![]() Our program was produced today by Chris Benderev. If they do quote someone, it's often this guy, Mick West. Unfortunately, with scientists off doing, you know, science, there is almost no one left to try to set the record straight, no one to quote in those news stories saying, you know, I think that's just a weather balloon. "Because the human sensory system sucks." But basically, every scientist in every university is sitting it out.Īs Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist who runs the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, put it, he was talking about the people who believe these things are spaceships, quote, "The fact that you don't know what it is is not evidence that you know what it is, OK? You know why science exists?" he says. I can't think of a font big enough for the front page. If any of these photos or radar blips or whatever really were alien craft, it would be the greatest discovery of all time. If alien spacecraft are here, shouldn't we have better pictures?Īnd the fact that basically no scientists seem interested in this at all and prefer to dwell on, say, detailed questions of how solar systems form, it tells you something. But today, every single person with a smartphone has a super powerful camera in their pocket. In the '50s, it may be made sense that all the UFO photos were blurry and hard to decipher. I mean, maybe there is some way around it, but it really, really does not seem like it.Īnd think about it for a second. The universe really does seem to have a speed limit. It just gets you a tiny bit closer to the speed of light. You can double the amount of energy you're using, and it doesn't double the speed. We got to 99.999954% of the speed of light. They get very close to the speed of light, but they do not go faster. And I can tell you, you can try to make those particles go as fast as you want. I worked on one of those giant particle accelerators. For aliens to actually visit us, if they exist in the first place, they would either need to be insanely patient or be able to travel faster than the speed of light because the nearest stars are crazy far away. I have reasons for thinking all this is bullshit- science reasons. And midway through, I realized, oh, I have to be polite because it's clear they think this is real. Particularly maddening are conversations I've had with people I know about this. Even so, he insisted on sending me at least one video. He told me he was nervous about filming outside because the soldiers didn't like it when people did that. He walked around the neighborhood with his dad. They hugged and drank tea together, just like old times. On the first day back, he made sure to see his grandmother. Their apartment had light and water, though the internet was spotty, and there was no gas, but they'd bought an electric stove yesterday. He wrote me an update the way he always texted, in long, run-on sentences. And then a few days later, another text message came through. His mom and sister returned back to Warsaw while he and his dad continued to Mariupol. The border guards hadn't let his mom and sister into Ukraine because of a document issue. Had there been a bombing, a missile strike that I had missed?īut then a couple days later, Ilya popped up on my screen. I stayed up into the morning hours scrolling through Ukrainian Telegram channels made for this exact reason. I couldn't get a hold of Ilya or his mother. I don't know when I'll be able to write to you again. By the way, he wrote, we're already en route home. ![]() Two days later, mid-August, Ilya texted me from the road. Was Mariupol still going to feel like home? This is the thing he was trying to set straight for himself. When he did, he would get into long conversations with me, using phrases like, listen here, Val, or you got to hear me out, Val. ![]() He couldn't always break out of his quiet. ![]() When I would arrive at the shelter, he would be waiting for me outside.īut Ilya was also more reserved than the other kids. Sometimes in the mornings, if I was late to my shift, he would call me to make sure I was still coming and then confirm a time to be exact. That's just the kind of kid he is, a little businessman. The day I met Ilya, he asked for my number right away. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and psychiatrists would come in to help on site. ![]() Ilya and his family made it to one of Warsaw's nicer refugee centers, which offer them long-term housing. In all the time I was in Poland, I didn't meet anyone else from his city. It was remarkable to me that he had made it out of Mariupol. Ilya covered his face with his Angry Birds t-shirt. Here, Zhenya, the 11-year-old filming him, stopped recording. It wasn't until hours later he found out his grandmother had survived. We came to my grandma's, and we couldn't enter because the house was completely mined. ![]()
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