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Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:02 am to ShoeBang
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Fermi paradox
This is worth a read in regards to the Fermi paradox
Fermi paradox article
This post was edited on 12/27/21 at 9:03 am
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:02 am to Joshjrn
quote:Why are people having trouble with this? We can't really make contact with current tech. They have to come to us and by definition would have to be more advanced.
it’s generally in the context of actual contact, particularly of us being the ones contacted. In that scenario, considering we would be faced with an alien race we didn’t know existed, and they had the ability to physically reach our world, they would be by definition more advanced than we are.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:06 am to Jake88
Right, but it is unlikely actual contact would happen prior to our knowledge that there is advanced life on other planets.
We will know for possibly thousands of years that there is life before any actual contact is made.
We will know for possibly thousands of years that there is life before any actual contact is made.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:06 am to bgtiger
quote:It's either that or we're a bored deity's science fair project. See how we can characterize anything to make it sound ridiculous?
The same folks who believe we evolved in some random happenstance from ooze, believe it would just as easily happen, and better ,somewhere else
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:09 am to Jim Rockford
It's smart. Going to have to adapt the world's major religions if aliens are real.
How fricked would it be if aliens land and they belong to some fricked up sect that already exists?
**space ship lands **
'Hello have you heard the word of Jehovah? Here take this galactic watchtower magazine. '
How fricked would it be if aliens land and they belong to some fricked up sect that already exists?
**space ship lands **
'Hello have you heard the word of Jehovah? Here take this galactic watchtower magazine. '
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:10 am to bgtiger
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The same folks who believe we evolved in some random happenstance from ooze, believe it would just as easily happen, and better ,somewhere else
Yes, it is far more likely that an all knowing, all powerful deity that has always existed created everything out of nothing, did the Adam and Eve thing, sent down his son to die on a cross 2000 years ago, and then we never heard from him again.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:13 am to Fun Bunch
quote:But as others have said, the vast odds are that they will be more advanced based on our brief time as an advanced civilization.
We will know for possibly thousands of years that there is life before any actual contact is made
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:14 am to TSS4LSU
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Of course there is life elsewhere. Space is infinite. All those galaxies out there will have life statistically speaking if nothing else.
Honestly, it would be kind of depressing to find out we have achieved the apex of evolutionary biology as the only planet with sentient developed life forms and we can’t figure out that boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:21 am to BananaManCan
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Gonna be crazy to see what kind of pictures this new telescope sends back to us..
More like what we're allowed to see with those new images
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:29 am to Tempratt
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More like what we're allowed to see with those new images
NASA has to release all images with any FOIA request. Allegedly.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:38 am to Jim Rockford
I'll tell you exactly how the religions will react to aliens
It'll trigger an arms race to convert as many of the aliens as possible to our Earthly religions
It'll trigger an arms race to convert as many of the aliens as possible to our Earthly religions
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:11 am to Stealth Matrix
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Demons will be portrayed as aliens and welcomed as conquering heros.
Doom (2016)
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:29 am to Fun Bunch
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NASA has to release all images with any FOIA request. Allegedly.
mmmmmmmk
I have a feeling some would be omitted if deemed a "security risk."
Posted on 12/27/21 at 11:50 am to Jim Rockford
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24 theologians to study potential effects of alien contact
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Either they are going to try to tell us there is no God, or that the seven riders are on the way.
This could go either way.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 2:55 pm to lsufanva
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the vastness of space.
Yes, but that doesn’t really mean any intelligent life is out there.
Remember the age of space, and the billions or millions of years that a civilization potentially had to colonize the entire galaxy. And yet, nothing.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 3:04 pm to weagle99
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Yes, but that doesn’t really mean any intelligent life is out there.
Remember the age of space, and the billions or millions of years that a civilization potentially had to colonize the entire galaxy. And yet, nothing
Yes, that is the gist of the Fermi Paradox. You’re not really stating anything new.
There are dozens of possible solutions. We could be one of the first civilizations in our galaxy, or there might be some reason making galactic colonization unattractive (the most likely imo).
There could be probes in our solar system watching us, but they’re so small we don’t/can’t notice them. There are asteroids that come by us that we don’t see until they’re extremely close. But somehow we’re supposed to notice an alien probe several times smaller that is trying to hide from us.
Or we’re in a simulation and they’re testing how a civilization develops when it actually is completely alone.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 3:16 pm to weagle99
Head alien ambassador to head alien of ballistics, while hovering over earth.
"we have been observing for years now. they complain about climate change, and are now wearing masks everywhere. Planet must be useless, go ahead and nuke it"
"we have been observing for years now. they complain about climate change, and are now wearing masks everywhere. Planet must be useless, go ahead and nuke it"
Posted on 12/27/21 at 6:51 pm to Joshjrn
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and they had the ability to physically reach our world, they would be by definition more advanced than we are.
So if and buts. Or the could be the natives when the white man rolls in. It’s 50/50 and in reality more so 70/30. Look at our world. Without the white men and Asians our world would be 7/8’s still living in huts and circling bin fires at night in village ceremonies
Posted on 12/27/21 at 6:56 pm to Tigersonfire
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So if and buts. Or the could be the natives when the white man rolls in. It’s 50/50 and in reality more so 70/30. Look at our world. Without the white men and Asians our world would be 7/8’s still living in huts and circling bin fires at night in village ceremonies
I’m sorry, what?
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