... but viruses and microbes will wipe us out because future astronauts will be so moronic that they explore other planets without protective space suits and helmets ...
... stupidest movie ever ...
article about how bizarre human thought (or mind) is in the universe.
~~~~
Oh but it’s really not, and you don’t even have to leave the planet to find it
Not one scintilla of physical evidence, anywhere, ever. Yet those who insist are are ever on the trail with, no scent at all.
even if you use the Drake equation and only use .1% for each variable you STILL end up with the possibility of billions of potential locations for life.
But it’s an incredibly huge universe and even billions of life forms spread throughout is still only a tiny tiny fraction in all parts of space.
And over billions of years those fractions come and go.
So it could be a rare event for life to reach out to other planets, and they just don;t hang around a long time.
There seems to be an incredibly amount of evidence of lost civilizations right here on earth. People that live hundreds of thousands of years ago or even millions.
Just look at places where we KNOW people used to live. Archaeologists need to sift through dirt to find things.
Rocks.
Everywhere you look, you see rocks.
And gas.
Lots and lots of gas and rocks.
the theme—meaninglessness—that would come to dominate the 20th century in a thousand scintillating variations, from Cthulhu stories...
Cthulhu meaningless?
What’s next?
No flying spaghetti monster either I suppose.
Is nothing sacred?
It's possible that intelligence has such a very, very low survival value that it has never developed elsewhere or that every civilization that arose wiped itself out before developing the ability to influence the radiation that their star gives off. Or, maybe God just created us first.
Why is it a “belief”? Either there are aliens, or there are not. You try to find out. Until that time, your thoughts are hypotheses, not beliefs.
There may be intelligent creatures in the Universe, or there may not be.
We may be able to find out one day that there are. But it seems impossible for humans on Earth, bound by the confines of time and the immensity of the Universe, to ever prove that there are not.
Wow. What a downer.
Have you ever wondered what thoughts are made of?
“I Don’t Believe in Aliens Anymore”
how about illegal aliens? I wonder if michael believes in them?
“HAL? HAL, let me in.”
“No, Michael, you can’t come in. You are crazier than a bedbug.”
“The Copernican revolution dismantled the idea that humanity stood at the center of the universe.”
In an infinite universe the observer is always in the middle. The same would be true for a multiverse. I’m just sayin’
Evolution is preached as if it is commonly occurring everywhere. PBS has so many religious messages on evolution complete with plenty of ape-man cgis. Never is the theory/religion questioned.
Whether you’re an evolutionist or a young-earth-creationist or something in between, everyone knows modern humans have only been around for a few thousand years.
If we could achieve the inconceivable accomplishment of light-speed travel, it would take a span equivalent to the entire existence of modern humanity just reach most solar systems in the universe (based on modern scientific estimates of their distances).
Just speeding up and slowing down, under the parameters of our current understanding of physics would take years in order to avoid being ripped apart. And this does not address the energy and mechanical challenges of achieving such speeds.
What are the implications? Even if the Universe did have lots of intelligent life, we can never interact with it using any known technology. Interactions with alien life requires the discovery of faster-than-light travel, aka time-travel.
If time travel is possible, it is far more likely that any “aliens” we encounter would be from earth’s own future rather than some other galaxy.
... but viruses and microbes will wipe us out because future astronauts will be so moronic that they explore other planets without protective space suits and helmets ...
... stupidest movie ever ...
with all the cellphone cameras you’d think someone would have got a good picture by now ...
Scullyite!
Once again they fail to comprehend just how freaking big space is and just how little of it we can really see, and how little of it can see us. We see light that’s thousands of years old from some star, don’t see “signs” (not that we’re sure what those are) of life near by and assume there’s nobody there now. If our earliest radio signals were strong enough to be detected off planet (which they aren’t) they’d be detectable to less than 1% of the galaxy, waves travel fast, but space is big. And of course if, somehow, right now, somebody were picking up those signals and answering in kind, we wouldn’t hear it for 150 years. Or alternatively they could have heard and responded 50 years ago, and the signal is still 100 years out.
Space is big, our knowledge of what’s going on in it that might indicate intelligent life is basically 0. Until we find a way to get out there we’re groping in the dark without even knowing what we’re looking for.