this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
53 points (96.5% liked)

UAP - The Most Active Community Discussing UAP/UFOs

1274 readers
1 users here now

A community for civil discourse related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Share your sightings, experiences, news, and investigations. Everyone is welcome here, from believers to skeptics and everything in between.


New to Lemmy?

See the Getting Started Guide


Want Disclosure?

Declassify UAP offers a tool that automatically finds your representatives and sends them a prewritten message.


Community Spotlight

Featured Posts and User Investigations


Useful Links


Community Rules


Other Communities

[email protected]


If you're interested in moderating or have any suggestions for the community, feel free to contact SignullGone or HM05_Me.


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An unbelievably fast rocket? Seriously? We don't really know how we're going to get to other stars but one thing is for sure: it will not be with rockets.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We don't have any other workable idea, and there doesn't appear to be enough physics we don't know to allow for anything else

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, Max Planck was told not to pursue physics because there wasn't much left to discover anyways. By a physics professor. 150 years ago.

You're statement is based on incomplete knowledge. There is now way to know how much there's left to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Believing that everything that needs to be known is totalitarian by definition.

Once truth becomes a known quantity, Correct Action becomes objectively calculable, and non-compliance to the Correct Action is seen as completely devoid of value.

This is why totalitarianism tends to become dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We have plenty of workable ideas. Ion drives, fusion drives, nuclear drives to name just the most common ones. These probably won't take us to the stars, but at least to the solar system and they're not rockets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quantum theory was born of people filling in the corners of what was believed to be a complete physics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right and now that hole was filled in. We have less holes left, and we often have characterized the holes even though we don't understand them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

there doesn't appear to be enough physics we don't know to allow for anything else

until we do! (my admission that we hopefully have so much more to discover).

however, the issue at hand is the here and now. we have theroms that describe what we know to be theoretically possible - but those are far and away from what we think is possible now, e.g. LK-99... AFAIK, there is nothing that says we cant have RT/AP superconductivity, but did we really just make a breakthrough?! (hopeful, fawning sounds)

we do still have to deal in what we currently think of as "reality" and things like FTL and the tech required for alien visitation are way outside of our current understanding - to the point of being magic. surely no one should accept "magic" as an answer to a serious question on possible alien visitation.