(Mar 25, 2023 11:49 PM)Dread.Reaper Wrote:  A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon's UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.

Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it's possible.

In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region by the means of "dandelion seeds" — small spacecraft that can gather and send back information, similar to the way humans send out spacecraft to explore planets.

Avi Loeb(opens in new tab), an astronomer at Harvard University, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — established in July 2022 by the Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and study "objects of interest" — released the draft, Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena(opens in new tab), on March 7. It is not an official Pentagon document but was carried out in partnership with the DoD. It has not been peer-reviewed.

https://www.space.com/alien-mothership-lurking-in-solar-system-pentagon-official-suggests

(Mar 25, 2023 11:53 PM)InspectorGadget Wrote:  Would not be surprised based on the amount of radio waves we just blast out into open space.

(Mar 25, 2023 11:54 PM)Komodo Wrote:  What is it like 50 billion lights years of space that we can observe so far.
I'd say someone else has a Voyager just like we do.

(Mar 26, 2023 01:40 PM)Drodeine Wrote:  All this alien talked propped up by the government for one world ruler... kidding.
Could be possible but do you think they would find any interest in us as a civilization?

• Seems very narrowminded given the sheer vast amount of space there actually is that WE of all things are the only intelligent living organism in all that is out there. - If thats the case, what the fuck happened?
  
• Given it all, its very possible they are just aas interested in us as we are with them, I mean we literally are shooting stuff into the deep space in a hope that SOMETHING will find it and respond.
  
• Hell for all we know we could be some 4th grade aliens Biology experiment. Like we cultivate germ cells, they could have just tossed a bunch of random DNA here to see what the fuck happened. And if thats the case, god help the Alien kid who did it. 🤣
  

(Mar 27, 2023 07:55 AM)AiDenti Wrote:  So some guy at Harvard saw a turd shaped rock floating in space and said "what if bro.."

Real news worthy stuff happening here.

(Mar 27, 2023 08:00 AM)Dread.Reaper Wrote:  Given the expanded knowledge was have gained within the last century alone, I think it is very plausible we have sparked the interest of another Species out there. If for any reason wondering what the flying pigs fuck we are doing down here nuking one another and fighting each other. Its gotta look rather fucked up from above dont you think?

(Mar 27, 2023 09:37 AM)AiDenti Wrote:  The idea isn't unreasonable. The part that's ridiculous is that a Harvard researcher smoked weed and hung out on 4chan until he decided to credit himself with a conspiracy theory that's been floating around since the 90's.

(Mar 27, 2023 09:42 AM)Dread.Reaper Wrote:  I am sure you meant to say the 1960's there, right? :P

(Mar 27, 2023 09:46 AM)AiDenti Wrote:  I was being conservative (since the internet really accelerated it). But the bulk of the rumor did start in the 50's after the Roswell incident. The cold war era propaganda arms race did a number on us.

(Mar 27, 2023 10:05 AM)Dread.Reaper Wrote:  It was believed Roswell incident was a Scout craft.
It is only logical that their technology would have advanced greatly since then as well and now can send unmanned probes instead of a full craft and risk loosing their own in a crash again lol.