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Cmon man where the aliens at?

MMaRsu

Member
I just feel like we need some cool shit to happen soon

Aliens could be just around the corner, or even below our oceans.

I mean they might be bringing hoverboards for us?

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Where the aliens at bro's?
 

Melon Husk

Member
Government psyop, ever since the cold war. Spy games and plausible deniability relating to experimental aircraft.

Peace Out No GIF by DreamWorks Animation


P.S. Sheer hubris to assume aliens smarter than us would be interested in us. Of all the places in the universe, why would they come here? You think Alien Greg can't think of better things to do than monkey-wach for a hundred years?
 
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Hookshot

Member
the universe is too big and too old for species to just randomly bump into each other.
That's the point of the Fermi Paradox. Trillions of planets x Billions of years, should = Millions of Alien civilizations and their junk everywhere.

Yet nothing is spotted. Which leads to various theories as to why we can't find them.
 
That's the point of the Fermi Paradox. Trillions of planets x Billions of years, should = Millions of Alien civilizations and their junk everywhere.

Yet nothing is spotted. Which leads to various theories as to why we can't find them.
I think everyone knows what the fermi paradox is, but it's flawed in assuming a linear progression and also understates the for all intents and purposes infinite size of the universe; even if you assume that there's been millions of civs out there, they could all be at an undetectable distance away from us (and from each other), and even if they weren't, we've only been around for a blip in the cosmic span of things and it's been only like 200 years since we've been fucking around with radio. The chances that the ones that were at a detectable distance just happened to have their signals reach us in the past 200 years might as well be zero.
 

Mr Reasonable

Completely Unreasonable
Fairly standard explanation - civilisations reach a level of technological advancement whereby space exploration begins, AI arrives around the same time and shortly after the civilisation is brought to an end by the AI.

GG everyone...
 

Madflavor

Member
There was that one episode of South Park where aliens tested humanity and deemed them too stupid and selfish to join Galactic Civilization, so they left them to eventually die alone in the universe.
 
Fermi Paradox is a bunk theory. Let's just apply all of the rules that we have about our own circumstances and apply that to a universe that is inconceivably vast and mostly imperceptible to us. We also thought earth was the center of everything and that the world was flat. Speaks to our arrogance as a species if the default theory is, "well I can't see them so they must not be real".
 

Diddy X

Member
Even if they existed we'd never meet them as distances are very fucking long. We may live in the same universe but we just aren't supposed to ever meet, so yeah your movies, tales, and fantasies are never coming true, deal with it.
 
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clem84

Gold Member
I have no doubt that in the entirety of the cosmos, observable universe and beyond, civilizations similar to ours exist or have existed, but they are unimaginably far away, or they happened a very long time ago. The odds of such a civilization occurring are so remote, there is virtually no chance we'll ever meet one.
 

MikeM

Member
Earth and humans aren’t some statistical anomaly. Given the vastness of the universe and all the galaxies and solar systems that exist, the idea that we are alone is peak human exceptionalism.

They probably think we are so primitive with our nukes and our near inability to leave our planet that its best to leave us alone until we show we are mature enough as a species to not murder eachother.
 

Aesius

Member
They've uploaded themselves to a simulation of the universe where they can turn developer mode on.

Plot twist: they were already in some other advanced alien race's simulated universe (which, in turn, was also a simulated universe).
 
Wormhole. We will eventually bend spacetime, even if it happens centuries from now on. We will travel to different galaxies not only to the edges of Milky Way.

I hope I resurrect into a badass bounty hunter.
Funny how we have only observed black holes indirectly and never wormholes. They only exist theoretically based on incomplete physics models...
 
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Sakura

Member
Wormhole. We will eventually bend spacetime, even if it happens centuries from now on. We will travel to different galaxies not only to the edges of Milky Way.

I hope I resurrect into a badass bounty hunter.
It is not known whether wormholes actually exist or not, and even if they did exist, they might not be traversable. Faster than light travel might be impossible.
 
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