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Are UFOs for real? |
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Weird stuff
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Written by Administrator
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 William B Stoecker: The reason we call ufos by that name is that they are, indeed, unidentified.
It serves no purpose to make grandiose claims about Pleiadean beam
ships or Sirian mother ships; there is no hard proof that any of them
are interstellar craft at all. But is it even possible to achieve
manned interstellar flight?
Debunkers point out the vast distances
involved; even at light speed it would take over four years to reach
the nearest extra solar star system, not counting time spent
accelerating and decelerating, which, at a one gravity rate, would add
over two more years. Of course, so called time dilation, which becomes
noticeable at relativistic velocities, means that four of those years,
for the crew, would seem like a lot less, depending on how close they
approached light speed. So, for the crew, the journey might take only,
say, two and a half years or less, while the folks at home would
observe them taking over six. We are assured by physicists that faster
than light speeds are impossible, and while science fiction writers
talk about warp drive and wormholes, no one has any idea if such things
are possible, or, if so, how they could be achieved.
Furthermore,
the energy requirements to approach light speed are, at present, beyond
our abilities to attain. Even hydrogen fusion, which the taxpayer
funded geniuses have been unable to achieve after decades, would not
come close. The so called interstellar ramjet, scooping up hydrogen
with vast magnetic fields no one knows how to generate and fusing it in
a reactor no one knows how to build would encounter enormous resistance
in the very act of scooping up the hydrogen, which would mostly be, not
the deuterium and tritium isotopes used in the current generation of
non functioning reactors, but the ordinary, common variety of hydrogen,
with a nucleus consisting of one proton. This produces power at an
impossibly slow rate; a pound of hydrogen in the Sun's core,
incredibly, produces energy at a slower rate than a pound of living
human muscle tissue; only the Sun's enormous mass allows it to reach
temperatures of many millions of degrees.
Still, there is
hope. There is increasing evidence that so called "free" energy and
gravity control may be possible and may have already been achieved by
independent inventors with no government funding, which is where most
of the real innovation comes from. This might allow a spaceship to
approach light speed, were it not for another, little known problem.
Space
is not quite empty; the vacuum between the stars is not quite a vacuum.
The near vacuum of the interstellar medium is about one percent dust
(water ice, silicates, etc.) and 99 percent gas, of which 90 percent is
hydrogen and the remaining ten percent is almost entirely helium. Its
density varies throughout the galaxy, being denser in the visible dust
and gas clouds, but is estimated to average at least 100,000 particles
per cubic meter. If a spaceship had a cylindrical shape and its front
end was 100 square meters in area, within one meter forward of it there
would be ten million particles. At first, anyone aware of how
infinitesimally tiny these gas and dust particles are would figure that
it would be no problem.
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Mysteries and the Unexplained |
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 Supernatural frogs falling
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it all fascinated Charles Fort, whose appetite for the paranormal
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