I’m old enough to remember the last years of the Soviet Union. Communist party leaders used UFOs as a distraction to their citizens. One of my favorite sayings from that era, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” It’s not a coincidence the government is feeding this B.S. to the media. I am certain beyond any doubt that we have never been visited by aliens from outside of our solar system. I formed this certainty by my study of the universe. Hollywood has promoted this nonsense too. The above picture is from the movie, The day the Earth stood still. This movie was in theaters in 1951. In 1951, we nearly knew how vast the universe is and Albert Einstein had already published his theory of Relativity in 1916.
Klaatu, pictured above, states his planet is 250 million miles from Earth. That would put Klaatu’s planet within our solar system. I find the scriptwriters for this movie to be of the highest of the ignorant. Pluto is 2.66 billion miles from the Earth. Klaatu also states his spacecraft approaches the speed of light. Space has particles of dust floating about it. At the speed of light=C, those dust particles would destroy any spacecraft traveling close to C. The energy requirements to travel close to C would be nearly identical to decelerate from that speed.
Traveling at C is impossible because mass becomes infinite, thus the energy requirement becomes infinite. Light only can travel at its speed because of a cosmic cheat. Light exists both as particles we call photons and waves. The nearest solar system to us is 16.3 light-years away. Klaatu came to Earth because we had detonated an atomic bomb. He issued a warning to us that if we exported our violence outside of our solar system, the universe police robots would destroy Earth. Here’s the thing; the first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945. Let’s suppose Klaatu’s people detected the atomic explosion. They wouldn’t have detected it for 16 years at the earliest [ Assuming they don’t have Klaatu wandering in the void of space between solar system[s].
Let’s suppose Klaatu’s spacecraft travels at 90% of C. The very earliest Klaatu could have arrived to deliver his warning is the year of 1977, not 1951. Poor writing to be sure, but exposing poor writing wasn’t my intent. This exercise was to show you, my dear reader, how vast the distances are between points in space.
Sir Isaac Newton (1643- 1726) wrongly stated mass exerted a force we call gravity. Amazingly, in the 60s, my elementary teachers were still telling their students wrongly mass-exerted gravity. As the picture above displays, Einstein theorized mass warps space which in turn causes the effect we call gravity. During WWII, astronomers photographed stars during an eclipse of the sun. This experiment has been repeated throughout the years to the same result. Astronomers had known locations of stars that were to be observed during the eclipse of the sun. These locations had been recorded when the sun wasn’t between the Earth and the target stars. As you know, the Earth orbits the sun, hence those target stars are visible for most of the year to record their locations.
After the astronomers corrected for Earth’s position, they observed the stars’ positions had shifted. What that means is the sun’s mass had warped space causing the light to travel from those stars to take a longer [ a warped ] path to the Earth. It has been put forward UFOs may generate gravity force or anti-gravity as a propellant. Since there’s no such thing as gravity “force”, then there can’t be anti-gravity force nor can there be the usage of gravitational force to propel a spacecraft. Gavin Newson greatly upset me in the fall of 2020. He had appeared on a YouTube show. Newson was asked: “If an alien spacecraft materialized right in front of you and they came out to speak with you. What would you ask them? Newsom said, “I would ask them to wear masks and spread the word to wear masks.”
This idiocy is unforgivable. Not that this scenario is possible, but let’s pretend. Firstly, the aliens’ spaceship would have to have a power cell that could power half if not the whole needs of Earth. That would solve our global warming problem. No more need to use fossil fuels to generate electrical power. Second, OMG, we were in a global pandemic, what about asking the aliens about their advanced medicines? Newsom asking the aliens to spread the word on wearing masks is akin to asking a genie for your three wishes, “I’ll just have three hot cheese sandwiches, one for every wish.”
Have you noticed there are no alien infrastructures for refueling on our planet? “They” are asking you to believe aliens are coming to Earth traveling at speeds above C without the need to refuel. “They” are trying to convince you UFOs have been observed traveling at Mach speeds under the sea by our navy. The SR-71 had to use its fuel also as a coolant to keep its skin from melting. The surrounding water would boil at those UFO speeds in the water. Moreover, the stress to the UFO’s hull would be millions of pounds per square inch.
Forgive me for returning to the movie for a Klaatu quote. I promise the quote will be relevant to the question of alien visitation.
Klaatu: I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure.
The red line simply isn’t true. Klaatu may have been speaking figuratively as we do about the Earth in relation to the constant improvements of our means of getting to points on the globe. It was thought for a time by scientists the universe would end in “The Big Crunch”. Those scientists believed gravity would overcome the Big Bang expansion. Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was the right man at the right time at the right place. Hubble had the opportunity to make his astronomical observations from the newly completed Hooker Telescope, then the world’s largest in 1919. Up to that point in time, it was thought the universe was only comprised of one galaxy that is our galaxy, the Milky Way. Hubble made two observations that changed our understanding of the universe. 1. Nebulas thought to be in our galaxy were in fact other galaxies. 2. Hubble determined those other galaxies were moving away from us at an ever-increasing speed in velocities relative to our position.
In a few million years from now, if we are still around, the universe will appear to us to be much smaller than it is because the sum velocities between our galaxy and the other galaxies will be greater than the speed of C. In other words, the light from those other galaxies won’t be able to reach us ever. Hence, because the galaxies are moving away from one another at ever-increasing speeds, it is impossible for aliens to travel to our planet from other galaxies.
