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kattheconspiracist

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whats up! ive been playing with the question "are we alone in the universe" for the past 3 nights, and honestly the concept of aliens is sick af. im hella curious so if youve got any interesting factoids drop them on this thread please!
 
To me the aliens seem like eccentric starving artists. Not really selling enough to make a good living.
 
I use facts not factoids, but while there is so far no evidence of alien life (semi-terrestrial/non-terrestrial) the chemistry for it and likely other necessary conditions for it are very likely to exist in other places out in this and other galaxies. No way to verify same yet though.
 
When you think about aliens visiting earth you have to get past the speed of light; it's not just a good idea, it's the law. Aliens would have to be long lived, be on generational ships, or have figured out a way around the light speed barrier. If the aliens lived in something close to earth gravity, they'd have to have a way to simulate that on their vessels. When you consider all the technical difficulties with space travel, it's reasonable to conclude that it's possible but unlikely that we have been visited by aliens.

There would have to be some big payoff to spending all those resources to visit the earth and it's probably more than the data from anal probes. Are there other forms of life in the universe? Almost certainly. However, the distance between planets containing life is, to say the least, a daunting barrier.
 
Craig4 said:
When you think about aliens visiting earth you have to get past the speed of light; it's not just a good idea, it's the law. Aliens would have to be long lived, be on generational ships, or have figured out a way around the light speed barrier. If the aliens lived in something close to earth gravity, they'd have to have a way to simulate that on their vessels. When you consider all the technical difficulties with space travel, it's reasonable to conclude that it's possible but unlikely that we have been visited by aliens.

There would have to be some big payoff to spending all those resources to visit the earth and it's probably more than the data from anal probes. Are there other forms of life in the universe? Almost certainly. However, the distance between planets containing life is, to say the least, a daunting barrier.
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If you travel fast enough, you could light-years in days time, from the frame of reference of the crew.
 
Craig4 said:
When you think about aliens visiting earth you have to get past the speed of light; it's not just a good idea, it's the law. Aliens would have to be long lived, be on generational ships, or have figured out a way around the light speed barrier. If the aliens lived in something close to earth gravity, they'd have to have a way to simulate that on their vessels. When you consider all the technical difficulties with space travel, it's reasonable to conclude that it's possible but unlikely that we have been visited by aliens.

There would have to be some big payoff to spending all those resources to visit the earth and it's probably more than the data from anal probes. Are there other forms of life in the universe? Almost certainly. However, the distance between planets containing life is, to say the least, a daunting barrier.
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...or send 'robotic' ships with impressive AI or even simpler probes - if they can figure how to build machines that can work for centuries.
 
I don't see why not, there is life on at least one planet in the universe so why not on others. It is unknown whether or not very specific conditions are required for abiogenesis but considering the number of stars with planets orbiting them in our galaxy and the galaxies beyond it isn't unreasonable to assume there isn't anything particularly unique about the little ball we exist on so even if a specific set of conditions are required it's likely those conditions exist elsewhere.
Something else I heard, though I could be wrong, is that there was a particular step from life on earth being simple single cells going on to more complex multicellular lifeforms capable of surviving and reproducing and that perhaps not being an inevitable outcome, however it does only have to occur once and in timescales of billions of years that may or may not be such a big ask, I dunno.
 
Carl Sagan used to say that if even a fraction of the reported UFO sightings were actual spacecraft, then the Earth must singularly be the most popular tourist attraction in the galaxy.
Dozens of spacecraft of all different sorts buzzing around and scaring fighter pilots and displaying lots of bright, glowing lights at night...
All for no purpose whatever as far as anyone can tell. Not so much as a “take me to your leader!”

(Unless you’re one of the conspiracy types into the X-Files scenario...)
 
Trump was saying something about building a big, beautiful wall to keep out the aliens who are 'bad hombres'.

And since aliens are so very smart, then I am sure that they will not bother to visit a place where they are not welcome.
 
Bikewer said:
Carl Sagan used to say that if even a fraction of the reported UFO sightings were actual spacecraft, then the Earth must singularly be the most popular tourist attraction in the galaxy.
Dozens of spacecraft of all different sorts buzzing around and scaring fighter pilots and displaying lots of bright, glowing lights at night...
All for no purpose whatever as far as anyone can tell. Not so much as a “take me to your leader!”

(Unless you’re one of the conspiracy types into the X-Files scenario...)
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It was intended as a joke, but a Marvel comic once claimed that Humanity was the only species in the galaxy to create pizza, and attempts to reproduce it with non-terrestrial ingredients were nowhere near as good. Fortunately, there's a natural hyperspace nexus in Earth's solar system, so getting here is relatively easy.
 
200AD explained it much better. It's a couple of alien juvenile delinquents in a stolen time flivver[sic] with the water cooler on their heads deliberately targeting recheck no one will believe as part of a scheme to get back at Judge Thorkwung for giving them community service.
 
I just started watching this documentary called The X-Files. It says there are no space-aliens, but that they are a cover hoax for a vast human conspiracy to take over the world. (This is a factoid.)
 
P.J. Denyer said:
200AD explained it much better. It's a couple of alien juvenile delinquents in a stolen time flivver[sic] with the water cooler on their heads deliberately targeting recheck no one will believe as part of a scheme to get back at Judge Thorkwung for giving them community service.
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Teasers.

Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around
looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.

They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's ever going to believe and them strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their head and making beep beep noises.

Rather childish really.
 
kattheconspiracist said:
whats up! ive been playing with the question "are we alone in the universe" for the past 3 nights, and honestly the concept of aliens is sick af. im hella curious so if youve got any interesting factoids drop them on this thread please!
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It's virtually guaranteed that there is other life out there. Sadly there's no sign that we've been visited by any of it, nor do we know if any *intelligent* life will exist at the same time as us close enough to us for that to be a possibility.

So we're almost certainly not alone in the universe, but we might as well be. Here's a really clumsy analogy: It's like if you lived in Kansas and the only other human on earth lived in Australia and neither of you have any technology whatsoever. You're not just going to bump into each other, so it's not really any different from you being the only person on Earth.
 
3point14 said:
I don't accept that that's the case.
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Our current estimates for how much universe is out there and how common reasonably habitable planets are would make it virtually guaranteed, yes. We could be wrong about some of our assumptions, but that's what the current scientific consensus is.
 
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