Re: What is the best evidence for or against UFOs?

On 9/22/2025 2:39 AM, JTEM wrote:
> On 9/21/25 8:25 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:
> 
>> I would have to take issue even with unmanned space probes, all of 
>> which require some energy to function, even if they are sitting in 
>> standby mode.  Even the PCBs in the spacecraft will degrade over time, 
>> as it would take tens of thousands of years for one to travel the 
>> distance to the nearest star (other than our Sun), Proxima Centauri.  
>> When (and if) such a probe arrived, it would be completely dead.
> 
> I was always thinking along those same lines, then someone talked about
> some freaki SciFi concept where you grow your tech...
> 
> It's not far fetched even right now. Though maybe not super hightech.
> 
> Biology lasts far longer than technology. Bacteria has survived dormant,
> it is believed, long enough to reach other galaxies at velocities we
> are capable of even today...
> 
> So the idea would be to maybe do a combination of growing and dormancy.
> So your biotech can not only survive but be in operation. And you might
> even do something funky, like the first generation produce a biproduct
> that is going to sustain the second generation, sort of like how the
> anaerobic bacteria farted oxygen which ended up poisoning them, but
> was used by Gen II life forms... something like that.
> 
> I remember how, a billion years ago, someone on a documentary (I think)
> said that if you asked Leonardo di Vinci to build a tv set he could
> never do it, because he'd try to do it mechanically. THAT WAS HIS
> WORLD! That's how he approached problems, tried to solve them. We are
> currently in that phase with our hightech as opposed to biotech.
> 

Time will, of course, tell!