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Delta-shaped Object Silhouetted by Moon
Case 113663: Susanne, Mark and Tyler [last name withheld] were on a family vacation in Divide, Colorado. Suzanne claims to have seen a “dark object reflecting off the Moon.” Divide is in the vicinity of Colorado Springs, approximately 60 miles south of Denver. Colorado Springs is the location of the US Air Force and US Space Force Academy. Petersen Air Force Base is also located nearby and adjacent to the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. Colorado Springs is home to the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and the Space Force’s 21st Space Wing.
While taking pictures, Suzanne zoomed in on the dark object which appeared to be a small triangle-shaped object silhouetted by the Moon. She indicated in the CMS report that the Moon was at 90° above the horizon, that it glowed and left a trail or cloud. Her initial photo is shown below. The duration of the observation was one hour. The object has a definite triangle or arrowhead shape.
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Y'all hear about the Aggie Astronaut who wanted to be the first man to land on the sun? Now don't laugh. He won't just burn up. He's going at night.????
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Actually, due to a distance measuring error, it's not even in the top 10 anymore. It's much closer to us than they thought.
The new (and temporary) largest star is one of the Stephenson Group.
I really like these Kurzgesagt guys videos too...
But does it really matter? All the contenders in the supergiant category are of the red persuasion. We're never going to personally visit any of them in our lifetimes anyway.
But does it really matter? All the contenders in the supergiant category are of the red persuasion. We're never going to personally visit any of them in our lifetimes anyway.
Honestly, I don't think that dying stars should count in the size competition. They're losing their ability to hang on to their mass. Outer layers are just kinda' poofing off. Like when our sun dies, it's outer layers are gonna swell out to earth's orbit (or there abouts). But that's not really a true measure of what the star really was. It's just a big fucking hot cloud that will engulf the earth (if it reaches and/or push earth farther out).
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But does it really matter? All the contenders in the supergiant category are of the red persuasion. We're never going to personally visit any of them in our lifetimes anyway.
Honestly, I don't think that dying stars should count in the size competition. They're losing their ability to hang on to their mass. Outer layers are just kinda' poofing off. Like when our sun dies, it's outer layers are gonna swell out to earth's orbit (or there abouts). But that's not really a true measure of what the star really was. It's just a big fucking hot cloud that will engulf the earth (if it reaches and/or push earth farther out).
Honestly, I don't think that dying stars should count in the size competition. They're losing their ability to hang on to their mass. Outer layers are just kinda' poofing off. Like when our sun dies, it's outer layers are gonna swell out to earth's orbit (or there abouts). But that's not really a true measure of what the star really was. It's just a big fucking hot cloud that will engulf the earth (if it reaches and/or push earth farther out).
That is when we call for this to be instituted: The Galactica Convoy:
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I'm a firm believer in UFOs and aliens. I see them all the time when I eat mushrooms.
"That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”. - Christopher Hitchens "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you". - Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I believe that abiogenesis is rare. Life from non life. I think it's just really hard to get the ball kicked off. And probably equally as hard to go from an ameba to something that can do physics. But putting the first part, abiogenesis, to bed is something that is just about within our reach. If we could get equipment out to select moons of Saturn & Jupiter, and drill down far enough to get to the liquid oceans, there might be proof that it happened there too. But there might not. With our lights and cameras, we may see nothing swimming or bobbing about. It would be very cool to know. I'm not sure if my two grandboys will get to know....but it shouldn't be too many generations out.
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I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
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I believe that abiogenesis is rare. Life from non life. I think it's just really hard to get the ball kicked off. And probably equally as hard to go from an ameba to something that can do physics. But putting the first part, abiogenesis, to bed is something that is just about within our reach. If we could get equipment out to select moons of Saturn & Jupiter, and drill down far enough to get to the liquid oceans, there might be proof that it happened there too. But there might not. With our lights and cameras, we may see nothing swimming or bobbing about. It would be very cool to know. I'm not sure if my two grandboys will get to know....but it shouldn't be too many generations out.
I believe that abiogenesis is rare. Life from non life. I think it's just really hard to get the ball kicked off. And probably equally as hard to go from an ameba to something that can do physics. But putting the first part, abiogenesis, to bed is something that is just about within our reach. If we could get equipment out to select moons of Saturn & Jupiter, and drill down far enough to get to the liquid oceans, there might be proof that it happened there too. But there might not. With our lights and cameras, we may see nothing swimming or bobbing about. It would be very cool to know. I'm not sure if my two grandboys will get to know....but it shouldn't be too many generations out.
I don't know if it would be rare.....given the right conditions. LIquid water, a source of thermal heat, the right mix of chemicals. As you say, there could be elemental life forms swimming about on Io or Europa or the like. And I know that they have identified a few what they call "Goldilocks planets" in other systems.
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I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
Why would we have to go looking in another galaxy? Would not our own galaxy, the Milky Way have sufficient other life bearing opportunities? (Or, did you mean: closest star in our galaxy?)
