Here's a UFO. Caught by the US army, painted in their colours and kept under strict security at Roswell.
Alternatively it's an Avrocar. No longer a mystery.
UFOs are easier debunked today than they ever were before. I can say that because at one point I was particularly interested by the thought of paranormal occurrences and visitations from outer space. My obsession for the topic had me poring over pictures and comparing notes all day. If there is any conclusion which I can say I've drawn, it's the inference that the possibility of life amongst the stars cannot be ruled out completely while, at the same time, there is no evidence to suggest that there is in fact any intelligent life beyond our solar system.
But it's not just any intelligent life which we are interested in - For all that it matters, a domesticated cat is an intelligent creature. No it's not intelligence most are us are interested in. Most of us want to believe the idea that out there, amongst infinity, a particular race of intelligent species has advanced to the point where they have mastered intergalactic travel and are frequent visitors to Earth, for um...survey purposes. Lol.
Let's get some basic facts straight:
1. There's a possibility that life can exist under all circumstances but organic life, based on our understanding of science, cannot survive in the absence of water. There is water out there. In quantities difficult for us to fathom. But most of the water, as current science would dictate, is not usable. Liquid water is the key for life.
2. For water to be liquid it must be in the right temperature zone. Most planets, such as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn....are far too distant from the sun to have liquid water on their surface (I actually don't think any of these planets have water. There was talk of Mars having frozen water in its bedrock but the reports haven't been confirmed). Other planets such as Venus (which has no water at all) are far too close to the sun to have any liquid water designed to support life.
3. Here comes the talk of the Circumstellar Habitable Zone or "Goldilocks Zone". The area around a star, the distance of which is just right for water to be found in its liquid state - such as here on Earth! So for life to have thrived on any planet it must have been within the the star's Goldilocks Zone.
4. There are no other planets in our Solar System which fall within the Goldilocks Zone of our Sun. But scientists have now discovered certain planets that may be in the goldilocks zone of their respective stars such as Gliese 581g. Which means there's a dim chance that the conditions on Gliese 581g may be just right for life to have taken root and thrived. But that doesn't automatically mean that life on Gliese 581g is intelligent. It could be microbial, bacterial...could be just insects.
5. For life to be intelligent, it must be evolved. The first life forms on this God-forsaken rock appeared 3.5 billion years ago, and humans [homo sapiens], in their present form, have been around for less than 200,000 years. [hominim fossils, however, have been dated back to 5 million years].
6. The age of this universe is said to be 13.8 Billion years. We are a blip in the space-time continuum. Our time on the stage of this universe is comparative to that of the ephemeral mayfly. For almost 3.49 billion years that this planet harboured life, not a single lifeform came as close to being as intelligent as us. The dolphins are smart, sure...but can they split the atom?
7. Planets come and go. Our star, the sun, will die out one day [6 billion years from now] and if we don't kill ourselves before that or migrate to another planet, we too will die with it. It is possible that there was intelligent life before us, intelligent to our degree, but dead now. In 2013 remains of water-rich planet were found orbiting the white dwarf star GD 61, 170 light years from Earth.
As it is easy to tell from the foregoing, our knowledge is limited but, at the same time, what we do know is staggering.
Conclusion: For all we know, we may be an odd accident. Maybe even the beginning of super-intelligent species as we know it. The very first aliens. The smartest creatures ever to breathe, breed and set our eyes on the exploration of distant planets. Destined, of course, to become ever smarter and ever more capable by mating ourselves with electronic devices, prosthetic organs and bionic limbs.
While at the same time we may even be the engineering miracle of a species which is now dead. A far-more accomplished race who unfortunately are no more, but, before embracing oblivion, sent us adrift on a comet or launched us in the direction of a habitable planet(long shot theory by the way, so much debunking material. lol).
But what is abundantly clear, is that space is more empty then we would like to think. Every star has a Goldilocks Zone but not every Goldilocks Zone is inhabitable. Stars which have a high concentration of heavy elements form planets of solid iron or maybe even molten uranium and such planets are not inhabitable. (unless science is wrong and there are species thriving in such harsh conditions,in which case we're done for)
Also not every star which has a Goldilocks Zone that can harbour life, can actually have super-intelligent species. As I pointed out, we are a blip. Nobody knows why we happened. Some say God, some say spontaneity. We may never really know.
But there's one thing which we know for certain. If there were a super-intelligent and far more advance race out there, who've been visiting Earth regulary and have nefarious designs to destroy us....we, homo sapiens, as a species would finally shed all our differences and unite to combat the common enemy. World Peace! Finally! Took aliens to save us. Who knew!
