Reaching The Great Attractor, Hiding UFO Accidents, NASA Avoiding Searching for Life | Q&A 285

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00:25 Can government really hide any unwanted UFO incidents?
05:11 Is NASA avoiding looking for life?
11:21 How will Hubble Tension help science?
16:52 What happens when we reach The Great Attractor?

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[CybAtSteam]

Unidentified doesn't automatically mean "It's Aliens". They call them UFO/UAP for a reason. Otherwise they would just call them AFO.

[NewsandScience]

I agree with Fraser that the astronomy community is generally very open and that the US government is not enforcing a hard suppression of sightings of UFOs/UAP that could be alien spacecraft. However, particularly in the 1950's and 60's and maybe longer, there was a consistent effort by the US Air force to downplay and ignore such reports. The main reason was that it was thought that giving them credence would make the public think that the Air Force and Navy aircraft were Not in control of the skies over America. There was a degree of the condescending view that the American public might get hysterical about such fears.
Re current events, if an alien mothership did fly in front of a wide-angle space telescope or one of the big telescopes on Earth such as on Hawaii or Peru at a slow enough speed that a good, clear image was gotten, I concur with Fraser that the astronomers who got those images would probably pretty quickly and enthusiastically share them with both other astronomers And with the NY Times and CBS News or other major news sites. The government has no strict censorship of such and probably no censorship. The reasons why the first astronomers to see it might ponder and delay sharing it are, first, they would want to make absolutely sure that it was really an alien spaceship and not a stealth fighter jet or balloon or drone, and secondly, they would have some fear of being ridiculed. In other words, they might think that UFOs aren't what serious astronomers report on.
Another possible reason why alien spacecraft haven't been definitely spotted or recorded by astronomers, professional or amateur, is that the ship might be moving too fast on a near Earth trajectory for a good image to be had. Or, and this may sound like science fiction, but the aliens may have a technology that allows them to bend both optical light and radar waves such that they are invisible or the resulting image is so distorted that it no longer looks like a spacecraft.

[Aetoski]

I love your videos Fraser... best Space Science channel on YouTube!

[terryhayward]

The question of life on Mars, I think that it is unlikely that there is no microbial life there since microbes can survive very extreme conditions for a very long time.
Finding it is a different question.

[ArchieLundy]

TY Fraser. The inconsistencies in the expansion rate measurements isn't a crisis it's an opportunity. This 'crisis' will result in a deeper understanding.

[patrowan]

You are correct about UAP's and coverups, but the current super-academic, multigenerational approach to "building the foundation for the case for life" elsewhere in our Solar System just leaves me cold. A few Hail Mary passes that could potentially revolutionize our knowledge in the short term are justified. A transparent adventure like this could reinvigorate public interest, and give those of us who witnessed first hand the first artificial satellite what we crave before we die.

[creightonfreeman]

The thing about the Viking labeled release experiments that is annoying is that all the scientists approved of the protocol before it was deployed...and didn't get the results they thought it should. If it had found nothing they would not be claiming the experiment was bad. It is a poor scientist who discards or disregards data just because it doesn't match their preconceptions. They never could explain how abiotic chemistry could match the results; there was a control for that.

[AstroBalrog]

That Vatican astronomer is Brother Guy Consolmagno - my boss! He's one of the best orators on the planet!

[Fifthsboy]

Hey Fraser. Any chance you could start saying the date of the show at the start? Listening on Spotify stream while working rather than YouTube there's no context to when the information is relevant. No problem for scientific principles but things like space missions or astronomy it can matter. Cheers mate!

[joaodecarvalho]

Dude, there are a lot of weird things flying around, over military bases, and the government says they don't know what these things are. At the same time, they say they are not a threat. Something very weird is going on.

[jonnylightbody]

Could any life in the sample return kept in the rover die if not getting light for example if kept in sealed containers.

[swapshots]

Your astronomer argument is the same one I used for the health administration during Covid.
You cannot possibly believe that the 100s of thousands of Hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses, insurers and multiple agencies are all conspiring to lie to you.!

[jonnylightbody]

Amateur astronomy is called "amateur" not because it implies a lack of professionalism, but because the term amateur originates from the Latin word amator, meaning "lover" or "enthusiast." Amateur astronomers are individuals who pursue the study of astronomy out of passion and personal interest, rather than as a paid profession.

[Captain-Cardboard]

For the next Mars lander could they not just have a microscope on board, scoop up some soil and have a look to see if anything's wiggling around in it??

[Ultimate_Hater]

For the first answer: Essentially astronomy isn't a monolith. It's literally impossible to silence every astronomer around the world. That's why it's impossible to hide an actual alien visitation.

[thegrumpyoldmechanic]

So multiple aliens ships travel light years to get to earth only to crash. 😂

[vergyltantor]

Interesting study recently trying to explain the acceleration of the universe without the use of dark matter and dark energy. The idea of timescape cosmology is that time advances slower in areas with high gravitation and faster in a void that has less gravity. The hypothesis is that as the universe expands, the voids become larger and this is the reason for the apparent acceleration of the universe as we look back in time/distance.
The study was released by an astronomy team from the University of Canterbury and the German University of Heidelberg. It will be interesting to see if this has validity with further study.

[GeorgeOzier-grzq]

Look, if aliens have figured out the "hyperspace" speed of light dilemma, they won't need spacecraft to get around.

[carloslaue]

Thumbs up for the absence of blinking text in the intro 👍

[BuddyLee]

You could never hide spacecraft approaching earth? But the WTF did we not notice Oumaumua until it was already leaving earth? That seems like a pretty big gap of seeing something that reportedly wasn’t even trying to hide.