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If they can travel enormous distances quickly, it's likely Imo that such technological sophistication that they'd already know we're here.
Atm I don't know of any plan for what we'd do if anyone arrived |
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over a year ago
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"They're already here ... some with profiles on fab 
Yeah and they usually message me 
I'll stop if you want me to  "
Nah. I’m studying you and your ‘friend’. You know the one I mean... |
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
They've had a few replies from my local sports direct and Weatherspoons  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There is alien life out there. Universe is 2 big with 2 many planets not to be.
Whether it's just microbes or advanced civilisations, they're our there somewhere |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"They've been sending out signals for years. We would be naive to think in a vast universe we are the only intelligent life form out there. "
True, it would also be a bit naive to think that they have built radio receivers both compatible with our frequencies, and able to filter out the distortion added by the radiation between here and there. |
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over a year ago
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We'll be waiting 40 years in between messages.
The nearest life supporting system is a star called Trappist-1 (yes....me!!) that is 39.46 light years from Earth.
Assuming life has developed there yet. Or its been and gone! |
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"They've been sending out signals for years. We would be naive to think in a vast universe we are the only intelligent life form out there.
True, it would also be a bit naive to think that they have built radio receivers both compatible with our frequencies, and able to filter out the distortion added by the radiation between here and there."
Indeed it would. It would be like 2 people speaking different languages trying to figure out what the other is saying. Let's assume they are far more advanced they may not even use radio frequencies, they could be using something more efficient. We will never know |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They've been sending out signals for years. We would be naive to think in a vast universe we are the only intelligent life form out there.
True, it would also be a bit naive to think that they have built radio receivers both compatible with our frequencies, and able to filter out the distortion added by the radiation between here and there."
Technology is capable of scanning and sending pretty much any known frequency.
Based on the laws of Physics, of course.
With that in mind, it does remind me of a scene from Red Dwarf, when Rimmer says “Transmit on all known frequencies, in all known languages...including Welsh” |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We'll be waiting 40 years in between messages.
The nearest life supporting system is a star called Trappist-1 (yes....me!!) that is 39.46 light years from Earth.
Assuming life has developed there yet. Or its been and gone!"
40 years .I suspect thats where all the call,-centres are.Why are alien spacecraft depicted as aircraft to a mile across size.Why cant they be the size of a leaf,or thousands of miles long hidden in a radio wave or light beem.. |
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An atom holds a universe, that's why they are so powerful when detonated. We are just an atom to another species. Dust to us is a pain to clean and yet look deeper and I am sure there are things living in dust particles, striving to survive as we sweep, Hoover or just blow them away. Make no mistake people we are a molecule in another world fish tank
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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"An atom holds a universe, that's why they are so powerful when detonated. We are just an atom to another species. Dust to us is a pain to clean and yet look deeper and I am sure there are things living in dust particles, striving to survive as we sweep, Hoover or just blow them away. Make no mistake people we are a molecule in another world fish tank
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This... 
But I am not convinced they would be friendly and might use us as fish food |
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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
At the risk  of being a smarta**e..... Why would 'intelligent life' want to have anything to do with a species that is unable to spell alien correctly?
Although, to be fair, who says 'alien' is the correct intergalactic spelling!!!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've watched enough xfiles to know this is a bad idea. Also, they are probably already here, stealing our minds and cloning us. Little green/grey bastards! |
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"I've watched enough xfiles to know this is a bad idea. Also, they are probably already here, stealing our minds and cloning us. Little green/grey bastards! "
Donald Trump!
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
Tell em that we come in piece, shoot to kill Jim  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Imagine if theyre a super attractive much refined species compared to us, itd be like looking at the hills have eyes for them all them years wasted to find a horrible human race |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"The distances are so great we will likely never know."
The distances are so great we will invent time travel before interstellar, we would have too. It's also what I think UFO's are, just a flash Tardis really & if that is the case are they aliens at all or just us from the future.
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"Everyone's presuming there IS other intelligent life apart from us. Originally Steven Hawkings thought not."
Arrogant in the extreme really, considering the size of the universe. I have no doubt there is life, but I also have no doubt we won't know for sure for several hundred lifetimes.
One of my favorite SciFi facts. Did you know that for all their warp 9 zooming about Star Treks travels have never taken them beyond the Milky Way!
When writing it Roddenberry realised that intergalactic travel even at the speed of light would be impossible because of the vast distances involved.
Smart man that.
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I think people are misunderstanding what we describe as space and distance with space/time. Space is curved so with wormholes, it’s theoretically possible to travel from one point to another without going the bid distance between the points. Instantaneous travel means distance is irrelevant. It might be possible to bend space/time so you arrive somewhere as you set off. I don’t think it’s distance that’s stopping aliens visiting. It’s lack of interest. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
Depends how intelligent that alien life form is and if they are cannibalistic |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?Depends how intelligent that alien life form is and if they are cannibalistic "
It's not them being canbabalistic. That means they eat each other...I am worried they will eat me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?Depends how intelligent that alien life form is and if they are cannibalistic
It's not them being canbabalistic. That means they eat each other...I am worried they will eat me"
true aliens don't like curry eat vindaloo |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They are coming I have no doubt. These scientists are exposing us to danger...