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GOLDILOCKS WORLDS: JUST RIGHT FOR LIFE?
Of the 1,780 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, as many as 16 are located in their star’s habitable zone, where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold to support life. Size also matters: A planet that’s too small can’t maintain an atmosphere; one that’s too large will have a crushing atmosphere. A recently detected planet 493 light-years from Earth, Kepler-186f, is close to Earth's size and is located in its solar system's habitable zone.
GRAPHIC BY JOHN TOMANIO AND XAQUÍN G.V., NGM STAFF.
SOURCE: ABEL MÉNDEZ, PLANETARY HABITABILITY LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT ARECIBO
Note: Exoplanet mass estimated from mass-radius relationship when not available.
Star
Hot orbital zone
Warm
Cold
TOO HOT
On planets orbiting close to their respective suns, surface water evaporates into space.
JUST RIGHT
Any water present on a planet orbiting here can remain liquid, given the right atmospheric pressure.
TOO COLD
Here planets orbit far from their suns, so any surface water remains frozen.
EARTH MASS
EARTH MASSES
EARTH'S MASS
EARTH MASSES
EARTH MASSES
LIFE IN A BOX
Planets in the box have the right atmospheric pressure and the right temperature to keep surface water in a liquid state. In our solar system Earth and Mars are in the box, Venus and Mercury outside. The cold gas giants are literally off the chart.
The logarithmic scale used initially here allows for an easier comparison of the exoplanets. The linear scale shows how shallow the habitability zone is.
LogarithmicLinearMost confirmed exoplanets are much larger and hotter than Earth, characteristics that make them relatively easy to detect.
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I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
Just off a few light years there Nero. 4 is the number of light years to the nearest star. Andromeda Galaxy is around 2.5 million light years away.
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I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
I believe in other life forms in the Universe, but just as Orion said, even the speed of light is slow compared to the seize of the Universe. The closest galaxy is Andromeda at 4 light years if I recall correctly... So it would we weird for us to contact with other life forms, and if we would, I'd beet it would be through some signal in the space, not suddenly via a spacecraft. Hence my theory that some UFOs most likely are related with Air Force or something like that.
As Tex said Nero...
Just off a few light years there Nero. 4 is the number of light years to the nearest star. Andromeda Galaxy is around 2.5 million light years away.
It's humbling to think when you look at Andromeda through a telescope, the light hitting your eye left that galaxy a little before our far distant relative hominoids walked the Earth...
This image isn't Andromeda- it's NGC 1068 (Messier 77) one of the first Seyfert galaxies classified. It’s the brightest and one of the closest. Those aren't clouds- they're a cloud of stars- 100s of millions of them. This is just one of God knows how many galaxies out there. I've always wondered how God could create this much stuff and put us as the only intelligent beings in a universe this vast.
If you're curious, and have the time, the article that this image appeared in was a link from my Astronomy Club. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-quasar Has to do with what we currently know about "quasars". I'm old enough to remember when the first one- 3C273 was discovered- and it took scientists years to figure out what the heck they were looking at.
It's also why Astronomers are looking for (and at) ever more distant galaxies- it's looking back in time, (now 13.4 billion years) ever closer to the- if you believe it- the creation event- "The Big Bang".
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I believe that abiogenesis is rare. Life from non life. I think it's just really hard to get the ball kicked off. And probably equally as hard to go from an ameba to something that can do physics. But putting the first part, abiogenesis, to bed is something that is just about within our reach. If we could get equipment out to select moons of Saturn & Jupiter, and drill down far enough to get to the liquid oceans, there might be proof that it happened there too. But there might not. With our lights and cameras, we may see nothing swimming or bobbing about. It would be very cool to know. I'm not sure if my two grandboys will get to know....but it shouldn't be too many generations out.
I don't know if it would be rare.....given the right conditions. LIquid water, a source of thermal heat, the right mix of chemicals. As you say, there could be elemental life forms swimming about on Io or Europa or the like. And I know that they have identified a few what they call "Goldilocks planets" in other systems.
I don't know if it would be rare.....given the right conditions.
We have a sample size of one. So....that's kinda' limiting...
Say we have 100,00 rooms of one person and a locked box. They have to figure out the combination to the lock on the box by the end of one hour. They will not be able to know anyone else's outcome. You, in your room, figure out the combination in like, your eighth try. In reality, no one else succeeded...but you, enjoying the riches of your opened box, would think that it wasn't all that hard.
There's an awful lot of ducks to get in a row to get life. The odds of enough proteins folding just perfectly are so low that most disciplines would label it impossible.
The number of ducks in a row to get our planetary situation is enormous. Ya can't be too close to the middle of the Galaxy, too much stuff exploding, too much radiation, too much destabilizing of solar system orbits by other stars passing by. Ya need a large moon to stabilize the procession wobble of the planet or else the climate would swing too wildly for life. And the large moon would give proper tides such that tidal pools can form. And if dinosaurs come to existence, they'll need to be snuffed out if you're gonna want people to evolve.
