Lolz! The "uncanny valley" exists in our DNA eh? Our cavemen ancestors used to get sexually excited by creatures that weren't humanlike at all. Cavegirls too!
Some Plains Indian stories have women (often 2 sisters living alone) who have teeth in their vaginas. The Hero goes to have sex with them (at their insistence!) but puts a stone in first, breaking off the teeth so he can safely bang them.
Any Aliens who come here would have to be checked for "compatibility" ofc. Even if it's 0%? Some humans will still go banging them.
The generational ships that left 2000 years ago, not knowing if their planet still has life on it any longer? A possibility.
A species on the brink of self-destruction sending colony armadas in every direction towards potential life-supporting planets? Traveling for 1000s of years in cyber-sleep? Also possible.
See my long rants above :>
There's things in the universe we haven't discovered yet. We know they are there, but have no idea how or why. "Non-Locality" for example.
Our current limited understanding says it's impossible, but even we can imagine "loopholes" could exist. Maybe.
That IS a possibility! They could be scouting the universe not to contact, but to prevent a "Borg-like" robotic race from destroying them. "Hey, nice computers you humans have! Ok boys, start dropping the nukes!"
They could also be Xenophobes that destroy any race that gets close to inter-stellar travel because they simply hate everyone & everything :/ That would also explain the limited contact: they do NOT want to talk to the monkeys!
If we're lucky? Cat Planet Cuties! 😻
The idea of inter-stellar travel all depends on how fast it takes to go 1 light-year. Star Trek / Star Wars speeds or Silent Running? It makes a huge difference. I'll use 100 light-years distance as an average.
Faster than 1 LY per hour? We'd have UFOs everywhere. Kids taking Mom's spaceship for a joy ride, family sightseeing trips. The skys would be crowded.
1LY per hour: Interstellar travel would be like a long road trip, a wagon-train voyage. 100 light years would take 5 days or so, there would be regular contact by now.
1 LY per day: 100 days is a lot! Slower than trans-Atlantic travel by sail. But determined Aliens could easily make the journey, so regular contact would have happened by now too.
Once we get to a week (700 days) or a month (3000 days) it gets much harder to make the trip. Contact would be limited and one presumes VERY expensive too.
6 months or a year? That's getting into "generational ships" unless they live a very long time. Contact would be very rare and likely a huge expedition.
I'm guessing it takes 1-2 months for 1 light year, based on the limited contact so far. But having scouted us thoroughly (and returned to report it) they're going to send a big fleet / armada for full contact / takeover. The gov'ts & elites know it is well on its way & act accordingly to prepare.
I've mentioned before: the governments of the world act like "there's no tomorrow" with insane spending & short-term policies that are auto-destructive in the long term.
Why do this? Because they know Aliens will arrive soon (within our lifetimes) on a set date & change the entire economics & political structure of the whole planet.
Why would Aliens come here? Not for resources or labour, they can easily mine asteroids & build robots. My take: exotic food! People sailed across the Atlantic for cod & whales. They took back tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes & other foods but those could be grown back in Europe.
And power, maybe they colonize & enslave planets just because they can? 😟
They did that with Bluebook & the Roswell Report(s) too.
Ok, this is everything! What? People proved there's more? Oh lookie here, there's more too, but that's all... except for this other stuff :o now for sure we aren't hiding anything else we promise!
There's lots of different kinds of catgirls, eh? Most have no body hair (including "down there") but there's some with a beautiful silky fur too. How much the hands/feet resemble paws varies too, as does facial features.
My favorite catgirl, Nuku Nuku, is a combat android with the brain of a cat. Literally, a mad scientist put the brain of a dead cat into his experimental android :>
Exactly the same with Hillary and Trump. They already owned Hillary they had her bought & paid for AND they had tons of actual blackmail material on her too. If she'd become PotUS they had plenty of her mis-handled classified materials to pin on her.
Trump was not their choice, it was Hillary all the way. Well, after Bernie, their real #1 stooge. All $144K spent vs her $1BILLION dollar campaign, eh?
The man who shot John Lennon? He was also stalking David Bowie too, at the same time. On the day of the shooting he had a front-row center ticket to Bowie's play, he planned to shoot him too.
One man with a gun is a dangerous thing!
I looked at 3 bios? They had those specific numbers: 5'5" and 5'7" which seemed odd to me. Her weight ranged from 60gk to 80gk which again is a wide spread! Makes me thing it's all falsified.
I think she's 4'11" but her ego says otherwise so her bios are faked.
He came from inside the hotel, he checked in a day before & was regularly wandering around, checking it out.
That checkpoint was off to the side, yes. They weren't expecting much traffic there, so they weren't on high alert or anything.
Pretty far away. This was the outermost checkpoint & was not expecting much traffic through it.