They will attack as sure as eggs are eggs "
You are talking utter gibberish,and btw radio signals etc have been sent out for nearly a century and we generally broadcast out into space anyway.
Stop being illogical. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Space fascinates me what’s out there and why is there even anything out there in the first place, what’s after the universe and what was there before really bugs me that we will never no |
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
It's perfectly safe. Even if they're out there, unless they have the ability to travel many times faster than the speed of light, we're much too far away to bother with. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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They probably put us on this rock thousands of years ago when it became apparent that we weren't that intelligent after all and have a thing for killing planets and animals.
So they know we're here. They just don't like us and don't need us to help them build their Dyson Spheres |
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"Space fascinates me what’s out there and why is there even anything out there in the first place, what’s after the universe and what was there before really bugs me that we will never no "
after the universe will come another universe and after that another universe and so on and so forth until brexit is sorted out
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"Scientists are sending out radio waves to try and get alian 'intelligent life' to respond. Presumably, would let the alians know we are here. Is this a wise move?"
Doesn't matter as 'they know we are here' and have visited many times. Probably a few on FAB |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"But are they dangerous ?"
I have been thinking far to much on that statement. And the answer is probably...
GPS and other radio triangulation is using 3 points to find the location of a transceiver on effectively a flat plane,
To pinpoint a location in 3d I.e. a planet in the universe you would need to receive the signal at multiple points presumably surrounding or at least arching over the signal origin.
So if they can receive it, they would need to have already colonised multiple solar systems in order to pinpoint the earth as it's origin.
On that note, I am going to bed... Nite nite |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA |
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By (user no longer on site)
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We really can't help sending out transmissions (radio TV ect) we are a very noisy planet, however by the time (if ever) a intelligence life form receives them, we will have probably destroyed ourselves  so I wouldn't worry to much about it  |
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"I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA"
you appear fixated on NASA. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There are really only two reasons alien life would come here - research or resources. Either way, they would be technologically more advanced than us. A plus side could be that they are able to disprove the existence of a deity and put an end to a lot of the silliness on this planet. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Maybe our intelligence is of a bacteria in their view, they know about us and once we start spreading into the space they'll just spray us. They wouldn't even know we're trying to communicate.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If they were more advanced than us they would probably stay well away from such a destructive race anyways "
I reckon they've been here already and thought "fuck that!!" and ran away. |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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"I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA
you appear fixated on NASA."
No! I am fixated by Aliens coming here to destroy us. We do not know if they want our food or us as food... |
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"I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA
you appear fixated on NASA.
No! I am fixated by Aliens coming here to destroy us. We do not know if they want our food or us as food..."
human beanz |
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"I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA
you appear fixated on NASA.
No! I am fixated by Aliens coming here to destroy us. We do not know if they want our food or us as food..."
You've been told though that it's not NASA that's the 'they' who have been solely sending signals out to space.
You're just a extraterrestrial xenophobe ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If they were more advanced than us they would probably stay well away from such a destructive race anyways
I reckon they've been here already and thought "fuck that!!" and ran away."
after they seen U |
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"I think more than one radio station has sent radio waves so they could triangulate but don't forget the earth is spinning to they could find a vortex for us. I think they are on their way. Big mistake NASA
you appear fixated on NASA."
Possibly more fixated with Hollywood portrayal perhaps |
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Gold disc on Voyager 1 says "Welcome from the children of the Earth".
Execept if Voyager can go on without crashing into something, eventually, they'll be no Earth,Solar system or Milky way galaxy ,as eventually we'll become an elliptical galaxy with Andromeda crashing into us. So anyone finding Voyager 1 will look for the map and directions given to our solar system ,yet theyll be nothing there .thought provoking
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Well if they are using radio waves to send signals then good luck....the nearest galaxy to ours is approx 70,000 light years away....so who knows what anyone receiving the signals will find if it will take a min of 70,000 years to reach them.....let alone for them to travel to our galaxy.... |
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"Well if they are using radio waves to send signals then good luck....the nearest galaxy to ours is approx 70,000 light years away....so who knows what anyone receiving the signals will find if it will take a min of 70,000 years to reach them.....let alone for them to travel to our galaxy...."
We're 30,000 light years from thre centre of our own galaxy ...
But who's to say they isn't "life" of some form within our own galaxy... let alone another one |
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"I agree.. radio waves are so last year..
Some people on here think it will be like ET
I fear it will be like a Turkey shoot and humans are the Turkeys..
I think they will be hostile.. "
Radio waves are an energy form that travel at nigh on the speed of light.
The reason they are used is because any intelligent life would be able to recognize a pattern in regular energy waves which differ from background random radiation
And it's not just NASA ... or television and radio broadcasts will be whistling through the void until something intercepts it |
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"Gold disc on Voyager 1 says "Welcome from the children of the Earth".
