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The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
i am going to dedicate myself to goatseing the night sky each night

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The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
im gonna gently caress a space babe

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
Glowing Orbs, yes could be

Metallic craft with physical features, no

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCPwlNd3Js&t=86s

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
there's no way to prove the universe wasn't just booted on in the last instant and everything prior is implanted memory

this is the very first real post

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

It seems impossible that China could have advanced energy tech like that and still need an economy built on mass-producing Elvis ashtrays.

yeah it's like there's no good argument for terrestrial origin or something

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
octopus mdma cuddle party is too pure for this world

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
oumuamua was an interstellar lightsail probe parked right in our path

tabby's star is an alien superstructure kugelblitz under construction

uap's that are not of terrestrial origin are ancient, autonomous robotic probes just stochastically boucning around snappin' some pics and sending the data back to long-dead civilizations

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
sorry, an aside, are supercavitating torpedoes a thing? cavitation is really loud, you'd think non-cavitating torpedoes would be the goal

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
why would it be impossible to intercept? ApS depth charges bitch

e; oof pagetopper

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

so can anyone give a quick rundown of why this being secret domestic tech that got accidentally revealed to lower-level flunkies is implausible? tia

the exhibited behavior is such a leap beyond current understanding it defies physics as we know it. just harnessing the energy necessary to potentially replicate it would alleviate all scarcity-based suffering on planet earth.

tldr its star trek poo poo

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
"it's most likely a miraculously tandem visual/optics/sensory system issue spread over hundreds of sightings for decades with well-understood existing weapons systems" i continue to insist as i shrink into a tardigrade

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

"-Cool" is doing a lot of work here

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Spergin Morlock posted:

the brain is buried in the mantle of the planet or some poo poo like that.

bloop

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Nichael posted:

If the Tictacs are 70+ years old, I really don't know how any of the more "rational" explanations apply.

they don't op, pretty ez

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

lol

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I'm so sorry
come tomorrow morning (and you wont) there's gonna be nothing left of you

im gonna post the "Under the Skin" clip again

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
u know how

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Bideo James posted:

turns out the blockchain is the only alien tech we've been able to unveil to ourselves and its a joke on their part woops got a little too outta control lmao.

getting us to press on the gas w/r/t climate change is probably praxis

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Joey Steel posted:

Wait, what?

sorry not sorry

https://twitter.com/smalleyhead215/status/1400292890065113088?s=20

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
yes it's a well known fact that advanced alien civilizations can only produce a single functional probe design

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
They won't show us because an inordinate number of the hieroglyphs on the craft are just variations of dickbutt

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
Well... We have pretty good evidence of Life having evolved at least once. And it would be really weird if it never happened anywhere else. And it would be really weird if life was teeming out there in the universe for there to not be all sorts of evidence of it zipping around and oh hey

Yeah there's no fermi paradox.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

And you have to assume most of those species don't accidentally create capitalism and kneecap their intellectual development for hundreds of years

Only one needs to make it to spread out throughout space in a few million years. What's the accepted time horizon for how long terrestrial earth-like worlds might have been evolving life? 10 billion years, 15 billion years?

Most civilizations almost certainly die out just like most species do

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Hatebag posted:

I'm going to gently caress an alien and make it cum. This is my promise

what if they can only do it once and then they die

what then

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Vermain posted:

there was a paper not too long ago involving an alcubierre warp field with a rejiggered geometry that wouldn't require negative energy to function, so it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility

uhh... doesn't that poo poo still call for exotic matter tho?

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
It's loving wild that he came up with a positive energy solution but I still feel like it can't possibly actually be superluminal and workable.

Why? Well even if you overcome all the other issues, superluminal travel still breaks causality as far as we know... Which puts it down is unlikely in my book


But then again what do I know I'm just a big dumb ape hooting at poo poo

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Hodgepodge posted:

nah, these are based on general relativity, i think the phrase i can't honestly claim to understand that gets tossed around is "valid solutions to einstein's field equations."

It's saying they came up with an artificial configuration of mass-energy that would distort space time just so to create a soliton that could drag something inside along with it.. potentially

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Hodgepodge posted:

yeah its the bending space part that (in some versions of the idea) allow for causality-violation free ftl

keep in mind space distorting faster than light is standard physics at the moment; inflation was and iirc remains significantly faster than c (although there was last i checked an inconsistency between some of the main methods used to measure the size of the universe)

No I think you misunderstand. It overcomes the infinite energy necessary to accelerate mass to light speed, it does not in any way deal with the fact that a ship that ends up somewhere faster than light can create all sorts of causality breaking paradoxes

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Rah! posted:

but really...what could aliens do thats any worse than what we already to to ourselves and our own planet? We are a bunch of dumb assholes

I mean...

Hm.

https://youtu.be/VjQ2t_yNHQs

One of the amazing things about life, the universe and everything is that no matter how bad things get... they absolutely can always get unfathomably worse

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
its distant, apathetic robotic intelligence doing the interstellar equivalent of squatting over an ant hill hth

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

The US never had an accurate understanding of Soviet capabilities. They spent 50 years expecting space-based weapons and a devastating first nuclear strike that was never a real possibility. MKULTRA came about because they thought the soviets could already do mind control and psychic powers.

uh im p sure the soviets did in fact have working icbms

if you launch them first, and the other side has no counter measures, thats a devastating first strike...

gaslighting ourselves into the rest of that zanyness is pretty lol tho

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
Most people can't handle evidence that radically challenges their preconceptions, simple as that

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Wheeee posted:

I'm a mechanical engineer with a very good understanding of thermodynamics, thermal storage, heat pumps, and other thermal technologies.

lol too much of a giveaway too soon

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
gentlemen please! this is the uap room!

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

WEH posted:

Ironically iirc time travel (or at least going back in time) is actually more feasible within the accepted scientific framework than FTL

i dont think so tim

anyway ftl isn't necessary for any of this, i still think the most likely explanation of uaps (the small fraction that aren't terrestrial) are ancient autonomous robotic probes.

so they got launched from wherever long ago at sublight speed

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Vomik posted:

since matter is never created or destroyed

matter is destroyed all the time dork

its energy that is conserved !! :mad:

e; okay well mass is destroyed all the time anyway

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Wheeee posted:

I never said alien life in the universe is woo. The idea that they are here flying around in our atmosphere is.

they're not, real old robotic probes my dude

also tabby's star, the wow signal, oumuamua... the more we look as the years go by the more consensus is likely to shift

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Ross DaouThot posted:

self replicating probes travel 20% light speed?

totally doable with hypothetical drives of various sorts

but my favorite interstellar probe system proposal uses a huge local laser battery to accelerate super low mass lightsail probes up to ~90% of the speed of light, with just a few minutes impulse!! we could send out hundreds a day in all directions if we felt so inclined...


granted, once they arrive there's only gonna be a few hours transit time to take any data, but hey it's a workable idea. probably our most feasible one currently

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The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Wheeee posted:

We are extraordinarily special, generating intense interest and ongoing observation from dozens of civilizations as humanity shatters the existing galactic scientific consensus on the lowest possible level of intelligence required to develop technology

okay u found a good one

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