Posted on 09/05/2025 3:02:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
<I>She credited Carl Sagan with inspiring her beliefs. Alex Ocho
Emma Stone says she believes in aliens.
The Oscar-winning actress made the confession on Thursday (Aug. 28) when she and director Yorgos Lanthimos appeared at the press conference for their new film Bugonia during the 2025 Venice International Film Festival.
When asked by a reporter whether she believes in a “higher intelligence looking upon us,” Stone gave a surprising take on the matter.
“I don't know about looking down on us,” Stone said at the one-hour, 24-minute mark of the video linked here. “One of my favorite people that has ever lived is Carl Sagan, and I watched his show Cosmos and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be.”
She continued, “And I think he very deeply believed that the idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe—truly, not that we're being watched— but that we're alone out here is a pretty narcissistic thing to think.
“So yes, I'm coming out with it. I believe in aliens. Thank you,” she concluded, bringing audible laughter in the press conference.
Earlier in the conference, another reporter asked Stone how she manages fame “without turning into an alien.”
“How do you know I’m not an alien?” she playfully asked before reflecting more seriously on the challenges of public perception.
“There’s me, and then there’s like me here, if that makes sense,” she said. “I separate the two in my mind a little bit. … It's just different things to keep myself sane, I guess.”
Bugonia will hit theaters on Oct. 24.
Carl Sagan was either a CIA asset or just a plain liar. Or both.
If Mind is really all that exists, maybe everything evolved from thought (which might be considered ‘nothing’ by some...)
They may not have our technology, but technology is turning out to be a bad measure of intelligence.
I think all animals have intelligence adequate to their needs.
“I know cats, dogs, squirrels, and raccoons...and a myriad of other animals who are smarter than humans.”
I would not thought so but after reading your post ...
Have raccoons discovered Fibonacci numbers yet?
One stupid move and you end up as dinner for a hawk or fox.
Humans, on the other hand, can run for Congress with their lips flapping in the wind. No danger. Just some idiot news camera, fawning over your every stupid word.
Do you think cities and skyscrapers are a testament to human intellect? Are you Governor Pritzker?
>> what is the probability that everything evolved from nothing
Zero...
I believe in aliens and I’m pleased that President Trump and his team are deporting a lot of ‘em!
“””As an aside, I think cats can prevent alien abduction. I’ve got cats and I haven’t been abducted. At least not recently;-). “”””””
I got a few cats and a dog. I’m super safe.
The tapdancing attempts to get around the Fermi Paradox simply ignore the list of ever-increasing number of factors needed for a planet to sustain intelligent life.
In addition to the obvious life-hospitable factors, such as a temperature suitable for liquid water and a suitably-sized sun, there are many more factors required for a planet to be fit for intelligent life (with more factors likely to be discovered in the future). Some of these are:
Suitable gravity for atmosphere, with appropriate pressure, to retain oxygen and water vapor but not hydrogen; suitable axis rotation rate; appropriate tilt of planet axis for seasons; suitable orbital distance from star to prevent tidal locking and far enough so that solar flares would not strip the atmosphere; magnetic field from planet molten core to shield lower atmosphere from cosmic radiation; sufficient planetary plate tectonics for crustal mineral recycling; suitable distribution and shape of continents to sustain deep ocean currents; sufficient actinide radioisotopes in planet interior for decay heat; suitably-sized moon to create needed tides and stabilize planet rotation; giant outer gas planets to prevent large asteroids and comets from frequent collisions with the Earth-like planet; suburban galaxy location providing sufficient distance from recent supernovas; a special suburban location so that the planet has sufficient phosphorus concentrations; far enough away from gravitational disturbances by higher density of stars in inner area of galaxy; only minor orbital variations caused by small chaotic gravitational interactions between other planets in the solar system.
With these factors the number of planets in our galaxy capable of sustaining intelligent life is much smaller than the media and grant-seeking astronomers imply in their articles. The estimated probable number is likely very close to the experimentally known value of one.
They see Fibonacci numbers in nature every day.
Do you?
They may not say, "Hey, there's a Fibonacci number or form exemplifying it."
But neither do you.
You exalt yourself. That's obvious. And it's obvious why you do it.
Dunning-Kruger...and a lack of humility.
I love dogs and horses (and the rest), but I've got a house full of cats.
I may be safe from aliens, but I spend a fortune on cats.
The aliens won't abduct me because my homies might come along.;-)
Has it occured to you that you have been abducted by the cats?
If Governor Pritzker was in charge, we'd still be shivering in caves.
The terrorists sure seemed to think skyscrapers were a symbol of the country.
Have you? Tell us all about it, Mr. Smartie Pants.
“””I may be safe from aliens, but I spend a fortune on cats.”””””
You don’t own the cats, they own you.
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