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Originally posted by mblahnikluver
I was just thinking that doesnt it have USA on it? Wouldnt that show them that we have been there?
On Nov. 6, 1991 Jim Scotti using the Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak in Arizona discovered a body which he initially described as a "fast moving asteroidal object," a month befo re its closest approach to the Earth. Later, the object's heliocentric orbital elements suggested instead that "the object might be a returning spacecraft." As the approximately 30-foot object, now labeled 1991 VG, neared the Earth, astronomers at the Eur opean Southern Observatory tracked it and found strong, rapid brightness variations suggestive of reflections from a rotating spacecraft...
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
I just had another thought on this as well, is it possible that our deep space probes that we send out, if reaching an alien home world may be though of as weapons?
Say the probes end up getting caught in the gravitational pull and are shot down to the surface of the unexpecting planet, possibly destroying a small town or city. After realizing that the things that destroyed the town (I m guessing that is has been more than one hitting their planet in order for them to react) or city was no natural, they go back over the trajectory of the object that was originally thought to be a meteor.
Their planet comes to gather over a common menace the blue planet circling the small distant star, they get funding for their war against this common enemy and are into the space race with fighter like space craft, in mere decades, possibly less, possibly more, it depends on their level at the time and the efficiency of their scientists.
So basically my question would be, is it possible that we could inadvertently start an interstellar war by sending out deep space probes?
[edit on 9/2/2009 by AlienCarnage]
No, it isnt. If they hit a planet and the people from that planet have the technology to come to earth with "fighter like space craft" they also have the technology to contact us first before thinking of war.
And they sure as hell would be too intelligent to not figure out themselves it is a crashed probe with research purposes.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
reply to post by TheNetherlands
No, it isnt. If they hit a planet and the people from that planet have the technology to come to earth with "fighter like space craft" they also have the technology to contact us first before thinking of war.
Not necessarily, if they were a planet that believed they were already under attack, would they really take the time to ask why and risk further destruction, or would they retaliate first and ask questions later.
And they sure as hell would be too intelligent to not figure out themselves it is a crashed probe with research purposes.
If the probe had impacted and destroyed a town or city, there may have been enough left to determine it was artificial, but not to determine it's function, but destroying a city would definitely be on the list, which would lead to weapon.
Wouldnt they not know that Earth and humanity doesnt have these kind of weapons?
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
So basically my question would be, is it possible that we could inadvertently start an interstellar war by sending out deep space probes?
[edit on 9/2/2009 by AlienCarnage]
Say the probes end up getting caught in the gravitational pull and are shot down to the surface of the unexpecting planet, possibly destroying a small town or city.
After realizing that the things that destroyed the town (I m guessing that is has been more than one hitting their planet in order for them to react) or city was no natural, they go back over the trajectory of the object that was originally thought to be a meteor.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
reply to post by TheNetherlands
Wouldnt they not know that Earth and humanity doesnt have these kind of weapons?
How would they know? They might not even know we existed until the probe crashed onto their planet.