I’m not even sure I believe in intelligent life ON Earth.
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I think governments have already made contact will aliens and it is being kept secret.
Public programs that scan for EM signals to find alien life are misguided I think. I doubt aliens even use EM to transmit information as it is limited to the speed of light. I believe aliens have discovered faster means of communication.
I think it’s highly probable that there are intelligent beings living outside Earth.
Yes, it would be rather pompous of us humans to think we’re the only intelligent life out there.
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I was reading here an article here, and it says that ONLY in our galaxy may have TRILLIONS of planets. Then, imagine the universe outside our galaxy.
I try to avoid this topic because it’s not nearly as interesting as most would like to believe it is.
Everybody has that “gut level feeling” that there is life on other planets…I have that too but I think the only other life in God’s creation is that Heaven is out there somewhere. too much money been spent on outer space explorations.
They could be nice and all but why would they allow a species to compete with them over the resources in the universe. If they have enough of an edge as to have intergalactic space travel they probably have advanced weaponry. Destroying the human race show be rather simple. They just need to launch the asteroids in the asteroid belt between the paths of mars and jupiter at us.
Why would they want to wipe us out?
Refer to the previous post. They might wipe us out to remove competition for resources. They might wipe us out because it would be too likely that we would harbor deadly, contagious diseases. One scenario for alien contact with ourselves is like that of the Spanish bringing measles and smallpox to South America, or that in reverse, where we gave them our deadly diseases. They might wipe us out rather than take that risk. However, it is my belief that if they are technologically advanced enough to travel through interstellar space they are advanced enough to create vaccines that would prevent these deadly diseases, and they could get resources more profitably by mining astroids.
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That’s all assuming that they are similar to us, I think the most likely scenario, they would be completely different and those issues wouldn’t even occur. Vaccines, interstellar voyage, war.
I hope not. If they are advanced enough for space travel they are advanced enough to easily wipe us out, so we would pretty much be at their mercy. They might want to farm us as hosts for valuable dna.
Well it’s my belief that if they’re super intelligent they wouldn’t even bother with us or would’ve wiped us out already if that was their intention.
Because a) Their super intelligence should give them the foresight to foresee all scenarios and therefore would’ve predicted the necessity to destroy us.
b) Their super intelligence and technologies would also not require them to need resources anyway.
Ah. You could just go on and on with what ifs with this stuff honestly.
You’re a bit too influenced by hollywood I think Even if that scenario was even possible, it would be a one in a million chances of that happening.
I guess it’s more likely, now that we dedicated a bunch of movies in wiping them out first
Monty Python said it best. Pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.
Would we even recognize it?
I am sure there are all kinds of constraints on what is physically realizable, but then there are also constraints on what we are willing to conceive of as a living being.
why would they even need space travel - a more advanced obe is the best way to go and a lot faster
Any self replicating life form would need some kind of template from which to reproduce their offspring. It would probably come in the form of giant molecule like dna.
That’s the basis of life here on earth. But who could know if it were not something completely different in another planet?
You’re right. It could be a silicon based life form instead of carbon. (I heard that on tv. I didn’t come up with it myself.) We probably won’t know until we start to encounter alien life forms.