Three large objects behind the moon (allegedly)

[Airwings]

I dunno. How much of a letdown would it be if the universe was really boring?

You mean no politics or wars in the universe? lol

But if the aliens have developped tech to travel all over, I'm sure they could tell us some of the cosmic secrets/mysteries.

 

[NickNitro]

Those people deserve to stay here then and rot away in their own self worth. We'd grow as a species out there, wrapping our minds around what makes the universe.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

What if the aliens are us from a multiverse? And now we're floating in space, monitoring our alternative selves!

 

[NickNitro]

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Hahahaha!

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Maybe it's Zod!

 

[KevanG]

I'm down for a god like world leader that could beat down the warlords world wide. I think it'd actually be kind of funny to have a world leader that could beat up everybody in the world.

 

[DarkSentinel]

This is a cause for celebration, not conflict.

 

[KevanG]

Sooooooo... Do we have cake or pie?

*runs*

 

[DarkSentinel]

Kevin don't be an instigator!!

 

[KevanG]

Too late. Besides, you would have done the same.

 

[DarkSentinel]

I've grown weary of such childish games

Besides, we have bigger things to worry about, like aliens.


Pie.

 

[ЯɘvlveR]

all these worlds are yours except LUNA attempt no landing there.

 

[KevanG]

Whelp too late for that by 40 years or so. What's the punishment? Also, why no heads up ahead of time?

 

[ЯɘvlveR]

they just got there.

 

[KevanG]

That's their fault then. Radio waves travel far faster than pretty much anything capable of flight. At the very least they could have sent a repeating message via satellite ahead of them if it was that big a deal. A decoder would be helpful too as we're fairly stupid most times.

 

[DarkSentinel]

You think we're smart enough to use an alien decoder?

 

[KevanG]

It would have to be basic. Like using a binary translation with a very simple message.

"STAY OFF THE MOON!"

Then we'd go anyway just to give the message givers the finger.

 

[Mike_D202]

If I were a space explorer, and came across a planet with life, my intial thought would be "WHOA! This is kinda cool, I want to study these things." and not "...meh, let's kill 'em." So I think we're safe, especially if they are purposely staying out of sight.

Unless that's what they want us to think, before the assimilation begins.

 

[KevanG]

Imagine they were immortal beings and they just watched mortals for fun. Taking bets on who will die and how stupid it would be. The internet would just make things easier.

And on that note, how would an alien race describe us to others if they just used our internet as a resource?

"They're idiots obsessed with sex and cats. They argue over everything and nothing and love to sabotage themselves when they aren't spying on each other. I'd recommend they mature a lot before we even say hi. They're as likely to attack us as kill themselves."

 

[Piper Maru]

I think I'd warn the aliens about Earth. "Stay away from this damned place, keep going until you're in the next star system and DO NOT look back."

 

[Nightwing]

There has been a shocking update in relation to this news.....it turns out the report of 3 strange looking objects in front of the moon is actually a facebook update by the sun....

It took its time to get to us as he isnt on broadband due to the distance....has to make do with dial up....

He apologises for getting peoples hopes up about aliens...

 

[Mike_D202]

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/522/Enormous-Craft-Detected-On-Moon-The-Secret-Is-Out-Photos-

Enormous Craft Detected On Moon, The Secret Is Out
At least one enormous object of unknown origin has been visually verified as having landed on our moon. As a result, on Wednesday, January 15, three Terrier-Orion rockets blasted off within a span of 20 seconds from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST (0600 to 1000 GMT) on hush-hush missions for the Department of Defense (DoD).
TRN has obtained photos of the unknown spacecraft and has an audio interview with an outside consultant from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) who confirms that for almost two years the U.S. government used the MacDonald Observatory in Texas to track the approach of two of these enormous objects. A year ago, in January 2013, the objects had gotten to within 200,000 miles of Mars when they suddenly vanished.
Realizing these two craft were approaching earth and might not be visible to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Camera (LROC) depending upon where they went, the Government reactivated the previously cancelled Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to be launched to the moon on September 6, 2013. It took almost 100 days for LADEE to be placed into proper lunar orbit. By December, 2013, both LADEE and the LROC found at least one of the two enormous objects had landed on the moon, in a crater the size of the City of Chicago.
All of this was kept secret until, quite by accident, the LROC images (which are generally made public) were uploaded to the publicly available GoogleMoon service, where intrepid users came upon the enormous object. Now, the whole world can see this "object" on the moon --- the secret is out.

