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Don't know.
I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....
After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
Sobering thought, if you ask me.
Opinions?
Don't know.
I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....
After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
Sobering thought, if you ask me.
Opinions?
Don't know.
I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....
After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
Sobering thought, if you ask me.
Opinions?
Don't know.
I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....
After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
Sobering thought, if you ask me.
Opinions?
We've been finding boatloads of habitable planets in our backyard with the Kepler telescope, suggesting that there is an astronomically high number of habitable planets in our galaxy, and even more in the universe. I would think it extremely statistically unlikely that we're the only living beings.
I don't however believe that they've visited us before. Not saying they couldn't, just that they'd likely either be hostile or interested in making contact, not kidnapping cows or crashing in the desert.
I have no idea. I have entertained the thought from time to time, and looked for concrete evidence, but so far, only one incident in my life has given me a real reason to think it's a probability.
Kind of agree with you, RA... I don't know why they'd want to remain off our radar screen (even though, like I said, they probably could).
More details please.I have no idea. I have entertained the thought from time to time, and looked for concrete evidence, but so far, only one incident in my life has given me a real reason to think it's a probability.
More details please.
The real question is: What is more likely, that they're hostile, or that they're friendly?
Stephen Hawking believes they're more likely to be hostile, and I think I mostly agree. Our world is beautiful and full of resources. Any alien race that makes it to earth will be extremely advanced and likely require resources. They'll also likely look at us with as much compassion as liberals have with fetuses.
Do we have any reason to believe that they'd be more likely light years ahead of us technologically than we do to believe they'd be aeons behind us?I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
The real question is: What is more likely, that they're hostile, or that they're friendly?
Stephen Hawking believes they're more likely to be hostile, and I think I mostly agree. Our world is beautiful and full of resources. Any alien race that makes it to earth will be extremely advanced and likely require resources. They'll likely look at us with as much compassion as liberals have with fetuses.
Don't know.
I will say that if aliens exist, one could be sitting right beside me/you right at this moment and we wouldn't even know about it....
After all, if they are light years ahead of us from a technological standpoint, they would have the ability to remain invisible and unheard....
Sobering thought, if you ask me.
Opinions?
Do we have any reason to believe that they'd be more likely light years ahead of us technologically than we do to believe they'd be aeons behind us?
In my reasoning, I would expect them to be more likely friendly, as to reach a point of that kind of technology, without destroying your own race, would seem to require at least a certain level of understanding and civility. Warlike people and civilizations don't tend to survive long term. At least that's the way it seems to me.
Excellent point - didn't really think of that one (the hostility factor, that is...)!
I will say that I always thought that if aliens are light years ahead of us technologically, they would be way ahead of us intellectually as well. Personally, I would take that to mean they would be peaceful and not have the desire to make war.... :shrug:
Will have to think more on this one, though...
One of light's greatest mysteries, eh?
It's kind of hard to fathom just how big are galaxy is. 200 Billion Stars. That's 200,000,000,000. If each star just had two planets orbiting around it, that's 400,000,000,000 planets. Given the chances, I wouldn't be surprised to find other life in the universe.
Well, just look at how a race as enlightened as ourselves treats wildlife and other beings we consider "lesser" than us.
Hawking said programs like SETI are equivalent to screaming out in a jungle.
And Lizzalicious, your obvious dodge of my request is noted.
My obvious dodge? I guess I must have missed something.:3oops:
As for your observations on how a race as enlightened as ourselves goes, all I can say is that we have quite obviously come along way, and we all have to start somewhere. The tendency of evolutionary influence is to move forward, not backward.
Then there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. It's absolutely mind boggling. I don't see how it would even be possible for life to not exist somewhere else.
Another great point - if they were aeons behind us, don't know how they would have the ability to get here, but the universe is so complex and mysterious that I'd say anything's possible....
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