That’s a yes from me. But I wanna hear what others think.
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.
Humans built the pyramids. Aliens just use them as landing pads for their space ships.
Chevron 7… Locked.
Indeed
We don’t have aliens living anywhere near us/our galaxy etc., but there definitely could be another planet out there with life. I mean why not? It happened to earth.
Hillbilly awaiting his anal probing stark naked with cheeks spread in a field.
“Gosh dang it, Aliens! Where the heck are ya?”
I think you’ll find it’s the hillbillies doing the anal probing.
And it’s probably to those poor cows that wish they were being abducted.
Those hillbillies are all FBI agents now
He likelyhood of this planet being the only place in the universe some complex proteins folded a billion years ago is zero.
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.
They don’t have to visit us to exist!
The likely hood of said aliens visiting us is also zero.
Care to elaborate? Why is it zero?
Distance.
Space is incomprehensibly big.
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.
Yes, I believe they exist. Do I believe they’ve visited Earth? No.
Yes but I don’t believe they figured out how to cross the distance/time vastness of space.
And if they did, the odds of them coming to our violent and polluted planet to put probes in our anuses are very low.
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”
A fantasstic stay.
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.
I’m an alien. I’m a legal alien.
But are you an Englishman in New York?
Or a Werewolf of London?
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.
Giving the size of universe, there is problably life on other planets, too.
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.
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.
Funny of you to think humans will even be around in 100 years, let alone one million.
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
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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Here and now? Doubt it. Out there at some time. Seems likely.
It’s not a belief for me, rather knowledge that there’s a high probability.
I’m actually kind of excited for what we might find in the oceans of Europa. You never know!
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THEREListen aliens, I know you said Europa is a wildlife preserve, but can we just take a peak? Promise we won’t build habitation!
peak
No, you can’t take a mountain, what part of ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE was unclear?
So what you’re saying is, it’s fine to get some floating balloon labs in the upper atmosphere that send down little spoons and drillbits for samples and cores, then?
Fine, whatever. Bloody humans, I don’t know…
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.
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.
Question. Does believing cost you a lot of time or cause you to lose something?
Yes. Right now my tax dollars are being wasted by encouraging this false belief through selective release of evidence, promoted untruths and wasted time in Congress. It costs me quite a lot actually
Well, the question was just do you believe in aliens. Not do you believe they are here on this planet and what not. The whole selective release of evidence is part distraction part trying to gain popularity with certain groups to gain votes. And it very much is a waste of money. But it is what politicians do. If it wasn’t this it would be something else. So I don’t think believing in aliens is really responsible for this massive waste.
I was asked how the question burdened me. Pondering the unknown, especially as a lay person, is a waste of time. And it is made manifest in our current government. There is science out there that approaches questions of alien life, but I see none of that being discussed here
I’m not arguing, just curious on your mindset. I totally side with you on how much our government wastes trying to help itself politically instead of helping the people. And I also agree that there is real science out there. I’m just not following on how an individual person believing there are aliens elsewhere in our universe connects to the waste and such.
Because we should start with an honest discussion about how it actually does impact us. I would argue that individual belief is meaningless and counterproductive as a starting point
Meaningless was my take. Thus I didn’t follow the cost part. But I see what you are saying overall. Imagine what we could do with all the money and effort that are wasted around the world. Life could be a lot better for everyone.
