THE SIGNS OF ALIEN LIFE

In a what is a very nice excuse and relief to step away from the subject matter of my most popular blog I get a chance to add a long overdue post to this one.

I must say that I have been very, very interested in the new study of solar systems other than our own. Well Pluto, Water on Mars, the James Webb Telescope (primary interest when launched) and new moon missions are a close second.

I have been expecting some oddities to be discovered during this time along with series or realisations that lead to new ideas and technology.

The sudden focusing on these Extra Solar Planets and their systems made me ponder as to the possibility that some other signal might come through? Of course the report popped up with the idea of pointing satellite dishes of large diameter, and multi arrays, towards systems with planets likely to be able to sustain life. Because it is here you are likely to be able to pick up a signal of possible alien life.

Of course you have to remember that no signal dies not mean no life exists. Your looking for civilisations that are advanced enough to have the technology to broadcast signals.

Now to put us into perspective when it comes down to some kind of first contact...

How long have we had the technology to broadcast a signal?

In the grand scheme of things we have barely invented it. Then I ponder to how long any potential contact had been able to broadcast a signal? A thousand years? Maybe tens of thousands of years?

Below is a link to an extremely interesting article that states scientists have reported some bizarre data regarding one of the star systems it's been looking at. Some mixed signals, they say, seem to suggest a civilisation?!

I had thought I might get to hear or read something like this but thought it would likely be in around five years or so when the James Webb Telescope was in orbit.

This early a sign is something of a pleasant and very welcome surprise!

Maybe if I can post more on this on my other blog it might make the human beings behaving like animals and idiots stop and think for a moment?

A little bit of perspective.

'Bizarre' star may suggest existence of 'alien civilisation' say scientists - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/34540449

QUESTIONING THE NAIVE

Why bother?

This was a question out to a journalist about the New Horizons mission to Pluto!

I have always been aware that there are people that ask this out there, Christ, I been have one in my family. But their naivety around me so much that I never want to bother giving then an answer.

If they are religious, fanatically so, I certainly won't bother because they will argue with my answer. They are not worthy of an answer because they will only attempt to belittle you with bizarre beliefs they simply cannot back up and science had proved completely wrong for decades now.

This is because there is one simple answer, an answer and details that this particular journalist misses time after time.

The Earth won't stay habitable forever.

In fact I can do as far as stating that though most astronomers would read this and think 'yeah 5 billion years' automatically I would answer 'no, no, NO'.

That figure was always a wild guess with no science to back it up. We have never looked inside our closest star and have no data to base this on.

The sun is far, far more complex and mysterious than Pluto and look how many surprises that had in store.

It's a stab in the dark at best and always has been.

But that's not really the issue here. The answer is not even relevant to the question of how long the Earth will be habitable for. Because in what would essentially be a blink of an eye in comparison a dozen other things would have taken place.

Ice Age
Global Warming continuing unabated (too hot)
Magnetic Flip
Continental Drift
Asteroid Strike
Comet Strike
Global Pandemic that proves untreatable

If I thought long enough I could probably add more.

These things must certainly will happen and in the blink of an eye compared to the sun turning into a Red Giant star.

We stay here indefinitely ... we die. Become extinct. Fact!

Manned space travel had barely grazed the surface of possibilities and so had the technology. Even after all this time.

Now imagine ...

We find out tomorrow that a Comet will wipe out life on Earth in a strike that week take place in five years time?

Firstly do you think we can create the technology and build enough space ships or satellites for people to survive the blast in those five years?

Not a bloody chance!

We also would be hard pushed to predict a strike from space five years before it happens. But then you could make the prediction ten years ahead of time and the outcome would be the same.

Now ever since I was a kid I have wondered whether we would be and to travel through space in decent numbers before a global extinction event ever took place? I was not sure and as we have not had men walk on Mars as predicted by science teachers when I was a kid I an far less certain than I was back then.

Our only hope, no there no excuses, is that one of these global events takes so long to occur we would have made ask the pigeon steps to save ourselves?

It also completely and utterly infuriates me, almost as much as the bollocks religious argument, that they point the finger of wasting money on space travel!

All the ducking wars that have gone on, the defence budgets, the public services, governing bodies and governments doing fuck all or fucking things up and they point the fingers at space exploration and travel?!

The word that springs to mind when I read questions like that either begin with 'T', end in 'K' and have 'HIC' in the middle or something even more insulting! Because they seem to think that the world's problems can be solved by throwing even more money at it than we have done for the past three decades?!

Yes!! Of course it will you blithering idiots! Lol!

Saints above!!

I really do not want to associate with people like that, really I do not!

After a global event wiping out everyone leaving few survivors I would not want to be in any sized party with people that are that naive. I would simply move on because these are the people that would get you killed with that narrow minded kind of thinking. Probably think that all life is wonderful and God created it this way?

No, it is most certainly not and no he did not and if you knew anything about life at all you would know the statement is not only false but utterly ridiculous.

My bloody GOD! I get so annoyed with how narrow minded people can be, I really do! It's like feeding a Locust to a frog in a vivarium. The Locust almost always ends up in the water if not eaten by the frog. It then totally ignores the land section with shallow water and keeps kicking itself headfirst into the corner of a tank like it's suddenly going to magically work with one out of the fifty kicks before it drowns! Turn left and kick a couple of times and it's saved from drowning. But, no ... it will continue to headbutt the wrong end of the cage until our perishes.

That's the word that pops into my head when I hear religious fanatics and hopelessly native people ... 'LOCUSTS', or the human version of.

