reply to post by Shino
First, forget SETI. It is nothing more than PR to help usher in the time of enlightenment, another one of those tools in the advancing the acceptance
of life out there, but deflecting a focusing on what is here--the UFOs.
This issue of how the news of the discovery by SETI of distant stars with ETs hanging around it would be handled is a moot question, already dealt
with twice in public records . And it is naive to think it would be handled in any other way.
Briefly, the discovery of pulsars was first believed to be signals from alien civilizations because of the then, unknown quality and consistency of
the regular pulsing of the signals. I'm working from old memory, but I believe it was from English astronomers working in a facility in Ireland.
They withheld their astounding data for six months before it was released having been "decided" that they were a new type of natural phenomena, and
thus, not a threat to anybody except astronomers and astrophysist of the old school.
Exactly the same thing happen about two years later with the discovery by astronomers in Australia of quasars. Here was another new phenomena that
escaped conventional explanations. Again, if memory serves, it was a year before it was decided that quasars was not ETs sending out signals but new,
and vastly incrediblely powerful signals from another type of natural phenomena.
Understand this: Fleeting UFOs glimpsed and even imaged in Earth skies can be and are discounted in a multitude of ways by the TPTB. That happens
daily to us. But pesky, persistent phenomena witnessed and recorded in the distant skies that give every indication of bein alien is a difficult
problem for TPTB to handle. Then can't deny the phenomena outright because it is there! They have to deny the phenomena being what it seems and
invent some new equations that explain those things, both pulsars and quasars, as natural objects, very strange, but perfectly natural nonetheless.
Their best argument was, and possible still is that they can't be artificial signals because there are so many of both types out there. --As if that
is a defining point--which it isn't.
In 1964, well after the UFO phenomena were widely experienced, the Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev did a bit of thinking about to what extremes a
civilization that didn’t kill itself off early could expect to achieve if it developed its sciences and technological skill to the extreme.
Kardashev’s Scale, as it is know, does not keep track of time. Time is not a factor as we typically like to measure a continuum of evolution and
revolution. The civilization (any civilization, even of slug worms) can take as long as it takes to achieve the stages he defined. In its simplest
form as he wrote it, it pertained to only three stages. Since he put them to print, others have added addition stages at both end. One
anthropocentric one at the bottom to give ourselves a head start to grow into and at least one more at the top to carry the scale to its utmost
pinnacle of a Master-of-the -Universe type status.
Kardashev wrote his scale in scientific code, equations, utilizing watts as his unit of measure, but he need not have. The equations are rarely used
as such in favor of being converted to a more visual way of understanding for the common folk.
The first stage added later by others is Type 0. A civilization residing in Type 0, position 0.1 on that scale would be little more than club
wielders and fire-makers. Sagan seemed to think we fit in at about 0.7 on the Type 0 scale.
However, Kardashev’s first scale was labeled a Type I civilization. He included us near the bottom before Sagan utilized the addition of the Type 0
to bump us down while pumping us up. Hopefully, if you are human, you can understand the need for the Type 0 scale to be included to give us a high
ranking 0.7 score versus being on a Type I scale at something like a 0.3 or 0.4. (We could easily use negative numbers to reach below type I, but
…
A Type I civilization can interfere with and harness nature enough to harness the power of an entire planet. Note, the manner of how that is done is
not relevant no more so is the length of time it took to get to that state.
A Type II civilization can tap the available power from a star. (As noted, time is not an aspect of the scales and neither is the means of retrieving
the power from its resource.)
A Type III civilization can harness the available power from a galaxy. The increased complexity of moving to this stage has increased immensely by
multiples too vast to think about.
Tacking on the capabilities of a Type IV civilization and even a Type V, as others after Kardashev have done, would either include a large sector of
the Universe, the whole Universe, any and all Universes, dimensions, etc. which, of course, would make that civilization akin to—if not the creator
of the Universe, but the opposite, a destructor of, or the User of, the Universe.
If you need to allow it, those few sentences can give you a whole new perspective on where we reside today in our current situation. I said it
earlier, and I will say it again, we are a Third World world. The quicker we come to terms with that, the less severe will be our awakening to
reality.
As for what pulsars and quasars REALLY are, keep you mind open.