>we haven’t found aliens
>this confirms my belief in one specific alien


That’s all you need to know about the misc.

You shut your whore mouth
I've seen one in the sky before AND took pictures. The film is still being developed and it was the dead of night but you mark my words!

I’m convinced god has created more intelligent life . If they exist they are his creations too.

Maybe we are a colony of aliens that fooked things up and devolved to where we are now. Tons of stories of ancient civilizations with advanced technology, they could have been wiped out somehow and are the remnants.

I convinced a dishwasher humans are actually from mars and we fuked it up so bad we sent a meteor to earth to get rid of the giant lizards and prepare the terraforming for species transplant. That’s how we did pyramids, Easter island statues, Atlantis etc…. There’s just a small select race of people who still have ancient Martian tech running the show throughout human history.

The dishwasher did used to do a lot of ******* but it briefly made me consider how fun being a cult leader would be. But that gets to close to breaking the whole false idols etc.. commandment even though you could probably rig it to still fit within Christian scripture. Allegory is a hell of a word

Aka the Fermi paradox: space is infinite so life should be too. So where is it?

I like the answer Charles Stross’ answer from his book accelerando : any species that uses digital/internet is going to stay in local space where bandwidth is strongest, especially a hypothetical species that has uploaded from their physical bodies into a digital existence.

Digital existence aliens need to stay in their own hell sector of the universe. That’s mark of the beast boyo.

If an advanced species was able to tap into quantum entanglement they would have instant communication and unlimited connectivity everywhere in the universe. I would think this would allow for travel at basically the speed of thought also.

Universe is enormous, but Earth is a relatively young planet (compared to most of the others out there). If intelligent life were common, we would have seen signs of them by now, as it would take "only" a few million years for an intelligent civilization to colonize a galaxy. But we've seen and heard nothing

The most reasonable idea is that intelligent life is rare, possibly non-existent, outside of Earth. There is probably bacteria or some microscopic chit out there in other planets and moon. But I don't think there's another creature like humans out there anywhere

agreed

Unironically, it was one of the worst individual examples of logic I’ve ever heard. You aren’t as smart as you think you are if you believe what you said there.

Can you like poke holes In the logic so we can keep going. This is one of my favorite things to go on about.

Aliens may exist. But they have no technology to reach earth.

How come Aliens seemed to interact with Ancient humans more than us?

the radio waves we've been emitting for the last 100 years have traveled 100 light years. the next closest galaxy is 2.5million light years away.

Because the universe is enormous is a fine explanation, and i never once claimed it was common, i simply answered the OP's question.

To expand; we have one data point for life in the universe; earth. We have no idea how common, or rare it is, because we only have one example but what we can assume is that if it is quite a rare event (and looking at our local neighbourhood; i.e solar system, it is). Therefore; the probability of life will be directly proportional to how far life is from us. Even sending a signal across our galaxy at the speed of light will take 100,000 years, and this is the maximum theoretical speed for information under special relativity... and so if life is sufficiently rare that we wont see complex life more than once every few galaxies; it's not difficult to see why we haven't encountered it, and why we never will. This is compounded by the fact that everything not gravitationally bound to our local area is being pushed away faster than the speed of light by the expansion of the universe; and so more parts of the universe are becoming completely unreachable to us by any signal in principle. Or it could equally just be that there is no other life. The most reasonable idea is to admit we actually have very little idea, because we have only 1 data point for life and we've only been able to explore a tiny fraction of even our galaxy in detail (as in, in enough detail that we would see signs of life if it was there), let alone the universe.

Also, i'd argue it wouldn't 'only' take a few million years for life to colonise a galaxy, we have no idea it would take because we have no idea for example how close we can get to speed of light travel for macro sized objects, this makes far too many assumptions regarding technology. We have no idea what the development curve for a species is, if this level of colonisation is even possible or has any barriers, and ultimately where the hard limit for the laws of physics is. Lightspeed is theoretically possible for massless particles, but for animal sized macro objects? Who really knows how close we'll be able to reasonably get. If we assume there's a species more advanced than us that can send humans around at say, 30% of the speed of light, then it's going to take them millions of years to send humans across their galaxy, and that's without any of the time for life to grow, civilisation to grow, and then culture to advance to the level where the technology is available.

So personally, i think the sheer scale of the universe and the fact everything outside our local group is essentially unsearchable and more and more parts of the universe are in principle moving outside our reach (as well as the universe growing exponentially), renders my answer 'precisely because the universe is enormous' a valid one to the OP's question. You can also consider time as well, and consider that a species would need to be sending signals at the 'right time' to the 'right part' of the universe (where we are) for detection to occur, that it just becomes overwhelmingly unlikely we'd see anything.

Because of the reasons related to scale i've outlined above, i've never found the fermi paradox to be much of a paradox; rather i think the lack of life is exactly what you'd expect to see for a rare event in such an unfathomably huge space, much of which is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. Many physicists seem to share the same view that the fermi paradox is really not much of a paradox at all.

tend to hate misc physics threads these days though, but fun discussion.

Can’t we get there any faster? Like in our lifetime.

LMFAO OP answered his own question in the title FFS

You realize how far away the closest planet is?

the speed of light is the universal speed limit. we could get there faster by decreasing the distance between places by bending spacetime. like this:

I strongly believe that we're not alone in the universe. And the space-faring civilizations out there think we're a primitive, dumb species and want nothing to do with us.

But this is only theoretical and it has a couple of really strong barriers:
1. An einstein-rosen bridge (a wormhole) would require a kind of 'negative' energy to keep it open which we have no good answer for atm. If wormholes exist, it's likely they only exist at the quantum level and will be completely unsuitable for anything in the 'macro' realm.
2. It's not clear we can 'do this' in principle. I've seen several papers showing what are known as 'closed timelike curves' (which are an artefact of certain solutions to einsteins field equations) which would allow you to traverse time in a similar way to the picture you've illustrated are only consistent in theory if they always existed, not if they are built.

I feel like if there is “life” beyond Earth, we won’t have to leave our galaxy to find it.

With the number of planets that have characteristics to support life as we know it, and the age of the universe, it is easy for me to believe if life is on multiple planets, it will be MULTIPLE planets.

Not like Earth and one other planet on the other side of the universe, but multiple planets supporting life in each galaxy. I mean, there could be thousands in our own galaxy.

It is possible for that to be true and us still not have made contact. I imagine most “life” isn’t advanced enough to make contact on another planet, or in another solar system. On Earth for example, out of all of the hundreds of thousands of forms of life, exactly zero have had the intelligence/technology to be able to contact other solar systems.

No sorry, starting point is way too low, not worth the time

There is a theory that if there is intelligent life out there that they have no interest in our planet because we are a grievously savage child race.

Lol I remember this, Art Bell had this guy on his radio program and it was one hell of a ride.

Came into say this. Left dissapointed.

We did find them.... on our planet. We just haven't found them on their planets. We don't have the technology get out of our own solar system.

Holy fuking Christ you literally out-Adlerian'd OG TheAdlerian.

Seek help dude, seriously.