which is worse? humans are the only intelligent life in the universe or aliens exist?
>>17002387Us being the only intelligent life is a 100% win condition (from a species perspective) because it means we get to claim the entire universe without any amount of problems in doing so.Us being the only intelligence of our level is a nightmare because it means human bullshit is the only fucking thing to do so and we'll be dealing with our petty squabbles alone for eternity.If aliens did/do exist at least there's a chance they'll scour the planet or implode our sun and end the madness.
>>17002387there are galaxies out there that are billions of years older than us. if there were other species we wouldve known about them a long time ago. we'd probably be living with them as neighbors.
>>17002387Aliens are real and the government thinks we can reason with them but they are only guessing. They don't know the aliens real intents.>>17002388Humans are not smart enough to conquer the galaxy and they never will be unless they steal alien technology.>>17002404You fail to comprehend how big the universe is and how slow light is compared to that size. If there were aliens out there they would need to find a way to travel here in a spaceship for over 50,000 years without all dying on the trip here because that's probably the fastest realistic time frame to get from one solar system to another, lol.
>>17002406>You fail to comprehend how big the universe is and how slow light is compared to that size.work on your reading comprehension you stupid pseud. i was saying that i dont think aliens are here.
>>17002407Well I am saying even if there were aliens then they wouldn't be here, because it's just too far for anybody to travel here. Even if there were aliens they wouldn't have a way to get here. The WOW! signal might indicate they communicate with us though from a distance, even though they can't physically reach us. The WOW! signal was a continuous signal coming from the same location with one precise frequency for between 72-84 seconds or longer with very little fluctuation which is very rare naturally almost impossible, due to the rotation of the Earth the exact duration of the signal is unknown but due to the accuracy of the ear device the duration is confirmed to be at least 72 to 84 seconds long or longer lol.
>>17002411if there was a civilization 4 billion years older than us, i imagine they could find a way to get here. all of our technology is basically from the last 100 years. if they have been working on this stuff 400,000,000 times longer than us, i think they could figure something out.
Assuming the laws of physics as we currently understand them, would it matter if aliens vastly superior to us existed? The milky way alone has a radius of more than 50,000LY. So what hope do we have without borderline sci-fi (not to say that it can't be true, I don't know) of contacting potential civilization s that are beyond our own galaxy?
>>17002388this is basically what I was going to say except aliens could be a good or bad thing. very good if they are nice and help us out with technology beyond our imagination. or bad if they are a hostile.
>>17002387The worst is if aliens exist. The saddest is if we think they do but they don't.
>>17002388>>17002465except it means that the great filter is real and we a probably about to face extinction
>>17002387The universe could have trillions of inhabited planets and we'd never know because it's too distant to observe or communicate with let alone visit. Take comfort in the fact we're all in the same boat.
