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This month is so awesome that it's, somehow, managed to accommodate three editions of Speak Your Brain, instead of the usual two
Truly, we've been blessed by the gods.
It is, of course, the feature in which the first person to comment gets to decide what the rest of us get to discuss.
And that could be art, films, flans, plans, books, bagels, cooks, nooks, crooks, pixies, rocks, music, mucous, fairy tales, fairy lights, Fairy Liquid, fairy cakes, Eccles cakes, myth, moths, maths, magic, tragedy, comedy, dromedaries, murder, larders, Ladas, mystery, mayhem, molluscs, Moorcock, May Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Doris Day, Marvin Gaye, the Equinox, parallelograms, pomegranates, sofas, eggs, pegs, legs, dregs, sodas, sausages, eggs, whisky, broth, Bath, baths, Garth Marenghi, Garth Brooks, Garth Crooks, Bruno Brookes, Bruno Mars, Mars Bars, wine bars, flip-flops, flim-flam, flapjacks, backpacks, see-saws, jigsaws, dominoes, draft excluders, dunderheads, flowerpots, flour pots, bread bins, bin bags, body bags, body horror, shoddy horror, doggy bags, bean bags, coal sacks, cola, cocoa, pancakes, pizzas, baking soda, sci-fi, Wi-Fi, Hi-Fi, sewage, saunas, suet, Silurians, Sontarans, Sea Devils, sins, suns, sans, sense, sludge, slumps, sunshine, slime or sandcastles.
Then again, it might not be.
So, let us discover what unfurls before us...
There's been a lot of talk recently about the Congressional Hearing about UFOs, so what are you guys thoughts on flying saucers?
ReplyDeleteIs there life beyond Earth? Have they visited us or are they still doing so? Have they influenced us in the past, are they drawing plans for the future of Earth, do we need to worry about them or will they be friendly?
What do you think?
Life in the universe may turn out to be widespread and commonplace, it might even exist on several planets in our own solar system, but 99.99999% of that life is just microbes in my opinion. Multi-cellular life (plants and animals) is much less common and intelligent civilisations are so vanishingly rare that ours may be the only one in the entire Milky Way galaxy and several other nearby galaxies. So there aren't, and never were, any UFOs visiting Earth!
ReplyDeleteI believe the preferred term is Unidentified Aerial Phenomena these days, Dave.
ReplyDeleteWhich is obviously a cover up by the politically correct Marxist liberal establishment to divert attention from the evidence that UFOs are clearly advanced vehicles piloted by 33rd degree Masonic lizard people operating from the basement of a pizza joint on the dark side of the moon, who stole the election from Trump.
-sean
Thanks for the topic, Dave.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a mystery. Judging by that report, it would seem there's something odd flying around in the skies. Whether they're alien spacecraft, who can know? Personally, I like the idea that they're some sort of unknown form of life that originated on Earth but is so different from anything we're familiar with that we can't even comprehend it.
I really am torqued off that the United States state department or Department of defense, last year, said that the United States was in possession of technology outside our planet. And there’s been no subsequent release of information defining what type of technology that is, the circumstances for the acquisition of it, etc. I can only assume that I cannot assume.
ReplyDeleteI think there is certainly something going on we aren't aware off. Certainly there are a lot of hoaxes, sightings that are just planes or US etc secret\ advanced craft and unexplained natural phenomena. But there does seem to be some sightings that are truly unexplained. Like Steve, I think some may be life forms ( light, jellys etc) that have been here for centuries . I think the old answer of the distance between stars and galaxy's being too far away for any alien race to visit us now is old hat that may now not be a problem for an advanced race - weve only been flying for just over 100 years and were already travelling to planets. I'm sure there will be other options found that cut time and space travel in 500 years time and any alien race millions of years in advance of us will have cracked. I think the ancient alien agenda that literally anything great humans build was done by aliens is total rubbish though and that they have been contacting us via crop circles etc, seriously just land in a major city if you want to leave a message instead of spelling it out in brocolli. I think recent testimony of high ranking officials and astronauts has to be taken seriously though and aliens could be out there visiting us.
ReplyDeleteI think we have been deluded by science-fiction into believing that every intelligent civilisation ends up with spaceships and interstellar travel. It's far more likely that alien civilisations would destroy themselves just like WE are currently doing.
ReplyDeleteWell that option was built into the Drake equation Colin and that came to the conclusion that there would still be a high chance that a few alien civilisations would survive. I think it's wrong to assume that all alien civilisations ( if there are any) would follow the human format of potential self destruction.
ReplyDeleteYou're making an awful lot of assumptions there, Colin.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any real idea of how common (or not) life is in the galaxy, let alone the probability of it being multi-cellular, or intelligent.
Paul, my suspicion is that 'ancient astronaut' theories are basically racist. Some people just find it so hard to believe that thousands of years ago Africans could have built the pyramids - or the Irish the complex at Bru na Boinne - that visitors from another planet are more plausible.
-sean
Sean, Newgrange is a fascinating place but I hadn't heard that aliens built it!
ReplyDeleteAn episode of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS from mumblety years ago put the whole UFO thing into perspective for me. It boils down to two things—
ReplyDelete1- Is there intelligent life on other planets? Sagan’s answer was ‘We don’t know for sure, but with so many billions of stars in the universe, the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of it.’
2 - If there are intelligent beings on other planets outside our solar system, is it likely that they have visited us? According to what we know of physics, the answer is, ‘Probably not.’ The distance between stars is too vast, and Faster-Than-Light travel is impossible, as far as we know, so it would seem very unlikely that alien visitors from beyond our system would travel all that way via Slower-Than-Light speeds just to administer a few rectal probes, mutilate some cattle and then take off again.
b.t.
One might wonder that, if an intelligent entity can travel faster than light speed, as it must to visit Earth which has only been emitting human radio waves for 100 years, why they would physically visit? Surely they would possess technology to observe us from “far”
ReplyDeleteaway. You know.. the alien version of Hubble or an earth satellite.
My understanding of “chariots of the gods” theories was that they were motivated by racism and profits, not science.
ReplyDeleteTimothy Good has some interesting theories on his books as to how aliens could overcome the speed of light- basically involving generating artificial gravity so strong as to distort space (which Einstein also predicted) and effectively bring the destination closer to you. Personally I think there's every chance that we've been visited by folks from elsewhere!
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