We know that if we travel faster, we go slowly in time and there is no motivation to come back. So, this is a motivation for building very large spaceships where an entire community can travel. Your community travel with you, so the "coming back" does not even make sense. Maybe what I am going to suggest here is not a new hypothesis, but it just came to me. What if some of the large asteroids orbiting some planets in our solar system was in fact a disguised spaceship hiding an entire community of aliens? Ok Ok, I know, it's time that I quit Y!A.
2007-08-20 10:05:05 · 5 answers · asked by My account has been compromised 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Seriously, this is a crazy hypothesis, but I didn't know we could rule it out with current observations. Can we? After all, if it is disguised, we would have to look carefully to rule out the possibility that aliens are hiding inside. Can we do that?
2007-08-20 10:17:14 · update #1
The question is not whether there is evidence. Obviously, there is no evidence. The question is what do you think about it. In particular, can our current observations rule it out?
2007-08-20 10:19:43 · update #2
I think that your idea of a large community starship that travels on a one-way trip for many generation to reach another star is very realistic. I believe that someday people will actually do this. It is so difficult to accelerate a ship up to even a fraction of the speed of light that an interstelar journey would take thousands of years.
Aliens might be doing this now but I don't see any evidence that any asteroids are spaceships.
By the way, there was a Star Trek episode in the original series based on exactly your idea: a spaceship made to look like an asteroid.
2007-08-20 10:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if by quit u mean stop smokin the ganja then yea, its time to quit. weve flown unmanned space craft through the tails of commets to find out what they do, and as for asteroids...theres an asteroid belt with thousands, i dont think theyre all (or any of them for that matter) spaceships.
2007-08-20 10:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to stop taking the funny colored pills
somebody needs to be locked in a padded cell for a couple of hours....
2007-08-20 10:09:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you take the red pill or the blue one?
2007-08-20 10:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by Ice 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And the evidence for this is...?
2007-08-20 10:13:39 · answer #5 · answered by fundamentalist1981 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