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19.05.2025 10:27
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Very late edit: I typed asteroid when I meant comet. I was talking about comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
To answer the question more directly, the field is still very young and there's so much more to do, so in some ways that's a concern for the future. The balance is currently coming from the diverse approaches and philosophies of different research groups but it is something to keep addressing!
All the schools of thought still need the same next steps though. Better telescope technology, better computational analysis (especially for the complex systems approach). It still matters that we can describe atmospheres and surfaces
Combined with other approaches like this, it becomes more about spotting the telltale signs of evolution and complexity rather than focusing on the specific ingredients or products in isolation. All of this is still just one school of thought, but I think is a wise one
One small example: rather than focus on whether or not the existence of a gas is something we would consider a biomarker, we could look for gases with gradients either in altitude (surface biology?) or in different locations on the planet
But that isn't really how we define life. We aren't just gas producers. What really looks different on Earth compared to other planets are complex systems generating the overall distribution of organic molecules and how the detected atmosphere is interacting with the planet's surface
But there are other approaches. Some are focusing less on looking for evidence of specific molecules as biomarkers but instead looking for complexity and interactions. Our life makes lots of stuff that can be made without life like oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane...
Sorry, only just saw this! You're asking the questions the leading researchers are asking themselves. There are different schools of thought. Obviously it's understandable to be interested in finding signs of life as we would expect when the alternative feels potentially limitless
Been super busy with work and some health stuff but doing great! Trying to be a bit less online at the moment!
Everyone’s comparing Expedition 33 to Final Fantasy because it’s the RPG they can name but really it’s Xenoblade Chronicles I feel all over this wonderful game. The narrative, the character relationships, the universe, the world-building, the way the narrative is delivered, the mystery
- The supposed amount detected would be obscene if it created by anything remotely like Earth life
- It would presumably have to be a different biological mechanism that produces it given the relative lack of oxygen detected
Some points about the exoplanet DMS discovery not getting as much focus:
- Evidence isn't strong enough to confirm it's there
- Only having a biological origin on Earth doesn't mean it cannot have inorganic origin
- We've found DMS on a completely dead asteroid we've visited
I’m reading Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in Spanish for the first time. Read it in English several times. I’ve only just realised that when the injured guy at the start says “lo sa raptor”, he isn’t trying to say something in Spanish. He’s literally trying to say velociraptor. Lo sa raptor
Scientists did not bring dire wolves back from extinction: https://GeneticJen.micro.blog/2025/04/09/scientists-did-not-bring-dire.html
Did Colossal Bioscience really bring dire wolves back from extinction? Absolutely not. Why not? And what did they do then?
Grey wolves genetically modified to have physical traits resembling dire wolves is going to be something we have to explain over and over and over again and I'm already tired
Anyway, I'm tired of writing. That's where we're at now. In the near future some children will use remote viewing to bring down a UFO and the group can go public and show us that they are real. Or maybe that won't happen. Watch this space I guess
He's being seen by Nolan, who isn't a medical doctor; just the resident expert in all things alien. And it's respectable experts like Nolan and Grusch that are making US politicians take this stuff seriously, potentially wasting more taxpayer money and it STILL comes back to Skinwalker Ranch lol
Anyway, Garry Nolan is a respected scientist but laypeople think that makes him an expert in everything. Even relating to immunology people think he can do anything. That Jake Barber guy (helicopter pilot) thinks he was radiated so much that he's worried about cancer. Did he go to a doctor? No...
You can see this in interviews where they use the same terms for things like NHI meaning non-human intelligence. Jason Sands uses "NHI" in his interview with Joe Rogan. Joe said he prefers "aliens" and Jason said he does too. You can tell he's been told to use this term to be taken more seriously
While I'm on it, Jake Barber also said that gay people are better at it than "normal people". Considering this group all work together and reinforce each other, it's hard to tell if calling straight, neurotypical people "normals" is trait of these individuals or part of the group philosophy
Watch any interview and more than 99% of the comments are supportive, believing everything he says, seeing him as an expert in all the fields he's working in. Yes he's saying the same remote viewing stuff (including that autistic people are better at it than "normals" btw)
When you tell UFO fans that a highly successful research scientist and business man has UFO wreckage in his possession, it suddenly sounds a lot more legit. People don't necessarily know to ask why the immunology professor is doing that work for government bodies
What's common in this UFO world is for the psychic to be working on propulsion research. It's like when the creationist archaeological scientist who proves the world is 6000 years old is actually a dentist. Garry Nolan works on everything. Analyse ship parts? Alien DNA? Telekinesis? He does it all
In some ways, things are the same as they always have been. What's new is that some of the believers coming forward have roles that make them seem more credible to laypeople. Here's a perfect example: Garry Nolan. An expert immunology research scientist (not a medical doctor)
It actually makes people like Bob Lazar seem more legit as he doesn't appear to be involved with them and he claims it's all just regular biological aliens from another planet. Almost feels boring compared to the remote viewing and dinobeavers. But he's also a fake physicist and demonstrable liar
It all comes back to Skinwalker Ranch. The problem with having people with decent security clearance who genuinely believe this stuff is they can convince others to get on their side so easily but when the sources become the sources of the sources it's like a self fulfilling prophecy or cult
We'll ignore the contradiction that they're inter-dimensional beings but also from a specific star system. Or I guess they're from there but use their inter-dimensional abilities to get here? I guess we'll find out soon enough after Barber's kids bring one down for us
Someone asked him to draw the star map and it turned out the creature was from a specific star in a constellation. I mean it was a star that isn't actually in the constellation he names but let's not dwell on the details. Who confirmed this for him? Whistleblower David Grusch
You can watch an awful Joe Rogan interview with Jason Sands. He had close up encounters with UFOs when he was a kid and THEN was lucky enough to meet an alien face to face. The alien told him about some materials (that he never decided to look into) and showed him a star map