Tweeny, tell 'em about the breakfast special
Posted on 02/19/2017 4:12:06 PM PST by RoosterRedux
A fascinating essay that lay hidden for decades reveals Winston Churchill’s views on alien life.
The never-published essay has been in the archive of the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri since the 1980s, when it was given to the museum by the wife of Churchill’s publisher, who had died. Last year the museum invited Israeli astrophysicist Mario Livio to review the essay, which he discusses in an article published in the science journal Nature.
Livio notes the British wartime leader’s passion for science and technology in the 1939 essay, as well as Churchill’s thoughts on extraterrestrials.
Apparently influenced by events unfolding at the time, Churchill voices his concern about human progress and describes the possibility of aliens. “I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time,” he wrote.
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Why did you have to do that? My stomach is already going around and around.
[ The rumor is that those who might have such information will not trust ANYONE of either party with such information.
Not even the President. ]
Then they are committing TREASON against our duly elected Government of Representatives!!!!
If they are holed up in “Area 51” i would say we need to bring back some above ground atomic testing for that specific location post haste!
Presidents come and go. Deep science is permanent.
That is what they think.
I’ve seen several things in the night or morning sky that I can’t explain...
The last thing I saw left me physically depressed for weeks after. I can’t explain why.
My guess is that these things are more demonic in nature. I have no proof that. It’s just my opinion.
[ Presidents come and go. Deep science is permanent.
That is what they think. ]
They used to think that about the deep state.... until recently...
I think that if Trump can clean out the State Dept. Then we may start seeing the entrenched rats scatter.
“So where is everybody?!?” Fermi raised that question back in the 1950s while at lunch with Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and Herbert York discussing extraterrestrial life.
If intelligent life existed elsewhere in the galaxy, we should know about them from a visit or their signals, based on the rough calculations of the Drake Equation.
More recent considerations of the many conditions necessary for (especially intelligent) life as we know it on earth suggest that the probability, despite the number of stars (and possibly associated planets) may be much smaller than previously thought. But unless we’re the first, or others are not yet that much more advanced, we should have seen some evidence of their existence by now.
After all, the Prime Directive is just a silly Star Trek rule no one is probably going to pay attention to in real (even alien) life. Alien life might be more interested in whether we were edible or not.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
The one truth of Life is that you will never know as much as you don’t know.
You could live for a 1000 Years and it wouldn’t change.
There could many explanations why space apparently isn’t teaming with probes and signals. Maybe the desire for exploration and communication is exceedingly rare. Hard to imagine, but we only have one example so far, us.
‘What, you saw those pulsars and built all this garbage science to explain how they could occur naturally?! They are artificial beacons!’ That was the general premise of a short story I read long ago.
Freegards
Tweeny, tell 'em about the breakfast special
Yes I read something similar. The overall numbers of simultaneous intelligent civilizations was enormous but once you spread them across the vast quantities of galaxies you might end up with just one or so in the Milky Way. The MW is so large that it is likely the civilizations would never know the others exist.
I believe God intentionally planned it in a way to keep us separated and keep us from wiping each other out.
Kirk didn’t pay much attention to the Prime Directive on Star Trek either.
Maybe he was referring to the foo fighters.
What? Did you say something? :)
Unfortunately he couldn't get along with the management so he don't post here no more. But he often had a point about things...
Quix.
They won’t let Trump disclose this information if he finds out. They will implant an inhibitor chip in his brain.
When you look like that, why bother with lipstick?
“Er, general?”
“Yes, lieutenant?”
“Pass the syrup, please, sir?”
“Good thinking, lieutenant. …But syrup won’t stop them.”
*Throats clearing…*
“Ha, ha! Dear? Are they in my eggs?”
“My dear, they’re in _all_ our eggs…”
*dishware clatters. Wife sobs…*
You’re right: that’s a good one!
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