# Proof of alien life? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 14, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105 "2021-05-14T19:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/1 "2021-05-14T19:15:54Z")
This is a picture I took of some mysterious drawings that appeared on my neighbors’ walkway. To me this is incontrovertible proof that alien life has visited earth. Of course if you don’t agree it’s up to you prove me wrong 🤷‍♂️ [![](https://i.imgur.com/w2uz9F5.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/w2uz9F5.png) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/2 "2021-05-14T19:22:49Z")
I concur. That green circle and question mark are so intensely bright compared to the other markings. They seem to have an intense pigmentation and luminescence that is way beyond human chalk technology. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/3 "2021-05-14T19:36:45Z")
Input appreciated. The great thing about this board is that we have experts in so many fields, like HCT, who can contribute their knowledge and experience to confirming my bias. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/4 "2021-05-14T21:40:08Z")
I agree. I have sensed the Arachnids from Klendathu approaching, and the circled image **clearly** is their cockroach-bellied mothership. Tripler The only good bug is a _dead_ bug. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/5 "2021-05-14T21:55:17Z")
This is the most convincing evidence I’ve seen so far. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/6 "2021-05-14T23:43:28Z")
Parody threads belong in the Pit. Of course if you don’t agree it’s up to you to prove me wrong. 😉 Moved from MPSIMS to the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/7 "2021-05-14T23:49:53Z")
^^^ This looks suspiciously like the same bright green alien chalk on the sidewalk in the photograph ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/8 "2021-05-15T00:18:46Z")
Chalk is such an advanced technology and there is no way a species as primitive as humans could have developed it without the assistance of Ancient Astronauts. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/9 "2021-05-15T02:09:42Z")
Just to the right of the inhumanly bright question mark (Gah! this proves the Aliens speak our language, or at least know our punctuation!) you’ll notice a yellowish chalk drawing resembling a shallow bucket or tub. There’s some oval sort of alien being climbing out from said tub. An near its upper right you’ll see a small assemblage of what looks like a cluster of twinkly pointy stars. Good Og Amighty! It’s a map of the _Pleiades_, but from a different point of view than the Earth! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/10 "2021-05-15T02:40:01Z")
Calm down, you can clearly see it’s just a weather balloon and some swamp gas. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/11 "2021-05-15T02:51:14Z")
I think it’s worth noting that the United States government has chosen to remain silent on this issue and hasn’t said this isn’t an alien artifact. Surely they would have done so if this was something of human origin. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/12 "2021-05-15T03:40:11Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Parody threads belong in the Pit. Of course if you don’t agree it’s up to you to prove me wrong. 😉 Where’s your proof this is a parody thread? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/13 "2021-05-15T04:54:34Z")
I’m making it official with parodies. DD ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/14 "2021-05-15T06:31:20Z")
It’s just a childish copy of a page from the Voynich Manuscript. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/15 "2021-05-15T07:49:37Z")
I can’t believe that all of you are missing the whole point of this fantastic image! But then, I am an expert UFOlogist and the rest of you are not. This is obviously the work of at least a Type II civilization that is capable of harnessing the energy of multiple stars. The diagram at the top is clearly a schematic showing a gigantic black hole (on the right) sucking a stream of energetic matter and photons from a triple star system on the left. The distortion of spacetime caused by the tremendous gravitational force of the black hole has bent the stream of matter into the rainbow-shaped form meant to represent an accretion disk, and the multiple colours are meant to represent the intense broad-spectrum radio emissions due to the highly energetic particles streaming through it. The strange device on the left is obviously the energy generator itself, seen to be connected into the matter stream, and probably capable of producing the energy of a thousand suns. The rest of this extraordinary image, below the accretion disk and energy generator, is probably a schematic intended to show how the energy system works. Sadly, this civilization is millions of years more technologically advanced than we are, and it is doubtful that we’ll ever understand what they’re trying to tell us. We can only hope, should they visit us again, that they are kind and benevolent beings who will wield their coloured chalk in peace. I am trying not to think about that strange image on the lower left, which looks disturbingly like a planet exploding. I would suggest that if we come across any strange-looking creatures with an unusual number of limbs and antennae coming out of their foreheads, we should be extra nice to them, just in case. If they express a wish to take you to their saucer and examine you, just go along with it. You’re probably overdue for a colonoscopy anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/16 "2021-05-15T08:11:18Z")
I thought parody threads were supposed to have a link to the parodee. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/17 "2021-05-15T12:00:02Z")
Yeah, at least a broken link so we don’t get them over here. Or, some clue to which forum the original thread is in? It sounds lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/18 "2021-05-15T14:43:48Z")
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I can’t resist. . . > [@wolfpup](#): > > I can’t believe that all of you are missing the whole point of this fantastic image! But then, I am an expert UFOlogist and the rest of you are not. This is obviously the work of at least a Type II civilization that is capable of harnessing the energy of multiple stars. . . Are you channelling the former **SamuelA**? 😜 Tripler There. _ **Now** _ it’s a Pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/19 "2021-05-15T15:41:08Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Are you channelling the former **SamuelA**? Not at all, though I can see where one might get that impression. But note where I say that “… this civilization is millions of years more technologically advanced than we are, and it is doubtful that we’ll ever understand what they’re trying to tell us.” **SamuelA** , being himself millions of years more advanced than us due to his immense throbbing brain, would have no difficulty understanding what the aliens are trying to tell us, and furthermore, could have explained to us how the use of a black hole to harness the energy of an entire star is _ **perfectly simple** _, and could be done _ **today** _ with existing technology. All we have to do is just follow his advice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105/20 "2021-05-15T15:46:34Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > . . . and furthermore, could have explained to us how the use of a black hole to harness the energy of an entire star is _ **perfectly simple** _ , and could be done _ **today** _ with existing technology. All we have to do is just **follow his advice**. . . . which would be a perfect post in [the mansplaining thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/) FWIW, I have used the definition of a “Just” at work, where 1 Just = √(-1) ∙ 3.762 x 109 nanoWatts. Tripler Aaah, the memories. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-of-alien-life/942105.md?page=2)