Do they exist?
Is the government covering them up? O.o
then again...
"if governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else." ~ Stephen Hawking
That or aliens took one look at our race and decided to not contact us for their own sanity
Aliens
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Red-Rocket
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Aliens
Oh its not orders I'm giving, but rather... "aggressive suggestions".
Re: Aliens
I was going to go silly on this and try to talk up the existence of demons or something, but then it got me thinking, what is the likely state of the universe involving aliens from what I know about reality...
I think that firstly, to think about the topic correctly you have to believe that life randomly came into existence in a completely scientific and mathematical way. If you can believe this, you can believe it could happen somewhere else in the universe as well. This may as well mean that life *does* exist somewhere else, honestly - I think that its a logical conclusion that in some percentage (however small the percentage) of planets that exist out there, something behaving like life (growing, evolving, and adapting) exist.
Also, I don't think we have existed long enough to send radio signals very far yet. So theoretically even if aliens do in fact exist they may have not even got a chance to hear us yet. Speed of light is slow on a cosmic scale.
I think that firstly, to think about the topic correctly you have to believe that life randomly came into existence in a completely scientific and mathematical way. If you can believe this, you can believe it could happen somewhere else in the universe as well. This may as well mean that life *does* exist somewhere else, honestly - I think that its a logical conclusion that in some percentage (however small the percentage) of planets that exist out there, something behaving like life (growing, evolving, and adapting) exist.
Also, I don't think we have existed long enough to send radio signals very far yet. So theoretically even if aliens do in fact exist they may have not even got a chance to hear us yet. Speed of light is slow on a cosmic scale.
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Re: Aliens
The likelihood that there are more lifeforms in the universe is pretty damn close to 100%.
The likelihood that they would meet us is within our life span is pretty damn close to 0.00%, if they haven't found a way to get around the light speed limit of 300,000 km/s either.
Also, just think about for how long the universe has existed and how long it took humanity to get from a nomadic life to such an advanced state (6000 BC to 1960 AD) that it would only take 30 minutes to destroy our civilization/planet earth (with nukes and other stuff):
So alien life could have even existed within maybe a radius of 100 light years of earth away, but there wouldn't even be ruins or any other traces left if they exterminated themselves something like 100 million years ago.
Or humanity won't witness the evolution of alien life in a couple million or billion years somewhere else.
The likelihood that they would meet us is within our life span is pretty damn close to 0.00%, if they haven't found a way to get around the light speed limit of 300,000 km/s either.
Also, just think about for how long the universe has existed and how long it took humanity to get from a nomadic life to such an advanced state (6000 BC to 1960 AD) that it would only take 30 minutes to destroy our civilization/planet earth (with nukes and other stuff):
So alien life could have even existed within maybe a radius of 100 light years of earth away, but there wouldn't even be ruins or any other traces left if they exterminated themselves something like 100 million years ago.
Or humanity won't witness the evolution of alien life in a couple million or billion years somewhere else.
Re: Aliens
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Re: Aliens
Now that is interesting!
Oh its not orders I'm giving, but rather... "aggressive suggestions".
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Re: Aliens
What a waste of a universe if aliens didn't exist.