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Do Aliens Walk Amongst Us?
The U.S. government released a report detailing more than a hundred instances of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/ufo-report-pentagon-odni/index.html
Do aliens walk among us? Do they fly in our atmosphere in their space ships? The answer is ‘No’. The answer will always be ‘No’.
There is a very high probability that life exists elsewhere in the universe. In fact, that is almost certain.
There is also a very high probability that “intelligent” life exists elsewhere in the universe.
And there is a high probability that “intelligent” life with space travel exists elsewhere in the universe.
But:
- The universe is a very big place
- Traveling faster than the speed of light is almost certainly impossible, which means it would take a creature a minimum of 25,000 light years to travel from another galaxy to our galaxy. And that is assuming light speed travel.
- It is unlikely creatures will be able to travel even half the speed of light. One tenth the speed of light may be the best we can achieve. Thus it would take 250,000 years for an intelligent creature from another galaxy to reach our galaxy.
- If a creature is intelligent enough to travel half the speed of light, or faster than the speed of light, and were able to locate life on our planet and travel here; they would also have sufficient technology to remain unnoticed if they did not want to be noticed.
- They would not be “caught” flying around in tiny ships in our atmosphere at the paltry speed our jets can fly when they can travel tens of thousands of times faster. They would not get caught because they would have plenty of technology to keep themselves totally invisible to us.
- There would be no reason for them to make such a long journey and remain hidden from us.
- Creatures within our own galaxy are the only ones we will possibly interact with. That still includes billions of stars with planets. However, even within our own galaxy the nearest star is over 4 light years away, and traveling at one-tenth the speed of light will require at least 40 years to make the trip. Most stars in our own galaxy are hundreds of light years away.
- Identifying that our solar system contains life would be very difficult, if not impossible, for a civilization that is 100 light years away from us, and do to the cost of travel it would not be likely they would chose our star and planets to visit at random; especially not if they were looking for life.
If you accept that we will never travel faster than the speed of light, as most scientists do, then they chance of directly interacting with an alien is extremely unlikely.
The best we can hope for is to communicate with another intelligent civilization. Communication can be done at light speed. This means that there is a chance, in the future, that we could exchange messages with another civilization in our galaxy; but we can also assume that it will take about one hundred years for a message to reach the other civilization, and another one hundred years to receive their reply.
March 4th, 2021 – Another Sad Day For QAnon
Disappointment seems to menace QAnon followers everywhere these days. March 4th may be the worst. After anxious months of waiting for Donald Trump to be re-installed in the White House as President of our country, the day passed with absolutely no indication in any change in government of any form whatsoever. On March 4th, QAnon hoped Trump would become President again, but it didn’t happen.
Wait a minute! It isn’t March 4th yet!
I’m sure the QAnon believers are shouting at me now calling me a libtard and idiot. They are saying that I can’t know everything that might happen so I can’t say Trump won’t become president again before March 4th has passed. “Just wait and see” they say!
Oh, but I can tell you that Donald Trump will not become President on March 4th. I know this to be true the same way that I know that one plus one equals two today; and one plus one will still equal two on March 4th. There is no path for Donald Trump to become President. There is no legal mechanism for it to happen. There is not advanced technology to teleport him into the White House and eject President Biden to outer space. There is no army of weekend warriors waiting to defeat the U.S. military and install Trump as President. There is just no way it can happen. It is as obvious as one plus one equals two.
It is tragic, beyond tragic, that so many people lack the common sense to understand this. People believe in magic. That is what happens when you become part of a cult. And people that believe Trump will be President in March 4th are in a cult. Cult members believe, despite all facts and evidence and common sense, that certain events will come to pass. Worst of all, when those events fail to come to fruition, some one in the cult will create a new, crazier event that will happen on a future date to keep the cult alive. How can we help people escape a cult. It is really difficult and it makes me sad that people I know are in this one.