That’s a yes from me. But I wanna hear what others think.

  • dewritoninja@pawb.social
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    I 100 percent believe there are aliens out there, o don’t believe they’ve ever come even close to the Earth

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    Yes/no is less interesting than your reasons for your answer. And most importantly, what impact does your answer have?

    For me, it’s a no. Because there’s no hard evidence. And by not believing, I save a lot of time and lose absolutely nothing.

    That isn’t to say it’s impossible. It’s to say nobody has show me where it’s probable, based on hard evidence.

    And to those here posting that animals wouldn’t count because they’re not intelligent: you’re wrong.

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    That depends. Yes, I believe it is probable that life exists elsewhere in the universe. But no, none of that life is building pyramids in ancient Egypt, abducting cows, or anal probing hillbillies.

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    Life on other planets? Seems likely.

    Life on earth started pretty soon once the conditions were met.

    Intelligent life (humanlike), maybe not. Most probably not. Out of millions of species through billions of years only humans have evolved to have this kind of thinking machine during a relatively short period of time.

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      The universe isn’t really that old so it probably just hasn’t had time to start getting crowded yet. We should really get our shit together in the next million years or so and get on top of that.

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          Honestly given that we are a very intelligent generalist, I think it would be very hard to completely eradicate humans.

          But I would agree that we could have a crazy bad collapse and have to start way over due to a much smaller habitable part of the planet and maybe that habitable area shifts around making us nomadic or something. That would probably make it a lot harder to redevelop tech. Source: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/environment-understanding-atmospheric-and-ocean-flows/content-section-4

          Figure 18 shows that such a warm, stable period has been very unusual in the last 800 000 years, yet it is only during the Holocene that agriculture and the civilisations that rely on it have developed

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    He likelyhood of this planet being the only place in the universe some complex proteins folded a billion years ago is zero.

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      But the other planets are probably absurdly far away. The space happens to be expanding as well, so that distance is also growing rapidly. If FTL travel isn’t possible, nobody will ever visit those worlds, and they can’t visit us. Just travelling at 1c or even 1000c won’t be much help either. The distances sure truly vast.

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    Depends what you class as “alien”.

    Given that there are literally billions of galaxies out there and each one contains billions of stars with each one having the possibility of its own multi planetary system, it would be rather silly to assume that on our random planet of literally trillions of others, it’s the only one that life has or will evolve on. It might be not be life that has the ability to read a post on a smartphone but it might be more simple. It might be more advanced but I’m sure there’s probably some form of life.

    Whether any have been able to build inter-planetary/or inter-galactic vessels and travelled to Earth…highly unlikely. And we shouldn’t be so conceited that if they did come that they would come for us! We’ve only been around for a million years. We’re relative newcomers on the block.

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        I mean, thousands of humans do travel 14+ hours specifically for sex tourism.

        “This is Captain Zyrqon. We have now landed on Earth, home to the finest anuses in this quadrant. Please make sure you collect all your probes when leaving the spaceship. We wish you a very pleasant stay”