 

[Mike_D202]

http://news.yahoo.com/secret-spaceplane-mystery-mission-094500663--politics.html

Secret Spaceplane, Mystery Mission

The Air Force’s secret space plane has been up in orbit for nearly 500 days—a space endurance record. But nearly a year and a half into the mission, the Pentagon still won’t say what the X-37B is doing up there, or when it might come back.

The U.S. Air Force boosted the robotic X-37B atop the nose of an Atlas-5 rocket in December 2012. Since then it’s orbited the Earth thousands of times, overflying such interesting places as North Korea and Iran.

Similar to the Space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles. But there are major differences. Lacking a crew, the spacecraft has no cockpit windows. The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed.

And while the original Space Shuttle could stay in orbit for up to 17 days—a limitation largely due to the needs of the crew—the first X-37B mission, OTV-1, spent 225 days in space under the guidance of Air Force space flight controllers at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. The second mission, OTV-2, handily doubled that number, clocking 469 days in orbit. OTV-3 is currently at 482 days and counting.

Eventually—nobody knows when—the pudgy space plane will glide back down to Earth like the Space Shuttle it resembles, rolling to a stop on an Air Force runway in California.

The X-37B began as a NASA project to build a small, unmanned space plane. NASA handed the project over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2004, but after budgetary problems the program was transferred to the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, which continues to manage the X-37B program. Boeing’s Phantom Works division built two of the X-37B spacecraft.

The U.S. Air Force will not comment on what kind of missions the X-37B does in space. The service, which doesn’t mind talking about the space drone as a technological achievement, clams up when discussing actual missions.

Rumors abound. One of the most popular is the X-37B can sneak up and eavesdrop on other satellites. The idea does have appeal, but skeptics point out the U.S. already has other smaller, harder to track satellites to do just that.

Another rumor is that the X-37B can, like supervillian Ernst Blofeld’s giant clamshell satellite in You Only Live Twice, saddle up to the satellites of other nations and mess with them. Though theoretically possible, the X-37 would have to be launched into an orbit similar to the target’s, and the X-37B’s size makes it easy to track. Even amateur satellite spotters can track the X-37B, and it would be obvious to everyone who had stolen a satellite.

The most interesting—but least likely—rumor is that the X-37B is some kind of orbital bomber, capable of nailing targets from on high. There’s not a whole lot of evidence to back that theory up.

Brian Weeden, a former Air Force officer with the Space Command’s Joint Space Operations Center and now at the Secure World Foundation, believes that the X-37B is primarily a test bed for new technologies. “I think it is primarily an ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) platform for testing new sensor technologies or validating new technologies.” Weeden tells The Daily Beast. “The current OTV-3 on orbit has basically been in the same orbit since launch, with only the occasional maneuver to maintain that orbit. That’s consistent with a remote sensing/ISR mission.”

The X-37B is probably testing technologies that might be incorporated into the spy satellites of the future. New cameras, radars, and other sensors could be tested in space and then brought back to Earth for study. That’s much better than designing them on Earth and then building an enormously expensive spy satellite reliant on untested technology.

That doesn’t mean that OTV-3 isn’t spying on other countries—it probably is. OTV-3’s orbit takes it over all sorts of interesting places, including North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. The space drone’s sensors are likely could well be getting workouts against real-world targets, from North Korean missile facilities to shipyards where China’s next aircraft carriers are being built.

And although it’s only a guess, one can surmise that, based on the amount of time the X-37B is spending in orbit, those sensors are apparently working pretty well.

If the X-37B is just a test platform, why won’t the Pentagon open up about it? “I don’t think the secrecy surrounding the X-37B program is an attempt by the U.S. government to hide anything nefarious, but rather that it’s driven by bureaucratic inertia,” Weeden says. Addressing the rumors, Weeden points out, “The secrecy surrounding the program makes it difficult for the U.S. government to respond meaningfully to those claims and debunk them.”

The X-37B is a relatively bright spot during a fallow period for the U.S. space program, and Boeing and the Air Force are capitalizing on the program’s success. Boeing is converting the former Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, where Space Shuttles were maintained in-between spaceflights, to a one-stop facility designed to refurbish landed X-37Bs and prepare them for spaceflight again.

Boeing has also proposed a larger X-37C, which would be capable of carrying up to six astronauts to and from orbit. This project is likely to get a second look as relations with Russia, the only country currently capable of sending astronauts into space, sour over the situation in the Ukraine.

In the meantime OTV-3 continues to drift overhead, silently orbiting the Earth, doing whatever it does. It’s anyone’s guess when it will be coming back.

 

[rodhulk]

Apparently the Vatican is watching things (ships-entities) by the sun.