Ask Me Anything: UFOs, Aliens, and The UFO Movie
In which I answer a plethora of your questions! Everything you ever wanted to know, and plenty you didn't
Just a short little post today. Yesterday I did an “Ask Me Anything” about The UFO Movie, which is now on YouTube:
And don’t forget: the full movie will be released on YouTube tomorrow (Yay!), just in time for your New Year’s Eve movie time.
Back to our regularly scheduled Substacking next week!
Climate-change - cover something that matters
A possible explanation for the Fermi paradox..., one that I have not heard elsewhere. (I don't claim this is necessarily correct. It does not seem to be obviously wrong in any way I can see, and it does resonate with me personally.
Assumption #1: We are somehow asking the wrong question about traveling faster than the speed of light, and there IS a way for an advanced civilization to efficiently pop around the universe.
Assumption #2: We are not even vaguely, kinda-sorta close to that advanced. Those civilizations are, say, half a billion years more advanced than we are.
Assumption #3: (This one I'm tempted to call an observation rather than an assumption) We are a staggeringly egotistical species. We really think highly of ourselves, based on little or no evidence. The assumption part is that this patting ourselves on the back is completely unjustified.
In that case, there is nothing surprising about not being visited. These civilizations are half a billion years more advanced than us. We are half a billion years more advanced than earthworms. Human scientists who study earthworms do not feel compelled to visit every last colony of earthworms on the planet. We just aren't as interesting as we think we are..., we don't stand out from the pack in any way.