by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/07/2026 11:59 AM
If aliens really are in contact with this planet then They compel you to read this note by me.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-scientists-worry-breaking-news-182139282.html
Yahoo! News
Time
Why Scientists Worry About Breaking News About Life in Space
Jeffrey Kluger
Updated Fri, February 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM PST 9 min read
“The concept of aliens is deeply embedded into our popular culture and in our imagination,” says Brianne Suldovsky, associate professor in the Department of Communications at Portland State University. “And so people are likely to already have preexisting fears about those things based on the things they've seen in the media, the things they've read, other conspiracy beliefs they might have.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/1900s-century-hype-millennial/story?id=89978
ABC News
1900's New Century Hype Was Millennial
By ABC News
December 29, 2000, 10:29 AM
But fundamentally, it came in forms many of today’s citizens will recognize: Newspapers in December 1900 and early January 1901 ran historical reviews and timelines of the past century, then-and now comparisons, best-of lists, and reminiscences of centenarians. Pundits and authors thought of clever names for the nineteenth century, including “the people’s century,” “the wonderful century,” “the scientific century,” “a Titanic century,” “the era of astronomical discovery” and “a turning point in the history of the world.”
They also looked ahead, publishing future visions of New York, and predicting that in the next 100 years we’d live longer, and be taller, healthier and more beautiful in every way. They especially liked to dream about what many felt was sure to be a wonderful time — the year 2000.
Book stores and news stands of 1900 were probably stocked futuristic utopian novels and magazine articles on where to best greet the changing of the epochs. With competing papers screaming for attention several times a day in most large cities, the volume must have been downright millennial.
Our ancestors could hardly avoid the new century thoughts of writers such as Emile Zola, H.G. Wells and Mark Twain.
The hype was enough to make an editorial writer for The Philadelphia Press sound weary: “No century has ever sunk into the crypts of eternity whose going has been marked by such pomp and circumstance, such outpouring of human effort in thought and action to note the event, as the century whose last days we are now recording,” read the Dec. 23, 1900 editorial. “And no century has ever issued from the womb of time whose advent has aroused the high expectation, the universal hope, as that which the midnight litanies and the secular festivals but eight days hence will usher in.”
There even were signs of an anti-media backlash. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World worried over celebrity responses to a survey on potential twentieth century dangers. Many said the biggest danger to society was the media.
"The Menagerie, part 2" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 24 Nov, 1966
(from internet transcript)
[Pike's cage]
(Pike discovers there is a transparent wall blocking his escape, and tests it's strength. A group of aliens arrive)
PIKE: Can you hear me? My name is Christopher Pike, commander of the space vehicle Enterprise from a stellar group at the other end of this galaxy. Our intentions are peaceful. Can you understand me?
(the aliens communicate with their minds, not voices)
TALOSIAN: It appears, Magistrate, that the intelligence of the specimen is shockingly limited.
MAGISTRATE: This is no surprise since his vessel was baited here so easily with a simulated message. As you can read in its thoughts, it is only now beginning to suspect that the survivors and encampment were a simple illusion we placed in their minds.
PIKE: You're not speaking, yet I hear you.
MAGISTRATE: You will note the confusion as it reads our thought transmissions.
PIKE: All right, then, telepathy. You can read my mind. I can read yours. Now, unless you want my ship to consider capturing me an unfriendly act
MAGISTRATE: You now see the primitive fear/threat reaction. The specimen is about to boast of his strength, the weaponry of his vessel, and so on. Next, frustrated into a need to display physical prowess, the creature will throw himself against the transparency.
PIKE: If you were in here, wouldn't you test the strength of these walls, too? There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it.
MAGISTRATE: Despite its frustration, the creature appears more adaptable than our specimens from other planets. We can soon begin the experiment.
