UFO's

[Bruce Tuncks]

Yep Nev, we are very unlikely too....  looking at the sheep dogs I know well, it wouldn't help them much to be smarter... Gosh, one in particular is so smart she worries too much about things she has no control over.

[facthunter]

Yes I've had 2 Labs thrust upon me (for my good I'm told). What a life changing (ruining) and house wrecking experience that is.   No other thing is so happy to see you if you've been away for even a small time.. Nev

[willedoo]

25 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Yes I've had 2 Labs thrust upon me (for my good I'm told). What a life changing (ruining) and house wrecking experience that is.   No other thing is so happy to see you if you've been away for even a small time.. Nev

Nev, you are now leader of their pack. You're top dog. That's a big responsibility.

[red750]

OK. Explain how this was done with a triangular iris.

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1392980924846652

[facthunter]

Not sure I'm up to it willie. Tonight the claws get blunted again. I need to keep as much blood as possible.   Nev

[rgmwa]

25 minutes ago, red750 said:

OK. Explain how this was done with a triangular iris.

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1392980924846652

Most likely the same way this pretty convincing video of ball lighting was made:

 

 

[octave]

i don't believe we are the only developed life in the universe but due to the immense distances we will probably never meet.   This picture illustrates the distance our radio waves have travelled.

 

 

Other civilizations have the same limitations.  I suspect that given the enormous numbers of stars with planets, the conditions we experience on Earth surely cant be a one off.  Life may well be exceedingly rare but if there is 1 Earth like planet per galaxy and given that estimates are that there are between 100 and 200 billion galaxies I think the odds of life existing else where are quite good.

 

As well as distance there is the problem of time.  SETI has looked for radio signals from intelligent life for some years now. Although no signals have been detected from the right kinds of stars we can not know whether it is because our timing is of.  We maybe looking at stars with planets where life has not yet reached a stage where they have become detectable through radio transmissions (Earth has only been transmitting radio waves for a little over a hundred 100 years) or that on these likely planets life has been and gone. 

 

I feel confident advanced life exists elsewhere but it is also unlikely that we will ever cross paths.

[facthunter]

We have yet to have any idea what It is all about. The more you get to know the more appears that you don't know. Collectively we are pretty clever in some ways when we cooperate. A small group of dedicated people press on lo.oking for answers . The average BOGAN couldn't care less. Burn outs and pokeys and piss and the fastest ute in the west and a missus all your mates lust over.  Nev

[Old Koreelah]

16 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

We are all mainly empty space and the particles that comprise us are all star stuff.

We’re told that an atom is pretty much a scaled-down Solar System: tiny subatomic particles orbiting at impossible speeds, with enormous empty gaps between. Plenty of room for cosmic rays and anything else to pass straight through. Who knows what could fit in all that empty space!

[willedoo]

It might be much bigger than what we think. Maybe the whole universe as we think it is just part of an atom that resides in the big toe of a lizard walking around on a very large planet somewhere.

[Old Koreelah]

You forgot to mention the turtles it all sits on.

[spacesailor]

Just watched a UFO movie , with a  twist . '' NOPE '' on netf , I won't tell what  but we almost turned it off as ' boring ', but I persevered and it got ' gruesome ' .

a REVIEW ; https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/14/nope-review-jordan-peele-daniel-kaluuya ;

spacesailor

Edited March 16, 2023 by spacesailor
LINK ADDED

[red750]

A string of Starlink satellites over Brisbane last night had observers fearing a UFO attack.

[onetrack]

Saw a solitary Starlink satellite over our house in Perth a couple of weeks back, it was amazing in its size and reflectivity.

[red750]

Many people, including many of my esteemed colleages on this forum, ridicule claims of UFO's and aliens. I wonder then, why there are carvings from the Aztecs to the Egyptians, and even aboriginal rock paintings, dating thousands of years, depicting images of creatures ( and craft) so similar to what we now regard as an "alien". While some may be considered persons in costume, others defy that explanation. Surely these must add some credence to the claims of alien visitation over the centuries.

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

Because the UFO people are impossible....  humans already have their heads almost too big for the birth canal. Those  UFO people are many times worse...  their inventors never worked as midwives, methinks.

[red750]

17 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

UFO people are impossible....  humans already have their heads almost too big for the birth canal.

Bruce, you have to think outside the square. Kangaroos are about the size of a peanut when they are born. Alien babies could be much smaller than human babies. 

[Bruce Tuncks]

I don't think the brain grows....  but I still concede the point Red. The brain must have grown at some point, just not soon before birth as in humans.

[Bruce Tuncks]

I think the whole " big brain" thing will be counted as an evolutionary failure.  Take dogs, for example. They are as smart as they need to be, and a big brain wouldn't help them at all. ( except for this dog belonging to a mate of mine who said how his dog could do calculus problems while fetching a ball....  I didn't believe him.)

[nomadpete]

Can anyone verify the authentication of those pictures, Red?

[Bruce Tuncks]

But, Red, artistic license has been around a long time. Picasso just had more than most.

AND, why travel across the galaxy and not ask to see our leaders?

[nomadpete]

1 minute ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

But, Red, artistic license has been around a long time. Picasso just had more than most.

AND, why travel across the galaxy and not ask to see our leaders?

Intelligent life would certainly know enough to avoid our leaders.

[red750]

One has to keep an open mind to any and all possibilities.

A couple of hundred years ago, people would not believe we would be travelling in comfort in vehicles not pulled by horses.

A hundred and fifty years ago, people would not have believed hundreds of people would be flying half way round the world in comfort, at 30-40,000 feet, and 560 mph.

One hundred years ago, people would not believe ordinary people would be able to fly across the Atlantic faster than the speed of sound, while sipping champagne, or man would walk on the moon.

One hundred years ago, people would not have believed we could sit in our lounge room and watch entertainment on a 2 inch thick device mounted on the wall.

 

There are an enormous amount of things we cannot imagine, yet to come. New things are discovered almost every day.

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Can anyone verify the authentication of those pictures, Red?

Yes, the sepia tone ones were taken at last year's Gatton Show. It's the only time of year some of them come down out of the hills.

[willedoo]

I didn't say or imply inbreeding.