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Britain’s First Astronaut Says Aliens Definitely Exist
The Mind Unleashed ^ | 12 Jan 20 | John Vibes

Posted on 01/13/2020 3:42:57 AM PST by Bruiser 10

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To: Spruce

LOL.

A ‘bint’?

I haven’t heard that term since I moved back from London in 1989.


81 posted on 01/13/2020 12:53:47 PM PST by Bruiser 10 (Do you boogaloo?)
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To: circlecity
"Why would a fallible, finite being think they could know why an omnipotent, infinite being like God does everything he does?"

Probably so he can become a preacher and then never have to work for a living again.

82 posted on 01/13/2020 12:58:58 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Iscool

The USN and the Pentagon is telling you something is out there they can’t identify with their recent video releases and they are apparently studying these objects. Note, the Pentagon has never breathed a word about aliens or the occupants of these objects but that our pilots are encountering them. The objects in the videos clearly do maneuvers conventional aircraft cannot, and that would kill a human being if they were inside the objects making such violent maneuvers.

They are possibly Chinese/Russian craft, but that makes no sense to announce, that our current combat aircraft can’t come close to engaging, or they really don’t know what they are but they are here and in our skies.


83 posted on 01/13/2020 12:59:50 PM PST by sarge83
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To: NicknamedBob

You obviously don’t know many Pastors. The one’s I know work their rear ends off and for very little money.


84 posted on 01/13/2020 1:01:04 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

That doesn’t make a better case.


85 posted on 01/13/2020 1:15:09 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

NicknamedBob, we do not disagree. Its that fool, circlecity, that imagines the source of the odds he quotes is infallible. Bitter clinger and all that.


86 posted on 01/13/2020 2:04:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: circlecity

who cares what he says — any fool with common sense can see that he’s obviously been in his ivory tower over long


87 posted on 01/13/2020 2:05:35 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Vaquero
Understood. But God created the universe. So he may have created many possible sentient life forms in more places than we can imagine.

Don't you think a detail like that would have been covered in The Bible?

88 posted on 01/13/2020 2:07:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PIF; circlecity
"Bitter clinger and all that."

I like bitter clingers.

89 posted on 01/13/2020 2:44:04 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: bert

Well stated but in my case it seems being beaten over the head a Thousand Times is usually what make me learn.

I guess that’s acquired wisdom :)


90 posted on 01/13/2020 10:44:25 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: PIF

Er, the Earth’s atmosphere affects the Whole Earth :)

It’s 100 times more dense on venus and will crush you like a bug.

Go try it out, I swear :)

And what the hell do i know? I never said I was right bout anything! :)


91 posted on 01/13/2020 10:46:12 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

yes you are right but we are talking about things that effect the atmosphere and produces climate and weather.

Speaking of Venus before you get crushed, you will begin to dissolve in the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere but before you dissolve, you will be incinerated in the 800 degree temps.


92 posted on 01/14/2020 1:59:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Good grief!!

I didn’t know that about Venus.

And believe me, no one is going by my observations when they decide whether there is life elsewhere.

I’m just a mope that posts on FR for laughs and has an average IQ and thinks beer and pizza are two food groups :)

Have a good one FRiend


93 posted on 01/14/2020 2:20:35 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dfwgator
Don't you think a detail like that would have been covered in The Bible?

Sorry. No, I don’t. I was raised Roman Catholic. “the creation stories were often allegorized, interpreted in ways so as to prefigure Christ, or interpreted through the lens of the science of the day (or all three!)”

94 posted on 01/14/2020 4:43:14 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dp0622; PIF

Not too sure how we got onto the subject of Venus, but while we’re here I’d like to clear up some misconceptions about how Venus can play a part in our future.

Yes there are clouds of sulfuric acid, and crushing pressure and insane temperatures on the surface. But the way to think about Venus is that it is an ocean planet, with carbon dioxide standing in for water in that case.

Most of Earth is covered by ocean, and if you were standing on the “surface” that is covered by that water, you would be crushed immediately. Think of Venus the same way; you need to float at the proper atmospheric pressure. On Earth we call that “sea level”, on Venus it’s about fifty kilometers above the “surface”. (or thirty-five miles, if you prefer).

That gives you an idea of just how thick the atmosphere on Venus is. Thirty-five miles above the surface on Earth is pretty close to being space. The same distance on Venus still leaves you with a whole sky above you (mostly enough to give you protection from meteorites and radiation).

If you had a “boat” that floated on that “ocean” of carbon dioxide, you could enjoy a normal pressure atmosphere, with normal (Earthlike) temperatures, normal gravity, and plenty of solar radiation for your solar panels.

But since the carbon dioxide is a gas and not a liquid, you would need a balloon or blimp to float in it and not a boat.

Here’s the best part; carbon dioxide is a heavy gas, heavier than hydrogen and helium of course, but also heavier than oxygen and nitrogen. That’s right, the atmosphere of Venus is heavier than air! Ordinary air that you can breathe is a lifting gas there!

You won’t need a boat; you’ll need a greenhouse! And in your greenhouse you can grow flowers, vegetables, grass, and trees.

These plants can convert the carbon dioxide into more plants, food, flowers, and more oxyygen to breathe. (Nitrogen is already plentiful in the atmosphere of Venus.)

So basically all you need is the kind of plastic that resists sulfuric acid, (similar to Teflon), and some soil for your plants, and some solar panels, and a way to make carbon stuff out of carbon dioxide, and stuff like that.

Venus could be a great vacation resort. (And that doesn’t even go into the fact that gravity there is just a shade under what you’re used to on Earth. You lose weight just arriving there!}

Book your passage right away! It’s closer than Mars!


95 posted on 01/14/2020 2:41:25 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

great as long as one doesn’t mind the 800 degree heat ...


96 posted on 01/14/2020 2:51:51 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NicknamedBob

That’s fascinating, the comparison to being at the bottom of the ocean.

We could build a floating city in the sky.

it worked on Star Wars :)


97 posted on 01/14/2020 2:54:56 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622; PIF
"We could build a floating city in the sky."

Actually, that would be the plan. Just need to figure out how to make your own dirt.

98 posted on 01/14/2020 4:39:16 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I wonder what kind of technology would be needed to build a floating city.

If you’re saying that we could breathe up there out in the open perfectly fine, then it wouldn’t need to be an enclosed orbiting behemoth.

Would be interesting to see in a thousand years :)


99 posted on 01/14/2020 5:53:45 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622
"If you’re saying that we could breathe up there out in the open perfectly fine, then it wouldn’t need to be an enclosed orbiting behemoth."

Sorry, not at all what I was trying to say. Settlements at Venus would need to be enclosed, to keep out the carbon dioxide and the sulfuric acid. But the barrier merely needs to be chemically durable, not physically. A simple plastic curtain could suffice in theory, because the atmospheric pressures would be equal for each side.

Also, as described previously, the plants with which we surround ourselves there, just as on Mars, should serve the purpose of providing the oxygen we need, while the more neutral Nitrogen can be physically separated from the atmosphere. Venus has five atmosphere's worth of Nitrogen, so I rather expect that such procedures will become an industrial process there. I have made the prediction that fire extinguishers in Venus habitats will be filled with nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide.

Mining operations on the planet's surface may with difficulty be conducted with remote-control robots, or with crude dredging devices which drop down and then rise up again before the heat can disable them. A primitive such operation could include electric-motor airplanes sent out to collect nitrogen-filled balloon buckets carrying dirt collected from the surface.

Further, the orbital space around Venus could become busy, with rotating habitats with long tentacles designed to reach down into the upper atmosphere to pluck high-flying cargo craft and either bring them in to the station or fling them elsewhere in the inner system. Momentum-transfer tethers will be a very useful technology in the decades to come.

100 posted on 01/14/2020 6:23:57 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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