UFO's and Aliens. Do they exist? Do you think there's even a chance that there is other intelligent life in our galaxy or universe or do you think we Humans are the only intelligent life in all of creation? These are questions that we as a species, man-kind, have asked since as far as our recorded history goes back. Even Ancient man, with no knowledge of modern science or modern understanding of what "Space" was, would look to the night sky at the twinkling stars and wonder...."Are we truly alone?".
Honestly, I've always thought aliens existed. Whether or not they've actually visited this planet at any point in it's history I don't know and I don't think anyone can truly say one way or the other and have definitive proof. Of course there is probably just as much "proof" that aliens don't exist as there is that they do, but, at least we are now discovering for a Fact that there is or was "some form" of life in the universe outside of the planet Earth. We know from microscopic fossils in martian rocks that at one point millions of years ago there was at the very least Single Celled life on Mars. We found this out back in the late 90's. Didn't hear about it? That's not surprising since I only found out about it because of a 10 second mention on ABC's "World News Tonight" back in 96-97. Today how-ever you can research this for your-self as many papers and articles have been published on the subject. A quick Google Search will lead you to many results such as these:
Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars Source: www.solarviews.com Article from 1997
Fossil Life in Martian Rock Found in Antarctica ? Source: http://spider.seds.org/spider/Mars/Marsrock/marsrocks.html Article from 1996
Proof of Life in Three Martian Rocks May Come This Year Source: www.popsci.com Article from 2010
This is enough in my eyes to call it "Definitive Proof", they're just waiting on the specific results so they can say it's a fact without a shadow of a doubt, and I respect them for waiting and taking it slow and doing the science the right way. A claim such as this can't be rushed no matter how apparent the results of any "proof" might be.
While I do believe in intelligent life outside of this planet, I'm still a skeptic. I mostly believe in what I can see with my own eyes. What I can feel with my own two hands. I think it's important for anyone doing any Serious research into the matter to be a skeptic and to try to dis-prove or debunk as many fakes as possible. With our advances in computers and video editing and special effects it's easier than ever for the nut-jobs and conspiracy wackos out there to make convincing "proof" on their own and it's people like those that bring a bad ilk to any Serious research into the matter. Sadly there are a lot of fakers and crazy people out there working in both directions of the debate. There are people who make fake videos of UFO's and try to pass them off as real and there are various groups and religious zealots who try to prove that Everything is fake and say that None Of It is real and anyone who believes there is intelligent non-human life in the universe is a moron or a liar.
Worse yet there are many people out there who are terrified of the idea that aliens may exist. Some people are so closed minded that no matter what scientific advances we may make or what we may learn about the universe and life its-self, they will Never believe that alien life exists even if aliens were to land on the White-House lawn and announce to the world that they are real and that they are here. Even if that did happen (which of course it hasn't) there would be a certain percentage of the world's population that would say it was faked, even if the proof was pointing a particle cannon at their head.
I'm about to tell a story I've never told publicly before. I've never told it honestly because I'm a little afraid of what it may make people think in regards to my sanity. If you choose to believe it, that's great. If you choose not to believe it, that's great too. One thing I do know for sure, I know what I saw...
Note: Before I get into the story, keep in mind that I was a kid. I was 13 or 14 years old. I had never done any drugs, didn't smoke cigs, didn't drink, and I wasn't a wild kid with a crazy imagination. I never had an "imaginary friend" at any point and even when I did grow up and start "partying" I've never had a hallucination nor have I ever saw something that I wasn't completely sure was right in front of me (magic tricks aside).
It was the summer of the year that my family moved from Deland in Volusia County out to Lake Mack in Lake County, Florida. I had to go to summer school that year to make up a failing English grade in 7th grade English (long story but basically I got screwed out of the grade I should have received). Because there weren't that many kids in my area going to summer school that year all of us in the neighborhood had to meet down at the corner store which was the only bus-stop for summer school that year. School started at 7 A.M. and was all the way in Leesburg (almost an hour from my house). We kids had to be at the bus-stop at 5:30 A.M. because it was a very long ride all the way to Leesburg from where we were in Lake Mack and there were other students to stop and pick up along the way. I was walking to the bus-stop down a long winding road. It was a normal paved road and there were houses and trailers all over the place. Even though the road was deserted because it was so early in the morning it was still a populated and crowded neighborhood. As I was rounding the bends I noticed all the tall pine trees were swaying back and forth pretty hard like there was about to be a storm, but oddly enough I couldn't feel any wind. I'm not going to say there wasn't any wind, there very well could have been and the currents were too high off the ground for me to feel the wind, but, I didn't actually feel any wind.
