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Barack Obama: "Aliens are real."
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uncreativename
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Grildon Tundy
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Welp, I no longer believe in aliens after having seen this.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
There is no way we are there only intelligent life in this universe. A lot of people don't realize how vast our cosmos is. We have billions and maybe trillions of galaxies which each have billions of stars.
Even if intelligent life is extremely rare, I believe it exists somewhere out there and we are not the only ones. Again, I'm referring to intelligent life.
Even if intelligent life is extremely rare, I believe it exists somewhere out there and we are not the only ones. Again, I'm referring to intelligent life.
The_hunter
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The 2020s are too much man
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Possibly, but unless proven there's aliens or even bacteria, we got nothing to go on.
It's like saying if there's a kid's sandbox with billions of sand particles there's got to be at last 1 grain of gold. Maybe. But not guaranteed.
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Faltherion
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Me personally, I strongly believe that there is a much higher and far more advanced civilization out there. What you say is true. There is just no way this vast space has all these galaxies and planets with nothing in them.
I guarantee you that we are either being laughed at or we are just another useless and pathetic race for a higher being. We are most likely very weak compared to them and they have no reason to deal with us whatsoever.
Or we are just a creation of another civilization that is just watching at how we interact with each other and how long we can last before we blow up our own planet, how powerful we can get and if we are even able to exist on our own without any outside aid.
Obviously, that another "civilization" could be considered God for the religious folk, but that's a different topic. I do not believe in magic, so to me they are physical entity that is overseeing from far above.
I think Mass Effect is the closest thing that I can see happening in reality at some point in the far far future. Sadly, none of us will be alive to see that day.
Dr.D00p
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Timing is the real problem in all this, bigger than the distances involved, IMO.
The odds of at least one other civilisation at a similar level of development as we are, existing at the same time as us, with the same curiosity to ask the same questions and reach out to look for the signs of life elsewhere is just so mind bogglingly small that to all intents and purposes, we may as well be alone.
The odds of at least one other civilisation at a similar level of development as we are, existing at the same time as us, with the same curiosity to ask the same questions and reach out to look for the signs of life elsewhere is just so mind bogglingly small that to all intents and purposes, we may as well be alone.
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
The Fartist
Gold Member
Analogy not good enough.
The average sandbox has 3 to 400 billion grains of sand.
The best scientific estimate is hundreds of sextillions to septillions of planets in the known universe.
All the beaches on planet earth have approximately 100 sextillion grains of sand combined.
You know for goddamn sure, even without checking, that there has to be at least 1 grain of gold in 100 sextillion grains of sand.
John Bilbo
Gold Member
Is this a reference to the Epstein files or the X-Files
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
The way they explained the Dark Forest hypothesis in the Dark Forest book for me it is such a reasonable explanation of why the contact has been this "scarce".
The Dark Forest hypothesis's biggest weakness would be faster than light travel as having that would allow conflict deescalation to happen at reasonable times.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Oh yeah that whole Three Body Problem series of books?
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
The books are soooooo much more enjoyable than the Netflix series. They botched that badly and left it at one season.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Not at all surprised.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
I will be honest, I need to start the third book in the trilogy as the end / status quo reached at the end of the second book is just perfect for the story, but maybe it will surprise me.
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The Fartist
Gold Member
That is one of the craziest videos I've seen in a while. It's like everything knows, or most likely doesn't know, what to do, but it does it anyway. Insane.
Aleins being real would certainly explain the current state of the world, culture, politics, ram prices, AI, gender biology, limited run games, ubi-soft and so many other things.
Destroy humanity, play the long game and win I still without firing a single shot. Very clever. I still love the idea that the USA built their stealth fighter based on alien tech.
Destroy humanity, play the long game and win I still without firing a single shot. Very clever. I still love the idea that the USA built their stealth fighter based on alien tech.
ForAcademicPurposes
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Why is he allowed to say that?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Wildebeest
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A lot of very senior people seem to believe similar reports to what we have seen but that doesn't mean the reports are not all trolling.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Not really. Especially when you consider how huge our galaxy is.
There have been various attempts to calculate this, but the estimate are that there are between 300 million and 40 billion Earth like planets in the Milky Way. A commonly cited mid-range figure is roughly 1 in 5 Sun-like stars having an Earth sized planet in its habitable zone. However, that doesn't mean that they're actually habitable for life, but we could be looking at a minimum of millions of planets with life just in our galaxy.
The chances of advanced civilisations would be very rare, but not so impossible to the extent that we might as well be alone.
That's just the milky way. At a universal level it gets even more unlikely. There are an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. If each has a similar count to the Milky Way, we are looking at a number of habital planets in the sextillions.
I haven't even included moons. There is a very good chance other life on moons in our system, such as Europa for example. If life can also form on moons then we're getting into inconceivable numbers of possible places for life in the universe.
for us to be the only technological civilization to have ever existed in the universe would have to be less than 1 in 10 billion trillion.
That's not to say that we're currently being visited by aliens. Just that the chances of us being alone or the only intelligent civilisation is practically zero.
He's probably trolling. He says they're real and adds no explanation on how he knows this. But it would make sense not to tell the POTUS this information.
The POTUS is a temporary position and wouldn't need to know.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Fermi paradox says that we can be the first or the last planet with intelligent life. Can't ignore the fact that this is as scary as could be real
Tomorrow
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i believe in aliens 100%. i think it's far more likely they are out there than us being the only planet with life in the entire universe.
whether or not they've made contact with us is another question.
if anyone knows anything about them then it's the POTUS. yes it's a temporary job (and hopefully stays that way) but if you're the fucking POTUS then that's shit you need to know.
whether or not they've made contact with us is another question.
if anyone knows anything about them then it's the POTUS. yes it's a temporary job (and hopefully stays that way) but if you're the fucking POTUS then that's shit you need to know.
Badlucktroll
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"So cool"
chromhound
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Where are the alien thick queens?
Bert Big Balls
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I don't like the fermi paradox. Just because no one's visited us or we haven't picked up any signals, doesn't mean there's nothing out there.
Things like us not receiving any signals or visitors yet, is most likely because of the totally brain boggling distance they could be away from us. The observable universe is 93 billion lightyears in diameter. The distances we're talking are incomprehensible. An advanced race at lightspeed would never reach us at those distances.
Radio signals degrade over large distances due to inverse square law, and we'd likely not even be able to pick up the signal if it's been sent from so far of a distance.
I understand the paradox, but again, just because it hasn't happened, does not mean we're alone. With the sheer number of galaxies, all themselves containing potentially trillions of stars / planets, I just can't understand how we would be the only life in the universe. It's bonkers.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Yeah, but his theory is based because life has to start somewhere and it has to end somewhere. That's nature itself
Chances are that nobody never reached us and of course we also didn't because of physics. That's a possibility. Fermi Paradox it's also a possibility. Until we don't have real proof, a lot of situation will be considered, but I'm afraid to say that none of those are opinions to like or dislike
