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Originally posted by Night Star
How exciting! There are far too many credible witnesses for me to doubt in the existance of extra terrestrial spacecraft.
Originally posted by Khurzon
I've seen some odd craft over Phoenix myself, during some late night hours in the past, but never anything like what you've described.
Originally posted by Jim Scott
Does this mean you will be now known as Overlord only?
Originally posted by empireoflizards
As far as 'expense' to travel the stars, well, that seems to be as big an assumption as the ones I have already thrown out there. Interesting new ideas in physics are starting to become somewhat looked at seriously that would imply unnecessary limitations in our conventional models of energy systems.
Originally posted by Dogdish
ou remain skeptical?
In light of your OP, I'm not sure that you can have it both ways, realistically.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Even very advanced technology -- if it exists at all -- capable of traversing the stars will be exceptionally "expensive" in terms of the cost of energy required.
Also, I tend to reject any notion that our existence here might be due to any off-planet influence as evolution tells us differently (unless you subscribe to the possibility that all life on earth was seeded).
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
www.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
I remain skeptical. My primary reasons are that we represent a relatively mundane existence when compared against the wonders of the galaxy available to an interstellar species. Even very advanced technology -- if it exists at all -- capable of traversing the stars will be exceptionally "expensive" in terms of the cost of energy required. I can't imagine any intelligent species wasting that energy on us when the entire galaxy calls.
I remain skeptical as to the potential value we might represent to any advanced interstellar species.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Given what I know (I started life after high school wanting to be a cosmologist/physiscst), what I saw would seem to be well beyond existing human technology -- IF what I saw was extremely far away. Certainly, if it were close, I would have heard "something" in the cool quiet air of the Phoenix valley. That would seem to support that it may have been quite distant. But in the end, I have no way to know for sure.