I tend to think of alien life as the holy grail of science.

No, not cold fusion or dark matter or even exotic matter
with negative mass. No, alien life.

Life.

Think of it: No matter how vast the universe is, no matter
how limitless the number of worlds, it effectively doesn't
exist -- and never existed -- without life to experience it.

It's all about life. Everything is about life.

Alien life could tell us more about ourselves than all the
research on human origins ever conducted, even
pretending that paleo anthropology is a real science and
is of any value; we would still learn more from alien life
than it.

When it comes to evolution, even to strongest proponents
seem to have confused it with Intelligent Design. There's
an inevitability instilled in all. And a backwards (circular)
reasoning. Like, humans had to arise. We're the logical
conclusion to evolution or something... and whales... and
butterflies...

Anyone remember the famous Mars Rock, the one with
the fossil-like structures? There was a carbon isotope
test, it looked at the carbon isotopes within things that
looked like bacterial fossils, and those same isotopes
within the surrounding rock, and claimed that it could
determine once and for all, with absolute accuracy, if
said fossil like structure were or were not fossils...

This test was used to pronounce as a fact that the very
first and oldest fossils ever found on earth are indeed
fossils!

Anyway, this testing was performed on the Mars rock,
and now it's no longer definitive. The testing was positive
so it's no longer a definitive test.

That same Mars rock? One of the earliest of not absolute
first argument for dismissal was that the fossil like
structures were too small. No life had ever been seen
that was so small. And then people actually looked and,
yes, they found life here on earth that fell within the size
range of the fossil life structures in the Mars Rock. Once
they looked, they found them...

Imagine if we were speaking of actual life and not fossils
or trace evidence. Imagine if we could observe it. Imagine
if we could study it's chemistry, unravel it's DNA... discover
if it even has DNA!

Its tolerance of heat?

Cold?

Radiation?

Moisture?

Pressure?

How does it reproduce?

Bacterial life could potential fill whole libraries with
new information, macro biology could utterly
transform our understanding of biology, and send
our own bioengineering tech into new directions.

New technologies.

Alright, so I don't have to convince anyone. Life is
important. Ultimately, everything is all about life. So
what am I saying here?

The recent "UFO" idiocy -- the latest fake
"Whistleblower" and the staged hearings...

Let me just dispel the "Whistleblower" idiocy once
and for all:

Imagine a mafia hitman. He's a "Whistleblower," an
"Informant," spilling the beans in the mafia. Only his
every last word was submitted to the mafia prior to
his testimony, and they approved it for release.

Would you be impressed by his testimony?

So what if instead of our congress and media being
controlled by brain damaged people who also abuse
drugs and alcohol --- what if instead of that the knew
they were bullshitting and they had a reason for it.

One reason is the new legislation that is promised to
release all the UFO documents, the secrets the
government has kept hidden since at least the 1940s.

Bull and shit.

The legislation actually makes anything from space
the property of the government. And the origins
doesn't matter. Nobody has to "Prove" that it came
from the asteroid belt or another planet. So this
would cover earth technology.

Secondly, if there is life out there, we are on the verge
of finding it. There's an excellent chance that it has
already been found!

According to NASA, their super duper search for life
on Mars is actually AVOIDING the most promising
locations for life. The stated reason is the fear that they
might contaminate those places with earth microbes
carried on our rovers...

According to NASA, their imaging tech can't even see
typical earth bacteria. It's too small. And their lensing
can't see anything that small. So they're not even looking
for anything that matches bacterial life as we know it, or
is most common.

This is daft. It's insane. The only logical reason is because
such a mission is attempting to discover new information,
and they already find microbes of typical earth dimensions.

Alternatively: They are trying very hard to NOT find anything!

The JWST? Unless there's some experiments/equipment
that we don't know about, it's never going to spot life. But it
is capable of find the bio signatures of life within a planet's
atmosphere. It could even detect techno signatures -- the
tell tail pollutants in the sky, revealing a post industrial
society.

And we're no longer alone in the game.

There's China and Europe doing the "Science" thing, and
India coming up close behind.

...there's just too many open windows for the news of
a discovery to fly out of.

So maybe the hype is a sign? Maybe all the UFO propaganda,
though bullshit, serves a purpose that for once isn't designed
to ass rape you?

maybe, just maybe it's preparation.

Look. If you want a $50k price tag to sound cheap, show them
a $250k price tag first!

Finding evidence for an inhabited world even 100 light years
away could be disruptive. It could spark fear or panic. It
could potentially destroy some religions, erode society. But,
what if you at first started taking about aliens being HERE?

I mean, if you talk more and more about UFOs, about aliens
visiting the earth, then aliens 100 light years away start
sounding tame.

If we beamed them a message today, and they could read it,
we'd receive their reply in 200 years.

At 10% the speed of light, if we sent a probe to their planet
right now it'll reach them in 1000 years, and our first images
of their world would reach us in 1,100 years...

Of course, at 10% the speed of light the kinetic energy in
a collision with a pebble is going to vaporize our probe...

At 100 light years away, they're not monitoring out television
signals. They couldn't even see a nuclear weapon detonation.

We could launch a pre emptive strike, launch all the earth's
nuclear weapons at them, and if any of them ever reached
the alien world they wouldn't work anyway. They'd do
damage as meteorites, and they'd spread radiation but they
certainly couldn't still operate as nuclear weapons... not after
all that time. Again, assuming any even made it that far.

An inhabited world 100 light years from us would be absolutely
mind blowing... except when compared to the idea of them
already being here. Compared to walking in the earth, living 100
light years away might as well be The Land of Oz.




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