Do you believe in UFOs & flying saucers ?

There could also be a huge scale difference.

Maybe you could have advanced civilisations the size of ants or even microbes. Who says biology has to be this big?

Sure they could have been buzzing around for millennia and we didn't even notice.

Or, they could be absolutely huge and we are like ants to them.

It'd be rather boring though if the only life in the universe other than us was moss lol

fryup wrote: »

isn't Boyle Co.Roscommon a UFO hotspot ?

No, it’s URO hot spot (unidentified rossie object).

buried wrote: »

The most interesting aspect about the Tuatha De Danann myth is that it mentions a group of people coming from a seafaring boat in the first place, at a ancient age where most historians think the human race was still living up the trees.

They are a euhemerism of celtic gods (possibly along with the Fomor). They were written as the fourth of seven waves of migration. So the other three came pre the tree dwelling stage of evolution?

Sorry, I see now that my last remark was a bit snarky. It's important to note the time that these stories were written down, the first few waves seem to b linked to religious terms where the word Nemed seems to be linked to the word blessed (I wonder of it's linked to the Naomh) and have a link to Scythia, the reason Scythia is chosen is that the Scythians were supposed to be descended from Japeth who was a sonof Noah (so we have direct link to the bible. Parthenon is a variation on Bartholomew, the Tuatha de Dannan and the Fomor seem to be the older gods treated as real people where you have the Tuatha as a "light" force and the Fomor as "dark".
The Fomor were also linked to the sea and sometimes referred to as Lachlann, which also used for vikings. This may be an attempt to denigrate the pagan vikings by linking them to a monstrous group of people.
the Fir Bolg seem to be the best candidates for a real group, and the final group were the Milesians who came from Spain. With them you get two links to Christianity; Mil having a link to Noah and at the time Spain was a very important center of Christianity so having Irish people descend form them gives us a bit of good breeding.

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Maybe aliens planted covid 19 here

Very unlikely...

...but after an extended period of Solar min, it could increase the occurance of panspermia (viruses, bacteria and strands of DNA can exists in space, carried on comets and meteorites). North East China had a small meteortie producing small amounts of airborne carbonaceous dust last October.

Good way for Enlil (of Anu & Ea), along with the merry crew of the Anunnaki (great bunch of lads) to prepare for a good harvest in 2029.

nthclare wrote: »

I've seen two in Co Clare, one near a place called Doolough near Kilmaley.
A creepy place that's for sure.

And another near Miltownmalbay, myself and two ladies were in the vicinity near the headland by the White Strand around 15 year's ago.

Definitely not a drone or optical illusion, two big orbs in the sky.
We didn't really get excited, funnily enough we didn't even report it.
Just had a laugh about it and said who'd believe us anyhow.

Supposedly there's a cryptoid doing well in getting noticed around Ballyvaughan/Fanore in the last few years.

Seen by a few people.

What is it supposed to be?

saabsaab wrote: »

Fair enough but what on earth are they? Especially after seeing the USN tic tac videos.

The truth is we don't know, and can only speculate, but some speculations are more fact based than others.
They could be any number of visual phenomena or sensor anomalies. For instance FLIR throws up various kinds of thermal anomalies; and previous high-speed UFOs were detected on US military radar after new systems were installed, ie when the system was bedding down and its users were less familiar with it.

They could be released as part of a deception operation regarding experimental aircraft. The US is known to be currently developing experimental aircraft in various new major aerospace programs. Rival powers may develop counters. If sightings of UFOs exhibiting unusual characteristics are released then the rival powers have to sort the credible from the non-credible in deciding which to devote scarce resources to counter.
Or they could be hyper-advanced aliens capable of interstellar travel who came all the way to earth merely to zoom around within sensor range of USN aircraft and do SFA else of consequence.

Hoop66 wrote: »

Given the huge number of galaxies in the universe, that we know of, and given the huge number of solar systems in them, it's almost inevitable that there are other sentient life forms out there.

But...the distances between stars are so large that only a tiny proportion of those sentient life forms are likely to have the technology necessary to travel the huge distances. And if they did have the technology to travel those distances, they would have to have the ability to manipulate spacetime, so it's unlikely they hit a tree/got struck by lightning/etc and crash-landed in Billy-Bob's field in Buttfuck, Arkansas.

The only counter argument against life on the 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or so) habitable planets out there, is that of 'travel logistics'.

One has to remember humans have only moved injust 100yrs from getting barely airborne for no longer than 3mins in a farmers field, on board a shanty wooden single propeller craft. To re-usable rockets in the last few years.

Likely some combination of nuclear thermal electric (heating liquid hydrogen), 200MW electric-ion {39days travel time} or solar-electric 50kw, strap on (chemical) rockets (or something else) at each stage in sending humans to Mars 2030-ish.