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post 1656015013 02-11-2022, 12:45 PM
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Humans are either very early or very late to the universe. There were probably thousands of intelligent alien species in our universe millions of years ago, but they’re now extinct or killed themselves trying to do what we do: harness the energy of our sun/solar system/galaxy/etc. Fermi paradox stuff.

Or we’re the first ones to have these bright ideas and we will be long gone before the next smart aliens come along. There’s also the factor of distance. We may be hundreds of light years away from the closest, notable alien species that isn’t some microscopic thing on Mars.

Aliens might be giant evil flesh eating monsters too, so that’s why the universe is so quiet… the others are hiding and silent on purpose.
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post 1656015153 02-11-2022, 12:48 PM
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How do you contact someone that’s already here on earth. They go home at night laughing their alien asses off at us.
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post 1656015843 02-11-2022, 01:01 PM
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Aliens probably want nothing to do with this planet. Most normal humans have given up hope on humanity at this point.

MSM when aliens land :

"Why greeting aliens is racist"
"Why intergalactic take over and human extinction is a good thing"
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post 1656016613 02-11-2022, 01:21 PM
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but wat about dem alien booty doe, I'm eating those intergalatic groceries bro
post 1656017363 02-11-2022, 01:38 PM
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I've always been fascinated by space and the universe and I would really love to know if there is other life out there somewhere.
post 1656017643 02-11-2022, 01:43 PM
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Imagine if they are way more advanced than us, but are all extreme manlets. Like half an inch tall. They show up here and try to intimidate us with fancy technology but we just step on them.
post 1656017833 02-11-2022, 01:47 PM
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Anyone that doesn't already know that we have been getting visited for decades at the very least and quite possibly hundreds of years is incredibly ignorant of the facts.
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post 1656024293 02-11-2022, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted By Mr
So there are differing schools of thought on this one, but yeah there's a non-zero chance that shouting "hello! hello??!!!" into the void might be a bad idea. A hostile intelligent technologically advanced alien race resident within our galaxy will inevitably discover us at some point, but it might be better to delay that meeting until we've had another few 100 or K's of years to develop our own technology.

One counterargument that does make sense is any race that can turn up on our doorstep could definitely wipe us out but we won't have any resources that they need to take: they have better tech and get get their own water, gases and metals from asteroid belts and comets. However that doesn't mean that they can't have hostile intentions.Maybe we don't know of any other alien races because one of them is busily wiping out all intelligent life as soon as it arises.
Exactly what we humans would do in that position

Anyone who thinks we humans would allow another planet to achieve intergalaxy travel, turning into a potential threat, to live is crazy
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post 1656024363 02-11-2022, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted By A-GAME⏩
Anyone that doesn't already know that we have been getting visited for decades at the very least and quite possibly hundreds of years is incredibly ignorant of the facts.
You honestly believe that? Id love to hear why..srs
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post 1656024673 02-11-2022, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted By MiamiLife305⏩
Exactly what we humans would do in that position

Anyone who thinks we humans would allow another planet to achieve intergalaxy travel, turning into a potential threat, to live is crazy
I'm not sure that's necessarily true, for a start different types of species would elicit different types of responses from us. For example, how warlike they appear to be, their stage of technological development and other factors such as their physical appearance. If we come across a race of cavepeople who look like baby Yodas and have a complex intertribal civilisation with not much but non-zero violence, we're very unlikely to just drop a few dinosaur killer asteroids on them. Rather we would study and monitor them.

Also human responses to alien civilisation may not inform our own response. Possibly aliens are so advanced , in a manner they believe that we can never emulate, that they consider its impossible that we threaten them. Or maybe they are utterly indifferent. Or whatever.

There are no absolutes here is what I'm saying.
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
post 1656026183 02-11-2022, 04:12 PM
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Just because they can receive and send messages to us doesn’t qualify them for intergalactic travel.

If they could then yeah we’d probably be f*cked. But odds are they couldn’t. And the potential to learn from them could be great.

Risk/reward situation I say it’s worth it to keep trying
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post 1656026633 02-11-2022, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted By suave2000⏩
but wat about dem alien booty doe, I'm eating those intergalatic groceries bro
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