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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 5, 2023 6:29:57 GMT -5
I guess it all depends what you would count as Alien life. Would a planet full of plants and alien trees count as Alien life? Or what about Bacteria? Maybe little creepy crawlies? Either way, if we're talking about these things or full on intelligent aliens with societies and interstellar travel, do you think we'll ever come in contact with it?
It's a big universe out there with lots of planets so odds are there's gotta be something out there.... surely?
But everything is so far apart it's going to take something faster than light to get there and from what I'm told, that's the top speed.
There's always the chance of something in our own solar system. Mars is pretty barren (although how cool would it be if the rover found a cave on Mars and there was something similar to caveman paintings?!?) but there's a moon of Saturn's which has a thick layer of ice but underneath they think there's some sort of ocean, which may have something in it. Even little fishes in there would blow my mind.
Other than that, I think that's our only chance. Unless aliens do all the hard work and discover how to travel space and hopefully they'll share the info with us.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Feb 5, 2023 6:37:29 GMT -5
Mick Foley and Kris Statlander are both Long Islanders so it's possible
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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 5, 2023 6:41:39 GMT -5
Mick Foley and Kris Statlander are both Long Islanders so it's possible I'm ashamed to say that reference took me far too long to get. I had to look up the Statlander girl but I was wondering what the f*** Mick Foley had to do with it, then it was ohhhhhh....I get it. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 5, 2023 6:48:52 GMT -5
The most realistic way it will happen.
Will be in the far future when human kind eventually invents deep space travel to journey to other solar systems. and if it is a ship of humans it will be probably a giant life sustaining vessel that can house thousands of family’s and the journey will be so long it make many generations of ships residents to reach a planet that can sustain life. And that planet will have aliens on it.. could be intelligent beings, or just fauna.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 5, 2023 7:00:23 GMT -5
Sure, but I am expecting less aliens how we typically think of them, and more like we'll find weird algae-equivalents or something, maybe something we could bring here or go to them to see, or find fossils of long-gone lifeforms.
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Post by Bo Rida on Feb 5, 2023 7:11:00 GMT -5
I think we'll be extinct before we're able to meet any.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 5, 2023 7:19:41 GMT -5
No, we're not on a path to the stars despite the claims of people selling rockets. The endeavours we would need to engage in to get beyond the solar system are not ones we are capable of as a species right now, we can't combat climate change, we couldn't even unite to fight a disease that killed millions.
We will succumb to the results of human selfishness long before any visitors.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 5, 2023 10:35:53 GMT -5
After watching the "Men in Black" movies before the end of the year, I wonder if it's that kind of scenario where we are living among aliens but we have no idea.
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Post by Fade on Feb 5, 2023 11:11:33 GMT -5
If A.I became sentient, would that count as an alien?
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Post by SmashTV on Feb 5, 2023 11:49:19 GMT -5
Yes, but long after we’re gone. Sadly.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 5, 2023 12:49:00 GMT -5
Meet? As in, shake hands/appendages with and have a talk over a cup of coffee? No.
Find? As in, land on a planet discover bacterias, plants and maybe other creatures? Yes.
Soon? Heck no.
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Post by tirtefaa on Feb 5, 2023 13:16:49 GMT -5
I think with a reasonable amount of time and resources, it would be plausible for us to search the galaxy and find something.
However, intelligent life? That's a whole other story. I feel humans are so far beyond unique that the amount of 'luck' it took for us to advance to this point is beyond immeasurable. That isn't to say that intelligent life does not exist elsewhere, but the occurrence in which it happens is in like the decillions.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 5, 2023 14:04:54 GMT -5
I think with a reasonable amount of time and resources, it would be plausible for us to search the galaxy and find something. However, intelligent life? That's a whole other story. I feel humans are so far beyond unique that the amount of 'luck' it took for us to advance to this point is beyond immeasurable. That isn't to say that intelligent life does not exist elsewhere, but the occurrence in which it happens is in like the decillions. While I would agree with you, I also find it highly depressing that in this whole universe we could actually be the ultimate living thing |
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Post by darthobiwan on Feb 5, 2023 14:40:30 GMT -5
If it happens it may not be for another 200 years minimum. it was just over 50 years ago humans got to land on the Moon, and despite that there is no one trying to get back there in the last 40 years, much less colonize it and have to and from traffic. I know they been talking about having a human Mars colonization project the last 10 years but don't think they are close to making that happen probably at least for another 15-20 years. "Possibly" in the next 100-150 years, humans may be able to start traveling to/colonizating the other planets including Mars (Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn), then "maybe" 250-500 years from now, humans may start reaching to places beyond their solar system, then "maybe" run into some new life forms.
Or maybe an advanced race may show up on Earth tomorrow to conquer us lol!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 5, 2023 14:53:28 GMT -5
Doubtful. I don't think we are the only intelligent life in the universe, but the universe is so mind-bogglingly huge and our level of spacefaring technology is so primitive that there's a very good chance we'll go extinct before we even have the chance to explore outside our solar system.
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Feb 5, 2023 14:55:55 GMT -5
Doubtful. I don't think we are the only intelligent life in the universe, but the universe is so mind-bogglingly huge and our level of spacefaring technology is so primitive that there's a very good chance we'll go extinct before we even have the chance to explore outside our solar system. Pretty much where I stand. I believe there's other intelligent life out there, if only as a matter of probability, but that same probability relies on the universe being SO vast that any two intelligent species running into each other is incredibly remote. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 5, 2023 15:10:54 GMT -5
Pretty much where I stand. I believe there's other intelligent life out there, if only as a matter of probability, but that same probability relies on the universe being SO vast that any two intelligent species running into each other is incredibly remote. Absolutely. Even getting to our closest neighbouring star is a herculean task without some sort of exotic form of propulsion that defies all known laws of physics. |
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Feb 5, 2023 15:12:42 GMT -5
I think the question is more interesting from the other side: if alien beings met the human species, would we even register to them as intelligent?
For all the achievement of homo sapiens, it's possible that Earth and every human being alive at the moment of an alien encounter would be no different than ants are to us--living in an anthill that's about to be paved over.
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Feb 5, 2023 15:45:14 GMT -5
Bacteria/Fauna is what I think is out there personally but having said that, if there is intelligent life out there I don’t think human beings will ever meet them because I think they’d take one at the human race and go “Nah, no thanks, let’s give them a miss” lol
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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 5, 2023 16:02:26 GMT -5
Doubtful. I don't think we are the only intelligent life in the universe, but the universe is so mind-bogglingly huge and our level of spacefaring technology is so primitive that there's a very good chance we'll go extinct before we even have the chance to explore outside our solar system. Pretty much where I stand. I believe there's other intelligent life out there, if only as a matter of probability, but that same probability relies on the universe being SO vast that any two intelligent species running into each other is incredibly remote. Does make you wonder if there would be any alien civilisations that will ever meet each other. Not only are we dealing with huge distances but the possibility of two civilations envolving and existing at the same time does make it more and more improbable. On a side note, how cool must this planet have looked if aliens visited it millions of years ago when the dinosaurs were rocking about? They must have thought we were cool as f***. |
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