As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)

Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by XorNot on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:58PM (#34671827)

This is not remotely a safe assumption. We know interstellar travel is resource intensive, but it's within the capabilities of todays technology. It was probably doable with some effort with 1960s technology.

This is the same basic error of reasoning where people say because the moon landing happened, faking the moon landing was also possible (it wasn't: video editing technology of sufficient capability did not exist - space flight and CGI are two entirely separate lines of technical problem solving).

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by danenania on Sunday February 05, 2023 @09:47PM (#34672668)

It’s not within today’s technology to actually visit an extrasolar planet. We could possibly do a flyby with a solar sail but we don’t have a way to slow down and enter the planet’s atmosphere. And even that only gets us to the relatively small number of stars that are in our immediate vicinity in any kind of human-civilization-scale timeframe.

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by hgsgm on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:37PM (#34687912)

Space is 3-dimensional and astronomically, cosmically huge. Getting from a planet to space is trivial compared to getting from space to a planet.

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