Let me begin my posting of the day by answering that question at the top. There is no convincing truth about flying saucers and extraterrestrial alien being real, or not. In one corner are scientists who work in this field. That would include me, for I spent time at NASA's Ames Research Center on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence . But that was half a century ago. From Wikipedia : Historically, ufology has not been considered credible in mainstream science. [ 161 ] The scientific community has generally deemed that UFO sightings are not worthy of serious investigation except as a cultural artifact. [ 165 ] [ 123 ] [ 120 ] [ 166 ] [ 167 ] [ 168 ] [ 169 ] These researchers mostly believe that there must be life somewhere in the universe, and most probably, there should be some intelligence. But when I was at Ames, you would be laughed out of the room if you even talked about flying saucers. In other words, belief was very, very low. Today...
Again, nothing much going on around the world today, but this unusual hot weather could turn to snow in New York and New England this weekend . Cities like Chattanooga, Birmingham and St. Louis could challenge heat records today dating back more than 125 years. Then on Saturday, there could be some snowflakes in the northeast. Not much, and mostly only at elevation, but the first snowfall is always exciting for most. One bit of sad news is that the first American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, or Pope Leo XIV, a year and a half into service, found out that he has lung cancer. No details yet. Here is a video. Yesterday, I reported on the embarrassing situation of the USA being mediocre, if not poor, in excellence of airports and airlines. Those, unfortunately, could very well be mere symptoms of our possible decline as as the world leader.. On the other hand, according to Google AI: Many prominent analysts argue that talk of American decline is a recurr...