From 4/22/1985 ( ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 774 days
774 = 387 + 387
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1966 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Menagerie - Part II" ) is 387 days
From 12/13/1946 ( Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Prize lecture ) To 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet warship weapons-control - USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) is 14222 days
14222 = 7111 + 7111
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/22/1985 ( ) is 7111 days
From 12/13/1946 ( Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Prize lecture ) To 11/20/1985 ( with no capability for meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) is 14222 days
14222 = 7111 + 7111
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/22/1985 ( ) is 7111 days
From 12/17/1962 ( ) To 4/22/1985 ( ) is 8162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 8162 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
Sam Altman
From Wikipedia
Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly dismissed but reinstated in November 2023). He is considered one of the leading figures of the AI boom.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1945/pauli/lecture/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1945/pauli/facts/
https://michaelcrichton.com/works/the-andromeda-strain/
From 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: assigned to US Navy USS Taylor FFG-50 {permanent assignment 1984-1986} advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet ship weapons-control ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 3912 days
3912 = 1956 + 1956
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/12/1971 ( premiere USA film "The Andromeda Strain" ) is 1956 days
From 11/20/1985 ( with no capability for meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 3912 days
3912 = 1956 + 1956
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/12/1971 ( premiere USA film "The Andromeda Strain" ) is 1956 days
From 12/25/1991 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 1686 days
1686 = 843 + 843
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/23/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"By Any Other Name" ) is 843 days
From 6/8/1984 ( premiere USA film "Gremlins" ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 4442 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/31/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"The Man Who Would Not Die" ) is 4442 days
From 3/8/1946 ( Helicopters were first approved for civilian use in the United States when the Civil Aeronautics Board granted a certificate to Bell Helicopter for its Bell 47 ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 10/18/1993 ( launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/6/1996 ( ) is 1023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/21/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA federal government 1963-1969: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Establishing the Foreign Service Information Officer Corps ) is 1023 days
https://www3.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1996/96-159.txt
NASA official
Headquarters, Washington, DC
August 6, 1996
RELEASE: 96-159
STATEMENT FROM DANIEL S. GOLDIN, NASA ADMINISTRATOR
"NASA has made a startling discovery that points to the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago. The research is based on a sophisticated examination of an ancient Martian meteorite that landed on Earth some 13,000 years ago.
The evidence is exciting, even compelling, but not conclusive. It is a discovery that demands further scientific investigation. NASA is ready to assist the process of rigorous scientific investigation and lively scientific debate that will follow this discovery.
I want everyone to understand that we are not talking about 'little green men.' These are extremely small, single-cell structures that somewhat resemble bacteria on Earth. There is no evidence or suggestion that any higher life form ever existed on Mars.
The NASA scientists and researchers who made this discovery will be available at a news conference tomorrow to discuss their findings. They will outline the step-by-step "detective story" that explains how the meteorite arrived here from Mars, and how they set about looking for evidence of long-ago life in this ancient rock. They will also release some fascinating images documenting their research.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/07/2026 12:42 PM
When "space" was only low-Earth orbit
And now the place fat-ass slobs and other lameoids go to as joyrider Wastefulnauts
Star Trek
"By Any Other Name"
TV-series season 2 episode 22, 02/23/1968
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: What do you want?
ROJAN: Your ship, Captain Kirk. It will serve us well in the long voyage that is to come.
KIRK: Voyage? Where?
ROJAN: To your neighbouring galaxy, which you call Andromeda.
KIRK: Andromeda? Why?
ROJAN: It is our home.
SPOCK: What brings you here?
ROJAN: Within ten millennia, high radiation levels in our galaxy will make life there impossible. So the Kelvan Empire sent forth ships to explore other galaxies, to search for one which our race could conquer and occupy.
KIRK: Well, sorry. This galaxy is already occupied.
ROJAN: Captain, you think you are unconquerable and your ship impregnable, but while we've talked, the capture has already begun.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/16/2023 6:57 PM
As for those UFO-bunkers, they STILL !!! do not explain WHY Tim Burchett has the same birthdate as the fictional character "Dr. Ellie Arroway" from the 1997 "Contact"
Just a bunch of losers
They want the USA Department of Defense to reveal important secrets FOR NO REASON other than to satisfy the obsessive-compulsion of you UFO-bunkers, so desperate to escape your mediocre life
You're an ineffective little guy in a pathetic attempt to exert dominance over those with real power, because their mere existence reminds you of your ineffectiveness.
Kevin Day doesn't know a damn thing about RADAR. Sean Cahill doesn't know a damn thing about RADAR. That guy bounces out the good name of the US Navy just to peddle his crappy product. And those ineffective little guys rage with threats to Area 51.
AND my personal interpretation suggests their heroic US Navy pilot *might be* an actual drunk who's never flown at 500 miles per hour and passed a mylar balloon
I gave a lot of people on Twitter the opportunity to refute my sensible rebuttal
From 11/14/2004 ( previously reported here by me - the mainstream-media frenzy hoax - "Tic Tac" incident with USS Nimitz and USS Princeton ) To 2/6/2026 ( ) is 7754 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/25/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: Received For Temporary Duty Under Instruction - US Navy Naval Guided Missiles School ) is 7754 days
From 3/4/1933 ( ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 22011 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2026 ( ) is 22011 days
From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 2/6/2026 ( ) is 7583 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) is 7583 days
https://time.com/7372666/science-communication-extraterrestrial-life-in-space/
Time
Feb 6, 2026 10:21 AM PT
If They Find Life in Space, Scientists Are Worried About Breaking the News. Here’s Why
by Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 - 32nd president of USA federal government 1933-1945
David Grusch: And then in terms of multidimensionality, that kind of thing, the framework that I'm familiar with, for example, is something called the holographic principle. It derives itself from general relativity and quantum mechanics. And that is, if you want to imagine 3D objects such as yourself casting a shadow onto a 2D surface, that's the holographic principle. So you can be projected, quasi projected, from higher dimensional space to lower dimensional. It's a scientific trope that you can actually cross literally, as far as I understand, but there's probably guys with PhDs that we could probably argue about that.
