Space is certainly a strange and mysterious place with virtually all of it remaining unexplored. Many rational, thinking people such as Steven Hawking, firmly believe that the universe is simply too big to not contain life outside of Earth. We just haven’t found proof of it yet, or at least proof hasn’t been shared with the world. But does that mean it doesn’t exist?
The International Space Station orbits Earth once every 90 minutes. Pic from NASA
The quotes below are all from NASA astronauts during the Apollo missions to the moon. They are taken directly from NASA’s transcripts…and they make some curious references.
James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, and Frank Borman
03 08 20 23 CDR Did you shoot some pictures while you were over there?
03 08 20 25 CMP No, it’s Just going by – we’d better get it later; there will be better times. If the damn antenna isn’t in the way –
03 08 20 42 CMP Boy, there must be nothing more desolate than to be inside some of these craters, these conical ones
03 08 20 50 CDR People that live in there probably never get out.
03 l0 55 20 CMP Oh God, look at that Moltke; he’s my favorite … Look at that son of a bitch. You see all those roads – triangular roads leading right past him?
03 l0 55 29 CDR Yes.
03 l0 55 30 CMP That’s US l, I guess, huh?
03 l0 55 31 CDR Yes.
Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Edgar D. Mitchell
03 12 22 39 I2_P Really an interesting one. Huh? That one … looks like … got a rugged one right out here – with the central peaks.
03 12 23 02 CDR …
03 12 23 05 I_l° Sure does. Really got a very complex central structure.
03 12 23 08 CR_° It’s got one of the biggest central peaks a_ound. It’s a very unusual crater. But there are some dark areas in it that Farouk has gone on record as saying they are dikes.
03 12 23 37 CMl° High Sun. That’s one right down there; Just shows how it dominates the whole photograph. Just an extremely bright crater. Sun angle Just isn’t high enough for you to see it here …. Yes, they’re mining it, I think.
Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford, and John W. Young
04 06 13 02 LMP That music even sounds outer-spacy, doesn’t it? You hear that? That whistling sound?
04 06 13 06 CDR Yes.
04 06 13 07 I2_P Whoooooo. Say your – –
04 06 13 12 CMP Did you hear that whistling sound, too?
04 06 13 14 LMP Yes. Sounds like – you know, outer-space-type music.
04 06 13 18 CMP I wonder what it is.
04 06 17 56 CDR 2.
04 06 17 58 L_P Boy, that sure is weird music.
04 06 18 O1 _ We’re going to have to find out about that04 06 18 O1 _ We’re going to have to find out about that. Nobody will believe us.
04 06 18 07 I.t,2’_ Yes. It’s a whistling, you know, like an outer-spacetype thing.
04 12 09 16 CDR I mean you … What the hell was that gurgling noise?
04 12 09 25 LMP I don’t know. But I’ll tell you, that eerie music is what’s bothering me. You know that –
04 12 09 28 CMP God damn, I heard it, too.
04 12 09 29 LMP Youknow s that was funny. That’s Just like something from outer space, really. Who’s going to believe it?
04 12 09 34 CMP Nobody. Shall we tell them about it?
04 12 09 39 LMP I don’t know. We ought to think about it some.
04 12 09 41 CMP Did you hear it, Tom?
04 12 09 42 LMF Yes, he heard it.
04 12 09 43 CDR Yes.
04 12 09 47 LMP Hell, I Just want to get out of this suit.
05 10 33 CDR Where is the music – I want to – have Charlie describe it to us. Where’s the tape recorder?
06 05 10 38 CMP On the second one over.
06 05 10 3g CDR No – no, I Just didn’t play that.
06 05 10 43 CDR Hello, Houston; Apollo 10.
06 05 10 48 _ Hold your mike do%m a little bit.
06 05 10 54 CDR Is it on?
06 05 10 55 _ Yes ….
06 05 10 59 C_P Play that song over again, though, when you get to it. Zap it up a little bit.
These quotes, without direct context, are of course not absolute proof of anything. But they are, at the very least, curious and intriguing conversations that have happened deep in the dark depths of space well beyond our planet.
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One upon a time anything we didn’t understand implied gods and magic. Now it’s aliens, or secret plots or the like. Mostly aliens.
In the early days of telephony, when they were using one wire on the poles, and grounding the other as they did with telegraphy, all kinds of weird sounds were heard — whistles that rose and fell, swooshing sounds, clicks and pops. Nowadays we would immediately assume aliens – but they soon began to use two wires and the sounds went away. Radio hadn’t been discovered yet. Of course what they were hearing was electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena: Auroras, lightning sounds being ducted through the ionosphere – low frequency radio noise such as you still hear and can’t always identify. The universe practically screams with weird radio signals across the entire spectrum. It sounds like aliens only because we want so much for it to be aliens.
I don’t doubt the widespread existence of life on other planets, but the assumption that evolution leads or trends toward intelligent, technological radio broadcasters is unsupportable. Life leads where circumstances allow and intelligent dolphins will not be on the air. The intelligent cockroaches on planet Mongo may all have cable – who knows? Hell, it looks like intelligence is unsustainable on earth! By the time anyone hears us we’ll be gone.
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As the old saying goes, “There’s gotta be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe cause there sure isn’t much on this planet!”
One upon a time anything we didn’t understand implied gods and magic. Now it’s aliens, or secret plots or the like. Mostly aliens.
In the early days of telephony, when they were using one wire on the poles, and grounding the other as they did with telegraphy, all kinds of weird sounds were heard — whistles that rose and fell, swooshing sounds, clicks and pops. Nowadays we would immediately assume aliens – but they soon began to use two wires and the sounds went away. Radio hadn’t been discovered yet. Of course what they were hearing was electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena: Auroras, lightning sounds being ducted through the ionosphere – low frequency radio noise such as you still hear and can’t always identify. The universe practically screams with weird radio signals across the entire spectrum. It sounds like aliens only because we want so much for it to be aliens.
I don’t doubt the widespread existence of life on other planets, but the assumption that evolution leads or trends toward intelligent, technological radio broadcasters is unsupportable. Life leads where circumstances allow and intelligent dolphins will not be on the air. The intelligent cockroaches on planet Mongo may all have cable – who knows? Hell, it looks like intelligence is unsustainable on earth! By the time anyone hears us we’ll be gone.
“By the time anyone hears us we’ll be gone.” That is likely.