We could cut off the money spigot and see if all these experts and agencies lose interest in UAPs.
I don't follow the whole UAP thing and don't know what evidence there is or isn't, but it's a very popular topic even among some of my family members.
But you always have to ask why they're making such a big deal about it now when the topic has been around forever. You raise some good questions here about why and why now.
Also worth noting is that non-human intelligence could be a cloaked term for machine learning and UAP could be a drone, swarm, formation, autonomous craft etc. Or even self-replicating/reproducing craft. All of these terms were used.
I remember when my daughter was small, her father said he was being chased by a flying saucer. Ended up being the result of a bad coke trip. It would be ignorant to believe we are the only ones existing in our universe. I only hope that other civilians are not as power hungry as we are.
Yup, drug inducement helps. Carl Sagan might say based on the number of stars and galaxies the odds are overwhelming in favor of life in places other than Earth. That doesn't change the problem of the timeline and limitations of classical physics when the nearest star is lightyears away, the Milky Way galaxy is 100,00 lightyears in expanse and the nearest galaxies many lightyears from us. Crossing those vast distances would take millions or billions of years. There isn't enough time from the big bang up to the present for a civilization to advance to that level of technology. A pretty strong argument.
Just playing devil's advocate here, didn't we learn from Star Wars that space vehicles can go into hyper-drive? Maybe we're the Neanderthals or infants of the cosmic world.
Well, I do like the topic, and glad you take up the challenge.
To answer your question, it seems best to consider all options. My personal perspective is doubtful of interstellar travel capable of spanning lightyears of space, at least involving any physical craft. Current physics might seem limiting, but there is good reason to believe the properties are universal, at least within the observable physical universe. The expanding universe theory has merit and the most distant objects are both very dense and moving away very fast, approaching the speed of light. Those properties support Einstein's relativity and classical physics. The larger and faster moving of any mass or object it must expend a relative degree of energy.
Then again, some 70% or so of the universe is made up of "dark energy", which has properties of neither mass nor energy and is only a term for something we know nothing about.
In the end, natural objectivity since bias ain't gonna' work. For myself, I'll dabble freely in anomalous phenomena both earthbound and without boundaries in a space-time continuum.
Parsing through the rhetoric is nigh impossible, options are better for guessing at agendas: the hearing is a bid for better transparency (a bill to mitigate over-classification) and cease the gag orders, reprisals and protect whistleblowers.
The witnesses believe what they are saying in regard to non-human intelligence and surveillance from other actors, either from this world or another and possessing technology far beyond our own.
Or they are highly paid highly trained liars (very likely) who prefer the lies above divulging secret classified information which carries consequences...lies less so.
Or a psychological tactic to sow discord among the population.
All in all business as usual - lots of questions, not many answers. But at least a fascinating topic.
Great points. It's also a pretty good distraction as lots of folks find it more fun and a lot less stressful than reading about the latest political shenanigans.
We could cut off the money spigot and see if all these experts and agencies lose interest in UAPs.
I don't follow the whole UAP thing and don't know what evidence there is or isn't, but it's a very popular topic even among some of my family members.
But you always have to ask why they're making such a big deal about it now when the topic has been around forever. You raise some good questions here about why and why now.
Oops, zigged instead of zagged, my reply turned up as a stand-alone comment.
I should add that members on the witness panel have stellar reputations, and credentials.
Also worth noting is that non-human intelligence could be a cloaked term for machine learning and UAP could be a drone, swarm, formation, autonomous craft etc. Or even self-replicating/reproducing craft. All of these terms were used.
I remember when my daughter was small, her father said he was being chased by a flying saucer. Ended up being the result of a bad coke trip. It would be ignorant to believe we are the only ones existing in our universe. I only hope that other civilians are not as power hungry as we are.
Yup, drug inducement helps. Carl Sagan might say based on the number of stars and galaxies the odds are overwhelming in favor of life in places other than Earth. That doesn't change the problem of the timeline and limitations of classical physics when the nearest star is lightyears away, the Milky Way galaxy is 100,00 lightyears in expanse and the nearest galaxies many lightyears from us. Crossing those vast distances would take millions or billions of years. There isn't enough time from the big bang up to the present for a civilization to advance to that level of technology. A pretty strong argument.
Just playing devil's advocate here, didn't we learn from Star Wars that space vehicles can go into hyper-drive? Maybe we're the Neanderthals or infants of the cosmic world.
Well, I do like the topic, and glad you take up the challenge.
To answer your question, it seems best to consider all options. My personal perspective is doubtful of interstellar travel capable of spanning lightyears of space, at least involving any physical craft. Current physics might seem limiting, but there is good reason to believe the properties are universal, at least within the observable physical universe. The expanding universe theory has merit and the most distant objects are both very dense and moving away very fast, approaching the speed of light. Those properties support Einstein's relativity and classical physics. The larger and faster moving of any mass or object it must expend a relative degree of energy.
Then again, some 70% or so of the universe is made up of "dark energy", which has properties of neither mass nor energy and is only a term for something we know nothing about.
In the end, natural objectivity since bias ain't gonna' work. For myself, I'll dabble freely in anomalous phenomena both earthbound and without boundaries in a space-time continuum.
We'll just have to see.
Parsing through the rhetoric is nigh impossible, options are better for guessing at agendas: the hearing is a bid for better transparency (a bill to mitigate over-classification) and cease the gag orders, reprisals and protect whistleblowers.
The witnesses believe what they are saying in regard to non-human intelligence and surveillance from other actors, either from this world or another and possessing technology far beyond our own.
Or they are highly paid highly trained liars (very likely) who prefer the lies above divulging secret classified information which carries consequences...lies less so.
Or a psychological tactic to sow discord among the population.
All in all business as usual - lots of questions, not many answers. But at least a fascinating topic.
Great points. It's also a pretty good distraction as lots of folks find it more fun and a lot less stressful than reading about the latest political shenanigans.