PCS 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Zoo Hypothesis, Breakthrough Listen, Fusion Rocket
31 Jan 2017
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Aliens in the attic: identified: stars, planets, aircraft and gliders, rocket launches, balloons, birds, ball lightning, meteors, atmospheric phenomena, and hoaxes. Reports from crazies, normal people, pilots, etc. Since the (cid:888)(cid:882)(cid:495)s, roughly a third believe we(cid:495)ve been visited by aliens. Wasn(cid:495)t really a story until he brought it up again in 1978. It was a project mogul: spy balloons intended to listen for. And people have admitted to making them. Two drunk guys started this trend, taking a board and a piece of rope to flatten the crops. If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, lets just make patterns in their crops and leave lol. The conspiracy theorists will also point to the scientific community. Scientific community disinterest/conspiracy: science is done via competition- find proof, reveal it, and win the. Nobel prize: no one studies it because there is nothing to study. Science- natural causes to explain observed phenomena, and testable.
