Extraterrestrial Life and UFO sightings; constructively critical deliberation.

[Vyn]

Vyn seems to have had too many bowls of Rice Krispies...

LOL

In my defense, all of that snap, crackle, and pop stuff is true - although snap tends to get referred to more nowadays as joust since engineers are finding more about what the number actually represents

[Typhon]

I did saw it earlier but wasn't able answer and then I completely forgot.

Charger speak like ape man.
                                         

[Charger]

Me ape man? You Jane?

[Typhon]

Me ape man? You Jane?

Well you have got to admit, that grammar was pretty horrible.

[Charger]

Well you have got to admit, that grammar was pretty horrible.

I've seen worse...I guess I've given too good of an impression of my grammar skills here then...

[Zzzptm]

Back to ET stuff...

There's also a question of FTL travel being a matter of transcending our space-time existence. What we transcend into, we don't know. Whoever transcended knows, and they're in a place we can't experience in any way until we stumble on the answer ourselves.

Put another way, what if we're not aware of ET life because all the life that we *could* be aware of is in a completely incomprehensible plane of existence. Once we can comprehend that plane of existence, then we get to meet the neighbors. And, in such a situation, we don't move around in spaceships necessarily. It could be that we just move in a way we can't possibly move now, and we're wherever we need to be in an instant.

[Typhon]

Put another way, what if we're not aware of ET life because all the life that we *could* be aware of is in a completely incomprehensible plane of existence. Once we can comprehend that plane of existence, then we get to meet the neighbors. And, in such a situation, we don't move around in spaceships necessarily. It could be that we just move in a way we can't possibly move now, and we're wherever we need to be in an instant.

I must fix another statement here:

Put another way, what if we're not aware of ET life because all the life that we *could* be aware of is in a completely incomprehensible plane of existence. Once we can comprehend that plane of existence, then we get to meet the neighbors. And, in such a situation, we don't move around in spaceships necessarily. It could be that we just move in a way we can't possibly move now, and we're wherever we need to be in an instant.

[Billy Underdog]

Proof of E.T. life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

[Zzzptm]

Had another thought... we may already be receiving transmissions from other advanced civilizations, but are too stupid to realize what we've got.

Or the advanced civilizations are, themselves, not all that advanced in their thinking. Humans may not have a monopoly on stupidity...

I can imagine the other-world civilization's scientists discussing how they want to reach out to us...

"We could send them a radio signal of perfectly crafted random noise. Only a truly advanced civilization such as we have is capable of algorithms that create true random numbers. Once they get the random noise, they'll respond in kind and we will have a mutually beneficial relationship."

Or...

"We only need to fly by a few people with our advanced vehicles. Once they get a glimpse, it'll be obvious how to copy them and what they need to do to come visit us."

Or...

"We'll send our representative, David Bowie. He'll drop hints about being a "star man" and they'll all get their act together and have a golden age of technological development. We just need to make sure that David Bowie never gets any cocaine, or the mission will go off the rails..."

[Vyn]

Alien Probe!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html

[Zzzptm]

Alien Probe!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html

At first, it was a comet-like object, even though it had no tail...

... and then, it accelerated.

[BOGBLAST]

Alien Probe!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html

We gotta catch it!!!

[Typhon]

The NASA "Curiosity Rover" has been working on Mars for a few years now.  Here is a beautifully animated video of its trip to Mars, and the method NASA used to land there successfully.  Truly a marvel of engineering.

[Charger]

Indeed! That little bugger has been quite the marvel....It's been great looking at all the pics it has sent over the years!

And InSight's landing was perfect too just a while ago...and 2 new rovers are being planned.

[Vyn]

The latest picture transmitted from the Curiosity Rover: