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Alien Artifacts on Earth and in Our Solar System Is Possible, NASA Reports

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Rather than investigating this story (Which I did read up to a point and then skim) I checked out the website. It strikes me as being somewhere between X-Files, The History Channel, and Popular Science. None of those are complimentary, in my book.

I didn't look at all. The first real story about aliens will be at the top of HN with 2k+ upvotes. This is just noise.

Of course it's possible.

Based on a reified drake equation, it's not even likely there is any other life in the observable universe. If there were and they had visited earth, that would be astoundingly unlikely.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2364

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/04/20/a-drake-equation-...

That's how I read it. NASA: "Yes, there is a non-zero probability."

Who wants to start a conspiracy theory that the real reason that aliens suddenly exist is the govt is trying to distract from x.

Let's discuss x.

New World Order? Locking down populations, forcing people to stay at home for extended periods of time, forcing them to take "medications" etc? Next step would be state enforced use of digital currencies, taking the control to next level.

Conspiracy theories, of course.

    Of course, they are among us.
    
    They always were. 
    
    That is why there is no evidence.
    
    If they were not, we would know...

    And if the truth is not out there, it's right in front 
    of you.

    So, who want's to believe too?

</conspiracy theorist mode>

No need for special things like "conspiracy theory". Can be just prelude to some soon in cinemas movie :> Like "2012" and Earth doing scary things.

But yea - govs are well known for doing many stupid thinghs.

That is not a new theory, the fake alien invasion has been going around for the last 2 years, and its roots are probably the Watchmen graphic novel, then later cowboy vs aliens.

There's also the 'Looking for Lurkers: Objects Co-orbital with Earth as SETI Observables' paper by James Benford, worth reading: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1903/1903.09582.pdf

It seems reasonable to scan whatever high-resolution images we have of the surface of Mars or the Moon with some sort of anomaly detection. You wouldn’t expect to see features such as exact rectangles, for example, unless it’s something unnatural. Or maybe just something natural that we didn’t expect, which is itself interesting. I’m not sure what sort of image analysis would be the best to use here, just to find “something unexpected”....

People have already spent half a century doing just that manually. All we got was pareidolia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)

Still probably worth doing to see if anything pops out?

Would anything there most likely be buried under the sands of time or perhaps not since the moon has no atmosphere?

The article mentions using ML to analyze and detect anomalies on the moon. Evidently there are a pair of very interesting anomalous shapes on the far side of the moon found in the Apollo footage

good source? I would very much like to read more about this

Here's the research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310506051_Image_Ana...

You can see the place here https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/layers?extent=-91.9051678,-17....

The "passageway" is only revealed when two images with opposing sun directions are superimposed. When those images are combined it leaves a shadow in the middle.

I have one hypothesis why Aliens are hiding. It's just they are simply afraid of humans torturing them for their color and appearance.

Wouldn't it be ludicrously short-sided and unfounded to say it's impossible? This seems like a non-story.

What evidence they have?

It's not impossible for my pen to jump and launch itself into my gray matter. Just supremely unlikely.

A wiser man than I once said, “Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys - it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall - it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well!”.

It was Dave Lister.

Aliens and pseudoscience fit nicely in the place religion would have. They can even share.

It would be vastly easier for an alien intelligence to build a big telescope to explore the cosmos, rather than sending out probes.

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