Alien life: So thoughts... where will this go?

[ruggedscotty]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/huge-alie...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/grou...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13...

thinking about this.... could it be ? could this be the were not alone moment, the pivotable point in hsitory where it becomes official.


Imagine finding out were not alone, and it being confirmed not just hearsay. I think it would have a profound effect on the world population.

[Skeptisk]

Mmmm…not exactly strong sources…

[Lefty]

Or a strong thread title

[NerveAgent]

I heard they were going to start with probing “rugged”scotty

[Lefty]

NerveAgent said:

I heard they were going to start with probing “rugged”scotty

Looking for apostrophes.

[Genuine Barn Find]

We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Well, I for one will welcome our alien overlords and if they look like this one…



I’d definitely be able to show her where it will go…




I’m sorry it’s been a tough couple weeks and it was there, I had to use it…

[cliffords]

I heard a good article on the radio on this subject on Friday.
It appears we can look and detect stuff further away than we can travel.
So even if we detected a whole bunch of other chaps , we have no way of getting to them .

[anonymous-user]

Wonder what will happen if it turns out they are humanoid?

[G-wiz]

The universe is vast.

There has to be other life out there.

[Skeptisk]

G-wiz said:

The universe is vast.

There has to be other life out there.

There is good chance there is life. Life started on earth fairly soon after life could have started.

Not such a good chance there is multicellular life. It took billions of years to go from single cell to multicellular life, which suggests that it is very hard/unlikely.

Even if multicellular life evolves it is not sure that intelligent species life us would evolve.

Even if an intelligent species with language, culture and science did evolve it is not sure how long such cultures would survive.

Even if they did exist, would they exist at the same time as us? And be close enough for us to get evidence of their existence?

No evidence to date that any such species does exist

[Lefty]

One could argue that to assume humanity is the only intelligent life in the 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 solar systems in the observable universe is staggeringly conceited.

[croyde]

We are only a few years from the Federation of Planets and Warp Drive. I saw the 1960s documentary

[lizardbrain]

It could be we are among the first.

Maybe it’s a dark forest.

Maybe it’s too hard to survive to space age.


Whichever it is, it won’t be the daily mail who solves it

[J6542]

Apt user name

[wc98]

Genuine Barn Find said:

We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.

Christ, did the aliens vote Labour into power as well

[cliffords]

wc98 said:

Genuine Barn Find said:

We are not alone.

But it’s probably best that we stay alone for the foreseeable.

I’m of the opinion that if any alien species finds us, or already has and then decides to pay us a visit, it will not be a good thing as it will probably be a nomadic lot who either want to enslave us, eat us, or plunder the Earths’ resources; leaving us as an inhabitable husk before they move on elsewhere.

Christ, did the aliens vote Labour into power as well

I suspect Labour are our best defense from anyone wanting to visit us .

[dxg]

Skeptisk said:

Mmmm…not exactly strong sources…

That's why they've been listening for years!!

[Mikebentley]

I think there is more chance Zuckerberg finding intelligence somewhere in the universe than on Facebook.

[skwdenyer]

Arthur C Clarke summed it up well: either we’re alone in the Universe, or we’re not; both are equally terrifying.