It makes perfect sense in a universe without physics. To the writers' credit it didn't involve Holodecks.
For astronomical accuracy:
Alpha Centauri is the triple star system and Proxima Centauri is one of its stars.
Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b was discovered orbiting around Proxima Centauri in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b
The plot is not what is supposed to make sense. The pic says it all.
Dax said it all in the DS9:OS crossover about the tribbles.
“And women wore less.”
It doesn’t have to be a speed of 1/100 light speed, it may well be say, 1/10 light speed or maybe 1/5 light speed. And if it’s just a probe there’s nobody on board, reducing the Criticality of the element of time. It’s also a one-way trip, one assumes - that will save a lot of time. One wonders where probes go when their work is finished. Crash into the moon? Hide in the rings of Saturn?
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In which case it takes less time to the uninvolved observer. However due to relativity the faster you move the slower time will pass and it will take a lot longer to return home.
Still waiting for any kind of evidence that 840 years is like 'the blink of an eye' to advanced aliens. They may well have a much shorter lifespan were they actually to exist which given all evidence available to us seems highly unlikely. May be you should go back to selling snake oil.
Seems to me this whole UFO visitation thing only kicked off because someone bent the ear of the previous POTUS and every nutjob after that jumped on the bandwagon. Prior to that, the whole thing had quieted down AFAIK.
If you‘re an alien civilization millions of yrs ahead of us, you aren’t going to crash into the planet as has apparently happened a few times. And you won’t be coming here for resources - it would be far easier to mine a dead planet with robots than waste time dealing with beings, ie us, that are nothing more than intellectual and technological cockroaches by comparison. And why would you be landing in forests with flashing lights, or abducting people? An advanced civilisation will know about DNA - one sample from a discarded paper cup would tell them all they need to know about humankind.
Further, given the rapid advances in our own technology, we will with in the next few centuries probably be able to directly image exoplanets and I imagine if there are advanced civilisations out there, they may be studying us now In the same way.
If you‘re an alien civilization millions of yrs ahead of us, you aren’t going to crash into the planet as has apparently happened a few times. And you won’t be coming here for resources - it would be far easier to mine a dead planet with robots than waste time dealing with beings, ie us, that are nothing more than intellectual and technological cockroaches by comparison. And why would you be landing in forests with flashing lights, or abducting people? An advanced civilisation will know about DNA - one sample from a discarded paper cup would tell them all they need to know about humankind.
Further, given the rapid advances in our own technology, we will with in the next few centuries probably be able to directly image exoplanets and I imagine if there are advanced civilisations out there, they may be studying us now In the same way.
"And why would you be landing in forests with flashing lights, or abducting people?"
You know why.
You know why.
So far, "direct images" of exoplanets have been mainly confined to giant planets still so hot from their creation that they remain self-luminous.
The attachment shows a 'movie' produced from a composite of images taken over seven years in which four such planets, more massive than Jupiter, are orbiting the young star HR 8799.
The black circle in the centre of the image is an effort to block the blinding light of the star, and thus make the planets visible.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1404/a-four-planet-system-in-orbit-directly-imaged-and-remarkable/
Technology moves on swiftly. Telescopes to come will wear "starglasses" to dim the glare of stars to seek out direct images of exoplanets.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1601/wfirst-space-telescope-fitted-for-starglasses/
In accord with what you have said, Bonsai, it may be some time before an Earth size rocky planet appears greater than pixel size, but spectral analysis will still be able to tell us about the composition of its atmosphere and perhaps provide evidence of gases suggesting the existence of life.
P.S. It is now estimated that there are more than a trillion planets in our galaxy alone, many of them in Earth’s size range!
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Slightly 'massaging' the subject of "SEEING THINGS" > OR NOT !
(also along the lines of conspiracies)
On a clear night, even although it's through an atmosphere, we see stars.
The Apollo 17 footage & photos > looking at a black horizon (without atmosphere)
shows NO stars at all ! Why are the stars missing ???
PS.
There is NO moon dust on the shiny 'landing gear'.
(also along the lines of conspiracies)
On a clear night, even although it's through an atmosphere, we see stars.
The Apollo 17 footage & photos > looking at a black horizon (without atmosphere)
shows NO stars at all ! Why are the stars missing ???
PS.
There is NO moon dust on the shiny 'landing gear'.
The exposure setting wasn’t long enough on the cameras to capture stars in background which are relatively faint. Why was the US flag in the background apparently blowing in the wind? Did Kubrick film the moon landing on the set of his 2001 A Space Odyssey in London? Did Kubrick’s wife come up with the words spoken by Neil Armstrong, “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind.?” 😳
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That's not so surprising given the exhaust pattern of the descent engine.
Some of the high velocity dust particles blown outwards by the descent engine were seen by the Apollo astronauts to fly right out over the horizon and keep on going!
The image on the right shows the sideways radial pattern of the dust being blasted across the lunar surface.
Dust particles are estimated as having been travelling with a horizontal velocity of up to 1.5 miles/sec, fast enough to almost escape the Moon's gravity!
I've written before about how silly it is to debunk the Moon landings:
At the same time as Apollo 11, the Soviets launched the Luna 15 unmanned mission to the Moon. The Soviets hoped to beat the Americans by being the first to return lunar rock samples to Earth. Luna 15 orbited and, ultimately, crash-landed on the Moon whilst the Apollo astronauts were still on the Moon’s surface.
If the Apollo 11 landing had never taken place, one can be sure that the Soviets would have debunked it at the time because they, like the radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank in the UK, had the facilities to track the Apollo mission.
The fact that the Soviets never denied the American Moon landings speaks volumes as to the authenticity of the missions.
Why would there be wind inside a movie set? Good question. But why is there wind on the moon? 😲