Some real science: August was earth’s hottest on record. June and July also broke records. More so, summer of 2023 was Planet Earth's hottest by a large amount.
This is science Wednesday, and flying saucers are considered to be so far from reality to NASA SETI researchers, that this posting today might reduce my credibility with them. But, after all, NASA did finally create a position for UFO Czar, so maybe this would be a good time to assess where we are with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), now re-termed UAP for unidentified anomalous (or aerial) phenomenon.
- Czar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 and that was the final one, although they later had Stalin, and now Putin, so the authoritarian nature of their leadership has not changed at all.
President Woodrow Wilson selected Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board during World War I, only a year after Nicholas went. Thus, Baruch was the War Czar.- Wikipedia actually has a list of U.S. executive branch czars, and this term jumped under Franklin Roosevelt, for he had eleven of them, who were largely confirmed by the Senate.
- George W. Bush had 33 czar titles, 28 of them confirmed by the Senate.
- Barack Obama upped this to 38, and he had 39 actual confirmations.
- Donald Trump had 42 such appointees, 40 confirmed.
- Joe Biden...?? Surely John Kerry is Biden's Climate Czar. However, he is only referred to as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, who was not confirmed by the Senate. His salary is a secret, and Republicans are not happy with his position.
- Some Czar areas in the past included AIDS, poverty, asian carp, auto, bioethics, bird flu, border...and this goes on and on.
But back to NASA, looks like Mark McInerney is the world's first-ever UFO Czar. And, by the way, NASA did not use that term, only officially listing director of UAP research. McInerney has previously also worked at Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Hurricane Center and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
We are familiar with the 1947 Roswell Incident, but the recent government history started in 2007 when Congress established the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program Task Force.
It was disbanded in 2012 due to lack of funding.- But a plethora of sightings influenced President Donald Trump to use funds from the Covid-19 relief bill to have the DOD look into this matter.
- This group reported in a year, and said there was no proof that those objects were extraterrestrial in origin, but also none that they were not either.
- Thus, UFO's remained unidentified.
In October of 2022 NASA independently announced that it was establishing its own UAP study team, and named 16 members, including retired astronaut Scott Kelly.- This group earlier this month released a 33-page report, calling on NASA to work with other branches of government, and name a czar.
- The panel tried to keep his name out of the limelight, but NASA finally said that McInerney was the lead.
Said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson:
There’s a global fascination with UAP. Now, NASA has a statutory authority to look for life in the universe. Do I believe there's life in a universe that is so vast that it's hard for me to comprehend how big it is? My personal answer is yes.
But are UFO's really real? That is, a flying object from an extraterrestrial intelligent source? Here is a standard refrain starting with first sightings 400 years ago. But what about the science?
From SciTechDaily:
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever spacecraft, the now-in-space Parker Solar Probe will reach a top speed of 450,000 mph. It would take just 20 seconds to go from Los Angeles to New York City at that speed, but it would take the solar probe about 6,633 years to reach Earth’s nearest neighboring solar system.
How much energy will it take for an actual flying saucer at that size getting here from light years away? Keep in mind that the closest (there are a lot of dwarf ones closer) galaxy to our Milky Way is more than 2 million light years away, so that same object mentioned above would take 35 billion times longer. There are something like 2 trillion galaxies out there, and furthest is 13.5 billion light years away. We live in large universe.
Thus, the best options for interstellar travel are things physicists can only dream about, beyond anything we know, but not impossible. Essentially, we need to go faster than the speed of light using almost no energy:
Passing through worm holes.- A wormhole conceived by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen allows movement from one place to another by passing into an extra dimension of space.
- Say you want to explain a worm hole in space to a 7-year old. From Quora. Print out a map of the USA. Say space is like driving from Los Angeles to Jacksonville. Show them your finger going from Los Angeles to Jacksonville. Then, fold the paper so that Los Angeles and Jacksonville are next to each other, and take a pencil and make a hole through the paper connecting the two cities. Explain that, using that hole, you can get between the two cities instantly. Tell them this is how a wormhole works.
Physicists have created a holographic wormhole using a quantum computer. The team was led by Maria Spiropulu of Caltech.- Remember time machines from movies? Well, this same wormhole can theoretically send you back in time. Can you imagine restarting time? All of this is beyond my ken.
- Using warp drive.
- Sort of compressing space and time.
- One problem is that you need negative energy and or mass.
- But we know nothing about dark energy and mass, so who knows.
- In 1994 Miquel Alcubierre first propose his Alcubierre Drive.
- And some researchers are hopeful. Read this paper. Or this one.
So much for the science of UAPs. What do other countries feel about them? Glocalities (Global Nation of the Netherlands ) published a study of 24 countries:- 61% believe in some form of life on other planets.
- 47% believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe, 60% of them say we should try to contact them.
- 25% belive that the first form of life on earth arrived here from another pace.
- By country:
- Russia, Mexico and China: more than 60% believe in UFO's.
- USA at 45%
- Australia at 44%, South Africa and Turkey at 36%, Netherlands 28%.
- Nothing to do with UAP's, but do read Global Nation's 2023 Global Solidarity Report.
Another poll, from Statistica:
Statistica also had a poll of the USA, finding that more Americans now believe in aliens.
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