So, who believes in ET's? No, not at the track

[motorhead]

Of course all of it is real. Hasn't anyone seen Men In Black?

[Overflow]

Originally Posted by S3XPanther

Whoa, I didn't know that. From everything I've read, it seemed certain that the piece belonged to us.

Could it belong to us? Maybe. I doubt it was because I don't recall us having a way of putting anything into a polar orbit. Now, we have Vandenburg Air Force Base for polar orbits, but Vandenburg wasn't really launching anything that high at that time.

Could it be the Russians? Maybe. This was at the time of the Cold War. So we really didn't know what they were launching or where they were launching from at that time. But it is almost certain that they couldn't launch polar orbits either. But we don't know everything that they were doing up there. After all, it is rumored to be a part of a Russian spy satellite.

NASA doesn't really talk about this satellite much. So really it's a guessing game for everyone.

But I'm gonna say that it's just space debris.

[white ZL1]

Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

I am still looking for signs of intelligent life on this planet

Sometimes it's hard to find it on this forum.

Originally Posted by Overflow

I have my own opinions about that show.

I do find it entertaining from time to time though, but mostly because I enjoy history.

Originally Posted by Overflow

The Black Knight is difficult to explain. It was supposedly first detected in 1953. . It's only been seen with the naked eye on two occasions that I know of. First was in 1963 by an astronaut traveling into space and then again in 1998 by Space Shuttle Endeavour's crew of STS-88. It's in a polar orbit. Which wasn't obtainable at that time by the Soviets or Americans.

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

I just found out about Black Knight the other day on Imgur. Pretty interesting.

Originally Posted by Overflow

Could it belong to us? Maybe. I doubt it was because I don't recall us having a way of putting anything into a polar orbit. Now, we have Vandenburg Air Force Base for polar orbits, but Vandenburg wasn't really launching anything that high at that time.

Could it be the Russians? Maybe. This was at the time of the Cold War. So we really didn't know what they were launching or where they were launching from at that time. But it is almost certain that they couldn't launch polar orbits either. But we don't know everything that they were doing up there. After all, it is rumored to be a part of a Russian spy satellite.

NASA doesn't really talk about this satellite much. So really it's a guessing game for everyone.

But I'm gonna say that it's just space debris.

........Googling "Black Knight satellite"......

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by Overflow

I have my own opinions about that show.

http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

I think you might enjoy that site.

Originally Posted by S3XPanther

I'm not sure how accurate the whole CPU thing is. I mean, I would like to believe that humans were ingenious enough to develop such tech. I don't know if I buy into the whole "all of our tech stems from their tech" yet.

If you look into the history of science & technology, it becomes pretty clear that all these big leaps were really just a series of innovations that built off one-another. Microchips are, fundamentally, collections of tiny little transistors. Transistors in turn are tiny little switches which were first patented sometime in the 1920's, and became practical devices in the 1940s. It doesn't really make much sense to me that an interstellar alien spacecraft would have computing technology that has anything in common with computing technology that existed on earth in the 1940s.

To think of it another way: transistor based microprocessors have been around for about 40 years. Sometime in the next few decades we'll probably have practical quantum computers, quickly making transistor based computers obsolete. I don't know how far ahead interstellar travel would be for humans, technology wise. But its pretty safe to figure that its probably going to be some time after a new technology makes quantum computers themselves obsolete. That would mean that there would be at least 2 major technology leaps between the computers onboard our future interstellar spacecraft & what our first microchips were like. Reverse engineering that level of future-tech into a microchip doesn't make any sense. It would be like a finding a laser blaster, and developing a bow & arrow from it.

[S3XPanther]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

I think you might enjoy that site.


If you look into the history of science & technology, it becomes pretty clear that all these big leaps were really just a series of innovations that built off one-another. Microchips are, fundamentally, collections of tiny little transistors. Transistors in turn are tiny little switches which were first patented sometime in the 1920's, and became practical devices in the 1940s. It doesn't really make much sense to me that an interstellar alien spacecraft would have computing technology that has anything in common with computing technology that existed on earth in the 1940s.

To think of it another way: transistor based microprocessors have been around for about 40 years. Sometime in the next few decades we'll probably have practical quantum computers, quickly making transistor based computers obsolete. I don't know how far ahead interstellar travel would be for humans, technology wise. But its pretty safe to figure that its probably going to be some time after a new technology makes quantum computers themselves obsolete. That would mean that there would be at least 2 major technology leaps between the computers onboard our future interstellar spacecraft & what our first microchips were like. Reverse engineering that level of future-tech into a microchip doesn't make any sense. It would be like a finding a laser blaster, and developing a bow & arrow from it.

that's a great explanation

[14pilot]

Of course you are not alone. My species invaded your little blue planet 15,000 years ago. We aren't leaving either.

[LimaCharlie]

Proof of intelligent life outside Earth will be the greatest discovery of all time. It can be either audio, pictures, or physical interaction with an E.T. Until we have proof, we can only speculate and predict.
I fully believe there is intelligent life out there but I don't think "they" have reached Earth. The Universe is so massive that it would take hundreds/thousands of years to get a "sign" or "message". Unfortunately, definitive proof of intelligent life probably won't happen in our lifetime. That is probably still a couple hundred years away.
Any UFO we've seen in the skies is just experimental aircraft that hasn't been revealed to the public yet.

[Camarodriver2]

I spoke with Optimus and we concur, you are not alone. We are here.....

[FenwickHockey65]

Ancient Aliens can be summed up in one picture.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

Its late & I can't sleep ...

Do I believe that life probably exists beyond our planet? Sure. The Drake equation is fairly compelling. Do I think that they have constructed space ships and have visited Earth to either mutilate cattle, probe people, make crop circles, or fly-over our cities, or do any of the other things we attribute to aliens? No.

I worked in Egypt for over a year.... How else do you explain the pyramids... Think about it...

I have to follow the rules...

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

I worked in Egypt for over a year.... How else do you explain the pyramids... Think about it...

I have to follow the rules...

Take a lot of people, give them a lot of time, and you can achieve impressive results. As for the specifics, I don't know. I personally favour the internal ramp theory but its not perfect.

[90503]

If the ancient cultures had contact with aliens who helped them with knowledge and technology......what, the end result is they learned how to stack blocks of stone?...lol

[Angrybird 12]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

I worked in Egypt for over a year.... How else do you explain the pyramids... Think about it...

I have to follow the rules...

Haven't you seen the Geico commercial? the Pyramides were a mistake, they were supposed to be Cubes.... You don't think Geico would lie to is now, would you?

[Apex Motorsports]

Very good stuff. Well worth the time to watch.