What I want to know is why these a-hole billionaires (Bezos, Branson, Musk, et al) are so obsessed with space. Every rocket launch damages the ozone layer and adds greenhouse gases and other pollutants to an atmosphere that already has way too much of it. Instead of blowing a lot of money (mostly from U.S. taxpayers) on a misguided mission to Mars (a brutally hostile environment, totally unsuitable for human colonization), why not focus on solving the problems we have right here on Earth?
Remember what George Carlin used to say about rich men and their dick waving? If he were still around he'd be having a field day with these rich assholes and their big flying space dildos.
I despise the lot of them.
I do miss dear old George.
...all while the Pentagon sits on technology which, according to the head of Lockheed skunkworks, Ben Rich, could take ET home. Witnesses say our TR3B's show considerable signs of wear. But we cannot endanger the ignorance of the Christian masses, or reveal the extreme corruption of the deep state.
I very much doubt that technology that could take ET home exists on Earth. That would entail transport approaching the speed of light. Think about it: light from the nearest star outside our solar system takes over four years to reach Earth. To cross the Milky Way galaxy light takes about 100,000 years. To get to Earth from the nearest galaxy outside the Milky Way, light takes about 2.5 million years.
@Flyingsaucesir Many observations of UAP describe them as performing movements that cannot be accounted for within our present understanding of physics. We know our physics is incomplete and missing important terms. With recovered craft and biological specimens, plainly they know how to do it. Schumer has been read in, and more whistleblowers have lined up. However, many who have even indicated a willingness to talk have been murdered. The deep state appears committed to stonewalling. Catastrophic disclosure could happen at any time, and many citizens have organized to develop quality surveillance to do just that.
@racocn8 Until I see solid, independently-verifiable evidence, I'm taking all claims of ETs, or intimations that UAPs are anything more than a fly on the lense or an elaborate hoax, as apocryphal. In my estimation, the likelihood of a technological civilization surviving long enough to achieve interstellar travel is vanishingly small. The only technological civilization we know of is far, far from achieving interstellar travel, but is very close to civilization-ending environmental catastrophe AND nuclear self-annihilation. And the distances are just so vast. The NEAREST potentially habitable planets outside our solar system are tens to hundreds of light years away.
To get to the nearest star beyond our sun (Alpha Centauri), which is only 4 light years away, with current technology (rockets traveling at around 40,000 mph) would take about 60 to 70 THOUSAND years.
They do it because it puts them in the headlines.
Vanity. Want their place in history which is ironic as healing the Earth would ensure their place.