Why is Science Important?. Yesterday, I had a Q&A session with… | by Avi Loeb | Dec, 2022 | Medium
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/why-is-science-important-416fc081a8ed

The challenges of adapting to new environments in space would be vast, far greater than the challenge of leaving the jungles of Africa to inhabit tech-rich cities — which our predecessors accomplished in the span of the last hundred thousand years. Survival of the fittest in interstellar space requires the tools of advanced science and technology.

For long-term survival, we must figure out how to repair and augment the human body so that our future astronauts will have a lifetime of millions of years in interstellar space. This would lead to an exponential growth in the population of interstellar spacecraft. The doubling time could be as short as 100,000 years, the travel time of our existing chemical rockets to the habitable planets around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri. Over merely 5 million years, the lifespan of the human species so far, interstellar astronauts could go through 40 doublings. Starting with a single craft might yield 2 to the power of 40 spacecraft in 5 million years. This amounts to a trillion spacecraft which could target all the habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Sharing our scientific knowledge with all intelligent beings in interstellar space could be a natural extension of our international scientific endeavor on Earth. Expanding the scientific program from international to interstellar also offers a grander benefit from reciprocity. One of our destinations might include a civilization which made scientific discoveries that exceed our knowledge. In that case, we could learn from them.

Here’s hoping that the friction that interstellar explorers will encounter with nay-sayers or bureaucrats who want them to focus all resources on their home planet, might be overcome by the fruits of interstellar wisdom. Ad Astra!

Unprecedented UAP Legislation
https://www.christophermellon.net/post/unprecedented-uap-legislation

Unbeknownst to most Americans, President Biden just signed into law far-reaching legislation that could soon confirm the existence of an alien presence on earth. The relevant provisions, incorporated into legislation needed to provide funding for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC), enjoys strong bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. This is arguably the biggest story mainstream news organizations have ever failed to cover.

Defining floors and ceilings: the contribution of human needs theory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814033

This article argues that a theory of human needs is essential to buttress and give content to the concept of consumption corridors. In particular it enables us to, first, define a safe, just, and sustainable space for humanity, and second, to decompose and recompose consumption based on a distinction between necessities and luxuries. After an introduction, the article is divided into four parts. The first compares different concepts of human needs and concentrates on universalizable need theories. The second presents a method for agreeing on contextual need satisfiers, and the third discusses current research identifying the floors of poverty and necessities. A fourth section then sets out how sustainable needs can underpin the upper bound of the corridor and how this ceiling might be measured in income and consumption terms. However, >strong>once we move from a national to a global perspective a profound dilemma is encountered as rich country corridors diverge from a global consumption corridor

TADEAS:

Did Advanced Civilizations Exist Before Humans? Silurian Hypothesis Explored
https://youtu.be/sAF8ns-d4rc

ad ufo, shadow biosphere -- ultraterrestrials

ULTRATERRESTRIAL MODELS - Hal Puthoff
https://thejournalofcosmology.com/Puthoff.pdf

Under consideration in this paper are two seminal statements and their concomitants, currently unknown, as follows:
1. There is an unidentified phenomenon interacting with the current human population on Earth;
2. It is currently unknown whether the phenomenon is exclusively extraterrestrial, extradimensional, crypto-terrestrial, demonic/djinn, proto/ancient human, time-travelers, etc., or some combination or mutation of any or all of these.
However, it appears highly likely that the phenomenon per se is not constituted exclusively of members of the current human population. In this paper we address the above under the overarching theme Ultraterrestrials in order to develop a template to be matched against data at hand and that may be procured in the future.

Dr. Harold (Hal) Puthoff is President and CEO of EarthTech International, Inc. (ETI), and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin (IASA). Earning his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1967, Puthoff's professional background spans decades of research at General Electric, Sperry, the National Security Agency, Stanford University, SRI International, and, since 1985, as President of ETI and Director IASA. He has published numerous papers on quantum physics, lasers, and space propulsion, and has patents issued in the laser, energy, and communications fields. Puthoff regularly serves various foundations, corporations, and government entities (e.g., Dept. of Defense and intelligence community) as advisor on leading-edge technologies and future technology trends.

