UAP & ET - Do you believe?

CameronBornAndBred said:
This was in Haywood county, NC. I lived midway up a mountain (Cold Mountain, same as the book/movie). My backyard was thousands of acres of wilderness, and I'd often spend my days hiking up to the closest ridge and back down. A friend joined me one day, it was mid-Spring. The hike up was uneventful as always, but on the way back, both of us stopped when we heard a very low but LOUD gutteral growl. We both looked around, and asked each other if we'd heard it. It seemed to come from no direction in particular. After a long pause, we continued on.

We made it only 5 feet before again, we were stopped. This time we didn't hear this, we FELT it. This long lasting growl punched right through both of our chests. You've never seen two people make it down a mountain in such record time as we both did. Picture that cheese rolling race in England, but we're flying through the mountain laurel, half on our feet, half on our butts as we made the quarter mile trip to my yard.

There are no animals in those mountains that could do this. The only one that could have a remote chance is a bear, after a talk to the locals (including the ones that hunt bear), that was ruled out.

My friend and I were pretty well shaken up the rest of the day, but it didn't keep me from hiking again, I was just maybe a little more mindful of my surroundings.
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There are definitely true believers in this area. I ran a camping store for a number of years, and overheard some very earnest discussions regarding Sasquatch.
 
"All these worlds are yours, but 'hands-off' Europa" - unnamed alien entity in 2010 (the movie).

Avi Loeb has an article up supposing other kinds of non-earth life that may be in our Solar System, with emphasis on the Jupiter moon Europa:
avi-loeb.medium.com

Do the Plumes of Europa Carry Frozen Bacteria?

Europa is a moon of Jupiter with a quarter of the Earth’s radius, 13.4% of the Earth’s surface gravity, a thin oxygen atmosphere, a third…
avi-loeb.medium.com avi-loeb.medium.com

OK, so the UAP discussion involves intelligent life out there.
Less emphasis has been placed on non-intelligent life that could exist in the solar system and beyond.
Anything of course that is non-earth would be a major story.
We might also have to evaluate our definition of 'intelligent'. Would you consider fish on earth to be intelligent life?

Neil Armstrong was first person to land on moon, ‘Neil. A’ backwards is ‘Alien’.

Larry
DevilHorse
 
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DevilHorse said:
We might also have to evaluate our definition of 'intelligent'. Would you consider fish on earth to be intelligent life?

Neil Armstrong was first person to land on moon, ‘Neil. A’ backwards is ‘Alien’.

Larry
DevilHorse
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Not the ones that I catch. ;)

I'm reading The Hail Mary Project, and I'm not halfway through yet, but it's premise entails just such a scenario, alien life that doesn't seem to be intelligent. (At least not yet in the book.) The "aliens" are microscopic organisms, but they carry a real threat and if not dealt with will doom the entire solar system.

PS, so far it's a really good book. Same author that wrote The Martian.
 
CameronBornAndBred said:
Not the ones that I catch. ;)

I'm reading The Hail Mary Project, and I'm not halfway through yet, but it's premise entails just such a scenario, alien life that doesn't seem to be intelligent. (At least not yet in the book.) The "aliens" are microscopic organisms, but they carry a real threat and if not dealt with will doom the entire solar system.

PS, so far it's a really good book. Same author that wrote The Martian.
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If only we had alien vaccine research.
Doesn't SpaceX look like a giant hyperdermic needle?

Larry
DevilHorse
 
CameronBornAndBred said:
Not the ones that I catch. ;)

I'm reading The Hail Mary Project, and I'm not halfway through yet, but it's premise entails just such a scenario, alien life that doesn't seem to be intelligent. (At least not yet in the book.) The "aliens" are microscopic organisms, but they carry a real threat and if not dealt with will doom the entire solar system.

PS, so far it's a really good book. Same author that wrote The Martian.
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I really liked the book. It was a fun read. I was a little sad at the end though. I thought "The Martian" had made a fun movie, but making a movie out of "Hail Mary" might be kind of a struggle. One of the two main characters could be easily cast, but I'm not sure how the second main character would be handled.
 
CameronBornAndBred said:
Not the ones that I catch. ;)

I'm reading The Hail Mary Project, and I'm not halfway through yet, but it's premise entails just such a scenario, alien life that doesn't seem to be intelligent. (At least not yet in the book.) The "aliens" are microscopic organisms, but they carry a real threat and if not dealt with will doom the entire solar system.

PS, so far it's a really good book. Same author that wrote The Martian.
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Ggallagher said:
I really liked the book. It was a fun read. I was a little sad at the end though. I thought "The Martian" had made a fun movie, but making a movie out of "Hail Mary" might be kind of a struggle. One of the two main characters could be easily cast, but I'm not sure how the second main character would be handled.
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Agree, I enjoyed the book a lot, although some bits are a little silly (maybe on purpose?). FYI, for those who haven't read it, the threat of the alien microorganisms is not from infecting Earth-life.
I wonder if it would work as a streaming series - would fit with the somewhat episodic danger/resolutions and frequent flashbacks?
 
crimsondevil said:
Agree, I enjoyed the book a lot, although some bits are a little silly (maybe on purpose?). FYI, for those who haven't read it, the threat of the alien microorganisms is not from infecting Earth-life.
I wonder if it would work as a streaming series - would fit with the somewhat episodic danger/resolutions and frequent flashbacks?
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Hollywood decided a movie would be better, and it comes out next year with Ryan Gosling.

en.wikipedia.org

Project Hail Mary (film) - Wikipedia

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crimsondevil said:
Trailer for Project Hail Mary is now out: YouTube
The trailer looks very true to the book, FWIW. ...And it gives away the "second main character" discussed above.
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I saw that earlier today, I'm hopeful they've done it well. It looks like humor will be used often, just as in the book.
Now we just gotta wait til March to see how it turns out.
 
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