I was looking up at the tops of the pine trees when a very Large Triangle came out over the trees. At first I thought it was a helicopter and maybe I was seeing the lights on the ends of the rotors but then two things hit me. First, I couldn't hear Any noise. None what-so-ever. Second, if the lights I saw were on the ends of the rotors they would have been spinning very fast and not been stationary. They were also way too far apart to be rotor blades. The object was at least 3 times as high up as the trees, maybe 4 times as high, and it...was....Massive. I'm talking like the size of a Boeing 747, Massive. I quickly realized there was no way in hell that it was a helicopter. There were no flashing lights on it. They were on steadily. There were four lights in total. One larger light in the center and three more slightly smaller lights, one at each tip of the Triangle. I had seen plenty of helicopters up close, even military ones as I've lived close to Deland Airport for most of my time in Deland and seen plenty of air shows and air planes and helicopters first hand. I've seen both the Apache and the smaller Cobra Attack Chopper that it shares it's design with. It's also of note that out in Lake Mack in Lake County we were technically on the out-skirts of the Ocala National Forrest. The army had a bombing range on the far edge of the forrest and at least 3 or 4 times a year you could hear the bombs being dropped and all you had to do was go outside when the planes or helicopters were flying over-head to see what vehicles were doing the bombing. Lake Mack was right underneath their flight path for a long time even though the bombing range its-self was a good 60 or 70 miles away.
Anyway, when I realized just what it was I was looking at....well, I'm not ashamed to admit I got scared and started running for the bus-stop. I didn't look back and I didn't slow down. When I finally got to the point where I could see the store and see the other kids through the darkness standing under the street light at the store I stopped running. I didn't want the other kids thinking I was too scared to walk to the bus-stop in the dark, which I wasn't. I've never been afraid of the dark, not even as a small child. At that point when I stopped running I took the time to look behind me. Not surprisingly I didn't see anything. Nothing. No ship, no Triangle, no wind, and the trees were as still as could be since there was no wind.
I'm not gonna say I know for sure that it was aliens. I don't and to surmise that with no further evidence would be kinda stupid in my eyes. What I do know is that I have no idea what it was and it WASN'T a conventional aircraft. I honestly don't know what It was, but I do know I have Never seen Anything like It nor have I since. That one experience has led me to believe in intelligent life outside of this planet. I can't say it Was aliens. I can say I Think it was, because I have no other explanation for it.
So.....what do YOU believe? Do YOU think we're alone in the universe? Or do YOU think there is far more out there then we could ever dream is possible?
Just because I don't see it posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WUsya__yo
hurray?
Life in the universe? Absolutely. Contact with us? I hope not. I agree completely with Dr. Hawkings, "Don't mess with aliens". If they be benign they would not want contact with a violent, aggressive, greedy species. If they are like us or worse.. well, let's not go there. Those trying to facilitate contact are well-purposed but naive.
Here is an associated question that has puzzled me for a long time. In truth, since it was expounded that nothing can go beyond it's existence. That means existence is bounded. How? Time curves forming a circle, given enough distance. How much distance? That's irrelevant to my question. Is the span of my existence different from someone say, born 50 years before me? Everything in space is moving; the universe is rapidly expanding, galaxies are moving at breakneck speeds, stars are moving rapidly as well. Everything in space is not in the same place it was when I was born and different again 50 years before that. Now, does all this movement mean some infinitesimal portion of my existence does not exist to the person born 50 years before me? My mind can almost grasp a scenario of overlapping existences. Think of an endless group of bubbles. Now expand that 2 dimensional view to include a 3rd dimension. Though many would in some way overlap the center bubble in your field of view, moving outward, we eventually see bubbles that do not. Totally different existences; different universes, if you will.
Some might say, well, the molecules or atoms or subatomic particles that form all things are and were in existence when every human was born. Good but not exactly true. Stars when at end sometimes go supernova, creating and destroying all types of particles. Galaxies collide and merge creating and destroying particles at every level, changing vast amounts of matter to energy which eventually becomes what? Often an effect on something else.
Would like to read your thoughts. Ron
If Po' can be a master...? than I'll believe anything...!
I believe UFO drivers are all nude.
The particles aren't destroyed, though. Molecules might get torn apart, but the individual atoms remain intact (possibly plus or minus a few electrons, but those aren't destroyed either, just flung into space). At the center of active stars nuclear fusion occurs, but that doesn't destroy protons, neutrons, or electrons, it just rearanges them into heavier atoms. Except in very special cases (ie, nuclear fission), destroying and/or creating matter is impossible, and a supernova or galaxy collision is not one of those special cases.
