PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/RadishHarmers/status/1396617025431212032

quote:

In the field of Astrobiology, the precise location, prevalence and age of potential extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) have not been explicitly explored. Here, we address these inquiries using an empirical galactic simulation model to analyze the spatial-temporal variations and the prevalence of potential ETI within the Galaxy. This model estimates the occurrence of ETI, providing guidance on where to look for intelligent life in the Search for ETI (SETI) with a set of criteria, including well-established astrophysical properties of the Milky Way. Further, typically overlooked factors such as the process of abiogenesis, different evolutionary timescales and potential self-annihilation are incorporated to explore the growth propensity of ETI. We examine three major parameters: 1) the likelihood rate of abiogenesis ({\lambda}A); 2) evolutionary timescales (Tevo); and 3) probability of self-annihilation of complex life (Pann). We found Pann to be the most influential parameter determining the quantity and age of galactic intelligent life.

Our model simulation also identified a peak location for ETI at an annular region approximately 4 kpc from the Galactic center around 8 billion years (Gyrs), with complex life decreasing temporally and spatially from the peak point, asserting a high likelihood of intelligent life in the galactic inner disk. The simulated age distributions also suggest that most of the intelligent life in our galaxy are young, thus making observation or detection difficult.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Oh here's a fun one from the pentagon press briefing today
"Does the pentagon have alien bodies and crafts"
https://twitter.com/disclosureteam_/status/1400906044705054728?s=20

*Stammers* uh uuuuh whaaa

better recording here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGkQjmefGE&t=2157s

WEH posted:

Bit of an image dump coming but god drat "high level nocturnal lights" delivered

Another fast mover from the 1890s, and green fireballs above nuclear and other secret facilities alarm the FBI in the late 1940s!



"we must conclude something unusual is going on"


Stuff like this hits different now as well


In closing I thought this fella might be good luck when I ran into him at home depot today while shopping for dirt and hell maybe he was

Think Less posted:

what is this from? googling "high level nocturnal lights" didnt turn up anything

Spergin Morlock posted:

try searching for "high level nocturnal electromagnetic emissions"

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

This is the stuff I'm all about
Seeing the "normality" of the world erode having to contemplate this stuff

Think Less posted:

what is this from? googling "high level nocturnal lights" didnt turn up anything

quote:

One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar System. Implicit in much of this work is that we are looking for microbial or, at best, unintelligent life, even though technological artifacts might be much easier to find. SETI work on searches for alien artifacts in the Solar System typically presumes that such artifacts would be of extrasolar origin, even though life is known to have existed in the Solar System, on Earth, for eons. But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the Solar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day, meaning Solar System artifact SETI provides a potential path to resolving astrobiology's question. Here, I discuss the origins and possible locations for technosignatures of such a prior indigenous technological species, which might have arisen on ancient Earth or another body, such as a pre-greenhouse Venus or a wet Mars. In the case of Venus, the arrival of its global greenhouse and potential resurfacing might have erased all evidence of its existence on the Venusian surface. In the case of Earth, erosion and, ultimately, plate tectonics may have erased most such evidence if the species lived Gyr ago. Remaining indigenous technosignatures might be expected to be extremely old, limiting the places they might still be found to beneath the surfaces of Mars and the Moon, or in the outer Solar System.

Zisky posted:

That Hangar 12 doc is pretty badly made but if you look at incidents during the Vietnam War with "enemy helicopters" they're pretty much identical (in a lot of cases) to what we're seeing today.

WEH posted:

Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies by William Corliss

$24.95 on the site his kid still runs, otherwise its like $900 on amazon lol https://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm

Spergin Morlock posted:

guys what if someone just dosed all of those military sensor platforms with LSD?

Crusader posted:

Spergin Morlock posted:

https://twitter.com/SinPoder10/status/1400918915690205199?s=19

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

That's actually a really fascinating read. I'd never really explicitly considered why people have such a hard time accepting the possibility of alien life beyond the explicit government propaganda that bombarded us for decades.

But that it's actually capable of just shattering someone's mental hierarchy is probably the exact same reason I enjoy the possibility so much. Look at what being "the top" has gotten us

It also makes the question "why let this out if we don't know" all the more baffling, it does completely undermine the authority of the government and the military.

It's either "we have no choice" or "this can be used to further entrench our power" right? And I don't see the benefit here when it comes at the expense of, as the article suggests, undermining the taboo they worked so hard to create

Crusader posted:

edit:


https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07263

WEH posted:

Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies by William Corliss

$24.95 on the site his kid still runs, otherwise its like $900 on amazon lol https://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

This is the stuff I'm all about
Seeing the "normality" of the world erode having to contemplate this stuff

Justin Tyme posted:

Either it is aliens, a strange natural phenomenon we have no explanation for, or the pilots over the years are full of poo poo and its stuff like party balloons miraging in the sun. Or Ecuador's military has been much, much more advanced than we ever knew...

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

we should be discussing the time traveler possibility more imo

The Protagonist posted:

sorry, an aside, are supercavitating torpedoes a thing? cavitation is really loud, you'd think non-cavitating torpedoes would be the goal

The Protagonist posted:

sorry, an aside, are supercavitating torpedoes a thing? cavitation is really loud, you'd think non-cavitating torpedoes would be the goal

Bilirubin posted:

plus cavitating propellers (at least on the surface) generally lose most of their propulsive thrust so I probably don't understand what is even meant by supercavitating

Spergin Morlock posted:

they create a cavitation bubble at the front of the torpedo to reduce friction on the surface. it basically flies underwater