Mars

Gotta love the weather balloons theory

 

Black projects by the US Army since the early 50's

 

Air force. Stafford was Air Force.

 

Aliens orbiting 1402 stars near Earth could be looking at us right now
SPACE 23 June 2021
By Leah Crane

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Is anyone out there discovering Earth right now?

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Aliens could be watching us. A survey of the star systems within about 325 light years of Earth has found that 1715 of them have been or will be in the right position to spot our planet with the same techniques we use to find exoplanets, and 75 of the closest ones could even detect the radio waves that we constantly send out into the cosmos.

The easiest way to spot a planet outside our solar system is to catch it passing between us and its star, blocking out some of the star’s light. Lisa Kaltenegger at Cornell University in New York and Jackie Faherty at the American Museum of Natural History in New York examined data from the Gaia space telescope on the positions and motions of nearby stars to figure out which of them could find Earth in this way.

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They found 1402 stars that are currently in the right position to see Earth pass in front of the sun, plus 313 that were in such a position in the past and 319 that will be someday.


They ran simulations extrapolating the movements of those stars over a period of 10,000 years, and the average time any given member of the sample could see Earth during that span is 6914 years – plenty of time to notice us, if there are inhabitants of those stellar systems with powerful enough telescopes.

Seventy-five of these systems are also close enough to detect the radio waves that we have sent out from Earth in the last 100 years.

The researchers estimate that there could be more than 500 rocky worlds orbiting in the “Goldilocks zone” of those 1715 stars, where life as we know it could be possible. We already know about some of them, a few of which are famous – for example, the TRAPPIST-1 system, which hosts seven Earth-sized planets, will be able to see Earth starting in the year 3663 and ending around the year 6034.


Kaltenegger points out that these exoplanets would be good targets in our search for intelligent life. “These worlds might be worth the trouble of studying further, because we know they can see us,” says Kaltenegger. “Who would have the most incentive to send us a signal? The ones who could have found us.”

 

Aliens come across articles like this and they would probably think we are set of clueless prehistoric bumbling idiots who need wiping out.

 

I don't understand the full details of it, but I was reading that a serious malfunction has happened to the Hubble. Something went wrong with its computer in early June, and despite NASA's efforts they've not been able to rectify it so far. It's currently in safe mode.

They think a very old module within the computer is to blame and it keeled over when it went through a customary update, I'm guessing they've got not606 experts on the confusion. They probably just need to shut down the username change function and find it will be all ok again.

Anyway a link to the information, can't be arsed to read it, just selected it at random, so apologies if it's inaccurate.... https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-computer-glitch-nasa-investigation

 

The new one gets launched in October !
Maybe

 

Hopefully. Quite looking forward to what it promises, closer look at those distant planets, far greater than hubble could ever achieve, due to the advancment of technology. I expect when you are dealing with 80's technology it was bound to keel over at some point. Tbph, strangely I hadn't even given a thought to how old the technolgy in the hubble actually was.

It would be quite weird to actually find a planet flourishing afar in natural beauty, with the realism of knowing we will never be able to reach it.

 

Yes hopefully it will capture some great images which I'm sure it will.
I have no idea how long these things take before they get set and can send back images ?

 

No idea on the timescales, hopefully we'll get something decent comeback before we kick the bucket.

 

I reckon shes in china making space ships

 

There Is Only One Other Planet In Our Galaxy That Could Be Earth-Like, Say Scientists


https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...be-earth-like-say-scientists/?sh=44dd755a53df

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That we know of?

 

Exactly. You can go back just in our lifetime and what we know has completely changed. Just need to get the new hubble up there, so we can get a closer look at what's going on.

 

When you see the events that brought about the chances of life existing on earth it is quite extraordinary .
4.5 billion years old yet only had life on land for about 250 million years .
I'd think that the chances of it elsewhere and the possibility it exists concurrently with our timeline are extremely remote.

 

I expect the universe is teeming with single cell life. Where there is liquid water and organic material there is almost certainly a chance something will develop. Hell, some even claim it's in the atmosphere of venus ( pun intended). To our knowledge, multi cellular development is a once in existence event of our planet, from which all animals and plants developed. So multi cellular life may be rarer than hens teeth.

 

Yeah I've no doubt that single cell life exists .
As for the existence of anything as advanced as the Earth we could well be alone in the entire universe .
A very sobering thought indeed

 

We are nothing more than ^^ apes with smartphones.

 

Not sure how genuine this article is but claims China to put humans on Mars by 2033...

https://interestingengineering.com/china-sending-first-humans-mars-2033