You want to believe that utter rubbish then go right ahead ... but please don't alert everyone to tour narrow mindedness and naivety by asking out loud on the Internet very stupid questions!

Lmao!

New Horizons: Why bother exploring the Solar System? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33569565

AT THE FRONTIER

Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated by the Universe and the many possibilities it holds.

It is true to say and I've said it before that even as a child I didn't buy into some of the commonly held theories within the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

What for my imagination working over time though we're the probes and craft sent out to have close encounters with the planets in our own solar system, while wondering if my own theory that most stars out there have many planets of their own would ever be proven. To the latter I thought it probably unlikely to happen in my lifetime. Though my understanding of technology and science kept telling me that they would. So in a way, umm a very rare way, I feel quite fortunate.

Just like on Earth I was always more interested in the furthest distances. I always wanted my father to drive an extra ten miles to see what they're was to discover.

So it should come as no surprise to now read that Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper belt and beyond were asking my most dreamt of scenarios? Today, Tuesday 14th July 2015, the spacecraft that is called New Horizons, actually does with a few thousands miles of Pluto. A mission I seem to have waited for all my life.

A crying shame that Patrick Moore did not live long enough to see it! I would have dealt loved to hear his thoughts on the missions discoveries!

I also find it fascinating that the data collected today is so vast in size that it will take something like 18 months, give or take, to send it all back. My, my what an interesting 18 months I have ahead of me what with this mission and developments about to take place in my other blog subjects! Very interesting indeed!

I am fascinated with the images already taken that I had to check it was not April 1st, what with those impossible four large dark circles on the lower half of Pluto, the heart shaped light area and the dark whale shaped like area! I bet no one alive expected any one of those three and I for one cannot wait to see the results of these planned experiments!

Then there are the moons of Charon, Styx ... err Nix what it? The others ... ohh think one was Kerberos. Even then there are any new moons that could be found, rings, oceans, atmosphere and of course your in the Kuiper Belt! Coool!

So will there be any more planets, sorry dwarf planets lol, to add to the few known already? You just gotta wonder?!

In case you missed it, slept under a space rock or just been otherwise distracted there is a link below to explain what is about to happen.

What New Horizons Is Looking For On Pluto, And How http://flip.it/moxrX

THE DISCOVERING OF SUPER SATURN

How bloody cool is this?

Cannot believe I stumbled across this on the BBC app and not hard it in the news.

If you have no idea what I am on about then how about this...

A planet, it is claimed, has been discovered that has rings like Saturn and this being the first outside our solar system is not the biggest shock. This instead guess to the fact that the ring system is claimed to be 200 times bigger than that of Saturn!

Posting about this also gives me the opportunity, on this blog presently, to start that posts have admittedly been scarce but will vastly increased in frequency during 2015.

This is due to a victory that had led to financial benefit. In time I am going to acquire some ... equipment. Equipment that will allow me to view the night sky in greater detail than I can presently but also ... photograph it!

Distant exoplanet hosts giant ring system - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31001936

CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERSOLAR PLANETS ... CRAFT

Ahh finally!

Something interesting to me and a break away from the mundane and boring exposure of corruption and underhanded goings on in public office and organisations.

A long pause before it was finally out on the mainstream news, probably because of reports along what I cover and some nonsensical gossipy crap about people that are in effect unimportant?

This report by the BBC states they have now found a raft of new extrasolar, exo, planets though they all seen to use the same naming convention? Wait? Yes they do!

The new planet they believe is now the most Earth like they know is called Keplar 186f. Indeed all eight Earth like planets all carry the name of Keplar and a number?

Well that's going to become messy very quickly! Surely they can come up with something that makes a lot more sense?

You only have to use the naming convention we already have? For awhile?

Solar (name of star) Earth (like) 1, 2, 3

Might not be that easy but you could use ...

Betelgeuse Terrestrial 1

Betelgeuse Terrestrial-Water 1, 2 and so on
Betelgeuse Jupiter or Gas Giant

Though I don't doubt this is hard and could be far more so?

Well thus far we are basing what these exoplanets look like on what we know of our own solar system. But the universe is a big, big place and I am certain that out there we will have a myriad of surprises waiting for us.

To give a very simple example think of just of planets exactly the same as Mars but in every single possible colour there is?

Also the make up of the gases in a planets atmosphere, of it has one of course, could very much alter what it looks like from both sides of the coin, so to speak.

I always get excited at things like this and then groan at how primitive we are as a species and going backwards based on the ways our leaders want us to be out act... or dance, or jump....ooh sorry "How High?!" Lol.

In fact if they have the technology to be able to that someone is peering at them and day for instance they actually already know about us and our history so you think they will have a news bulletin stating ...

"Oh crap?! They are looking at us?! Shit they have found us?! Now its just a matter of time before [insert leader of your choice]'s delegation comes here duo of promises, lies, deadly flus and without thinking after our Gold, Water or Delithium Crystals Cap'n?"

Lol.

Or maybe they will collect up all their crap, badly made gadgets, refurbished and faulty gadgets and trade us for rare minerals and we realise when they are half way back their shit don't work. Oh and after they have convinced us to scrap legal aid of course?!

Anyway I for one an looking forward to many more reports like this, which I think will be increasing as I am sure there are more scopes going up. James Webb? Sorry I have sorry term memory issues from a condition I have, Fibrofog from Fibromyalgia.

Yes I am l very much looking forward to ever more discoveries and how they find a way of mapping what these far flung worlds actually look like?!

Now wouldn't that be uber cool?!

'Alien Earth' among eight new planets http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30705517