You can see them in all of those telescope photos of nebulas. They are eating a cheeseburger.
Today, we look at the “Aestivation Hypothesis,” which argues that aliens are not dead (or non-existent), they’re just resting!<<
Beautiful plumage!
No matter how many landers NASA and JPL send to Mars or anywhere else, they will never find life. Of course, these scientists are thoroughly marinated in evolutionary theory, so they will never allow themselves to honestly consider the implications of the fact that life exists nowhere else but on Earth.
They are in the basement with Biden.
That’s just dumb.
Squirrels, just want’a have fun, Squirrels, just want’a have fun.
(They are the aliens)
They are waiting for a nice day to come out?
From the article:
“Statistically speaking, the odds are very much in favor of their being millions of civilizations out there.”
That’s where all these Drake equation / ETI predictions go off the rail. Statistically speaking, we don’t know diddly about the odds of the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life-forms - there could be a gazillion of them, or there could be just us.
And we don’t know because we don’t know in detail how intelligent life evolved - and if we don’t know that in detail, we don’t know the odds of it happening, even on an earth-like planet orbiting right in the sweet zone of a Sol-like sun. There could be 10^20 such planets, but if the odds of intelligent life evolving in such a situation are one in 10^21, it’s just us. And if those odds are one in 10^10, there’s gonna be critters everywhere. But we have no earthly idea what number would be.
No harm in looking, but if SETI’s your thing, prepare to be disappointed if nobody’s around to pick up the phone.
Problem is, the universe is expanding much faster than our technology’s ability to reach out and touch...
Aestivation Hypothesis is just stupid.
Out of the 50 trillion galaxies, each with 300,000,000 stars, each star having at least one planet, there are millions, billions of civilizations ... all hiding. Animals in the wild hide from predators; they don’t just rest as that leaves them open for discovery. Predators eat weak animals when the opportunity presents itself and the target animal can’t hide or run away.
Life is about survival, survival requires resources, the more resources the more successful, the more competition for those finite resources, exposure means death and one less competitor.
So hiding is the best survival strategy; any exposure must be casually attacked, never frontally as that exposes the attacker to others. Use of scout asteroids like “Oumuamua” that travel from one system to another using the system star to slingshot on to the next possible competitors home system.
Casual attacks can take many forms like a slow moving projectile fired from lightyears distant that on impact cause a sun to nova killing the competitor without exposing the attacker. Or some form of slow moving ‘seed’ that on reaching its destination collapses the target system into a 2 dimensional object.
Yes it is farfetched.
The assumptions are many and without supporting evidence.
We have explored one world, and it has us on it.
Assuming there are other worlds like ours is assuming much too much.
There are plenty of reasons to believe we are alone.
No way aliens will come to earth to interfere with us. We’re too much fun to watch.
“Earthlings engage in the most random of activities! Op, op, op!!!”
The aliens are all around us, watching and communicating with each other in a manner we don't even know exists.
Tachyons, neutrinos, hyperspace, who knows? We don't.
And, they're making fun of us right in our faces, laughing at us, mocking us...
Oh they are out there, watching us.
Earth is a galactic reality tv show.
/southpark
But like bears coming out of hibernation, watch out for that first, huge dump! It will be galactic!!
We can’t see them cause they ain’t there? What a novel idea.
The Berserker theory is one possible answer, civilizations gets so advanced and then are noticed by the galactic exterminator who points a gamma ray burst at the cockroaches. Another could be that the urge to explore is simply exceedingly rare. Another could be that so far everyone invariably falls into a virtual reality hole when their tech reaches that level.
Freegards
Intelligent life elsewhere? We don’t even have Intelligent Life here!!