I am old enough to remember the launching of the Hubble telescope into orbit. When NASA first turned on the telescope, much to the surprise of all, the images were out of focus. NASA had to send the Space Shuttle to exchange the lenses in the Hubble telescope. I wondered two things at the time. 1. I thought, why didn’t anyone at NASA say; Gee, maybe we should look through this telescope before we launch it into orbit. 2. I wondered if anyone was fired for this short-sightedness in quality control. Astronauts were successful in their mission to change out the new lenses for the defective lenses. I remember it as if it was just yesterday when on live televisions NASA broadcast to the nation clear pictures of galaxies we had never seen before.
Then someone got the idea to point the Hubble telescope at a patch of space with no stars. There was resistance to this proposal according to Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you can find his account of this on YouTube, you will be very entertained. NASA found a patch of space in 1993. After a total exposure of 5.86 days at that barren patch of space, NASA saw galaxies that are more than 13 billion light-years from Earth. Remember, when we look skyward toward the stars, we are only viewing history. If our sun when out, we wouldn’t know it for eight minutes. Those galaxies we viewed 13 billion light-years away are actually much farther away because the light we observed started its journey 13 billion years ago in keeping that those galaxies are moving away from of because of universal expansion. There is a point to my narrative as it relates to aliens, read on!
To my thinking, we are either the first or the last of the universe’s sentient beings. How all life will end on our planet; currently, our sun is consuming hydrogen by fusion and thereby producing helium. After two billion more years, the sun will run out of hydrogen for its fusion. The sun will use helium. At that time, the sun will become a red giant and it will enlarge to the point it consumes the Earth. Now let’s say in those distance galaxies life evolved. Any life in those galaxies has been killed by the suns/stars billions of years ago. Mars wouldn’t be a lifeboat for humanity because the sun will destroy all life in the solar system. Also, it’s a fantasy we can terraform Mars. Mars has a solid core. The Earth has a liquid rotating core of metals which generates a field that shields the atmosphere from the sun’s force that would otherwise strip the atmosphere from the planet.
Before I continue, please allow me to tell you a fact that is not widely known outside of the astrophysicists’ community. The warming rays from our sun are millions of years old. It takes millions of years for photons to escape the sun’s core and make their way into space. Yes, the fusion that spawned those photons took place when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Let’s once again suppose there are beings in other solar systems in our galaxy. And let’s suppose those beings are or were more intelligent than us. Intelligence is nothing without opportunity. Case in point; America’s natives had the mineral resources the people of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East had access to, and yet, the natives were still in the stone age upon the arrival of the first Europeans. The reason for this is twofold. The ice age super-predators in combination with the cold of the ice age killed off those animals that were suitable for domestication. Thereby, America’s natives never had the opportunity to harness animal muscle power. Animal power was the springboard for the civilizations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Assume aliens within our galaxy have animals that could be domesticated. And the aliens have the same mineral resources but in tenfold amounts. I will point out as a matter of fact that no planets outside of our solar system have been directly observed. There are indications that have been interpreted as the existence of planets. I’m optimistic the astronomers are correct, but it is worth noting for this discussion. Let’s review our history as a way to predict how aliens may progress.
It is a common belief among the populous that we will always progress forward in our technologies. This simply isn’t a belief that is based on historic fact. China was centuries ahead of Europe. China suffered a civilization setback. Egypt built the biggest tallest structures up through the 26th century BC. It took 3,800 years for people to erect a taller structure than the Great Pyramid of Giza. That structure was/is the Eiffel Tower. People are still not certain how the Egyptians built their pyramids. Now we come to the Roman empire that endured for nearly 2,000 years. Rome had running water, sewers, heated baths, and paved roads. After the fall of Rome, all of that knowledge was lost. When my parents were born, 1913 and 1922, they were pooing in holes in the ground and there was no running water. It took about 1,000 years to return to the level of the Roman level of sanitation. And there weren’t paved roads either. It was not until President Eisenhower commissioned country-wide road projects we had paved roads starting in 1953.
It is my belief we in this modern era have benefitted from the fall of Rome. If Rome hadn’t fallen, it’s my belief our mineral resources would be close to being depleted. The steam engine and the internal combustion engine would have been invented sooner. The holy grail for limitless power is nuclear fusion. I’m of the opinion we will never be able to have controlled metered nuclear fusion power plants. We have only mastered nuclear fusion in a destructive manner. That would be the hydrogen bomb. A hydrogen bomb mimics how stars produce energy. When two atoms are fused, it produces an incredible amount of energy. Fusing together hydrogen atoms to make helium. Our sun’s mass force fuses hydrogen atoms together in its core to produce energy. The byproduct is helium. To mimic the sun’s crushing mass, scientists built a two-stage bomb, the hydrogen bomb.
How a hydrogen bomb works; An atomic bomb, which is a fission bomb, is used to compress Hydrogen atoms to fuse them together which makes helium. A detonated hydrogen bomb appears to be a small sun in its explosion. Contrary to what the Green New Deal proponents say, we will be always reliant on fossil fuels. It takes fossil fuels to make solar panels and wind turbines. If we go full renewable energy, it will delay the inevitable that is humanity’s fate. Even if we learn to burn hydrogen as a fuel it will still only bring a brief reprieve. Some day all of the uranium, oil, natural gas, and coal will be depleted. On coal, we have 400 years at the consumption we had during the 70s.
I estimate we have 300 years at this level of energy consumption followed by 200 years of a slow decline to little modern energy usage. The world population will return to the Middle Ages levels by way of famines. Farms will return to the usage of animal power for cultivation. We humans will be in a holding pattern until our sun goes red giant. Even if aliens were 100 times smarter than we are and they had 10 times our mineral resources, the fact is those hypothetical aliens can’t cheat E=mc². Hence, like us, they are stuck within their solar system[s] waiting for their suns to murder them.
Written by Mark Pullen. Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell.