Today I get to talk about a subject near and dear to my heart-Are we alone in the universe? I am on the record as saying we are not alone. Life exists throughout the universe.
Let us imagine for a moment an advanced
alien society with a James Webb Space Telescope with 1,000 times the power and
capabilities of our James Webb Space Telescope. They detect life here on earth.
They get so intrigued that they decide to send a problem to earth to have a
closer look.
All of us have watched high-budget movies
and television programs about such an event. An elaborate and easily detectable
mother ship is dispatched to earth. Such a ship arrives near earth and goes
into orbit. There is shock and pandemonium here on our planet. Flying saucers
or other craft capable of flying in our atmosphere are dispatched and fly down
to the surface of the earth.
If a society was advanced enough to detect
our life and send a spacecraft to observe us, I suspect that they would be much
more discrete. A small and very capable unmanned craft would be dispatched to
the earth. It would have the appearance of a celestial body. It would attract
no undue attention, or so the aliens would hope.
Our solar system has recently been
visited by a celestial body from outside the solar system. It does not act like
a comet, asteroid, or meteor. It has been named Omuamua:
ʻOumuamua
Description
ʻOumuamua is
the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, ʻOumuamua was discovered by Robert Weryk using
the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā ... Wikipedia
Radius:
656.17′
Discovered:
October 19, 2017
Pronunciation:
/oʊˌmuːəˈmuːə/, Hawaiian(listen)
Discovered
by: Robert Weryk using Pan-STARRS 1
Apparent
magnitude: 19.7 to >27.5
Synodic
rotation period: Tumbling (non-principal axis rotation); Reported values
include:: 8.10±0.02 h; 8.10±0.42 h; 6.96+1.45; −0.39 h;
Named after:
Hawaiian term for scout
Here is a fascinating podcast on this
mysterious object:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GfVUp0kZN0
The Harvard University Astronomy
Department is fervently in opposition to any idea that this object is a
spacecraft sent from an advanced alien civilization. I do not agree with them.
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