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originally posted by: jjkenobi
a reply to: SirKonstantin
I always wonder... if/when a massive ship shows up in Earth's atmosphere with humanoid type beings saying they are from a galaxy so far away that we have no way of verifying it... how many would just automatically believe them?
A couple of months ago top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that extraterrestrial life exists without question
The 24-year estimate, for example, "depends on continued SETI funding, which is in dire straits right now," he told Space.com after his talk at the NIAC symposium.
www.space.com...
"The bottom line is, like one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up," Shostak said.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
I don't know why they bother to bring theologians into the discussion. I don't see where ET life has anything to do with a load of fairy stories and power plays. .
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
a reply to: and14263
What I'm not telling you would shock the very foundations of your world.
originally posted by: buddah6
Star Trek has prepared us more for alien contact than NASA! After all, they have the "Prime Directive".
originally posted by: lme7898354
Pardon the pun but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put together all the clues from the beginning of recorded time to see that someone has been visiting us. Look at the drawings on the walls of caves made by some of the first humans.
Look at the rapid advances in technology in the 1950's after the Roswell crash.
I think the powers that be know and have known for a long time that were not alone.
originally posted by: draknoir2
I believe NEC had some success in Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation some years back. As I recall they used a Bose-Einstein condensate as a medium.
originally posted by: JadeStar
originally posted by: draknoir2
I believe NEC had some success in Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation some years back. As I recall they used a Bose-Einstein condensate as a medium.
That's different. If I recall correctly (and that's a big if) they did not exceed the speed of light. They exceeded the limit placed on light by the Bose-Einstein condensate. That's quite different than exceeding the speed of light. A lot of news outlets misreported it as exceeding the speed of light but nothing of the sort actually occurred.
originally posted by: draknoir2
originally posted by: JadeStar
originally posted by: draknoir2
I believe NEC had some success in Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation some years back. As I recall they used a Bose-Einstein condensate as a medium.
That's different. If I recall correctly (and that's a big if) they did not exceed the speed of light. They exceeded the limit placed on light by the Bose-Einstein condensate. That's quite different than exceeding the speed of light. A lot of news outlets misreported it as exceeding the speed of light but nothing of the sort actually occurred.
Yes. The laws of physics are maintained because the medium was not a vacuum.
Meant more as an example of how scientists are not too closed-minded to work on the seemingly impossible... like this experiment in quantum entanglement.
Lol. So that makes you a scientist. is it
originally posted by: JadeStar
originally posted by: draknoir2
originally posted by: JadeStar
originally posted by: draknoir2
I believe NEC had some success in Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation some years back. As I recall they used a Bose-Einstein condensate as a medium.
That's different. If I recall correctly (and that's a big if) they did not exceed the speed of light. They exceeded the limit placed on light by the Bose-Einstein condensate. That's quite different than exceeding the speed of light. A lot of news outlets misreported it as exceeding the speed of light but nothing of the sort actually occurred.
Yes. The laws of physics are maintained because the medium was not a vacuum.
Meant more as an example of how scientists are not too closed-minded to work on the seemingly impossible... like this experiment in quantum entanglement.
Ok, that's good. Thanks. I'm glad you also do this because there is this idea that all scientists are close minded to new ideas when nothing could be further from the truth.
originally posted by: draknoir2
As opposed to the ET "community" which is completely free of such things?