“on another planet”
Oh. I thought they were talking about the White House.
Not a popular opinion but I really do not think there is anyone else out there.
Imagine how advanced another planet would have to be now, to have sent radio signals the thousands of years ago that would have them arriving here now, at light speed.
Somebody made a point once that the reason why we aren’t hearing intelligent signals is that they are encoded, similarly to how we encode messages so the Russians don’t hear, and it comes across as space static to us.
Another possibility is that, just as we are going, everything might be fibre optic out there and there are no signals to send because it is limited to cables.
I hope the alien hunters are patient.
I suspect it will be millennia before they find proof.
Fortress Earth: We all start secretly moving underground, meanwhile we broadcast out to space news broadcasts that we are getting into a giant nuclear world war and then we nuke all the empty cities in staggered order, so that there is background ambient radiation and it looks like a nuclear war.
The animals and plants should be fine (as long as we stagger the planned nuclear devastation) , look at Chernobyl.
The idea is to make the aliens think we destroyed our selves and irradiated the planet.
Also we place into geostationary graveyard orbits large satellites with nuclear waste emitters to give the whole planet a “nuclear wasteland” signature.
As we’ve yet been able to communicate with our biological neighbors on this planet, be it whale, dolphin, cat, ape, etc, I doubt we’d have the slightest ability to communicate with life from another planet.
If we were able to, however, I would guess that the churches would fill with those who are seeking to repent their sins, as odds are that anything we’d recognize as life and be able to communicate with would be also be created by God.
There are two reasonable possibilities:
God is a creator God, creation is his essential nature, therefor life is ubiquitous. We are going to find it in myriad forms scattered across the universe.
Or, God the creator planted us here and it will be our grandkids who carry life across the universe.
I lean toward the second, just because when you look out across the universe it looks like a big frozen debris field. But, granted, we can’t see very well very far so who knows. They could well be out there, we just haven’t found each other yet.
If ‘natural selection’ is a universal constant like gravity and light, of course they will be way more advanced than us and will turn us into pets.
I often think about how if we are the only “intelligent” life in the universe, what a pathetically failed petri dish we have been. We have some zippy fun technology but we seem to be on the verge of total self-destruction.
I know there are explanations for this theologically - fallen sin-filled humanity and such - but it’s still disillusioning as hell. A glance at the Drudge Report on any given day only confirms my viewpoint.
I’m obviously not an optimist! Ha!
My guess is we’re looking in the wrong direction. UFOs and crop circles and what not could possibly be from another, or several other dimensions that we haven’t figured out how to travel between. Not an original idea of mine but the one that seems most plausible to me.
how soon will liberals try to abort the new life?
After Intelligent Life Is Discovered?
I for one look forward to our new overlords