I did the exact same thing, we were corresponding by email at this point and it took ages to work out what it was and where I was supposed to be looking. As I said previous, I'm not putting it here to demand people believe me or the guy that took the picture. If people are talking about the subject then it's in the public domain and more questions get asked. If it's ignored as a taboo subject then nothing ever gets done and people continue to sidestep it.
As an off topic and without googling. What sportsman had the nickname The man from lookout mountain??
Did he play tennis? If it is who I'm thinking of, this was a pub quiz question I heard not long ago. Can't remember the name though. Probably why I got it wrong. Think I put John McInroe.
Firstly let me start by stating that, you, and the person who took the photograph have as much right to believe that it shows an alien being. But it could be just reflected light and shadows that coincidentally look like what we perceive an alien would look like. It could be someone wearing an alien mask, however. The human brain is far more complex than camera hard and software. If there had been a figure stood behind the sign, I am confident that the driver would have reacted to it. His brain would have seen the image and he would have at least braked and turned his head. We all do it, instinctively. Our brains are hardwired to do it. If the alien image had not been behind a road sign, I actually may have given it more credit. We all absorb information at a massive rate whilst driving and we generally read ever road sign even if we do not want to.
That's a very good point. I wondered the same thing, which is why I asked him. He said he didn't recall seeing it at the side of the road, I suppose he could have subconsciously seen it and not remembered as it was a route he'd driven for a while. Or maybe reacted to it not thinking it was what he saw in the photograph and not connected the two together.
It started at 6pm, but NASA have just held a press conference to announce a system of exoplanets around ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. 3 of the planets are within the 'habitable' zone of the star and are all thought to have liquid water oceans and a solid surface. Massive discovery.
It's just been announced live at a NASA press conference, as soon as the links are up I'll post them.
http://astronomynow.com/2017/02/22/nearby-star-is-home-to-seven-possibly-habitable-planets/ Seven Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a single ultra-cool dwarf star 40 light years away. Depending on atmospheric conditions, all seven could potentially be habitable, making the system a prime target for scientists hunting for another Earth. please log in to view this image This artist’s impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they are all roughly the same size as the Earth. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser/spaceengine.org. The planets were discovered in the TRAPPIST-1 system by a team led by Michaël Gillon, of the University of Liège in Belgium. TRAPPIST-1 is named for the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope, which is actually two 0.6-metre telescopes located in Chile and Morocco that together monitor 60 ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs, looking for evidence of exoplanets. Three of TRAPPIST-1’s planets – b, c and d – were discovered using the TRAPPIST-South telescope in Chile by Gillon and his team last year. The additional four new planets make the TRAPPIST-1 system the first planetary system known to host so many Earth-sized worlds, not to mention potentially habitable worlds. All seven planets transit their star; that is, they cross in front of the star’s disc, blocking some of the starlight. The amount of light each planet blocks tells us their diameters, and how regularly they transit tells us their orbital period, from which we can calculate their distance from the star. Their masses are then determined by judging how big a wobble the planets’ gravity induce in the star’s rotational motion. The star, located in the constellation of Aquarius, is tiny, barely larger than Jupiter with a mass just eight percent of the Sun. Its surface temperature is a relatively cool 2,270 degrees Celsius, which is less than half the surface temperature of our Sun. Consequently, the planets need to be extremely close to their star in order to receive enough heat to potentially have liquid water on their surfaces. please log in to view this image This artist’s concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech. “Fortunately, it seems that this kind of compact configuration is just what we see around TRAPPIST-1,” says Amaury Triaud of the University of Cambridge, who participated in the research. Indeed, the planets are located just a few million kilometres from their star and complete one orbit in a matter of days. The innermost six planets (the orbit of the seventh planet remains inaccurately known until more data is collected) also orbit in gravitational resonances with each other. For example, one planet may orbit twice for approximately every three orbits that its neighbour makes. This suggests that the planets formed further out before migrating inwards and becoming trapped in these resonances. The most likely of the seven worlds to be habitable are planets e, f and g, which lie in the middle of the star’s habitable zone. The three inner planets b, c and d are possibly a little too warm, like Venus, whereas the outermost planet, h, might be too cold. However, a thick hydrogen-rich atmosphere and heat induced within planet h by gravitational tides from the nearby star might keep it just warm enough for liquid water. please log in to view this image This diagram compares the sizes of the newly-discovered planets around the faint red star TRAPPIST-1 with the Galilean moons of Jupiter and the inner Solar System. All the planets found around TRAPPIST-1 are of similar size to the Earth. Image: ESO/O. Furtak. Although the current data, which is limited to telling us the size, mass and distance from the star of the planets, is not sufficient to reveal whether any of the seven worlds really are habitable, the Hubble Space Telescope is in the process of searching for atmospheres around these planets. Yet even if Hubble doesn’t succeed, other telescopes might. “With the upcoming generation of telescopes such as the European Extremely Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds,” says Gillon’s colleague, Emmanuël Jehin of the University of Liège. please log in to view this image This diagram shows the relative sizes of the orbits of the seven planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The shaded area shows the extent of the habitable zone, where oceans of liquid water could exist on the planets. The orbit of the outermost planet, TRAPPIST-1h, is not well known at present. The dotted lines show alternative limits to the habitable zone based on different theoretical assumptions. Image: ESO/M. Gillon et al. Following the initial discovery of planets b, c and d in 2016, a host of ground- and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma and the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii, helped confirm the existence of the additional four planets e, f, g and h. The findings have now been published in the 22 February issue of the journal Nature. The Spitzer data was analysed by Brice-Olivier Demory of the University of Bern, who summarises how important the TRAPPIST-1 system could become for astrobiologists. “Looking for life elsewhere, this system is probably our best bet as of today.”
The idea that life doesn't exist on another planet is preposterous. The idea that these life forms visit earth and hang around on street corners in the middle of the night in America is equally so.
After seeing the earlier pictures, aren't you all going to look silly when NASA zoom in on the new planets, and reveal that they're filled with beings that look like street signs, trees and a bloke having a pee.
