Hector Savage wrote: » Possibly an alien spacecraft ? - based on pure conjecture, really like saying there could "possibly be an intelligent race in the alpha centauri star system". It's based on nothing.https://twitter.com/AntonioParis/status/1059790821531246593
Terrlock wrote: » I find it hard to believe that a meteor could stop mid air and then reverse.....It would be more likely it's a military drone. Not sure why they'd be testing something like that over here. Maybe it was surveying someone on the plane.
Drumpot wrote: » One of the common things said of science is that “it always corrects itself” which is a bit of an oxymoron when you think of it. It’s the best method we have of explaining our understanding of our environment but it’s missing a lot of the pieces. But my point wasn’t to insult what we know, just put it into context. We really know f**k all about our universe and most of what we think we know is informed theory. I was also thinking that it’s funny (not from a “look at those f**king idiots believing a flat earth”) reflecting on how our understanding of our world/universe changes.
Rhys Essien wrote: » Better still,this sighting last Friday came the same week that the Harvard Scientists said that the Oumuamua object that passed through out Solar System could be an Alien craft. Coincidence or what.
kneemos wrote: » Didn't see any reports of stopping or reversing.
ThunderCat wrote: » Scientists don't think that. They are open to the possibility that life on non-Earth like planets can exist and evolve but they just don't know what that would look like as the only example we have currently of life in the Universe is Earth based lifeforms. Only ignorant people from future generations will think that and laugh at us. Our current model of the workings of the Universe fits our findings and analysis. Sure there are stuff we don't yet know but it's very different from people spouting that the Earth is flat while ignoring all evidence against it.
Drumpot wrote: » I find this sort of stuff fascinating, but don't want to think about the possibility of a close encounter anytime soon. The odds are not good that an advanced alien civilisation would want to help us on any level. Think it was Hawkings who said something like we would be like the native Indians and the Aliens would be like the westerners, but with super advanced weapons to just annihilate us. I cant comprehend how we could be the most advanced civilisation in the universe. I cant comprehend how scientists think that the only conditions that can lead to advanced civilisations are that of what we have on earth. I presume that's a theory cause with infinite systems surely there is the potential for alternative methods of life being created . . (like the way the a moon of Jupiter may harness an eco system below the ice!). Its actually crazy how little we factually know about even our own solar system. Future generations will look back on us and laugh heartily at our pathetic understanding of things like we mock flat earthers and the very idea that people thought earth was flat. .
kneemos wrote: » Apparently vthere was a meteor shower on the night. The Astronomy bloke reackoned the meteors could have been coming directly towards the pilots or we're a long way off so direction wouldn't have been clear.
Jenny Miniature Pension wrote: » Strange there isn't a better description other than 'two bright lights', assuming it came alongside their plane. Was there not a mention of hue/colour/shape, or was it simple non-flashing white lights, in uniform pattern. But interesting mention of bank right and climb at speed (Mach2 is 1534.54 mph in old money) Wasn't there mention of red light aound Shannon area last month?https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video...k--Ireland.mp4 Saw a red light(s) behaving strangely (non-linear and extreme flash), but over on the East coast, few miles offshore about 2mths ago.
AtomicHorror wrote: » I think it's vanishingly unlikely that we've been visited, but if there is other intelligent life in existence right now, we are even less likely to be the most advanced. Our planet showed up in the last 4 billion years of the universe's 14 billion year lifetime, and we showed up only in the last 1 million years. A species with even so much as a few centuries of lead time on us would be massively more advanced than us. Hell, we might not even have been the first intelligent species that showed up on this planet- 4 billion years is plenty of time to make a species like us and wipe the slate clean again a bunch of times.
Rhys Essien wrote: » That fella David Moore from Astronomy Ireland was on Newstalk a few minutes ago saying it was just a meteor they saw.What gives him the right to totally denounce at least 3 experienced pilots as to what they saw.They have seen everything in the sky that there is to be seen.What kind of a meteor fly’s alongside a plane and then suddenly shoots straight UPWARDS. I remember reading a story a few years ago about a lot of pilots who see strange stuff in the sky but never want to go on record because their jobs could be on the line especially if their bosses think they’re going a bit crazy.
Rhys Essien wrote: » I remember reading a story a few years ago about a lot of pilots who see strange stuff in the sky but never want to go on record because their jobs could be on the line especially if their bosses think they’re going a bit crazy.
buried wrote: » Ha! Too Sci-Fi hardcore for me Hec! Nice theory on 'the fourth dimension' in 'From Hell' by Alan Moore though, which I am currently fireside reading
buried wrote: » Very cool. Love hearing about this sort of stuff when its from reliable sources like numerous air pilots. Whatever it was, these people definitely saw somethng they can't explain. Could be anything. Could be the fourth dimension breaking through some sort of time or energy slip. Very cool listening to the recordings
vicwatson wrote: » What do you think it was?
Hector Savage wrote: » Have you been reading Cixin Liu?
wexie wrote: » not even remotely, I stated in my post that I don't think it's likely it was aliens, just curious as to what makes you sure it wasn't. But I see you don't have much of an answer for me?
simonw wrote: » corner of hells wrote: » Granard is in Longford , that in itself is the explanation. They turned around when they couldn't find signs of intelligent life
corner of hells wrote: » Granard is in Longford , that in itself is the explanation.
wexie wrote: » I think was can safely assume that if it was military it wasn't Irish. That'd be less likely than aliens.
