Why do people think aliens can't exist?

[PLX]

 

[Holden Afart]

Space isn't real

 

[Sleezy E]

Space isn't real

 

[nicolasrivera]

I think it's kind of arrogant to assume that we are one of a kind and intelligent life is impossible elsewhere in the universe.

Some people may have perpetuated hoaxes, and few hollywood movies may have made the concept ridiculous. Aliens may have visited us in quite a different way than portrayed in popular media.

They may be spiritual beings not necessiting a physical vehicle at all. Who knows? I haven't encountered such phenomenon, just curious.

Even within our own tiny planet there is life that has no other explanation other that it came from out of space.

 

[aerial7]

"The whole wide world
An endless universe
Yet we keep looking through
The eyeglass in reverse"

 

[unix-guy]

Nothing going faster than the speed of light is a problem.

This is assuming human knowledge, technology and physical composition.

Anthropomorphism at it's finest!

 

[norminal]

You should ask Fermi.

Obligatory “This.”

 

[holoholo]

Of course aliens exist. A human wouldn’t make a PRS that ugly

 

[la szum]

Aliens won Dream Theater a Grammy, and made Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wealthy
beyond all imagination. If they aren't real we sure as hell do love ingesting their imagined forms.

 

[la szum]

Joe Satriani is a believer.

 

[Humbug]

Nothing going faster than the speed of light is a problem.

Well, until we can get the infinite improbability drives going there's always bad news. Nothing travels faster than bad news.

 

[Humbug]

Even within our own tiny planet there is life that has no other explanation other that it came from out of space.

Please explain.

 

[DrewJD82]

Humans think of a lot of dumb shit.

Now with governments releasing info about UAP's I think we're going to hear some crazier shit in our lifetimes.....anything those fucks can do to take our minds off blowing our money like children.

 

[Frankencat]

 

[the-trooper]

Aliens existing or not doesn't worry me. What worries me is the fact that birds aren't real! And it should worry you too!

 

[Humbug]

Aliens existing or not doesn't worry me. What worries me is the fact that birds aren't real! And it should worry you too!

Then WHO is shitting on my car??!!?

 

[Stone]

Nothing going faster than the speed of light is a problem.

Even if we ever detect signs of advanced life, they would likely be so far away, and far enough in the distant past that they've probably already destroyed themselves. Just like we're in the process of.

begs the question why is there a limit? and why is it unattainable? Sounds like programing to me
Its kind of dumb to make something so infinite yet not be able to go anywhere??
And I agree with Fermi

 

[FuzzyAce]

begs the question why is there a limit? and why is it unattainable? Sounds like programing to me
Its kind of dumb to make something so infinite yet not be able to go anywhere??
And I agree with Fermi

Infinity is here but also there... simultaneously near yet far beyond. It's nothing and also everything.
So in closing...

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

begs the question why is there a limit?

It's physics bitch.

If we can develop the technology to warp spacetime, we're in business.

I'll wait patiently over here.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

The most distant space probe, Voyager 1, was about 18 light-hours (130 au,19.4 billion km, 12.1 billion mi) away from the Earth as of October 2014. It will take about 17500 years to reach one light-year at its current speed of about 17 km/s (38000 mph, 61 200 km/h) relative to the Sun.

Our nearest stars Alpha Centauri A & B are roughly 4.35 light years away from us. Proxima Centauri is slightly closer at 4.25 light years.

That's 70,000 years @ 38,000 mph for just the nearest stars to us.

The distances aliens would need to travel to get here are unimaginably large. And out of the estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, they would have to choose ours to investigate.