Moontanman

116 Earth days and 18 Earth hours...

Do you have a link? I never heard of it...

So you are basing your faith on things you must have faith to believe? To each his own i guess..

Please elaborate, if you are going to assert things that confirm your faith you need to tell us what they are..

Please elaborate on that, how is his idea falsifiable? Unless they come here we have no way of knowing if his idea is anything but baseless assertions. My idea can be falsified with out the aliens cooperation or seeing them attack us.

Except my idea is potentially falsifiable, his is not..

My idea about the galaxy being colonised by artificial habitat aliens who avoid planets has just as much traction as his idea.

You continue to equate reasonable expectations based on past confirmation with faith. Do you have faith the sun will appear to rise tomorrow? Or do you trust that it will due to seeing it appear to rise every morning of your life?

I am suggesting that we do have evidence and there are ways to gather even more poignant evidence, do you really dismiss all UFO reports as nonsense? They may not be alien spacecraft but it is clear that UAP is and has been detected.

I am assuming that any alien technology would have to follow the laws of physics as we know them. Waste heat would be a dead give away even at distances comparable to the oort cloud or Kuiper belt. No, in fact I am not talking about UFOs in this context. I am talking about artificial habitats large enough to contain entire societies for very long periods of time. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you elaborate? I think we would have to assume any alien technology has to follow the rules of physics as we know them. I hope that is not what is being suggested. As soon as we start talking about supernatural mumbo jumbo...

I am in a similar position, 35 years ago I was in a boat wreck lots of damage and I can come close to predicting the weather with my pains. I have been looking for relief ever since then and so far no medical solution has been found. When a hurricane passes over the pain is really bad but a low front of any kind will give me problems. I'm not really sure why it works like this but the pain does level off eventually, now, 33 years later, the pain isn't as bad most of the time except for hurricanes. Make sure you see your doctor, they do have medicine that can help some people they just never seemed to help me...

The idea of them being hidden is a bit difficult to explain, we certainly would not be likely to hide or want to. My dog and pony show is basically that civilizations form a galactic presence much like an ecosystem on the earth with the niches filled with civilizations instead of various animal populations. Interstellar space is a lot less empty than was originally thought. There is more than enough material in the form of gas, dust, and small bodies like asteroids, both frozen and rocky with various degrees of both to support quadrillions of habitats. The materials would be both removed and added to space by various natural processes like nova or star formation. If controlled fusion is possible there is no real barrier to artificial habitats moving slowly around the galaxy finding a small object and mining it for carbon and ice, fuel and construction materials, freely available. Habitats could simply travel around in space stopping every few centuries to top up volatiles and trace elements, fusion fuel, and build other habitats. In this way they would be comparable to living organisms that gather resources, metabolise, and reproduce.

To be honest the moon is not that easy to really look at, we don't have enough resolution to see anything but brobdingnagian constructs. On the other hand there are a handful of really odd things on the moon we can see but not with enough resolution to really be sure of anything but the fact they are odd. I doubt the entire concept of aliens traveling interstellar distances specifically to see us. Much of my doubts center around aliens wanting anything to do with planets to begin with and parking an artificial colony world on the moon is problematic at best and putting it in orbit would make it stand out like a sore thumb. While an artificial world could be hidden in places like the asteroid belt or the lagrange points of Jupiter it's more likely a small if not tiny machine could observe us with no risk to their own life and property. I have a difficult time justifying the idea of live aliens ever coming into contact with the Earth's biosphere or them risking their lives for data that we would be capable of sending something like a drone or rover in our stead to collect.

Of course I do not, neither do you and some countries do give credence to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, no, the light of scientific inquiry has not been shown publicly on the phenomena and the Air Force has used ridicule to discourage any real scientific investigation. Luna is already the subject of so much silly pareidolia BS study of it's surface is almost as full of hoaxes, scams, and misrepresentations of the available data it's almost as bad as UFO sightings. The moon is a huge place, any evidence would have to be in plain sight and be big enough to draw our attention... The Moon would be a good place to base any surveillance of the Earth but I have my doubts that aliens would need a base nearby to do this with.

Just don't forget it takes two hands to handle a whopper!

In science fiction it's best not to agonise about the details...

Moonshine, I misspoke He only talks and flys when i am flying as well..

There is little to no info on the net about this subset of warp drives. Here is a paper but I can't access it... https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2437558

No, not at all he has an irish accent, he can fly but his power comes from moon light and he always wears a fur coat... So you are not going to give us anything but baseless assertions? anyone else smell troll?

The chemicals are thought to have been organic chemicals possibly catalysts combined with inorganic chemicals (often clays are part of this) and an energy gradient. IMHO we will never know the exact process even if we manage to create life from scratch due us being too far in the future from the events and not knowing how many different ways life could come about.. Generally in this context a precursor is a simpler ancestor of something else. I doubt the exact chemicals will never be "found" unless of course there is only one very precise way for life to come about. The reason the figure for resources is not specific and assumed to be huge is that organic chemicals no doubt were part and parcel of an immeasurable number of organic molecules not only in variety but in numbers of each variety. Organics exist in space in amounts that can only be described as immeasurable, vast clouds of organic molecules, one example is ethanol, that contain many times the mass of the earth. These molecules rain down on the earth even today but are consumed by extant life forms before they can accumulate to the point of being able to trigger biogenesis. Yes the answer has yet to be discovered but as Dr. Szostak explains there could be more than one answer or a synergy of many different organic and inorganic chemicals coming together in innumerable ways over large amounts of time. No laboratory could possibly really do this in real time... Since you have asked about videos explaining this I hope I will not catch grief for this post but this video, one of many made for use in schools might help a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdozVq81gog&t=79s

This is interesting, probably total BS but it's interesting.

If you cannot show it then you do not know it. Only what you can provide evidence for is meaningful. I can claim to have a talking dog, if I did would just accept it?

Even more reason you must provide evidence, we can claim all sorts of things only what we can show is important..

A citation is required to make these assertions, what you suggest is nothing but opinion. Please give us some evidence that "this is what is being experienced" I do not experience it and I need evidence before I can evaluate your assertions...

I think you are conflating faith with trust, I have no faith but I do have trust in things I have a reasonable expectation of being true. Do you have faith the sun will appear to rise in the morning or do you trust based on reasonable expectations?