I'm a rare earther as well.
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I don't know if it would be rare.....given the right conditions.
We have a sample size of one. So....that's kinda' limiting...
Say we have 100,00 rooms of one person and a locked box. They have to figure out the combination to the lock on the box by the end of one hour. They will not be able to know anyone else's outcome. You, in your room, figure out the combination in like, your eighth try. In reality, no one else succeeded...but you, enjoying the riches of your opened box, would think that it wasn't all that hard.
There's an awful lot of ducks to get in a row to get life. The odds of enough proteins folding just perfectly are so low that most disciplines would label it impossible.
The number of ducks in a row to get our planetary situation is enormous. Ya can't be too close to the middle of the Galaxy, too much stuff exploding, too much radiation, too much destabilizing of solar system orbits by other stars passing by. Ya need a large moon to stabilize the procession wobble of the planet or else the climate would swing too wildly for life. And the large moon would give proper tides such that tidal pools can form. And if dinosaurs come to existence, they'll need to be snuffed out if you're gonna want people to evolve.
I'm a rare earther as well.
We have a sample size of one. So....that's kinda' limiting...
Say we have 100,00 rooms of one person and a locked box. They have to figure out the combination to the lock on the box by the end of one hour. They will not be able to know anyone else's outcome. You, in your room, figure out the combination in like, your eighth try. In reality, no one else succeeded...but you, enjoying the riches of your opened box, would think that it wasn't all that hard.
There's an awful lot of ducks to get in a row to get life. The odds of enough proteins folding just perfectly are so low that most disciplines would label it impossible.
The number of ducks in a row to get our planetary situation is enormous. Ya can't be too close to the middle of the Galaxy, too much stuff exploding, too much radiation, too much destabilizing of solar system orbits by other stars passing by. Ya need a large moon to stabilize the procession wobble of the planet or else the climate would swing too wildly for life. And the large moon would give proper tides such that tidal pools can form. And if dinosaurs come to existence, they'll need to be snuffed out if you're gonna want people to evolve.
I'm a rare earther as well.
I have no clue what you are trying to say here. Other than it sounds like you think it is nigh on impossible for there to be other intelligent life in the universe.....and I am just not of the opinion that we are necessarily all that unique.
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I don't know if it would be rare.....given the right conditions.
We have a sample size of one. So....that's kinda' limiting...
Say we have 100,00 rooms of one person and a locked box. They have to figure out the combination to the lock on the box by the end of one hour. They will not be able to know anyone else's outcome. You, in your room, figure out the combination in like, your eighth try. In reality, no one else succeeded...but you, enjoying the riches of your opened box, would think that it wasn't all that hard.
There's an awful lot of ducks to get in a row to get life. The odds of enough proteins folding just perfectly are so low that most disciplines would label it impossible.
The number of ducks in a row to get our planetary situation is enormous. Ya can't be too close to the middle of the Galaxy, too much stuff exploding, too much radiation, too much destabilizing of solar system orbits by other stars passing by. Ya need a large moon to stabilize the procession wobble of the planet or else the climate would swing too wildly for life. And the large moon would give proper tides such that tidal pools can form. And if dinosaurs come to existence, they'll need to be snuffed out if you're gonna want people to evolve.
I'm a rare earther as well.
We have a sample size of one. So....that's kinda' limiting...
Say we have 100,00 rooms of one person and a locked box. They have to figure out the combination to the lock on the box by the end of one hour. They will not be able to know anyone else's outcome. You, in your room, figure out the combination in like, your eighth try. In reality, no one else succeeded...but you, enjoying the riches of your opened box, would think that it wasn't all that hard.
There's an awful lot of ducks to get in a row to get life. The odds of enough proteins folding just perfectly are so low that most disciplines would label it impossible.
The number of ducks in a row to get our planetary situation is enormous. Ya can't be too close to the middle of the Galaxy, too much stuff exploding, too much radiation, too much destabilizing of solar system orbits by other stars passing by. Ya need a large moon to stabilize the procession wobble of the planet or else the climate would swing too wildly for life. And the large moon would give proper tides such that tidal pools can form. And if dinosaurs come to existence, they'll need to be snuffed out if you're gonna want people to evolve.
I'm a rare earther as well.
Nah- Orion- I look at it as my mentor Dan Snow (RIP) at the Cleveland planetarium put it. The "one in a million" hypothesis- from back in the 60s. Assume only one in a million stars is like the sun (we know that's not true). Of those, only one in a million has developed a solar system. (We definitely know that's not the case anymore). Of those only one in a million has an Earthlike planet. OK- of those, only one in a million has developed life, and of those , only one in a million has developed intelligent life. I'll even grant you you're living on a planet in the middle of Omega Centauri, where there's so many close by stars it's constant daylight. Life lives at the bottom of our oceans with ZERO daylight- life finds a way.
"Astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly 70 billion trillion - (7 to the 22nth power). Oh, I don't want to bet against high trillion odds.
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