16 Nov 2025 13:33:19
Good afternoon comrades.
During this international break here’s some more old twaddle only tangentially related to football to pass the time….
In November next year Voyager 1 launched in 1977 and travelling at 38, 000 mph will reach one light DAY away from Earth. It’s currently around 17 billion miles away, by far the most distant man made object.
Light travels at 186, 000 miles per Second so you can work out how far it’s gone in a light day.
( if you can’t imagine how fast light travels, you try switching your bedroom light on and try and get out of bed before the room is lit up ??)
The 2nd nearest star ( our Sun being the closest) is 4.25 light YEARS away.
So travelling at Voyagers speed it would take around 75, 000 of our Earth years to reach it. But the good news is that Manchester Citeh’s FFP hearing might be concluded by then. And people wonder why we’ve never had alien visitors
Our Sun is an unremarkable star, about half way through its 9 or 10 billion year life cycle. It’s on the fringes of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which itself contains billions of stars. We’ve got a great view of some of it on a clear night. It’s a bit like sitting in the corner of the WFCG by the ship containers and seeing the whole sweep of the stadium.
Assuming that the Universe is infinite there may well be an identical Stokey typing twaddle to you lot in a galaxy far, far away……….
As a footnote, Voyager 1 has drawings on it depicting how to reach our planet and nude sketches of a man and woman to show aliens. It also has the sound of a human baby crying and a blue whales underwater bellow, as well as music from Beethoven to Chuck Berry. The scientists decided not to include any JS Bach in case the aliens thought we were showing off……….
Enjoy each day comrades, it’s a miracle that we are here at all. The chances of life on Earth evolving are about the same, according to the boffins, of a powerful hurricane blowing through a scrapyard and leaving behind a fully operational airliner……….
16 Nov 2025 15:18:21
We have had alien visitors. They built the pyramids and Stonehenge and drew the Nasca lines amongst other things. Surely a man of your education knows that, Stokey. Get a grip man.
16 Nov 2025 18:25:18
??Ravers, I can see why some think that but you’d be amazed what the ancient civilisations could build with the technology and knowledge they had at the time ( together with unlimited slave labour).
16 Nov 2025 19:33:34
Have you not watched Ancient Aliens? There's over 250 episodes. They can't all be wrong. Think about it. Expand your historical knowledge my learned red friend. ?.
16 Nov 2025 19:35:27
Them spliffs have got to you raver ????.
16 Nov 2025 19:36:51
I agree with Ravers. Pumapunku, Machu Picchu, Moai, Sacsayhuamán plus many many more. The list goes on.
16 Nov 2025 22:50:32
Good grief. Get a grip of yourselves Gentlemen. What a load of old tosh. What you're talking about is even less realistic than Edu making a positive contribution to our club. And that, in itself, is far-fetched.
16 Nov 2025 23:48:45
They never seen the periodic table and the evaluation of mankind lego
All backed upped by scientific evidence, but a few programmes on tv have convinced them that the aliens have been here already?
Spliffs must be good? ???
Not that I'll ever do drugs
Whatch out aliens about? ????.
17 Nov 2025 03:12:05
I think we've got them right on the end of the hook, Silkworm. Well at least on my part anyway. Ancient Aliens is brilliant comedy by the way. The ancient astronaut theorists ae about as believable as the religious theorists and the folk that believe in ghosts, ghouls, goblins and karma. ??????.
17 Nov 2025 03:13:27
Evaluation?
17 Nov 2025 03:15:15
You can hardly call anyone if you need a spell checker to put words in for you, dtp. ????.
17 Nov 2025 09:29:20
??"I'm an Alien, i'm an illegal Alien, i'm a Afghan living in York" ???.
17 Nov 2025 13:26:35
If DTP says there's no Alien life, I'm asking for odds at the bookies on contact next year.
17 Nov 2025 15:12:52
Mossy i never thought of it that way, bookies here i come??.
17 Nov 2025 20:14:29
Have you seen what your 'old twaddle' has done, Stokey? Have you?
17 Nov 2025 20:17:48
You get yourselves down there, I'm sure you'll win an astronomical amount ???.
18 Nov 2025 10:56:01
Silkman……yes, sorry about that…. ?????.