Do aliens exist?

1. 2024-11-08 at 7:55 PM UTC

   #61
   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood as far as you know…..
   
   
   
   Look at this mortal assuming the motives of a species more advanced than our brains can comprehend. This is exactly why they don't reveal themselves because they know humans would attack them or seek them out to destroy them because we are like wild monkeys throwing stones at anything that comes into our jungle.
   
   We must earn the trust of the aliens by developing hypertechnologies and proving we aren't mindless animals that would kill THEM and steal THEIR planet

   
   You've watched way too many cartoons and scifi movies kid
2. 2024-11-08 at 8:15 PM UTC

   #62
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   it's reasonable to assume that any intelligent species capable of such space travel would also be intelligent enough to know what we're capable of especially if they have watched us this entire time for thousands of years and seen how we react
3. 2024-11-08 at 8:46 PM UTC

   #63
   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood it's reasonable to assume that any intelligent species capable of such space travel would also be intelligent enough to know what we're capable of especially if they have watched us this entire time for thousands of years and seen how we react

   
   It's not...
   
   And you just contradicted yourself...we are ants to them remember...
   
   What's reasonable to assume is that our experience of the millions of species that have lived and died on Earth and how it's a "dog eat doat" existence... and our knowledge of the known limitations of the speed of light it's REASONABLE to assume the known vs assuming the unknown.
   
   "The simplest explanation is usually the right one"
   
   The COMPLETE lack of any hard evidence doesn't make your assumption reasonable at all.
   
   Reasonable assumptions have some basis on evidence..we have reasonable assumption that if a superior species came along we'd be fucked, again based on Earths history, we have reasonable assumption that the speed of light IS a limiting factor preventing "regular visits to farmers to make meep meep noises in front of them.
   
   It's a thoroughly UNreasonable assumption to assume otherwise based on...nothing but imagination.
4. 2024-11-08 at 10:03 PM UTC

   #64
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson What's reasonable to assume is that our experience of the millions of species that have lived and died on Earth and how it's a "dog eat doat" existence… and our knowledge of the known limitations of the speed of light it's REASONABLE to assume the known vs assuming the unknown.
   
   "The simplest explanation is usually the right one"

   
   the fermi paradox says otherwise
   
   

   The Fermi Paradox is a perplexing contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life existing in the universe and the lack of evidence or contact with such civilizations. Named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, who first raised the question, it essentially asks: if there are so many stars and planets in the universe, and if the conditions for life are not exceptionally rare, then where are all the aliens? Various hypotheses attempt to explain this paradox, including the possibility that intelligent life is rare, that civilizations tend to self-destruct, that communication is difficult, or that we simply haven't been looking in the right way or for long enough.

5. 2024-11-08 at 11:53 PM UTC

   #65
   

   What_a_Kreep Tuskegee Airman

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Yes.
   
   The distances are too vast for them to just show up and piss around in a scifi stereotypical way and they say "fuck this lets go home".
   
   The known history of a superior civilization meeting an inferior one is that the inferior one gets fucked…as all we have to go on is our own history and experience it's a reasonable idea that if they did show up here, we'd already know about it and have been enslaved/wiped out/had our world taken from us/served on a plate with a nice vegetable side.
   
   They are not gonna continually show up in some remote area in front of some dumb farmer etc, make beep beep noises and then leave.

   
   OMG! Have you seen Colony? GREAT SHOW! This happens, the aliens show up and put everyone in colonies, guy from Lost is in it.