Recently Dr. Puthoff served as a Senior Science Advisor and Contractor to the DoD's AAWSAP/AATIP program set up to investigate UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) which led to the 17 May 2022 Congressional hearing and follow-up legislation on the UAP phenomena.

TADEAS:

Ep. 113 - The Silurian Hypothesis with Mattimore
https://youtu.be/qzYSKVWdcHY

2019 The Shadow Biosphere Hypothesis: Non-knowledge in Emerging Disciplines
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162243919881207

All life on Earth shares the same ancestor, the most primitive form of life that arose, in still unknown circumstances, more than 3.5 billion years ago. At least this is what is commonly assumed. Astrobiologists have revisited this assumption and advanced the hypothesis of the existence of a “shadow biosphere” on Earth: a parallel tree of life whose instances, being different at the molecular level to the kind of life we are used to, would remain hidden from view. In this paper, I take the emergence of the so-called shadow biosphere hypothesis and the controversial discovery of GFAJ-1, a microbe thriving in the arsenic-rich waters of Mono Lake, as an entry point to look into the strategic role of non-knowledge claims. I juxtapose the Latourian black-box, that is, those undiscussed technoscientific artifacts that are taken for granted in scientific practice, with the shadowy nature of non-knowledge claims in order to pay closer attention to the contingent, active, performative, and always social nature of the making of what is unknown. I conclude this paper by claiming that in the negotiation of what is unknown, emerging disciplines position themselves within the larger scientific community.

RUMSFELD / KNOWNS
https://youtu.be/REWeBzGuzCc

2009 Signatures of a Shadow Biosphere
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2008.0251

Astrobiologists are aware that extraterrestrial life might differ from known life, and considerable thought has been given to possible signatures associated with weird forms of life on other planets. So far, however, very little attention has been paid to the possibility that our own planet might also host communities of weird life. If life arises readily in Earth-like conditions, as many astrobiologists contend, then it may well have formed many times on Earth itself, which raises the question whether one or more shadow biospheres have existed in the past or still exist today. In this paper, we discuss possible signatures of weird life and outline some simple strategies for seeking evidence of a shadow biosphere.

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion, and Steady States - IOPscience
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31a3/meta

We model the settlement of the Galaxy by space-faring civilizations in order to address issues related to the Fermi Paradox. We are motivated to explore the problem in a way that avoids assumptions about the agency (ie, questions of intent and motivation) of any exo-civilization seeking to settle other planetary systems. We begin by considering the speed of an advancing settlement front to determine if the Galaxy can become inhabited with space-faring civilizations on timescales shorter than its age. Our models for the front speed include the directed settlement of nearby settleable systems through the launching of probes with a finite velocity and range. We also include the effect of stellar motions on the long-term behavior of the settlement front which adds a diffusive component to its advance. As part of our model we also consider that only a fraction, f, of planets will have conditions amenable to settlement by the space-faring civilization. The results of these models demonstrate that the Milky Way can be readily filled-in with settled stellar systems under conservative assumptions about interstellar spacecraft velocities and launch rates. We then move on to consider the question of the Galactic steady state achieved in terms of the fraction X of settled planets. We do this by considering the effect of finite settlement civilization lifetimes on the steady states. We find a range of parameters for which 0< X< 1, ie, the Galaxy supports a population of interstellar space-faring civilizations even though some settleable systems are uninhabited. In addition we find that statistical fluctuations can produce local overabundances of settleable worlds. These generate long-lived clusters of settled systems immersed in large regions that remain unsettled. Both results point to ways in which Earth might remain unvisited in the midst of an inhabited galaxy. Finally we consider how our results can be combined with the finite horizon for evidence of previous settlements in Earth's geologic record. Using our steady-state model we constrain the probabilities for an Earth visit by a settling civilization before a given time horizon. These results break the link between Hart's famous" Fact A"(no interstellar visitors on Earth now) and the conclusion that humans must, therefore, be the only technological civilization in the Galaxy. Explicitly, our solutions admit situations where our current circumstances are consistent with an otherwise settled, steady-state galaxy.