Column Chronicles: Strange lights from deep in outer space may not be good for Earth

Strange lights from deep in outer space may not be good for Earth

Frank Cotolo
January 23, 2020

To the alarm some star-watchers at NASA, more photos of strange blue lights that have been moving through the cosmos have become the subject of many interpretations, some frightening.

"Those lights could be a new star developing," said G.G. Wiltstone, who once discovered a new star that he claimed had the shape of an M&M candy. "If it were a green light I would think otherwise but it's a blue light and that means it can travel much faster."

So, we asked Wiltstone, the color of light can measure the speed of a developing star?

He said, "What we surmise is that green-lighted stars travel slower than blue-lighted stars and it could become dangerous if a blue-lighted moving stars become red-lighted stars."

What is the danger?

"The faster the star, the hotter the star," he said.

Another scientist at NASA disagreed. Rempton Painting said, "I think the Hubble Space Telescope cannot be trusted when it shows colors. So it's hard to commit to the color in the photos of moving lights we keep seeing."

Ferguson Metric, also from NASA, said, "Color shmolor, its massive energy generated from thousands of light years away, so it cannot be dangerous."

However, F.J. Gault, a best-selling science fiction writer said, "The lights are dangerous because they could be lights from alien spaceships, not stars, and they're headed for Earth."

Metric called Gault's idea selfish promotion and challenged him to a sprint race at the next NASA picnic. "The moving blue lights could only be dangerous if it is an exploding star and the particles from the explosion can travel far enough to Earth and knock it from orbit."

Some other NASA scientists speculate that the lights, no matter their colors, are not even there.

"We see lights," said Gerald Pinky, "but they may actually be reflections of lights, shiny splashes of bursting objects or planets elsewhere in the cosmos that reverberate through space and time."

Painting added, "I don't know about those theories but I am scared. The total destruction of the cosmos, if and when it happens, will only come to fruition when stars implode, not explode, and each universe collapses into itself until nothing is left in all of outer space and no one will be around to see the vast nothingness. Also, I think whatever color the light may be, it stinks like ammonia on a log of feces."

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.