What if ufos are us from the future

This idea, which I also pursue in my upcoming book, The Ascent of Information , leads to a number of quite startling and provocative proposals.

That might not sound too bad—except the growth trend of our digitized informational world is such that it requires approximately 40 percent more power every year. Even allowing for improvements in computational efficiency and power generation, this points to a world in some 20 years where all of the energy we currently generate in electricity will be consumed by digital electronics alone. We still print onto paper, and the energy cost of a single page is the equivalent of burning five grams of high-quality coal.

Digital devices, from microprocessors to hard drives, are also extraordinarily demanding in terms of their production, owing to the deep repurposing of matter that is required. We literally fight against the second law of thermodynamics to forge these exquisitely ordered, restricted, low-entropy structures out of raw materials that are decidedly high-entropy in their messy natural states.

It is hard to see where this informational tsunami slows or ends. Our dataome looks like a distinct, although entirely symbiotic even endosymbiotic , phenomenon.

But symbiosis implies that all parties have their own interests to consider as well. After all, in a gene-centered view of biology, all living things are simply temporary vehicles for the propagation and survival of information.

In that sense the dataome is no different, and exactly how information survives is less important than the fact that it can do so. Once that information and its algorithmic underpinnings are in place in the world, it will keep going forever if it can. Career Guide 10 NOV Francis Crick Institute. Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

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Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email required. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. If you couple that with the balls and desire we showed to get beyond our skies into the vacuum of space and land on the moon using incredibly crude and dangerous techniques that they would know-we would know could kill us in a second-yet we went and came back anyway-I have to conclude, that even an incredibly advanced civilization would have to take stock of the long term implications of where that road could eventually lead.

If they are really here and revealing themselves to us, its not to perform biology experiments which they can do anywhere, It may just be time for us to begin to understand the true nature of the wilderness, the final wilderness, that envelopes us. I like the direction your response is taking, Windell. The only rhing I would add to it would be that once we have the technology to leave the bounds of our own solar system, there will be an endless amount of realities we shall discover to equal the lack of boundaries we will discover existing to stop our discoveries.

Also Fitbit unidentified Ariel phenomenon is technology from a adversary Nation and its electronic warfare devices or delivery systems as suggested by one of the authors why did they let the planes electronics and radar and cameras observe them?

And I question the wisdom of assuming that anything that is not from Earth or biologically familiar to us has to be hostile and dangerous. Fine Kenny, but do our animals have nuclear weapons? Plus activated Russian silos too. I feel someone is checking us out… After seeing a large silver sphere craft hovering silently above the house across the street from my house, it is obvious these varying craft or UFOs are not just watching military activities.

Why would it bother observing a normal boring suburban area? The Nimitz incident is just the first officially recognized encounter — but from reading other stories it seems there have been many more before and since this encounter.

If it is new technology then why were there incidents earlier on back in the s and earlier such as the Westall School sighting where witnesses said three craft were performing manoeuvres very similar to the Tic tac UFOs. I doubt that kind of human technology would have existed back then. Personally I think there are just too many reports to dismiss these as being just from earth… somebody is telling porkies!

Westall School in a suburb of Melbourne Australia was a very interesting situation where there were so many witnesses. Saw a UFO one afternoon about early June before dusk fly low over the trees in front of me plus other cars and across the highway about 30 kms south of Nowra NSW. Australia It had a red and green light either side but in between so many very bright while lights I could not determine the shape of the craft.

You can listen to an interview with him on lex-Fridman. This is a concerning event. I would recommend reading Dr. There is some excellent analysis out there and I wonder what the true objective of this unbiased article is. It could be inter-dimensional or time-travelers, space-travelers or simply some unknown natural occurrence such as particles observed to pop in and out of existence at the quantum level.

Most scientists agree that the universe started with the big bang around 14or so billion years ago,therefore logically any sort of life would have started about the same time give or take a. Couple of million years therefore if they evolved on a similar time scale to us their technology would not have advanced that much more than us or even less.

Reason no tangible proof that you could identify as alien. No photos that you can rely on as hard evidence,and no obvious signals that would prove extra terrestrial communication. Set I have been scanning the skies for at least forty years;nothing tangible. I would be extremely surprised if they find any life anywhere in space except contamination from earth. The evidence or lack of it bears this out.

Slight correction Keith, humans have only been here, or started to evolve about 5 million years ago, and around , years in our present form. So another species could have started many millions of years before us, AND achieved that advanced technology that we see today.

There is no reason alien development started similar to us, far from it. Myself, like most scientists now believe the universe may well be teaming with life, but most possibly far different to us. There are many planets, 6 billion estimate currently that are earth like.

How about the rarity of life in the universe being a bit more interesting than some white painted shack? If some of these UFOs are actually from another planet they react to us exactly as they should, like we run away when wasps show up.

Indeed, the title is completely wrong. The gov. Your headline is incorrect. Similarly they have no evidence that the technology is terrestrial. Why bother writing anything if you have no interesting in learning even the basic information required for discourse?

Instead, we need to start refining our framework of the world based on the raw data, rather than what currently makes sense to us. The reality is that multiple highly credible witnesses, both civilian and military, corroborated by the latest in radar, surveillance and tracking technologies, have observed craft making 90 degree turns on a dime, at speeds approaching 13, MPH.

