.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'J')ust to continue with pure speculation......

SUPPOSE there was alien life visiting Earth

How would you break it to the population?

Just dump it on them in a news conference.
“My fellow Americans we are being visited by aliens from who knows where for unknown reasons in space ships that make us look dumb.”

OR would you kinda let little bits leak out, warm up the audience with the POSSIBILITY for a few years, make it a little more real over a generation, so that it becomes a PROBABILITY, and is accepted by the public before the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

But, as MD said, how would you know?

MAYBE “THEY” are really in control and don’t want to be known so they don’t get baked for the inevitable herd culling. Why rush in when we will do it for them?

There is a SciFi story there somewhere.

[onlooker]

I personally liked the recent version of "The Day the Earth stood Still"
In particular these exchanges :
Regina Jackson: What is your purpose in coming here?
Klaatu: There is a gathering of world leaders not far from here. I will explain my purpose to them.
Regina Jackson: I am afraid that is not possible. Perhaps you should explain yourself to me instead.
Klaatu: Do you speak for the entire human race?
Regina Jackson: I speak for the President of the United States. Now please, tell me why have you come to our planet.
Klaatu: Your planet?
Regina Jackson: Yes. This is our planet.
Klaatu: No, it is NOT.
---------------------------------------------
Helen Benson: I need to know what is happening.
Klaatu: This planet is dying. The human race is killing it.
Helen Benson: So you have come here to help us.
Klaatu: No, I didn't.
Helen Benson: You said you came to save us.
Klaatu: I said I came to save the Earth.
Helen Benson: You came to save the Earth from us.
Klaatu: We can't risk the survival of this planet for the sake of one species.
Helen Benson: What are you saying?
Klaatu: If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. There are only a handful of planets in the cosmos that are capable of supporting complex life.
Helen Benson: You can't do this.
Klaatu: This one can't be allowed to perish.
Helen Benson: We can change. We can still turn things around.
Klaatu:: We have watched. We have waited and hoped that you would change.
Helen Benson: Please.
Klaatu: It has reached the tipping point. We have to act.
Helen Benson: Please.
Klaatu: We will undo the damage you have done and give the Earth a chance to begin again.
Helen Benson: Don't do this. Please, we can change. We can change.
Klaatu: The decision is made. The process has begun.
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Regina Jackson: History has lessons to teach us about first encounters between civilizations. As a rule the less advanced civilization is either exterminated or enslaved. I'm thinking of Pizarro and the Incans, Columbus and the Native Americans, and the list goes on. Unfortunately in this case, the less advanced civilization is us.
Michael Granier: This is the representative of an extra-terrestrial civilization. This is the most important discovery in the history of Mankind!
Regina Jackson: It may well be the last discovery in the history of Mankind.
Professor Barnhardt: There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that could solve our problem.
Klaatu: Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.
Professor Barnhardt: Then help us change.
Klaatu: I can not change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other.
Professor Barnhardt: But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually.
Klaatu: Most of them don't make it.
Professor Barnhardt: Yours did. How?
Klaatu: Our Sun was dying. We had to evolve in order to survive.
Professor Barnhardt: So it was only when your world was threatened with destruction that you became what you are now.
Klaatu: Yes.
Professor Barnhardt: Well that is where we are. You say we are on the brink of destruction and you are right. But it is only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don't take it from us, we are close to an answer.

[vox_mundi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'S')o what do others think of the possibility of wormholes? ...

[vox_mundi]

NASA Has Begun Plans for a 2069 Interstellar Mission

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]https://i.imgur.com/0GJZ3P8.gif[/img]

In 2069, if all goes according to plan, NASA could launch a spacecraft bound to escape our solar system and visit our next-door neighbors in space, the triple-star Alpha Centauri system, according to a mission concept presented last week at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union and reported by New Scientist. The mission, which is pegged to the 100th anniversary of the moon landing, would also involve traveling at one-tenth the speed of light.

This isn't the first time the idea of visiting Alpha Centauri at that speed and on that timeline has been suggested. Last year, House of Representatives subcommittees considered a bill suggesting a mission to Alpha Centauri, although that text never made it into an approved law. But NASA is still hopping on board with the idea, with a probe that might be able to spot alien life.

We already know there's at least one planet in the neighborhood, Proxima b. And scientists suspect there may still be more planets about the size of Earth in the neighborhood left to find.

[Newfie]

Damn man, I just want a spiral checker that fixes my mistakes without making me look stoopid.

[vox_mundi]

2004 USS NIMITZ Pilot Report

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a09f7d9fe54ef52c4781ecf/t/5a34b8ce8165f5e58a64c09d/1513404640775/Pilot+Report+1-6.jpg?format=350w[/img]





Comment:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]... I was on board the USS Princeton (2001-2005) when this all went down. We actually went to GQ (General Quarters) for about 4 hours as all if this was going down. I’ve been telling everyone about this even, but have gotten the usual “yeah right” look when I tell them about it. I saw the video after it happened, but didn’t think that it would somehow make it’s way to the public, considering all of the “security” that surrounded the issue.

Crazy how the world turns, isn’t it?!

Thank you for giving this event life! I no longer look like a tin foil hat wearing idiot!

[onlooker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfynjeAjHU

This UFO Documentary looks at Rendlesham Forest UFO incidents, where a UFO flew into a top security NATO military base and nuclear weapons storage facility. . \

The Rendlesham Forest Incident is the name given to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of a craft or multiple craft. \
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[UFOs File] Greatest UFO Mystery in Britain - The Rendlesham Forest Incident Documentary [UFOs File] Greatest UFO Mystery in Britain - The Rendlesham Forest .

[vox_mundi]

No Alien Megastructure: Star's Weird Dimming Likely Caused by Dust

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ourteen hundred light-years separate Earth from the strangest star in the sky. The light from this star flickers, like a giant neon sign drifting through the constellation Cygnus. After the star's dim intervals, which last for days or weeks, it brightens again.

No other star acted this way. No observation could explain its behavior.

That is, until now. A 200-strong team of scientists says it has arrived at an answer, thanks to an astronomy project crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The culprits are not aliens, as some people have speculated, but probably a cloud of dust, each particle less than a micrometer across. Combined, these dust particles coalesced into one of the biggest question marks in recent astronomical memory.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]"Dust is most likely the reason why the star's light appears to dim and brighten," study leader Tabetha Boyajian, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, said in a statement. "The new data shows that different colors of light are being blocked at different intensities. Therefore, whatever is passing between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected from a planet or alien megastructure."

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', 'I')n Fredrick Phol's classic Heechee saga, all the advanced aliens had to do was eliminate mass, and then faster than light travel was a breeze.

https://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Heechee- ... 0345475836

(The original book in the series 'Gateway' is a masterpiece of science fiction)