UFO's no longer abducting hicks, going after chinese people!

[jmc]

A Chinese airport was closed after this mysterious object was spotted in the sky.Arcing over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou, the UFO appeared to glow with an eerie white light and left a bright trail in its wake.
Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm and dozens of flights had to be diverted.

The strange light appeared to glow as it swept through the night sky, to the alarm of local residents

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...41_634x396.jpg



Another photo from a different angle which shows a wide trail behind the object as it zips through the sky

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...84_634x373.jpg

Stunned witnesses reported seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky and a number of local residents took photos of the strange ball of light.
A local bus driver, giving his name only as Yu, said he had seen a strange glowing object in the sky late on Wednesday afternoon.

'The thing suddenly ran westwards fast, like it was escaping from something,' he said.

Inbound flights were diverted to nearby airports while outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours.
Some Chinese experts claimed that the strange sight was actually debris from a US intercontinental ballistic missile.
Chinese officials later said that they knew what the object had been but were unable to make it public because there was a 'military connection.'
An official statement is expected later today.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz0tK0f6jIb


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[OWS_Tonx]

Of course it had a "military connection." Shit's pretty crazy, but I believe it could be an alien(s).

[Kuya]

I think that belief in aliens is more absurd than belief in God

[Izzy]

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[OWS_Tonx]

I think that belief in aliens is more absurd than belief in God

I don't believe in religion, but out of how huge space is, I believe it's very possible for there to be another planet capable of supporting life.

[Rhyis.]

I think that belief in aliens is more absurd than belief in God

Little green men aside, didn't they find Archaebacteria on Mars a few years back? Which is, ya know, life.

[BlackMoomba]

I think that belief in aliens is more absurd than belief in God

Making contact with us, yes. That they exist, no.

[OWS_Tonx]

this one time, at band camp, at Roswell, I shoved a tuba up this alien's ass. Out of anger they're attacking the chinese. true story.

[Rhinox]

"So how many grains of sand are there in the world? You could start off by trying to guess how many grains of sand there are in a spoon of sand. Use a magnifying glass to count how many grains fit in a small section. Then, count how many of those sections fit in your spoon. Multiply the two numbers together to get an estimate. "Using this same principle, plus some additional information, mathematicians at the University of Hawaii tried to guess how many grains of sand are on the world's beaches. They came up with 7,500,000,000,000,000,000, or seven quintillion five quadrillion grains of sand.

" How many grains of sand are in the world? http://www.miamisci.org/tripod/whysand.html The calculation is detailed here: http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html That number is 7.5 x 10^18 or 7.5 billion billion. How many stars, galaxies, clusters, QSO's etc. in the Universe? http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/f...section-3.html "To get the total stellar population in the Milky Way [that is, in our galaxy alone], we must take the number of luminous stars that we can see at large distances and assume that we know how many fainter stars go along with them. Recent numbers give about 400,000,000,000 (400 billion) stars, but a 50% error either way is quite plausible." So in our galaxy alone, there might be between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars How many galaxies in the Universe? http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/f...section-4.html "the Hubble telescope is capable of detecting about 80 billion galaxies (although not all of these within the foreseeable future!).

In fact, there must be many more than this, even within the observable Universe, since the most common kind of galaxy in our own neighborhood is the faint dwarfs which are difficult enough to see nearby, much less at large cosmological distances. For example, in our own local group, there are 3 or 4 giant galaxies which would be detectable at a billion light-years or more (Andromeda, the Milky Way, the Pinwheel in Triangulum, and maybe the Large Magellanic Cloud). However, there are at least another 20 faint members, which would be difficult to find at 100 million light-years, much less the billions of light years to which the brightest galaxies can be seen." So the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10 If we accept even the lower end of these Hubble figures, and if our Milky Way has a typical number of stars in it, that puts the number of stars in the universe to be at least (2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21 So if we round the number of sand grains to, say, 10^20 and round the number of stars to, say 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth. As you say, that's a *LOT* Search terms used beach sand particles cubic "number of stars in the universe




I find the believe in aliens more tangible then the belief in god.

in fact I'm pretty certain we have been visited by aliens.

[Rhinox]

[Mertron]

Perhaps God exists but space is so vast he exists on a planet very far away.

[Stilzkin]

Making contact with us, yes. That they exist, no.

I think the idea that some intelligent life form may have found some sort of form of transportation faster than light is a lot more likely than the sort of god most people believe in.

[Rhinox]

Perhaps God exists but space is so vast he exists on a planet very far away.

Mormons lol

[Demetrius*]

So I know nothing about this, but what are the options for traveling vast distances in space aside from worm holes?(I don't know if these are just science fiction anyway)

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

I think that belief in aliens is more absurd than belief in God

deja vu whoa

[Mertron]

I am pretty sure China has hicks.

[Rhinox]

[BerenTebogo]

Really?

We need to do this again?

Really?

[BerenTebogo]

I mean...seriously...

Really?

[OWS_Tonx]

Sath is probably an alien in disguise. He's trying to shutdown the thread so nobody questions his kind. Oh you silly little green people with your speedy saucers.