The average person can access telescopes powerful enough to observe objects transiting across planets or stars, or radio telescopes that detect EM signals. As for the gravitational wave detectors, while they aren’t exactly open to everyone, the kind of drive signature they’d detect is at this point completely theoretical. The closest thing to a feasible warp drive design that we’ve come up with still requires a material with negative mass to build. We have no idea how to get/make that, or if it’s even possible for it to exist. There’s pretty strong theory to suggest that it can’t.
You don’t have to trust authorities to tell you whether or not aliens have come to Earth. It’s just the unfortunate truth that the more things you take note of and consider, the less likely it seems.
Well, warp drives might not be on the only thing available. Solar sails? Generational or cryogenic ships? Heck, even hitching a ride on an asteroid. Or something even beyond our comprehension. Considering the drive signature is theoretical, what would we even look for? The ‘wow’ signal was a radio signature but from where? Could be a natural phenomenon, but then again, it could be artificial. There’s so much possibilities out there.
Solar Sails, Generational and Cryogenic Ships: We’d be able to see the craft slowly approaching us. Covering it up would be increasingly impossible as it approaches us because as the comrade from before said, telescopes are readily available technology. Even if there was a coverup of an international scale that had the support of every single institution, it would require dealing with thousands of amateur astronomers and utterly subverting scientific peer-review.
Wow: The Signal has never been repeated. It could genuinely be aliens who sent it by accident. Other more sensitive radio telescopes didn’t detect it though. The discoverer believes that while it isn’t impossible that the signal is extraterrestrial in origin it could also be some nonsense done on Earth. The signal band is protected but it could be interference from a close-by frequency or someone with a powerful transmitter making the funniest pirate radio broadcast ever.
Asteroid: If they were trying to communicate with their folks back home, there’s a good chance we’d pick it up. Furthermore, maintaining a livable space station on an asteroid will generate waste heat and such. Our astronomers would probably notice such an anomaly.
Possibilities aren’t plausibilities. Like, I don’t know if you know what “not a single thing ever, that can’t be better explained than to say it was aliens” means. I’m not going to trust Donald Trump to deliver on this one, considering the facts.
The average person can access telescopes powerful enough to observe objects transiting across planets or stars, or radio telescopes that detect EM signals. As for the gravitational wave detectors, while they aren’t exactly open to everyone, the kind of drive signature they’d detect is at this point completely theoretical. The closest thing to a feasible warp drive design that we’ve come up with still requires a material with negative mass to build. We have no idea how to get/make that, or if it’s even possible for it to exist. There’s pretty strong theory to suggest that it can’t.
You don’t have to trust authorities to tell you whether or not aliens have come to Earth. It’s just the unfortunate truth that the more things you take note of and consider, the less likely it seems.
Well, warp drives might not be on the only thing available. Solar sails? Generational or cryogenic ships? Heck, even hitching a ride on an asteroid. Or something even beyond our comprehension. Considering the drive signature is theoretical, what would we even look for? The ‘wow’ signal was a radio signature but from where? Could be a natural phenomenon, but then again, it could be artificial. There’s so much possibilities out there.
Solar Sails, Generational and Cryogenic Ships: We’d be able to see the craft slowly approaching us. Covering it up would be increasingly impossible as it approaches us because as the comrade from before said, telescopes are readily available technology. Even if there was a coverup of an international scale that had the support of every single institution, it would require dealing with thousands of amateur astronomers and utterly subverting scientific peer-review.
Wow: The Signal has never been repeated. It could genuinely be aliens who sent it by accident. Other more sensitive radio telescopes didn’t detect it though. The discoverer believes that while it isn’t impossible that the signal is extraterrestrial in origin it could also be some nonsense done on Earth. The signal band is protected but it could be interference from a close-by frequency or someone with a powerful transmitter making the funniest pirate radio broadcast ever.
Asteroid: If they were trying to communicate with their folks back home, there’s a good chance we’d pick it up. Furthermore, maintaining a livable space station on an asteroid will generate waste heat and such. Our astronomers would probably notice such an anomaly.
Possibilities aren’t plausibilities. Like, I don’t know if you know what “not a single thing ever, that can’t be better explained than to say it was aliens” means. I’m not going to trust Donald Trump to deliver on this one, considering the facts.