3 hours ago
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/4WUril5ij5g
VIDEO EXCERPTS: A group of astronomers says they've spotted more than twenty giant unidentified objects racing around the Moon, some of them forty kilometres across, and that the Moon serves as a base for them. The Daily Mail loved it. My bullshit meter did not survive it. But underneath all this nonsense there's a serious question that almost nobody is looking into. Let's take a look.
[...] The paper is not peer-reviewed and comes from three researchers in Ukraine. Two of them already made headlines four years ago when they claimed they had observed extremely fast UFOs over Ukraine. Their own institution subsequently published a report saying that the authors had an error in their data analysis. The distance to the objects was much less than they thought. So the objects were much smaller and much slower. The new paper basically has the same problem.
[...] No, I don't think any of these were alien spacecraft, but I do think it's very possible that sometime in the past billion years or so, extra terrestrials came by our solar system and had a look at our planet. And they'd most likely have done that from the moon. Maybe their technology is indeed still there.
And this isn't just something I made up. In 2013, two physicists argued in a peer-reviewed paper that we should search for alien artifacts on the moon. Their reasoning was that the lunar surface changes incredibly slowly, which is both great for observations and great for preservation of whatever was doing the observation. They estimate that an object a few tens of meters across could take hundreds of millions of years to disappear through impacts. Concretely, they say we might find instrumentation deliberately installed to monitor Earth or a dominant probe awaiting contact.
This search still hasn't been done. You also don't have a database dedicated to moon anomalies. Anomalous moon observations are usually lumped together with general UAP sightings. I think it would be a good idea to keep these separate because if you're looking to explain them, these explanations would have to be very different.
I mean, look, the European Union has a database for potato types. I feel like moon UFOs could get at least a spreadsheet. In other news, a physicist just wrote a paper claiming that some of the observed unidentified anomalous phenomena are dark matter. Chances are, if we ever find actual aliens, physicists will explain they're a previously unknown type of dark matter....
https://youtu.be/4WUril5ij5g
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4WUril5ij5g
https://youtu.be/4WUril5ij5g
VIDEO EXCERPTS: A group of astronomers says they've spotted more than twenty giant unidentified objects racing around the Moon, some of them forty kilometres across, and that the Moon serves as a base for them. The Daily Mail loved it. My bullshit meter did not survive it. But underneath all this nonsense there's a serious question that almost nobody is looking into. Let's take a look.
[...] The paper is not peer-reviewed and comes from three researchers in Ukraine. Two of them already made headlines four years ago when they claimed they had observed extremely fast UFOs over Ukraine. Their own institution subsequently published a report saying that the authors had an error in their data analysis. The distance to the objects was much less than they thought. So the objects were much smaller and much slower. The new paper basically has the same problem.
[...] No, I don't think any of these were alien spacecraft, but I do think it's very possible that sometime in the past billion years or so, extra terrestrials came by our solar system and had a look at our planet. And they'd most likely have done that from the moon. Maybe their technology is indeed still there.
And this isn't just something I made up. In 2013, two physicists argued in a peer-reviewed paper that we should search for alien artifacts on the moon. Their reasoning was that the lunar surface changes incredibly slowly, which is both great for observations and great for preservation of whatever was doing the observation. They estimate that an object a few tens of meters across could take hundreds of millions of years to disappear through impacts. Concretely, they say we might find instrumentation deliberately installed to monitor Earth or a dominant probe awaiting contact.
This search still hasn't been done. You also don't have a database dedicated to moon anomalies. Anomalous moon observations are usually lumped together with general UAP sightings. I think it would be a good idea to keep these separate because if you're looking to explain them, these explanations would have to be very different.
I mean, look, the European Union has a database for potato types. I feel like moon UFOs could get at least a spreadsheet. In other news, a physicist just wrote a paper claiming that some of the observed unidentified anomalous phenomena are dark matter. Chances are, if we ever find actual aliens, physicists will explain they're a previously unknown type of dark matter....
https://youtu.be/4WUril5ij5g