Mr. Burlison: But you have not seen any documentation that that's what's occurring?
David Grusch: Only theoretical framework discussion.
Mr. Burlison: Occam's razor is that these aircraft have been identified that they are being produced by domestic military contractors. Is there any evidence that that's what's being recovered?
David Grusch: Not to my knowledge. Plus, the recoveries predate a lot of our advanced programs that I previously am witting of.
Mr. Burlison: Would it be safe to say that there could be a scenario today where you have an aircraft that crashes because it's been involved in one program from one federal agency, but the agency that retrieves it is not aware of that program, and to them it appears alien in origin?
David Grusch: I mean, that's a hypothetical situation. I'm not aware of any historical situation that would match that that you've described.
Mr. Burlison: So it has not happened that you're aware of?
David Grusch: That I'm aware of.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-scientists-worry-breaking-news-182139282.html
Yahoo! News
Time
Why Scientists Worry About Breaking News About Life in Space
Jeffrey Kluger
Updated Fri, February 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM PST 9 min read
Waiting for news about life on Mars? You’re 120 years late. That story broke on Dec. 9, 1906, when The New York Times ran a major piece under the brooking-no-argument headline, “There Is Life on the Planet Mars.” The proof? “The legions of canals on Mars” which are “an unanswerable argument for the existence of conscious, intelligent life.”
So…not so much. But the Times—and the world—got another crack at things 90 years later, on Aug. 6, 1996. That’s when NASA announced that chemicals and formations in a Martian meteorite that crash-landed on Earth 13,000 years ago were the fossilized remains of ancient bacterial life. It was a discovery that the newspaper said “is being hailed as startling and compelling evidence.”
The news was so extraordinary that Pres. Bill Clinton convened a Rose Garden press conference to discuss it. “If this discovery is confirmed,” he said, “it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered.”
Ultimately, it wasn’t confirmed, and the Mars rock remains something of an enigma, still pointed to as evidence of life by some, but rejected by most others. That leaves the question of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe open and unsettled. And that, in turn, could spell trouble when the day at last comes that irrefutable proof of life is found and scientists, political leaders, and the media have to determine just how to announce the news to an unpredictable public that could respond with excitement, fear, suspicion, skepticism, or a whole range of other positive or problematic reactions.
“The concept of aliens is deeply embedded into our popular culture and in our imagination,” says Brianne Suldovsky, associate professor in the Department of Communications at Portland State University. “And so people are likely to already have preexisting fears about those things based on the things they've seen in the media, the things they've read, other conspiracy beliefs they might have.”
In 2024, NASA took up the matter, convening a virtual astrobiology workshop called Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe. Over 100 experts including journalists, astrobiologists, social scientists, and communicators—among them, Suldovsky—attended the workshop online. Recently, Suldovsky and others co-authored a white paper published last fall in the journal Astrobiology exploring the workshop’s findings—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
“The search for life in space isn’t just a science question,” Suldovsky says. “It’s a moral question, it's a philosophical question, for some it’s a religious question. This has deep implications for our fundamental understanding of what it means to be human.”
Finding the Aliens
Extraterrestrial life can be discovered in one of two forms: alien biology or, more sensationally, alien technology. Much has been made in recent years of footage captured by Naval pilots of what appear to be flying objects diving, turning, and hovering in space in ways no known aircraft can manage. These unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP—today’s polite term for UFOs) created such a stir they were the subject of Congressional hearings in 2022. Lawmakers did not suss out just what the UAPs are, but Americans have apparently made up their minds. According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, 51% of respondents believe the UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin. At the NASA workshop, that news was met with incredulity.
“Astrobiologists could not comprehend why the public would believe that,” says Suldovsky. “They said they were flabbergasted.”
What makes the Pew finding particularly remarkable is that Americans are taking the idea of alien visitations with a decided sang-froid. Fully 87% of the people polled reported that if the craft are indeed alien, they pose no threat to Earth. Only 7% said they are unfriendly.
Definitive proof that the aliens move among us—one of those UAPs landing on a naval airstrip, say—could stir up an entirely different public reaction, including fear. That is where communicators could come in.
“We saw this in COVID,” says Suldovsky. “When you’re communicating about a risk, it’s important to communicate what we know and, more importantly, what we don’t know and the steps that are being taken to protect the public interest. With intelligent life you’re talking about planetary protection. Managing public fear is going to be incredibly challenging, however it is possible to communicate in a way that at least gives the public information about how afraid they should be and what they can do to protect themselves.”