Execept if Voyager can go on without crashing into something, eventually, they'll be no Earth,Solar system or Milky way galaxy ,as eventually we'll become an elliptical galaxy with Andromeda crashing into us. So anyone finding Voyager 1 will look for the map and directions given to our solar system ,yet theyll be nothing there .thought provoking
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Andromeda isn't due to crash into us for another 2 trillion years, and when it does we probably wouldn't notice except a few more visible stars in the sky.
But the chances of voyager actually ever coming into the path of intelligent life are quite small. |
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Let me give you a disturbing thought- a fascinatingly disturbing thought and I will leave you on that note.
If you look at the closest genetic relative to human beings- the chimpanzees- we share like 98+% identical DNA, we are smarter than a chimpanzee. Let’s invent a measure of intelligence that make humans unique. Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science, let’s say. Let’s make that as the arbitrary definition of intelligence for the moment. Chimps can’t do any of that. Yet we share 98/99% identical DNA. The most brilliant chimp there ever was, maybe can do sign language. Well, our toddlers can do that. Toddlers. So, here’s what concerns me deeply. Deeply.
Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that 1% difference in DNA. It has to because that’s the difference. The Hubble telescope, the grand… that’s in that 1%. Maybe, everything that we are that is not the chimp is not as smart compared to the chimp as we tell ourselves it is. Maybe the difference between constructing and launching a Hubble telescope and a chimp combining two finger motions as sign language- maybe that difference is not all that great. We tell ourselves it is. Just the same way we label our books optical illusions. We tell ourselves it’s a lot. Maybe it’s almost nothing.
How would we decide that? Imagine another life form. That’s 1% different from us. In the direction that we are different from the chimp. Think about that. We have 1% difference and we are building the Hubble telescope. Go another 1%. What are we to they? We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence. That’s what we would be.
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I sometimes think why do scientists think other life forms will be using radio waves.
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That's a bit like saying why use newtonian physics when we have einstein lol.Raw data is raw data, it can be hypothesized to what it means and eventually an established theory will come,but that doesnt mean the old stuff is obsolete.
I seriously doubt any planet that harbours complex life with technology will sit there thinking "umm..am happy just to stay the way I Am"
I'm not that bothered about meeting ET's if the distances involved are unworkable,but to know there is somewhere else with thinking beings,is enough.
*A most likely candidate for ET life if advanced will be AI based,biological lifeforms arent really that great at anything that would involve space travel in my opinion. |
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I sometimes think why do scientists think other life forms will be using radio waves.
That's a bit like saying why use newtonian physics when we have einstein lol.Raw data is raw data, it can be hypothesized to what it means and eventually an established theory will come,but that doesnt mean the old stuff is obsolete.
I seriously doubt any planet that harbours complex life with technology will sit there thinking "umm..am happy just to stay the way I Am"
I'm not that bothered about meeting ET's if the distances involved are unworkable,but to know there is somewhere else with thinking beings,is enough.
*A most likely candidate for ET life if advanced will be AI based,biological lifeforms arent really that great at anything that would involve space travel in my opinion. "
We base all our hopes on radio waves though. Who's to say there are many other planets with life on them and they don't have that technology.
I know we may never know for sure that there are other planets with life, but I wouldn't doubt it because of no radio waves. |
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"Gold disc on Voyager 1 says "Welcome from the children of the Earth".
Execept if Voyager can go on without crashing into something, eventually, they'll be no Earth,Solar system or Milky way galaxy ,as eventually we'll become an elliptical galaxy with Andromeda crashing into us. So anyone finding Voyager 1 will look for the map and directions given to our solar system ,yet theyll be nothing there .thought provoking
Andromeda isn't due to crash into us for another 2 trillion years, and when it does we probably wouldn't notice except a few more visible stars in the sky.
But the chances of voyager actually ever coming into the path of intelligent life are quite small. "
it may however be found/spotted.theres the cadburys smash aliens to start with |
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By *uxinteriorMan
over a year ago
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"If they were more advanced than us they would probably stay well away from such a destructive race anyways
I reckon they've been here already and thought "fuck that!!" and ran away."
All those ancient civilisations depicting strange beings in their carvings and paintings that look like space men or flying machines.
Does make you wonder sometimes. |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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Radio waves to Sloan's are bait. Imagine being shipwrecked on the Pacific Ocean clinging to a piece of wreckage. Would it be a good idea to pour a bottle of blood into the sea? No. The sharks would soon come and we all know the outcome. And we are sending communications in the hope that Aliens are friendly. They are like those sharks. |
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"If they were more advanced than us they would probably stay well away from such a destructive race anyways
I reckon they've been here already and thought "fuck that!!" and ran away.
All those ancient civilisations depicting strange beings in their carvings and paintings that look like space men or flying machines.
Does make you wonder sometimes. "
they are simply drawings of weather ballons.
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