Army Helicopter's UFO Scare Still A Mystery, 40 Years Later

[mybrainhurts]

Not real..? Oh, no...

[Terminator X]

"Dr. Batalha said, “We don’t yet have any planet candidates that are exact analogues of the Earth in terms of size, orbit or star type.”"

TX.

Edit - corrected alien speak.

Edited by Terminator X on Wednesday 6th November 00:44

[mybrainhurts]

Wibble...

[jmorgan]

mybrainhurts said:

Wibble...

Or wobble.... that is another thing, Mr Hammonds demonstrations the other other night on a TV show showed that we very probably need a Moon, of course this was known before Mr Hammond told us and they are looking. In this Solar system only one rocky planet is suitably fitted with a Moon. Mars two are probably captured and too small but ours have been with us since day one of evolution, near as damn it.

I noticed one of the recent planet discoveries cropped up on a science type web site, they have been able to map clouds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2434...

[tuscaneer]

RegMolehusband said:

From the New York Times yesterday.

Astronomers reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy


Incredible scope for so many civilisations out there with technology and travel capability far in excess of our comprehension.

Edited by RegMolehusband on Tuesday 5th November 18:32

so basically the article states that there are potentially loads of planets in the milky way.this we already knew. intelligent life surely does exist elsewhere in the cosmos(we are proof of this)......is it close enough to get to us????? very unlikely.i will refer you back to my post you said you didn't read about distance and time.

statistically speaking little green men surely do exist but they ain't coming here any time soon

Edited by tuscaneer on Thursday 7th November 09:32

[hairykrishna]

It's inconceivable to me that there wouldn't be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. There's nothing special about earth. I don't think they come here and fly about though, and I have yet to see any UFO which required an 'alien craft' explanation.

[Eric Mc]

The thing is, up until 1995 we didn't KNOW if there was a single planet outside our own solar system. We suspected this, but didn't know for sure.

The discovery of extra-solar planets is a relatively recent thing.

The next part of this long term project has been to establish -

what types of stars have planetary systems

how many such systems are in our cosmic neighbourhood

what types of planets make up these systems

how many of these planets are "earth like"

There is a lot of work to be done in this area for decades to come. Kepler and other related projects have been essentially just gathering data at the moment which can be sifted through to try and get some of these answers.

[hornet]

Hilts said:

The performance would not have survivable by a human pilot.

But somehow a walk in the park for a presumably equally biological alien pilot?

[RegMolehusband]

Or an autonomous probe.

[odyssey2200]

RegMolehusband said:

Or an autonomous probe.

enough about Alien probing!!!

[hornet]

RegMolehusband said:

Or an autonomous probe.

Or indeed an entirely Earthly UAV.

[jmorgan]

One of the last great probes turned out to be rather earthly. The people backing it as a UFO performing great feats of manoeuvring refused the obvious and tried, rather embarrassingly, to prove it was an alien. Their claim was dissected either way and at least we now know we have insects on this planet that get in shot. The usual claims are made when the real object can be rather dull.

[tuscaneer]

RegMolehusband said:

Or an autonomous probe.

you do realise you're sounding more and more like a total wacko the more you indignantly post this st in the face of fairly rational counter arguments don't you??

[RegMolehusband]

Cheers for your usual polite input Tusky. I would have spent a lot more time countering your "rational" arguments if my Dad hadn't been seriously ill and died last Thursday morning. Not looking for sympathy but just to let you know why I've been a little quiet on this thread. I will have more to say when things settle down.

[tuscaneer]

RegMolehusband said:

Cheers for your usual polite input Tusky. I would have spent a lot more time countering your "rational" arguments if my Dad hadn't been seriously ill and died last Thursday morning. Not looking for sympathy but just to let you know why I've been a little quiet on this thread. I will have more to say when things settle down.

I feel your pain reg I really do.this year has seen me lose 4 close family members including a mother and uncle who both passed tragically young.but it's not for here. I look forward to sparring with you again soon.

[Hilts]

hornet said:

Hilts said:

The performance would not have survivable by a human pilot.

But somehow a walk in the park for a presumably equally biological alien pilot?

What do you think was involved in this case?

[Hilts]

"would not have survivable"

That sounds like Caffrey's English. They dieded.

[Ayahuasca]

The Soviets were great ones for copying western technology - did they ever build an Aurora-type hyperjet?

[mybrainhurts]

RegMolehusband said:

Or an autonomous probe.

I have one of those. Think that's why the wife left me....

[andygo]

Cant understand why various people are resorting to insults and name calling on here. Its like a kids playground ffs. If you have nothing resonable to say belt up. Your making yourselves look a bit less than grownups.