Maybe they have mastered the art of wiping a person’s memory; I don’t remember anything about aliens.
Do you? :smack:
The same reason they’d made such connections with god - anthropomorphizing. I don’t think you need to ask why ancient people saw ‘other types/forms of human’ in strange clouds any more then you need to ask why they thought the same of rocks, or trees.
Not quite; Capella is a double giant star 42 light years away, and is quite unlike our Sun; it is already off the Main Sequence and would not be hospitable for many reasons.
You might be thinking of Tau Ceti, 11.2 ly away and a G8.5v star; this is a reasonably SAun-like star and has five planets, none of which are Earth-like but there is just enough room to squeeze an undetected Earth-like terrestrial in there.
Eh? There are no “hospitable” stars, only “hospitable” planets – any kind of star could have a “Goldilocks Zone” in its system – is it not so?
Sorry, mate; that appallingly designed page is utter crap.
A good analysis of the phenomenon of apparent UFOs in ancient art is on this translated Italian page
and more pages in Italian which with luck can be translated fairly easily
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Many stars do not have a ‘habitable zone’ for various reasons- some binary stars occupy their own habitable zones, so no planets would be possible in those locations.
Capella is inhospitable for another reason- the two stars are close enough together that a planet in a wide orbit might be far enough away to be biocompatible; but because these two stars have left the main sequence, a planet in this location would not be biocompatible for very long. Before too many million years have passed, a planet in this location would be boiled or frozen as the stars expand and contract rapidly.
I could indeed be thinking of Tau Ceti. Certainly it’s a candidate.
There’s several potential destinations that aren’t impossibly far away.
And our ability to detect and examine exoplanets will certain improve.
By launch time, we might know pretty well what to expect at the far end.
But it seems that gas giants are plentiful at least, so we can re-fuel and keep going if need be.
This version of the sailbeam idea uses a magnetic brake to slow down at the destination.
…see slide 28 ‘How to stop when you get there’. Usefully, it uses the same magnetic sail it uses for acceleration.
**What would have to be true for “UFO” aliens to be real?
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Easy. Land the UFO on the front lawn of the White House, come out and talk to the leaders of the country, instead of landing in the Ozarks, grabbing hillbillies and shoving things up their butt (and not in a good way :D).
- YouTube 2:25
If a UFO ever makes it here it will be because they have discovered the technology that has allowed them to detect and hitch a ride on a universe so large we cannot detect. They can travel many times the speed of light in this universe with no expenditure of energy except entering and leaving. The hard part is they need to jump off at the right place. I really don’t think they will ever make it here.
The abductions.
Keep in mind they wouldnt be ‘aliens’, they would be demons.