Aliens - Fact Or Fiction..?

snowdog said:

Faster than light travel is coming soon(ish). It takes us humans time to reverse engineer this alien tech. B)

Noah the time traveller has said that aliens will be revealed to the world in 2028 if I'm remembering correctly but he also said that Trump is getting re-elected in 2020 so I'm not taking that as gospel lmfao :D :D :D

I also forgot to add Velcro and Quantum Computers to that list, I'll edit it now.

One that stands out to me, pretty much the only time I’ve ever seen anything like it, happened in late October 2013. The sun had gone down but it was still early evening, around 8 I guess? I was in the kitchen of my significant other’s mother’s house doing dishes, she is in the front yard having a smoke, and I hear her call out to me “Jacob, come quick, there’s aliens!”

The urgency in her voice causes me to stop what I am doing and rush outside, expecting to see, well, nothing…

What I saw were two mushroom-shaped lights; they appeared to be maybe a hundred meters in the sky and were orange and red. They were not large: maybe a meter across each. The way they moved was very strange: they appeared to be slowly rotating around a common focal point while dancing apart and darting back together in perfect synchronicity. They gained altitude while a faint hiss was audible, slowly drifting up and over and away from her house.

My first thought was ‘firework’, but it wasn’t like any firework I had ever seen. It was likely some type of aircraft, but the lack of noise except for that faint but clearly audible hissing sound was really weird. The night was relatively clear, no wind, and while they were closer they initially appeared to have a clear structure.

I gawked for maybe four seconds then ran inside to get my phone so I could record. By the time I was back outside they had receded a considerable distance and the camera only picks up a faint dot. Our reactions are priceless, though.

I had never seen anything quite that dramatically out of the ordinary before, or since. The most reasonable explanations are a firework, some type of aircraft, or a celestial phenomenon (illusion) combined with an unrelated noise. However, whenever someone brings up the topic of ‘paranormal’, that instance stands out to me.

Lights in the sky.

It was most likely a quad copter.  They weren't quite as widespread in 2013, and I mean... what else could it have been?

As for my personal belief, alien life exists but we haven't yet made contact.  I'd wager in 10 years we'll have strong evidence of chemical signatures of life on extra solar planets.

Love stuff about space and time and still can't get my head around some of the concepts.

For example, time slows down as we get near the speed of light and from the point of view of the traveller, stops if you're at the speed of light... so from the point of view of the light particle, it's travelling at infinite speed and takes zero time to get to its destination. We as the observer perceive it to be a finite speed.

Also, the passage of time becomes faster as you get nearer a massive object... becoming infinitely fast at the location of an infinitely dense object, like a black hole. So does that mean that travelling towards a black hole, would you perceive it as getting closer, if time is speeding up for you compared with those further away? or would the apparent speed that you're travelling towards the centre be cancelled out by the increase in the density of time? so that it would seem like it was always the same distance away?

And what does that mean for an infinitely dense universe, such as at the beginning? does that mean the density of time was infinite then... and does that mean that there never was a beginning?

I asked my physics teacher that at school and he told me to shut up cos we're learning Planck's law.

snowdog said:

Pah! Filter Schmilter! :o

There's over 400 billion star systems in the Milky Way alone before you even start to think about other galaxies in the universe. There's aliens out there and they're visiting our planet.