UFO / UAP

[Koolpc]

As everyone knows who visited the Screwfix site, my posts were indeed legendary and were the best threads on any forum. This was proved by my being voted No1 on there for 5 years on the trot. This forum is not ready for me.

Is that because you are also half alien?

 

[Highway Man]

Is that because you are also half alien?

Now that could be the case, anything is possible

 

[pete01]

Is that because you are also half alien?

Half-wit more like

 

[Highway Man]

Half wit more like

OMG

 

[IT Minion]

don’t think your theory of theories is sound. The earth isn’t flat, the sun doesn’t orbit the earth, the sea gods don’t control the tide.

Yeah, scientists didn't believe any of those. Your theory is even worse.

You should have gone with plate tectonics. It's a much better example and only 100 years old rather than up to 2700 years old.

 

[IT Minion]

What the Ufologists are proposing is, to use the technical term, magic.

A method of travelling interstellar distances presumably with living beings, without it being detected. It takes a huge amount of energy to decelerate from any appreciable % of light speed.

The most credible method of fast transits at the moment, fusion pulse drives, involves 200 or so fusion explosions hotter than the sun per second for years.

 

[Justin Passing]

Has anyone ever pondered the risk of hitting something, while you're travelling to a planet in a distant galaxy at near light speed?

 

[gas112]

From walking in front of a car with a red flag to having a craft travelling at 450,000 miles per hour in just over a century and people are still talking about todays capabilities and not what maybe possible in a few more centuries let alone a thousand years in the future

 

[Justin Passing]

I reckon intelligent life destroys itself within 1000 years or so of being able to. That's why we can't see civilisations out there....

How many Trumps does it take?

 

[IT Minion]

Has anyone ever pondered the risk of hitting something, while you're travelling to a planet in a distant galaxy at near light speed?

Yes, but we don't know how tough it needs to be.as we don't know how dense the interstellar medium is.

At the least some sort of ablative shield would be required. Probably some sort of active defense would be needed if going faster, but building something that can destroy objects coming at you that fast is tricky.

 

[noseall]

Has anyone ever pondered the risk of hitting something,

Even small objects can have a catastrophic effect at high speeds. Light speed will never be achievable, but even at today's numbers, an object strike would be devastating.

 

[motorbiking]

Yes, but we don't know how tough it needs to be.as we don't know how dense the interstellar medium is.

At the least some sort of ablative shield would be required. Probably some sort of active defense would be needed if going faster, but building something that can destroy objects coming at you that fast is tricky.

Plenty of natural phenomena to guide scientists.

 

[Brigadier]

From walking in front of a car with a red flag to having a craft travelling at 450,000 miles per hour in just over a century and people are still talking about todays capabilities and not what maybe possible in a few more centuries let alone a thousand years in the future

Yeah........

It only took six and a half years to get to that speed.

And it still only got as far away from the Earth as the Sun

 

[gas112]

Yeah........

It only took six and a half years to get to that speed.

And it still only got as far away from the Earth as the Sun

you mean it achieved the mission it was set out to do but if you want to google a bit further you will find out how quick it got to top speed from the lower speed the rest of the mission was carried out at .
But the point is the progress in the blink of an eye time wise

 

[motorbiking]

Doubters cling to 1970s technology as the limit of mankind’s potential.

Imagine telling people in the 1970s, that sailing boats could travel at 50mph+ in winds of less than 15mph or that we’d have round the world video conversations without delays for almost free.