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Post by Zombie Mod on Feb 5, 2023 16:08:57 GMT -5
humanity leaving earth for another planet and finding life? 100-200 years if technology keeps its evolutionary pace.
alien life rocking up to earth and doing whatever they're going to do? could be today all the way up to never as it all depends on what they're planning to do, they could go incognito to study humanity and we wouldnt know it until they're ready to reveal themselves or they could just arrive and conquer the planet, or they could get close to earth intercept all the broadcasts we're throwing out into space realise we're still a young civilisation and avoid us like the plague.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 5, 2023 16:26:20 GMT -5
We've got about 38 years before the Vulcans show up.
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Post by xCompackx on Feb 5, 2023 16:38:55 GMT -5
I think it's more likely we happen to find another species or civilization while looking for something else. It's a big universe out there; pretty unlikely Earth is the only planet with life.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Feb 5, 2023 16:40:44 GMT -5
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Post by tirtefaa on Feb 5, 2023 16:50:29 GMT -5
I think it's more likely we happen to find another species or civilization while looking for something else. It's a big universe out there; pretty unlikely Earth is the only planet with life. While it is very unlikely that Earth is the only planet with life, we are also a very unique circumstance given the Great Oxidation Event which helped shape life to benefit eukaryotes, then add in a few extinction events that left huge holes in ecosystems that were filled with more adaptive evolution, add in plate tectonics and seasons, along with the right sized star with a right sized moon. I mean just on its face...the fact we made it out of the ocean is pretty incredible, something that any other alien race would need to do in order to adapt to greater things.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 5, 2023 16:56:46 GMT -5
TBH, I'm surprised something like the Bell Riots hasn't happened already.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 5, 2023 17:07:44 GMT -5
I imagine humanity will go extinct well before the infrastructure exists to do so.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 5, 2023 19:05:44 GMT -5
Intelligent life? Probably not. Universe is big& any intelligent life is faaaaaaar away. Just the odds of us and whoever being intelligent at the same time are so huge as to be incredibly improbable.
If we do, it won't be for a long time and the us that does might not even be something we'd recognize as us--- assuming we even survive the coming changes to Earth.
Same deal w theoretical intelligent aliens, they'd have the same pitfalls of time and distance.
It'd be way more likely to get a radio signal or something, but by the time we did, it'd be well past the point it was sent.
Now simple life? Microbes, bacteria etc? That seems an inevitability if we're around long enough.
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Post by bob on Feb 5, 2023 19:10:32 GMT -5
I think Mick Foley has as good of shot as meeting aliens as any of us
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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 6, 2023 1:47:53 GMT -5
You're a bit late, mate. That joke was the first reply
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Post by Sephiroth on Feb 6, 2023 12:20:32 GMT -5
I think, of all things, The Last Starfighter Sumer it up: our planet isn’t due for contact until it matures
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 6, 2023 12:24:57 GMT -5
We either already have (via microscopic life floating in space/debris)and don't know it or will find basic life outside of Earth. Will it be anything other than something similar to our basic cellular life forms? I doubt it.
Do aliens exist? Probably. Are they greys/lizard people/Zeti Reticulians? Naw. Are they Wookiees? Yes because it explains Bigfoot.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2023 12:28:41 GMT -5
Yes.
It is naïve to think, in the vastness of the universe, that we are alone. We haven't even touched on how vast the universe is, which leads me to believe we are not alone in this universe.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Feb 6, 2023 15:21:33 GMT -5
There’s a high likelihood mankind doesn’t have another couple hundred years left.
It’ll probably have to be soon
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 6, 2023 17:04:41 GMT -5
No
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 11, 2023 5:07:39 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. There's little reason to suspect any other intelligent life out there would be any more advanced than we are. Given how simple life must form first, evolution, all the lucky breaks to get any life form anywhere. The whole universe works with the same amount of time. Even getting into orbit is a giant f***ing deal for us to this day.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Feb 11, 2023 6:36:21 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. There's little reason to suspect any other intelligent life out there would be any more advanced than we are. Given how simple life must form first, evolution, all the lucky breaks to get any life form anywhere. The whole universe works with the same amount of time. Even getting into orbit is a giant f***ing deal for us to this day. There does seem to be this thought we'd expect the aliens to do all the hard work and develop space travel...then just give it to us. We're just lazy bastards
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 11, 2023 6:43:51 GMT -5
There's little reason to suspect any other intelligent life out there would be any more advanced than we are. Given how simple life must form first, evolution, all the lucky breaks to get any life form anywhere. The whole universe works with the same amount of time. Even getting into orbit is a giant f***ing deal for us to this day. There does seem to be this thought we'd expect the aliens to do all the hard work and develop space travel...then just give it to us. We're just lazy bastards Starbucks now expects you to spend like $100 to get a free coffee, if Starbucks thinks a coffee is worth $100, imagine what ALF thinks interstellar travel is worth.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 11, 2023 7:14:04 GMT -5
Yes. It is naïve to think, in the vastness of the universe, that we are alone. We haven't even touched on how vast the universe is, which leads me to believe we are not alone in this universe. That's a different question though. Is there intelligent life? There has to be. But will we meet it? As you say, the scale of the universe. Not just in terms of distance but time. All the vastness of space and the length of time the universe has existed, we have to sync up to the same thousands or millions of years another species exists which is an incredibly tiny window to hit.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Feb 11, 2023 8:34:04 GMT -5
A better question is, would aliens want to meet us?
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