ETs vs Time and Distance

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I’ve often noted that my first major in college was Astro-Physics, from which I departed early on, having trouble with the math and others who insisted upon The Big Bang Theory which I despised and still do, but that for another time.

Digging out some of my old text books (outdated) and other astronomy tomes in my book collection(s), I was surprisingly struck by how much distance and especially time it would take for an alien species from another star system to travel to Earth: thousands of years from the nearest star (Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri A and B cluster, a binary system), this at the speed of light, or more depending upon the method used for travel or less using the possibility of Einsteinian space/time warps:

https://www.universetoday.com/15403/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/

For other stars, often mentioned by Ancient Astronaut/Alien theorists and UFO/ETH advocates, the distances and times are even more vast.

Could an alien species or even von Neumann probes function that long or be doing so in the numbers indicated by UFO reports of alleged visitations?

Would an advanced extraterrestrial civilization still be extant after vast periods of time, considering the volatility endemic to the cosmos and/or the nature of civilizations no matter how stable they are (or were) in an historical period of time?

ETHers have got to give up the ghost of their imagined source for UFOs.

The idea is preposterous, on its face, especially for the alleged UFO visitations, past and present, making up UFO lore.

N.B. Picture used above from https://gailearth.com/about-2/interstellar-transportation-and-communications/physics-of-space-travel/

RR

(UFO) Blogging is dead?

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The Times Literary Supplement [TLS] writes in the January 25, 2019 issue that “the golden age of literary blogging is over …” and “ … as early as 2010 the blogs themselves were lamenting that the ‘golden age of blogging was over’.”

I couldn’t agree more, but then I wrote many times that podcasts were dead, and then they became ubiquitous and popular, although they are in a slump once again now.

Blogs, such as this one, are almost as dead as the Dodo.

UFO people have mostly slunk over to Facebook to spread their thoughts about UFOs, pasting commentary and past events online for the great unwashed.

But Facebook entries are as ephemeral as a wet snow, and Facebook is not an eternal medium, that’s certain.

Books have made a great comeback, as TLS (and others) note. So UFO authors have that medium to keep their ruminations alive for reference and heritage.

UFO commentary needs to be put on cuneiform tablets if they have any chance of being around for future ufologists.

Bloggers and Facebookers will be extinct sooner than later, and the moribund UFO topic with them.

And I am as unconcerned as those who stop by this blog for a whiff without leaving any trace that they have been here.

RR