There have been continuing reports for decades of alien abductions. Last night one show included alien implants that the abducted people said they received.
There was a NOVA article in 1996 about alien implants investigating what they were. They did not get to document even a single case - not one person who claimed abduction would agree to x-rays, MRIs or similar test to investigate the evidence.
There still are so many headlines on alien implants. Whitley Strieber is an author whose book Communion is about this alien abduction and implant. There doesn't seem to be any further investigation or evidence around his implant - just the story. It is all so interesting and mysterious, and then goes no further.
What has been noted is by Joe Nickell, an investigator who says that what has been described as implants turns out to be shards of glass, jagged pieces of metal and carbon fibre.
And then go to Wikipedia - Wikipedia's entry is short and sparse. There isn't much to say without evidence.This is the stuff of story and opinion.
That summarizes all of our experience with aliens so far. But it remains tantalizing and compelling - we really do want to know if we are alone in the universe.
This hand-painted plate was sent off to the lily auction a few years ago - can you imagine the skill of painting on a plate? It seems amazing to me.
The surveys of what to expect in 2022 are published and we can guess ahead to 2022.
What do public citizens think is likely next year? Ipsos asked over 22,000 adults in 33 countries to give their personal predictions for 2022. "Although concerns persist about rising prices and the environment, most people felt things would be better in the New Year."
Here's the chart that got my attention:
How might we compare that with the percentage of people who think the world is flat? Scientific American assessed that between 1.28 and 2% of the 10,000 YouGov respondents think the world is flat. - they had to analyze the questions to arrive at this number. A Brazil survey found that 7% believed the earth to be flat. The article interviewed one of those and he owned a restaurant, and did not live deep in the forest. Another YouGov poll found that 3% of Britons thought the world flat. So maybe it isn't surprising to see the chart above.
Deciding who to trust in 2022 might be a skill for 2022. We've been guessing this throughout 2021 and here's more proof.
It has recently occurred to me that there are unanswerable questions that I don't want or care about getting answered. Take a look at just a few of the dozens of unanswered / unanswerable questions:
How exactly did life begin?
Why do we dream?
Is there a pattern behind prime numbers?
Can we travel through time?
Is our universe the only one?
What exactly is consciousness?
Where is all the antimatter?
As soon as you ask for "exactly" something answers then it is going to get difficult to answer. A question I don't consider important the unanswerable realm: Where did I come from?
But then I see a NY Times article and my curiosity is engaged.
Did an alien life-form do a driveby of our solar system in 2017?
The particular circumstance is a cigar shaped thing out there that was given the name Oumuamua — Hawaiian for “scout” — it was first noticed by a telescope on the island of Maui on Oct. 19, 2017, when it was already on its way out of the solar system, having passed closest to the sun a month before. It had come from outside the solar system, from the direction of the star Vega.
Author of the book The First sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Avi Loeb argues that it is no more preposterous to suppose that Oumuamua was a lightsail, a thin material that gets its propulsive boost from sunlight or starlight, either launched in our direction or anchored like a buoy in space, where we ran into it on our planet’s travel around the galaxy. In which case the age-old question — are we alone in the universe? — has been answered.
The NY Times quotes from Loeb's book “But the moment we know that we are not alone, that we are almost certainly not the most advanced civilization ever to have existed in the cosmos, we will realize that we’ve spent more funds developing the means to destroy all life on the planet than it would have cost to preserve it.”
The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth By Avi Loeb
Here are more montage images - I didn't have to bury the pictures in salt and vinegar potato chips to get the blue green copper verdigris colour.
I saw this funny facebook page name, but it consists of one posting in 2013. That's too bad. It's a great question. How common and far-ranging is this question as a topic and trend?
Our first example comes from 2018 with coverage in the Huffington Post of Senator John Kennedy (R-La.): Senator Says 'Aliens Won't Talk to Us Because We Can't Govern - They look at all of this stuff, and they go, ‘These people ― they’re 13-year-olds.'
That was over Trump's 'shithole countries' reference. Senator Kennedy compared the Senate’s recent nastiness to the notoriously sensational daytime television program “The Jerry Springer Show,” and facetiously posited that it was impairing intergalactic relations.
This might be a widely held sentiment. A recent Vox article title is 'We regret to inform you that aliens are probably not trying to talk to us'. It is a more serious article that looks at life in the galaxy theories.
"It’s weird, given that the universe is so vast, that we seem to be alone in it. Physicist Enrico Fermi was the first to spell out this dilemma, and it’s named after him: the Fermi paradox. The paradox is that, under some reasonable assumptions about how often life originates and reaches technological sophistication, we should be able to detect signs of thousands or millions of other civilizations. And yet we haven’t. Recent investigations suggest that the paradox may have a mundane resolution — under more accurate assumptions about how life originates, we are very plausibly alone... The disagreement between researchers who think that advanced civilizations must be extremely rare, and those who think that they’re common, is a fairly substantive one. For one thing, if advanced civilizations are common, then why can’t we see them?"
So we regular people are onto this question too - more than 3.5 million people expressed interest in attending a facebook event named 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us.' Area 51 is the military test area in Nevada associated with UFO conspiracy theories. The September 2019 event was dubbed Alienstock. There were many articles with concerns about safety, etc but the festival took place at the end of September. The coverage from TIME.com is HEREwith pictures of people dancing in their silver space suits.
Today's image of Beth Powell's garden asks us to choose a door.