Who cares what our insignificant governments think, we are not alone and recent history confirms that fact. I think if extraterrestrials had the technologies to travel light years in through space they would have no reason to fear our technology because compared to theres it would be simple in comparison.

Humans have massive egos and think we are the best.. The government has lied to the public for so long its more likely that they would lie than be truthful.. I strongly believe in the probability of extraterrestrials because all you need to do is look at the massive amount of money the government spent trying to convince us its impossible when in reality its very likely humans are not the only species and for that matter we kill our own kind for pointle reasons and i hope they may be here to teach us a better way of living.

We are the only species that intentionally kill eachother on a massive scale over money. I call that a not so intelligent species. These are scientists? They are making conclusions that these are not alien vehicles, yet they have no evidence to rule that out, and no evidence to support that it is man-made technology either. Every possibility should be on the table and studied without bias. There are dozens of Airforce pilots who are trained to observe and identify threats who have made made observations of these craft which are confirmed with radar data.

The craft are reported to have no observable propulsion systems, no wings or rotors, and instant acceleration beyond anything currently possible. To diminish the observations of trained Airforce pilots and claim that these are just glitches in our radar is not only an insult to the pilots but leaving out half the equation. The only nefarious explanation would be that this is a psyops operation by the US military and the pilots are part of a plan feed disinformation to an adversary, or an attempt to secure government funding for another black budget project.

Seems unlikely, but that should be on the table too. This article is embarrassing. From the headline through the body, it extrapolates false conclusions from the forthcoming pentagon report. Exceptionally misleading title and commentary. This is rudimentary science here, folks. Like a rogue family member nobody wants to talk about! Luis Elizondo recently revealed reports of Tic-Tac shaped objects being observed by pilots over many decades ago so clearly this rules out Chinese or Russian tech.

Quantum leaps in paradigm changes are difficult. Why not embrace what is on display here — discover new technology, extend physics, see ourselves as one species in some kind of extended culture in the universe? The headline to this is misleading. Click bait story that is not factual or accurate at all. No one has ruled out extraterrestrials yet. This article give the exact opposite impression of what has been said by the Pentagon.

The preliminary look at the government report stated, there was no direct evidence to say one way or another. This itself is a spin; then you guys distorted the message even further. Debating another more intelligent point: it could be electronic warfare, but not in cases where multiple fighter jets from multiple angles had direct visuals on a ufo and can describe it as metalic and solid.

That is NOT electronic warfare. Read the conclusion from the French GEPAN report of stating this is a very real phenomenon that is very likely not man made. Listen to our military pilots and astronaut reports, the TRUE professionally trained and experienced folks making these reports. The machine fighting to keep the status quo narrative is wobbling and its embarrassing. This headline is wrong. The government said no such thing. It has no evidence one way or the other.

Please fix your misleading headline and practice journalistic integrity. Of the many articles that I read about the upcoming UAP report, this article is for sure one of the worst I have read. Both the writer and the people that he interviews have not done their homework and as a result make stupid comments.

Ask yourself this question? The fighters could have easily armed their weapons and fired. Fear of retaliation by who?

If it were Russian or Chinese blow it out of the sky and ask questions later. We believed it to be a hostile threat. They know this? We now have a Space Force? They fear what is out there. Objects making similar impossible maneuvers…well, the sightings on those goes back to the days when we used vacuum tubes in radios. But with more pressure from the public to explain them rationally, and a huge uptick in interest in gathering the information necessary to do that…an explanation is going to show itself sooner or later.

Misleading article, the title is false. Try again. I came from a little Island call Barbados, and I was about 7years old. Me and my sister were out in our yard taking clothing off the line from washing we heard a sharp hissing coming towards us it came from above ,we look up and saw two round disc looking dark shapes flying behind each other,we never saw anything moving so fast in our lives.

And later other people were saying they just saw two flying saucers. And people spoke for weeks I am 85yearsnow and have never saw anything like it again but I know it was not seen since.

Sound ridiculous? According to the Book of Revelation the most destructive plagues are about to come to this earth. A result of choices we human beings are making. And according to Revelation Chapter 13, a man human being will arise just when things get desperate, to promise peace and order for the whole world.

You are right on. These supposed aliens are simply fallen angels and have been here a very long time. They are interdeminsional and preparing for the great deception.

Everyone will welcome them for hope in our upcoming upset world.. Stars die all the time and for civilizations hoping to survive this natural process, they would not simply wait for death if there were other alternatives.

Just go figure the numbers… millions of elder civilizations searching for new homes among the stars. So now, for good or ill, they cohabit with us. Likewise most of us too! I am not sure their current low profile posture is in any way negotiable. As a species we might not rate as intelligent life, we may only rate as being very dangerous wildlife.

The chance of unfortunate accidents during encounters is very high if we presume to think humans should be in total charge here. That pride might actually be interpreted as gross arrogance. Mi casa es tu casa. However they are not here to do our laundry. Clearly the astonomy community is myopic. Explain the radar plus thousands of people from all parts of the world at all different times in history. Sure I get it they have to land on your front porch and you still think they dressed for halloween.

Wake up. Actually they did — and they also revealed how far they had travelled in certain time frames. It auto-calculates speed FOR you. The distances are also provided. My lifelong research of UFOlogy cases qualifies me to be considered an expert about the diverse evidence that has been documented throughout the years. The UFOlogy information that I would like to share may be read at the link below.