UFOs, your thoughts?

[MrsC]

The mass media let you know what they want you to know (including the BBC)
These UFO'S are a wastepaper basket term for these things, It's a fact that they have been here for thousands of years if not more, cave paintings, carvings, the technology advancements we have made in the past 100 years, work it out, they have been here for thousands of years, all of a sudden we can do almost anything.
NASA has recorded them with their own camera's from the space shuttle (smoking gun dvd), recorded by Martyn Stubbs who ran a canadian TV station, recorded 2000 hours worth of footage, went public, guess what, all transmissions scrambled from since he went public, he has since sadly died (brain tumour).
Margaret Thatcher knows about the subject "You can't tell the people" a quote from a book by Georgini Bruni about the events in Dec 1980 regarding the Bentwaters and Woodbridge incident over 3 nights, and so does Michael Portillo.
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Gordon Cooper have admitted seeing them on the apollo missions, they were buzzed prior to landing on the moon, they were everywhere!

[madmax]

What fascinates me is the fact that scientists are always searching for other carbon-based lifeforms. Why carbon? Who are we to say that other races haven't evolved from helium etc?

Thort about Methane based?!!? Nasty... That could be a killer!

[MrsC]

Thort about Methane based?!!? Nasty... That could be a killer!

Methane based, please explain?

[MrsC]

Methane based, please explain?

what do mean by methane based, do you who philip klass is?

[everdream78]

didn't the Dogon tribe in Africa somewhere say for donkey's years that Sirius was a binary star system, way before our telescopes were powerful enough to pick up the binary system? They claim they were visited by the inhabitants of the system apparently......

[MrsC]

very true, they said it was a two star system, The Dugon tribe had it already mapped, it had three stars and was disputed for many years, modern astronomers totally dismissed it, how did they know?
The Antartic was mapped before we even discovered it.

[Snadger]

Without wanting to hurt anyone elses feelings...............I think it's a load of bollocks!

[MrsC]

Without wanting to hurt anyone elses feelings...............I think it's a load of bollocks!

Please explain why it a load of "bollox",whats your reasons,have you studied the subject or looked into it at all?

[JanieB]

Chemical rationale. The scientific view is that life can only exist at the same temperature and in the same circumstances as that on earth. It is entirely possible that life could exist with different chemicals in different temperatures and circumstances on other planets.

These other sentient beings may be keeping an eye on us, waiting for us to evolve, have deliberately involved apes to evolve more quickly (very precised version), may not be able to contact us directly as our atmosphere is alien to them, may have contacted others but we are so up ourselves we think those people are nuts. OR we are kidding ourselves and we really are on our own. How scarey is that in a cosmos as big as ours. That makes our world as big as a grain of sand on a beach.

Personally I'm open to being convinced as I am about other aspects of our world and universe.

Right story:

My grandpa was a farrier and blacksmith, served his apprenticeship during the first decade of the last century. Called up for WWI he was sent to Salisbury Plain to train in a cavalry regiment. As he knew about metals and had spent time fixing tractors, he was given engineering training but ended up in the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) as a cartographer.

His wife (Grandma) was a nurse. She'd wanted to go to university to train as a chemist. This was denied her as women had to have written approval from their parent (or guardian) or spouse.

Both these grandparents were very innovative for their time and I'm glad that they both saw the beginning of the computer age as they found it fascinating. They had gone from mainly horsedrawn to telephones, televisions, space age, mobile phones. All these would have been regarded as "magic" when they were growing up.

Don't disregard ideas because they seem far-fetched at the moment. A lot of what we have now was completely beyond human comprehension 100 years (or less) ago.

OK, OK, I'm just weird . You want to see the FULL version and not the toned down one . Huh, huh.

I still like diggin' gardens!!

[Paul Wagland]

I think it's perfectly possible there is life other than that which evolved on Earth. If it happened here, why not elsewhere in similar conditions?

I also think that much of the Universe is much older than the bit we're travelling through, so any life that evolved in an older part could be much more advanced, and capable of solving problems like interstellar travel. It doesn't have to involve super-high speeds - what about just sending slow-moving vessels with the inhabitants frozen? Or even digitised?!

The subject attracts lots of crackpots, but so did the environmental movement until it was more widely accepted. I really hope there's something to all the theories.

[MrsC]

The Lockheed Scunkworks (the reason why it was called this was the smell from building the F17 stealth bomber) which 1st test flight was 1976 but wasn't seen 'til the Gulf War. This was test flown in Nevada (area 51) and the guys who helped design it were subject to all manner of diseases, but government refused to acknowledge this and therefore remaining family members could not claim on their spouses's deaths, because of the chemicals they used in building to coat and shape the plane to evade radar detection! There are videos available interviewing the families. After all Area 51 didn't exist until the late '90s.

[MrsC]

btw the whole area of 'Area 51' is the same size as Swizterland!

[Snadger]

Please explain why it a load of "bollox",whats your reasons,have you studied the subject or looked into it at all?

Two words 'Conspiracy theories'! Sorry don't subscribe!

PS I've read two of Stephen Hawkins books and it seems as though his quantum physics equations are similar to his theories......... going backwards in time!

[MrsC]

Two words 'Conspiracy theories'! Sorry don't subscribe!

that's not what i asked, i asked if you had studied the subject etc

[scared55]

Do I detect the unmistakeabke sound of axes being ground, or doth the lady protest too much?

KK