re: It’s going to be real funny when we find out aliens didn’t exist

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aliens didn’t exist

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The statistical probability of this is approaching true zero. Whether the UAPs are E.T. visitors or experimental aircraft is the real question. Aliens were the best thing to happen to Skunk Works' secrets

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Based on our current understanding of space-time and astrophysics. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until about 80 years ago. Back to my last post, the near limitless expanse of the universe provides substantial probabilities of a more advanced civilization than ours existing somewhere within said vastness.

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Right, which isn't really what is at issue. Life on other planets almost certainly exists. And yet, we just a as certainly have never been visited by any advanced civilization from a plant somewhere else in the universe. BTW, nuclear fission as such doesn't solve any of our problems in trying to get to a nearby star. The tyranny of the rocket equation isn't dependent upon what type of fuel you use and that is just one of the myriad of problems for any being from anywhere attempting interstellar travel, never mind intergalactic travel.

I hope ya'll don't mind my butting in here, but the science of physics is far from settled regarding revolutionary propulsion systems.

In a word "neutrinos".

If it's true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein's theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light.

Science mad

The US Department of Defense funded a series of studies on advanced aerospace technologies, including warp drives.
The studies came out of a program that also funded research into UFO sightings.
One report describes the possibility of using dark energy to warp space and effectively travel faster than light.

Business Insider

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I hope ya'll don't mind my butting in here, but the science of physics is far from settled regarding revolutionary propulsion systems.

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Did you miss this qoute from a theoretical physicist regarding the report mentioned by Business Insider: "It's bits and pieces of theoretical physics dressed up as if it has something to do with potentially real-world applications, which it doesn't," Carroll said."

And what you've mentioned fails to solve many of the problems of interstellar space travel. Even if you could get around the rocket equation, you still have to deal with cosmic rays, micro and not so micro meteroids, vacuum, lack of gravity, lack of suitable gravity at your destination, lack of suitable atmosphere at your destination, etc. You would likely have to develop on a planet no more than about 1.5 times Earth's size or you might not be able to get off of to even attempt further space travel.

And the rocket equation is very basic physics. In order to accelerate mass you need fuel. The more mass the more fuel necessary. The more fuel needed, the bigger the rocket necessary to hold the fuel and begetting additional mass, necessitating more fuel, etc. The faster you need to go, the more fuel necessary to accelerate. The more time you need to travel, the more supplies you will need to take with you, necessitating more fuel, bigger rocket and on and on.

And that's just half the problem. Once you are going 50% of the speed of light, you need the same amount of fuel that you have already burned to slow down as you approach your destination.

The Fermi Paradox tends to militate against the practicality if not the possibility of interstellar travel. And if Aliens were actually visiting Earth, you would expect the evidence to get better over time and it just hasn't. All we have are blurry photos, blurry videos and dancing lights when cameras have gotten better and better and more and more common.

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And just wasted millions of dollars

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Some real value...

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and politician time

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No real value...

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if they send synthetic beings

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Well but that's not the topic at all.

It’s very clear that some of you will never admit to the possibility no matter how much evidence is presented. But you can’t deny this is very interesting times for the topic to have gained so much traction.

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Today's congressional whistleblower also says the UFO's could be from another dimension

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Because that's how it works. If you can travel the speed of light it would still take 95 billion years to travel 95 billion light years.

So instead of linear travel it's dimensionally done. It saves time and space. Like folding a sheet of paper.

Billions of cameras and recording devices and not a single credible picture of an alien