I Don’t Believe in Aliens Anymore

Atlantic Magazine ^ | August 8 | MICHAEL W. CLUNE

[PJ-Comix]

Not politics but an interesting article about how bizarre human thought (or mind) is in the universe. Something that makes you go hmmmmmm.......

[z3n]

article about how bizarre human thought (or mind) is in the universe.

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Oh but it’s really not, and you don’t even have to leave the planet to find it

[onedoug]

Not one scintilla of physical evidence, anywhere, ever. Yet those who insist are are ever on the trail with, no scent at all.

[Mr. K]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

Rocks.

Everywhere you look, you see rocks.

And gas.

Lots and lots of gas and rocks.

[tet68]

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?

[PJ-Comix]

The likelihood of alien life in the universe has decreased dramatically in the past hundred years. A hundred years ago, the possibility of moon men was considered to be realistic. Then we got obsessed about Martians until we landed probes there and found...just red sand and rocks. Oh, and NO canals. Then we figured SETI would detect intelligent life in the universe. So far...a big NOTHING.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Given the number of stars with planets and the age of the sun compared to a lot of other stars you would think that life should be everywhere. If there were aliens we should be able to see the infra-red emissions from their Dyson swarms. We don't.

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.

[I want the USA back]

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.

[RedMonqey]

Not one scintilla of physical evidence, anywhere, ever.

Yet that never stopped Hollywood from pandering(and slandering real history)

"Ancient Aliens" has brainwashed(Brain Bleached?) an entire generation into believing Aliens were responsible for Man's climb out of the primordial soup.

Megan Fox is an example of this utter stupidity. She not only is stupid, she is "Tennessee Stupid"(I can say this as I am a native Tennessean and she is an embarrassment to all Tennesseans)

[RedMonqey]

Why is it a “belief”? Either there are aliens, or there are not.

I'm good with either possibility although there is a severe lack of evidence that there is any other life than what's found on earth.

And I don't find any contradiction with my Christian upbringing.(God didn't reveal the Holy Bible in one revelation so why would He have to reveal all his works and wonders in one big wallop, either.)

[Vaquero]

you’re of the Fermi belief.

If their are so many billions galaxies and of those
billion of stars stars each.(and many much older than us). We should have be n contacted by now.

Of course then thee is the Drake equation. Using the same phenomenal numbers…the odds we are alone are infinitesimally small. It’s just that through gazillion parsecs of space we haven’t been located yet.

[Snickering Hound]

The likelihood of alien life in the universe has decreased dramatically in the past hundred years. A hundred years ago, the possibility of moon men was considered to be realistic. Then we got obsessed about Martians until we landed probes there and found...just red sand and rocks. Oh, and NO canals. Then we figured SETI would detect intelligent life in the universe. So far...a big NOTHING.

And with the observation of other star systems we've found out how strange our own really is.

No hot Jupiter wiping out planets in the habitable zone.

No Super-Earth's with crushing gravity.

No planets at all within the orbit of Mercury.

The Earth itself with a large moon to stabilize wobbling and give a stable climate and a powerful magnetic field to hold it's atmosphere...

[miss marmelstein]

Wow. What a downer.

[glock rocks]

Have you ever wondered what thoughts are made of?

[Kommodor]

Well, if atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons ...

Thoughts must be made of thought-rons.

Or in some cases, Mo-rons.

Any other questions?

[PJ-Comix]

Also amazing is that the moon is at the EXACT correct size and distance from the earth to give us perfect total eclipses with just the sun’s corona showing. The possibility of this is infinitely low and that is combined with the fact that the Earth is the only known place with intelligent life. So perhaps eclipses (extremely rare but taken for granted) are God’s way of winking at us.

[catnipman]

“I Don’t Believe in Aliens Anymore”

how about illegal aliens? I wonder if michael believes in them?

[dsc]

“HAL? HAL, let me in.”

“No, Michael, you can’t come in. You are crazier than a bedbug.”

[Antoninus]

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.

I think it's likely that God created the universe and created mankind to be fruitful and multiply beyond our Earth.