Extraterrestrial civilizations may have been destroyed by gamma-ray bursts, astronomer Frederick Walter has said.
Alien civilizations have not yet made contact with humans because they may have been annihilated by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, citing Frederick Walter, an astronomer from Stony Brook University in New York.
According to NASA, GRBs are short-lived outbursts of light that erupt with a quintillion times the luminosity of the Sun. Walter believes the force of an outburst would be enough to destroy any extraterrestrial civilization.
“It’s a tightly focused beam. And, if it’s directed through the plane of the galaxy, it could basically sterilize about 10% of the planets in the galaxy,” Walter explained. The astronomer noted that, according to his estimates, there is a GRB in any galaxy roughly every 100 million years.
“Over a billion years, on average, you might expect a significant number of civilizations to be eradicated, should they exist… It’s just one of many possible explanations, sort of morbid, I suppose,” he said.
According to Walter’s estimates, the Milky Way galaxy could have seen around 45 GRBs in the Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history. He stressed, however, that any potential threat to humanity from this type of event is “not worth worrying about.”
“They’re rare, and they’re directed,” he stated, noting that this makes GRBs unlikely to hit the Earth.
NASA describes GRBs as the “most powerful events in the known universe.” The phenomenon was first observed in 1967, via a pair of US Vela satellites designed to detect nuclear weapon tests. However, most researchers say GRBs are more common in distant star-forming galaxies and are less likely to happen in the Milky Way.
Walter also speculated on other reasons behind humankind’s inability to detect extraterrestrial life, suggesting that other worlds may be filled with life forms resembling aquatic species like whales and dolphins. For this type of civilization, it would be impossible to develop the technology needed for space travel or communication, he said.
He went on to say that some alien civilizations might simply choose not to take the risk that comes with contacting other potentially dangerous life forms. Another explanation, he added, which many physicists and astronomers support, is that technologically advanced life forms on other planets might have destroyed themselves.
“Just look around, you know? We’re polluting the atmosphere. We’re making it questionable as to whether we’re going to have a viable civilization in a century, unless we do something drastic. If civilizations tend to evolve in the same way that they have on our planet, then that’s going to hit everybody,” he said, warning that at our current pace “there’s a risk we’re not going to make it through another… 150 years.”
They watched politics and television:
“Beam me up scotty there’s no intelligent life down there”.
What a load of rubbish, the bloke must be pissed.
I much prefer to read carlos castaneda’s book…..
Scientists always ignore the testimony of experiencers and abductees. Scientists like to state that you have to have physical proof, such as a spaceship. The reality is, that any spaceship that crashes on Earth is shipped to some secret military base or an underground base and is then back engineered. Scientists do not have access unless they sign military NDA’s and are security cleared to the highest levels. Therefore, the scientists that know the truth do not say anything, and the scientists that know nothing speak the loudest about “the need for proof”. Also, as is often the case, the secrets are kept safe from FOIA (Freedom of Information) requests because the spaceships are “owned” by aerospace companies that are guarded by the military. Therefore, in a legalistic sense, the military and the government “know nothing” and so FOIA requests come up empty: Private companies are not subject to FOIA and can claim IP protections and so on.
The late Bill Tompkins (passed in 2017 aged 94) in his book “Selected by Extraterrestrials” describes how he was selected by “the Nordics” in order to help engineer an Earth based fleet, which later became operational in the early 1980’s as Solar Warden.
Also, Dr Michael Salla (on YouTube) has lots of videos on this subject and books (on Amazon). Also check out Elena Danaan on the same sites. Elena Danaan has regular physical contacts with Extraterrestrials from the Galactic Federation.
There is a lot of top caliber knowledge out there that “scientists” choose to ignore (or at least they do in public) but “we the people” have access to if we so choose.
https://www.youtube.com/user/michaelsalla/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/ElenaDanaan/videos
These pop-scientists are such dipsh!ts, honestly. This dude is right up there with Neil Fake-asse Tyson and Bill Nye. But he pushes the climate change nonsense so he’s given airtime.
For context the closest star to us is Proxima Centauri at about 7.5 million kilometres. Even travelling faster than the speed of light (which our best physicists aren’t even sure is theoretically possible), using an engine that has yet to be designed, it would still take around 4 years to get there. And no one’s even sure whether there are any earth like planets orbiting that star.
Hollywood films and Sony PlayStation have made people underestimate just how big outer space really is. Vast distances of millions of miles between everything.
THAT’S the answer to the Fermi paradox, that’s the reason why we haven’t met any aliens (and likely never will). Even if you find a planet with a similar gravitational mass, atmospheric makeup and climate profile to your own, what good is it when it would take you longer than all of recorded human history to ever get there?
Sorry to be a downer, but we haven’t even landed on our own moon yet 🤷🏼♂️
Then again, perhaps they “stocked the pond” to come back later and collect the food (which is us?).
If that’s the case, they’re going to get food poisoning from all the jabbed ones. Hope they brought a lot of Tums 😄
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Shirley Mclaine saw them high in the Andes, once in her travels. Seems to be a regular feature there
They haven’t made contact because they have figured out that there will always be a neocon who thinks that shooting at them is a good idea. So then they’ll have to shut that down and then the the other neocons say “told ya they’re evil” and then you’ve got war.
It is safe to assume that ETs are smarter than us, esp smarter than neocons