Timothy Birdnow

UFO's are a big fake - a black op by our government, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

Pentagon Disinformation Fueled Ameria's UFO Mythology, WSJ Reports

I've argued this all along.

It might have made sense in the old days when people still thought Venus and maybe Mars might be habitable and perhaps inhabited. But not now. Sadly, most people don't grasp the sheer enormity of interstellar distances.

If the sun were the size of a basketball and so too was Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, then using that scale we would have to place the two basketballs 463,151 miles apart. THAT is how big deep space stretches.

You wouldn't take an interstellar trip without a damned good reason.

It might be possible an unmanned probe could come here, but even that would take immense resources that would tie up too much capital. Better to wait and listen; if you start picking up radio waves from another solar system where there were none before then that becomes your target.

But it works both ways; if aliens can hear us we should be able to hear THEM. Even if they now have superior communications one would think they would still be using radio as well; technology rarely disappears completely in such a fashion. The need for more power and more communications will always be there and the old radio bands might become just a housekeeping system but they would probably still be used. After all we still use a.m. radio.

But we don't hear anything. This bothered Enrico Fermi to no end (it's called the Fermi Paradox "where are they?" he asked.)

Given how everywhere in the world we can find something left behind by Man so too we should find SOMETHING from the aliens.

But,but,but...wouldn't they find us first?

Not necessarily; we have had radio since 1893, when Marconi first demonstrated his invention here in my hometown of St.Louis. And for the first thirty years there was very, very little of it.

Now the Earth lights up like a red dwarf star in the radio band, and it would be visible, but the radio waves only move at the speed of light and if the aliens are, say, a hundred light years away they would only really realize we were here just about now. They would have to build ships, and organize an expedition. If we assume slower than light travel at best it will take them probably at least a hundred and fifty years to get here. There is no way they showed up in the '50's.

But what of faster than light travel, you ask?

First, there is no theoretical ftl drive. We have some fanciful concepts - warp drive (which bends space-time, allowing us to cut off asizable chunk of travel) which would require a force pretty much equal to a black hole to bend space (we can't even do it theoretically), hyperdrive, which goes into another universe where the speed of light is infinite, or nearly so, then return to our own universe),ther are a few other fictitious ideas. But no solid science.

And we cannot get to the speed of light; it is absolutely impossible for anything with mass. Einstean showed that; E=mcsquared means m=c squared/e which means mass increases as you get closer to the speed of light and thus it takes more energy. To reach lightspeed you must have an infinite amount of energy because you now have infinite mass. Infinite is impossible in our known universe.

That's not to say you can't get fairly close to lightspeed. And when you do time speeds up for you so a hundred year trip might seem to take fifteen or twenty. BUT you also have stuff coming at you ridiculously fast. Simple charged particles will come at you as gamma rays. Dust will hit your ship with the force of atomic bombs. You would have to have "deflectors" as Star Trek called them, but those deflectors would require incredible amounts of energy. Perhaps a magnetic field would help with some of them but too much would still slip through, And it wouldn't help with the dust; for that we would have to have a force field that works differently than a magnet. We know of no such thing.

There are a number of slower than light spacecraft drives people have kicked around over the years. One would be a solar sail, which would use the pressure of light against a giant, gossamer mirror. IN THEORY you could get to Alpha Centauri in maybe a hundred years or so, but if there is a lot of debris in interstellar space you won't have much of a sail left. Oh, and you would have to have an enormous laser cannon beaming at your ship for a hundred years to make this work.

There is the Buzzard Ramjet which theoretically scoops up interstellar hydrogen and pinches it until it undergoes fusion. That assumes interstellar hydrogen is ionized (it doesn't appear to be) and that a magnetic field wouldn't drag on the galactic magnetic field (it would) and that single protons can undergo fusion. Nice idea but fat chance. Still, such a drive would be wonderful; you could actually get to stars in years and not centuries, at least as far as the travellers are concerned.

Maybe aliens have found some drastic new drives, based on science of which we can only dream, but it also means they are putting out almost no radio waves. And even if all of that is so why come to Earth? Our solar system is nothing special; there are a great many stars similar to our own. Alpha centauri A, for instance, is almost identical to ours. Tau Ceti too. They wouldn't just go to EVERY star and then just observe on the unlikely chance we might develop into beings capable of dealing with them.

So the flying saucers are and were nothing but ways to hide experimental aircraft and other things. A con,a fake.

No doubt they saw how it worked for Orson Wells when he panicked a bunch of people over his Halloween special about a Martian invasion.

People are all looking for something to believe in and in our modern era we are too cool to believe in God. Materialists want aliens because ultimately they want to believe in something but are too arrogant to admit God may be real.

So we've had decades of aliens but no proof. It's been a gaslight all along.

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