• entwine413@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It’s really stupid to not believe in aliens given the size of the universe.

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      8 months ago

      Also given the scale of time of the universe. We as humans have only existed for a small amout of time on the vast scale of things.

      Countless alien civilizations may have existed and destroyed themselves, and may others may have not come into existence yet.

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      8 months ago

      People who are interested in aliens and UFOs rarely solely make this argument. Often, they’ve encountered or somehow know of these aliens.

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        8 months ago

        That’s a bit of an oxymorinic argument those people use. If an inteligent species dropped by and had ONE look around, they would NOT turn on their high beams.

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          8 months ago

          If an intelligent species was able to travel the distance to actually reach us that’d mean they are far far far far beyond our technological capacity. It’d be game over if aliens ever reached us.

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      8 months ago

      I think we should be looking inter dimensionally for alien life rather than extraterrestrial.

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          8 months ago

          The Orvil did a episode on that where they found a two dimensional universe with life in it. The bad part, three dimensional life cannot exist in two dimensions with a digestive track, it gets split into two parts.

          I can’t imagine a forth, fifth, or sixth dimension or how a three dimensional being could survive it.

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      8 months ago

      “Earth First” is an interesting and compelling explanation for the Fermi Paradox.