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

Dawn Flood wrote:
> On 9/22/2025 5:16 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:51:35 -0500, Dawn Flood
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/21/2025 10:41 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:25:55 -0500, Dawn Flood
>> <snip>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dawn
>>>>
>>>> Have you taken time dilation into account?
>>>
>>> I think that's irrelevant, because, getting a spacecraft up to 90% (or
>>> more) of the speed of light would require enormous amounts of energy,
>>> and an equal amount of energy to slow the thing down.  What would be the
>>> source of this energy, especially, that which is needed for the 
>>> slow-down?
>>>
>>> Dawn
>>
>> Right.   I was just saying that *if* rockets could reach relativistic
>> speeds, *then* long life spans for the astronauts would not be a
>> problem.
> 
> Agreed.  Of course, their rocket would, at those speeds, need to avoid 
> colliding with anything!

you just raise your shields