I'm thinking the guy talking with the K9 officer was not the gunman. It looks like they have different shoes? So the K9 talked to some guy & the gunman came down that hall, then started running when the officer moved away from the door.
Just a reminder: every single kW/h of Wind, Solar or other "renewables" must have 100% backup. That backup cannot reasonably be hydro or nuclear, those are "baseline" sources. That leaves FF and batteries, or thermal salt, but that's not proven to work on a large scale yet.
Without backup there would be regular brown and black-outs. Those are hugely destructive to industry and commerce. Many companies left Ontario during the Liberal Party reign there because of their "Green Policies" making electricity 3x more expensive. If regular, random blackouts were added in? The flight would be huuuuge.
They shut down Nuclear reactors & coal, "replacing" them with Solar mostly, and Wind. For "backup" they import expensive electricity from Quebec or the USA. Manitoba is 600km away from the demand, eh? There's only 1-2 power lines connecting MB with Western Ontario, which is largely unpopulated until you hit Thunder Bay :/
That isn't how it works. W&S make "excess power" in the Summer months, primarily. The grid dumps those extra volts into the batteries then. The grid needs the most back-up in the winter months, it can rarely add power during the Spring or Fall, and almost never in the Winter.
Thus the power goes in in the Summer & is needed to be drawn out in the winter, some 4 months later. Same exact thing for thermal salt, which afaik hasn't been done on more than a very small scale. Nothing remotely close to a power grid.
There are no more large hydroelectric sites available in the developed world. None. Any small sites would be cost prohibitive. Geothermal is VERY location specific. As is tidal, (Edit: which includes "wave generation" too, right?) which has failed every test so far AND would cause massive disruption to shipping and nature if installed in anything approaching grid scale (Edit: that's for wave power, IDK how pure tidal power could possibly generate enough power to make a difference). Even as much as 20% of a local grid would be both expensive and disruptive.
Biomass = burning things. Sure it's a pretty good way to get rid of some trash & waste materials. But it stinks, people hate that, and it is limited by how much very heavy materials you have stored to be burned. In Europe they import wood pellets from the USA as back-up material to their trash. They cut down trees, ship them by diesel (Well, dirty bunker oil actually, which is, iirc, 3x more polluting) across the ocean and ship them to the Biomass sites by train & truck. Not green by any measure.
One night only! Such a shame.
We should all encourage her to abandon that stupid "Supreme Court" job & become a full-time actress! Are you with me?
Her bios say she's between 5'5" and 5'7"... but she looks like she's 4' 11" in these clips, eh? Easily the shortest person on stage.
Parts of Australia have embraced renewables, specifically Wind & Solar. You can tell what % is W&S by how high their electric bills are. More W&S = higher bills. Why? Because when those don't work properly, which is often, they have to import electricity from neighboring districts. At the highest possible premiums since their W&S isn't working either!
They "plan to have" various "grid storage" eventually, but every time they field test these they are abject failures.
An example was a "pumped water" test site. They'd use excess W&S power to pump water from down low to up high, then send that higher water down to generate power when needed. Sounds great!
It cost (these numbers are iirc, of course, but not off by much) 3x as much as "estimated" to construct the test equipment. All their "estimates" turned out to have been made by policy makers, not engineers. The water turned out to be 2x as energy demanding to pump us as estimated, and produced 1/4 as much power when sent down.
Had the large-scale plan been carried out? Each gW/h would easily cost 20X the estimate and provide a few hours of back-up, not days! And this was one of the best sites available.
Those cities are not run on 100% renewables. They have the capacity to run entirely on renewables, if the wind blew constantly & it was sunny overnight. In reality they depend heavily on outside electricity. Perhaps over a year they "balance out" input & output? But there'd be days & weeks with little or no power without outside sources.
There is no current battery tech to store power for 4+ months until needed. Add to that how the current "battery farms" tend to go up in flames on a regular basis, just like EV batteries.
Oslo and Reykjavik are unique in their access to ample geothermal. A few towns in Cali are too, up in the mountains.
Yup! A SK farmer put in some solar panels, good ones that self-aim at the sun (one array of 2 did) and kept detailed records. He blogged about it for 2 years.
They almost never hit 100% of capacity which is critical. A 10MW Solar array will NOT generate an average of 10MW in a day, but a maximum in perfect conditions for an hour. He did know that, he did his homework, but he never expected 40% which was his 2 year average.
They will never pay for themselves, especially considering how much hands-on maintenance they require. A light dusting of dust or snow can knock the output in half. Most winter mornings were spent sweeping off the panels in addition to all his chores :/
Not "particularly"... ONLY White Men! 😆
Men in China, India & Africa can do no wrongs! Muslim men too.
The Alarmists are nothing if not true idiots who believe anything they are told.