As you would! I mean, it does get a bit warm during re-entry, doesn't it!
BTW, I'm just curious, Uvah! When you post all that kooky stuff, are you off the planet... as in out there on a UFO and the weightlessness has gone to your head... or are you just high on something down here?
Yes, why would aliens wear clothes? It's only us primitive humans who are obsessed with covering up bodies.
And it's us humans who have a damned good reason to cover up. I mean, would you feel comfortable sitting opposite a nude Maggie thatcher on a crowded bus? Or opposite a naked Gordon Brown... who over your shoulder can see a nude Lucy Pinder standing just behind you? Both are scary prospects, right?
I believe I have made my point!
Alot more work than it's worth. Not to mention probing and such would be so much easier. Yup, they have the right idea.
I'm starting to get concerned about you...
It would seem that way but I can assure you I'm not on any kind of hollucinogenic crap (did I spell that right?). What I have is an over-active imagination and when it goes I go with the flow. What comes into my mind at times may seem 'way out there' so to speak but therein lies the joy of what some might call daydreaming. Here's a quote I read a while back. Those who dream with eyes closed do only that, dream. Those who dream with eyes open are dangerous in that they tend to act on them. The wording may not be exact but it does get the point across. I dream with eyes wide open in order to 'see' my world and what is possible within it.
Well I appreciate that but, just don't get abducted. OK?
And if you do tell 'em you know the Master Blaster (starkers). they won't want to mess with someone that can bark them back to the stone age.
And so is her husband.... got quite a shock when he discovered various probing toys on the bedside table.
Hmmm, we think very much the same, you and I. I don't do any drugs except what's prescribed... and only then when it's necessary. I can get quite off the planet without hallucinogens, waccy tobbacy and alcoholic beverages. In fact, I was born off the planet, so I had a head start.
Ohhhh Gliese 581g. Old news I guess? I am pretty sure that I read abut this planet a "long" time ago, that it might be capable of supporting life.
With a body like yours?
I've always been concerned about him. Not that it did any good. Just kept on being starkers.
When I checked out the video there were several reports, two of which were interviews with the same guy. What struck me as strange was that he changed his story in the second one saying the planet was mostly water when the astronomers haven't even detected an atmosphere yet.
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search?cs=bz&p=Manhattan+UFO&fr=mail-tts&fr2=ps
I keep trying to make a link here but its just not working. Copy and paste into your browser. A UFO sighting over Manhattan of all places.
Hehe. As a great mind once mused: to believe is to know you believe -- and to know you believe is not to believe.
Sort of a roundabout way of saying ...... Okay.
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/hubble-telescop.php
The Hubble space telescope is tirelessly peering into the universe around us, and a group of researchers recently confirmed that Hubble has set a record for the most distant object seen yet. What's more, the existence of the distant galaxy is raising new questions.
The image taken by the Hubble was actually captured a year ago, but a team from the European Southern Observatory operating the Very Large Telescope (or VLT) array in Chile have determined that that speck in the upper left hand corner of the image above is actually a galaxy 13 billion light years away.
Now, it may not look like much, but with the way light travels the galaxy we're seeing is actually as it was when the universe was only 600 million years old. That makes this something of a monumental find, as that speck is actually the first evidence we have of an emerging young galaxy.
From Pop Sci:
At that point in cosmic history, the universe was not as transparent as it is now. Rather, it was filled with a hydrogen fog that absorbed ultraviolet light from birthing galaxies, creating an opaque fog. This period when the UV light was still clearing that fog is known as the era of reionisation, and it is one reason why it's very hard to see back that far in history. Galaxy UDFy-38135539 is the first confirmed observation of a young galaxy clearing the fog and reaching one of our scientific instruments at a detectable level.
At that distance the galaxy they are viewing in all likelyhood no longer exists. Either it was absorbed by a neighbor or it disassociated due to old age after most of the stars there burned out. Answer me this. When is it proper for you to be older than your mother?
Dunno about proper, but if your mother has a birthday only every 4 years due to being born on Feb 29, you'd eventually pass her calendar age and become older than her, though not physically because she has aged the same as everyone else.
Several years ago I read an article on the ages of stars in the local galaxy. One in particular was estimated to be 16.1 billion years old. Now, calculating a stars age has been nearly 100% accurate as far back as the 1930's and has been refined even more in the ensuing years. This is but one of the enigmas astronomers have to deal with. If the universe is truly and I don't think it is, 13.7 billion years old then a star 16.1 billion years old should not exist yet it does. Go figure.
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