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

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    i’m pretty sure that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe, but i’m also pretty sure that the life on earth is the first conscious life in the millky way galaxy.

    if there were others, they’d probably have developed spaceflight and found their way to us by now.

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    Sorry, I’m going to be picky here.

    You can believe in god’s and magic. But aliens existing is about probability not faith, unless you want to consider if they’ve ever visited earth.

    But yes, the chances are very high we are not alone in the universe. But I doubt they’ve bothered to come here . . . Yet.

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    I do, but I also find the idea of us being the remaining sign of life in a dying universe to be compelling in a tragic sort of way. We are like a whale who’s the last of its species calling out to its kin in a dead ocean and we will never know it.

    Do I believe this is the case if I’m completely honest? No. But I think it’s romantic and sad in the same way that I think the Dark Forest theory is terrifying and creepy.

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    I think it’s pretty likely there are other living worlds in our galaxy given that life likely arose on our planet multiple times in different conditions spontaneously. I think it’s also pretty likely Mars still has something going on deep in it’s crust (given we keep finding complex life miles deep in our own crust, some colonies of simple life have even been embedded inside of rocks for nearly a million years) and the fact that the inner solar system planets regularly exchange rocks with each other. I think it’s fairly likely most bodies in the solar system have been contaminated by earth, other bodies, or by humans at this point, and that life will look pretty alien to us but may not be multicellular.

    Generally, I think life is surprisingly hardy. Those worlds may not be livable for us but I’d bet you most solar systems have a little something going on somewhere, but we may not be able to discover it due to the costs and time involved to do so.

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    I’ll refer to them as NHI (Non Human Intelligence) and yes I believe they exist and are actually on the earth with us now. There is too much eyewitness testimony from highly trained observers and scientifically verified anomalous behavior to be anything created by human beings.

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    No,

    Much of the strange lights flying around her either top secret aircraft or drones. Many people do not know drone technology existed before the War on Terror, so when they saw lights moving unlike a airplane or helicopter they were very confused.

    UFOs are largely in remote areas where they are testing top secret aircraft or drones. Area 51 or what it is officially called Homey Airport is one of them.

    Roswell, New Mexico is known for being the site of a UFO crash. It is also the same town as the Walker Air Force Base. The best explanation was that Roswell was that it is not in fact a UFO crash or a hot air balloon crash, but in fact the crash of a top secret aircraft.

    Gabe Valdez, a New Mexico state trooper was looking into cattle mutilations in New Mexico in the 70s and talking about how he believed the government was mutilating cattle to test the after effects of radiation from Project Gasbuggy where they did a underground nuclear detonation in rural northwestern New Mexico this includes the the Dulce area.

    A leading UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz was looking for UFO and was recording strange lights and radio signals from Kirtland Air Force Base and he was assigned a handler and disinfo agent, Richard Doty of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) where according to Gabe Valdez was the source of information for the “Dulce Base” myth.

    In 1989, Bill Moore, a well-known UFO investigator who came out and said he was a disinformation agent working for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations…

    There are plenty of UFO whistleblowers coming out Jake Barber, a aerospace mechanic and David Grusch who was Air Force Intelligence which are pretty obviously disinformation. Also the United States government is starting to openly support the UFO conclusion without showing actually evidence during times when they need to distract people from other stuff going on.

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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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    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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              I would say it’s probably close to zero, depending on what physics actually allows. If FTL travel turns out to be completely impossible, then it’s exactly zero. If some sort of FTL travel is possible, it’s slightly above zero. If you can travel faster than 10^9 c, that’s when distances stop being a huge problem. Before that though, distance ruins my dreams.

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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”

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    Yes I believe it is likely that non earth originated life exists somewhere.

    I absolutely do not believe “aliens” have visited earth in any way. I don’t even believe that “alien” originated radio waves have intersected earth, the odds would be crazy.

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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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          By “we” I’m really thinking of all earth based life/intelligence, rather than just humans as they exist today. But yeah if humans self-delete in a way that doesn’t involve being replaced by something similarly capable (for instance a planet of the apes type scenario), then it’s probably going to be a lot longer than a million years before we recover, which could start to erode our cosmic timescale head start over life elsewhere in the universe. So we really shouldn’t do that just yet.

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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