re: A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.

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Right but it’s relative and if this was something extraterrestrial it didn’t take 15,000 years to get here.

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..what?

The “something” in this case is light. It’s X-rays and radio waves.

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That’s just a general rule for a stationary object

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Again.. what? I genuinely don’t know what you’re trying to say here.

I mean, sure. “It’s relative.” From the photon’s point of view it arrived here instantly, being a massless particle and all. But that’s completely irrelevant.

One of the defining principles of relativity is that the speed of light is the same in all inertial reference frames. If an object 15,000 light years away emits electromagnetic radiation (whether visible light, X-rays, radio waves, or any other form) then 15,000 of our years pass by between the time it was emitted and the time we see it. Meaning that yes, as Darth pointed out on the first page, the X-rays we are seeing today were emitted before human civilization developed on Earth.

Now.. time dilation does exist, and the time that has passed on the star since this radiation was emitted may have been more or less than 15,000 years. But that’s has nothing to do with light years being a “measure of distance, not time.” It’s just a byproduct of relativity and the fact that there is no universal clock. Assuming the distance estimates are correct, it was ~13,000 BC on Earth when the radiation we see today was emitted. Regardless of how much time has passed on the star since then.

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It feels like we are very still but we are actually moving through space at over a million mph.

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That’s what I feel from too much tequila. Perhaps tequila creates a wormhole of sorts.

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The entire Milky Way is moving extremely fast and being pulled by something that is gravitationaly completely unknown to mankind

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God.

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It feels like we are very still but we are actually moving through space at over a million mph. If you were to mark your position in space right now and then come back in 24 hours you’d be 57.3 million kilometers away from that spot

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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'

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We used to be a proper country.

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Have you ever seen what these things looked like opened?


Fine American mid century engineering, sometimes still with vacuum tubes, until the Japanese came in and refined the manufacturing processes making electronic boards smaller, more efficient, and more reliable.

And manufacturers also started going cheap, instead of real wood, they started using particle board and faux wood trim.

Another neat thing about old sets like that, people would smoke cigarettes so much back then soot would collect on the boards. If you turned one on today the cigarette glaze on the boards would warm and you would still smell the cigarette smoke.

If you have a strange neighbor you may want to check to see if he has a 8ft tall paper mache Devils Tower model in his living room. This may be the answers to the Bermuda Triangle disappearances.

If you really want to throw them for a loop tell them that some of the stars we see now may no longer exist as the light we’re seeing left the star millions of years ago. Or that when we take deep views for the most distant galaxies were essentially looking back in time billions of years.

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If you really want to throw them for a loop tell them that some of the stars we see now may no longer exist as the light we’re seeing left the star millions of years ago. Or that when we take deep views for the most distant galaxies were essentially looking back in time billions of years.

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Are you talking naked eye? We can only see stars within the Milky Way. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. In the best of conditions we can see the Andromeda Galaxy which is 2.6 million light years away. So while you may be correct we are seeing light an object emitted in the past, we have few opportunities to see light from stars that was emitted millions of years ago. All stars we see out there are in the Milky Way.

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your vehicles warranty”
That’s what I decided…..

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if this was something extraterrestrial

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It is extraterrestrial.


Extraterrestrial just means "not of Earth".

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15,000 years ago =\= 15,000 light years. That or whatever is sending these signals found a way to send signals very very quickly

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uhhh