The discovery of microbial life in a rock on Earth like the 1996 meteorite will be a different matter. There may still be fear—in this case of contamination with an alien pathogen—but NASA scientists already proved themselves adept at keeping the public safe from alien rocks back in the Apollo days when they quarantined the 842 lbs. of moon samples the six lunar landing missions brought back, sealing them in a containment lab and working on them through glove boxes. Still, those safety measures will take some explaining.
“We can’t assume the public understands that that’s kind of baked into the way we do this research,” Suldovsky says.
Alien microbes or other biology could also be discovered remotely—on the life forms’ home planet—a less dramatic scenario than finding it on Earth. The white paper says that, “[C]ommunicators need to prepare the public to see ‘traces from faraway places before they see faces.’”
Tools for that kind of from-a-distance research are now being deployed. On Jan. 11, NASA launched the Pandora Space Telescope, which will search for signs of life on 20 different exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than the sun—looking for the spectral signature of water vapor, methane, oxygen, or other chemistry associated with biology.
In October 2024, the Europa Clipper spacecraft was launched, bound for flybys of Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is covered in a rind of ice beneath which scientists believe lies a warm, salty, amniotic ocean that could harbor life. In April 2023, the European Space Agency launched its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, which will study Europa and its sister moons Ganymede and Callisto, also looking for chemical signals of biology. All of this, says Suldovsky, means that the first signs of life in space are more likely than not to be a telltale wiggle on a chemical graph which suggests biology but doesn’t prove it. That will take some explaining.
“Media coverage of these types of discoveries use words like [evidence] ‘consistent with life,’” she adds.
It can be challenging to clearly and simply relay this level of nuance to a public wanting blockbuster news, or a public that’s skeptical of science. And it requires a level of trust not just between the public and the experts, but between the experts and those communicating their science to the public.
Since only a tiny share of people will ever read the published paper that reports the finding, it will be up to journalists—in print, online, on cable stations—to convey the news, and Suldovsky worries about how well that job will be done. “We hardly have science journalists anymore,” she says. “We have generalists who sometimes cover science. A lot of scientists I talked to are hesitant to talk to media outlets because they’re worried their science isn’t going to be accurately communicated.”
Deadline pressures don’t help. Nor does the hunt for the quick and clicky headline that is going to attract eyeballs. “The challenge is amplified by media trends that often favor concise, exciting narratives over detailed explanations of ambiguity,” the white paper says.
Educating the Public
NASA has a solution for how best to study and communicate subtler astrobiological findings, known as the CoLD scale—short for confidence of life detection. The scale is made up of seven levels of scientific certitude, with level 1, the lowest, being “detection of a signal known to result from a biological activity;” to level 2, defined as “contamination [some flaw in the detection] is ruled out;” on up to level 4, “all known non-biological sources of signal shown to be implausible in that environment;” and finally to 7, “independent, follow-up observations of predicted biological behavior.” A scientist who makes it up to 7 gets to ring the biology bell—by which time layfolk who have been trying to follow the developing research may be thoroughly confused.
One way to combat that is to educate the public in advance, providing a steady stream of news releases even before the research begins, explaining the science in simple, descriptive language. This allows scientists to familiarize lay audiences with the work they’re doing and to “prebunk”—or proactively correct—misconceptions and rumors before any breakthroughs are announced. For that, the white paper recommends that a full-time communications professional be affiliated with any research team.
Also important is distinguishing between misinformation and disinformation and combating both. Misinformation is an honest misunderstanding of the science, while disinformation is deliberate misrepresentation in order to create a sensation or foster conspiracy theories. That’s especially easy to do with the increasing popularity of deep fakes and AI-generated images or videos.
It’s never too early to start the education process. The white paper recommends that curricula be established in primary and secondary schools to teach students about the scientific method, scientific skepticism, and the complex and often ambiguous nature of scientific evidence.
Just how likely it is that life will be found depends on just which mission or research project is doing the searching. For now, the white paper points to three areas of research as having the greatest chance of yielding results: the study of icy moons by spacecraft like JUICE and Europa Clipper; the search for habitable, Earthlike worlds by spacecraft like Pandora; and efforts to bring Martian soil and rocks back to Earth with robotic spacecraft—a mission long in the planning at NASA. The authors of the paper call for communications professionals to be embedded with all three of these teams and prepared for anything they might uncover.
In a universe with many trillions of planets, there are surely non-zero odds that at least some of them, like our own world, are chemical kitchens that can cook up something living. There are non-zero odds too that earthly scientists will one day spot that life. Just as they are working to make that discovery, the public must work to understand it when it comes.
{from: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-scientists-worry-breaking-news-182139282.html}
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:22 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 02/07/2026
