Visited Rendlesham Forest yesterday. Did the UFO trail. Interesting stuff. Got home last night and watched a couple of short documentaries about the 1980 sightings. 
Seems pretty legit. 
Anyone else believe they are out there?

Edited February 25, 20206 yr by Smiley

4 minutes ago, Underpants said:

If there's a billion zillion galaxy's out there then surely the odds are that there is intelligent life being on at least one planet. And if the rule of thumb on intelligent life is us then it's no wonder they haven't visited us. Since the dawn of time we haven't travelled farther than the nearest thing to us, the moon. And even that is up for debate.

Stop it

16 minutes ago, Underpants said:

If there's a billion zillion galaxy's out there then surely the odds are that there is intelligent life being on at least one planet. And if the rule of thumb on intelligent life is us then it's no wonder they haven't visited us. Since the dawn of time we haven't travelled farther than the nearest thing to us, the moon. And even that is up for debate.

The dawn of time being 1969 which was the first available opportunity

We can't go to Venus, which is nearest as it's too hot

We could go to Mars, but it would take 9 months, which is fine, but those who go would have to travel there more like this

Than this

1 hour ago, ErnestTurnip said:

Surely the Prime Directive means they could never make themselves known to us?

Must have been observing the Platt Bridge area of Wiggin.

2 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

The dawn of time being 1969 which was the first available opportunity

We can't go to Venus, which is nearest as it's too hot

We could go to Mars, but it would take 9 months, which is fine, but those who go would have to travel there more like this

Than this

The dawn of time is the big bang. Now if the evolution of the planets in the zillion billion galaxy's is the same as ours then intelligent life would have just travelled to the garden shed just like us. 

1 minute ago, Underpants said:

The dawn of time is the big bang. Now if the evolution of the planets in the zillion billion galaxy's is the same as ours then intelligent life would have just travelled to the garden shed just like us. 

We can only compare ourselves to what we know 

The first rocket went into space the year before we last won the fa cup

They'd stopped filming star trek tv shows before man landed on the moon

1 hour ago, kent_white said:

I'm less convinced that there's intelligent life elsewhere than I was 10 or 15 years ago. With the technology we have and the length of time we've been looking for something - we should have spotted something by now. If there was anything to spot.

It could be that the odds against intelligent life developing are so infinitesimally small that we're it. Or at least we're the first one to have reached a point of technological advancement to produce radio waves in our galaxy.

 

Oh ye of little faith.

 

Edited February 25, 20206 yr by Clarence Carter

25 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

We can only compare ourselves to what we know 

The first rocket went into space the year before we last won the fa cup

They'd stopped filming star trek tv shows before man landed on the moon

Something I always find incredible is that Stegosaurus was extinct ~20 MILLION YEARS before T-Rex existed. T-Rex existed closer in history to me and you than it did to Stegosaurus. Numbers like that are mind-blowing.

Edited February 25, 20206 yr by Cheese

33 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Something I always find incredible is that Stegosaurus was extinct ~20 MILLION YEARS before T-Rex existed. T-Rex existed closer in history to me and you than it did to Stegosaurus. Numbers like that are mind-blowing.

Aye

Slightly shorter numbers

But Oxford university was built something like 400 years before the Aztec temples in Mexico

You just sort of assume that they were around long before we learnt to read and stuff

Edited February 26, 20206 yr by ZicoKelly

Seems incomprehensible to me that there is not some other intelligent life in the vastness of the cosmos. Distances so vast that contact/sightings are unlikely to ever happen before Earth is finally sucked into the black hole our sun will become.

There has to be life out there somewhere.  Whether it has the intelligence and technology to visit our solar system is a different matter, and if it did I’m sure they wouldn’t just fly around just to look or have flashing lights on their spaceship.

 

I think the best thing to do is keep our head down. One commonality I can see from evolved life is it's generally ruthless and nasty. 

No one would have believed
in the last years of the 19th century
that human affairs where being watched
by intelligences that inhabited the timeless worlds of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized
as someone with a microscope studies creatures
that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
and yet, across the gulf of space
minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely
they drew their plans against us.......

 

 

it will happen. 

1 hour ago, superjohnmcginlay said:

No one would have believed
in the last years of the 19th century
that human affairs where being watched
by intelligences that inhabited the timeless worlds of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized
as someone with a microscope studies creatures
that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
and yet, across the gulf of space
minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely
they drew their plans against us.......

 

 

it will happen. 

ULLA. 

5 hours ago, superjohnmcginlay said:

No one would have believed
in the last years of the 19th century
that human affairs where being watched
by intelligences that inhabited the timeless worlds of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized
as someone with a microscope studies creatures
that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
and yet, across the gulf of space
minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely
they drew their plans against us.......

 

 

it will happen. 

Went to watch the live stage show. It was Liam Neson who was narrating not Burton but was ace all the same!

14 hours ago, Underpants said:

If there's a billion zillion galaxy's out there then surely the odds are that there is intelligent life being on at least one planet. And if the rule of thumb on intelligent life is us then it's no wonder they haven't visited us. Since the dawn of time we haven't travelled farther than the nearest thing to us, the moon. And even that is up for debate.

You're forgetting the ELE that saw off the dinosaurs. If a large chunk of "Mexico" hadn't been taken out, who knows how reptiles would have evolved. May have been in space long before we even came along.

12 minutes ago, Theboybell said:

Went to watch the live stage show. It was Liam Neson who was narrating not Burton but was ace all the same!

Strange coincidence but got a notification from a ticket site this morning that they are back out doing it in 2021, always wondered if it was worth shelling out for.

Watched a programme on one of the discovery type channels, detailing the Fermi paradox , which is proposes that life on other planets should have visited us by now and reasons why it wouldn’t have 

favourite theory   is that any advanced civilisation more likely uses the advancements of technology to develop ways to destroy itself , both weapons and using up of natural resources , before becoming advanced enough to travel the distances.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 

On 26/02/2020 at 13:22, ErnestTurnip said:

Strange coincidence but got a notification from a ticket site this morning that they are back out doing it in 2021, always wondered if it was worth shelling out for.

I would if you like the musical. Its a great spectacle. All bells and whistles. Forever Autum is ace. Wont spoil it but its good. Get it booked

On 26/02/2020 at 23:34, fatolive said:

Watched a programme on one of the discovery type channels, detailing the Fermi paradox , which is proposes that life on other planets should have visited us by now and reasons why it wouldn’t have 

favourite theory   is that any advanced civilisation more likely uses the advancements of technology to develop ways to destroy itself , both weapons and using up of natural resources , before becoming advanced enough to travel the distances.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 

The Drake equation Vs the Fermi Paradox.

John Micheal Godier does some good interviews on YouTube about it.

Could suggest that we're utterly alone in the universe - or at least in our galaxy.

Certainly suggests that if there is intelligent life - it's much rarer than perhaps we'd assumed it might be 10-20 years ago.

 

 

Macky Ds in space?

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-claim-to-have-found-the-first-known-extraterrestrial-protein-in-a-meteorite/amp

Got the Rendlesham book as a birthday present yesterday. Looking forward to reading “the whole truth”!

 

One of the comments; please take our leader..

Viruses like Corona are one of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox btw. Sobering thought!