Why do people think aliens can't exist?

[gearJunkie]

Using current technology, it would take over forty thousand years to reach the closest star outside our solar system.

Physics and incredible distances are the blockades to close encounters of the third kind.

 

[Chocol8]

3I/ATLAS = ALIENS

Have you ever heard about rare occasions when an airliner has a lavatory malfunction and a block of blue ice full of shit and piss can fall to earth?

In a completely unrelated topic, have you heard that comets like 3I/ATLAS are mostly made of ice...

Maybe 3I/ATLAS = Frozen alien shit from a UFO lavatory malfunction. Or maybe they sent us a present of frozen shit on purpose...knowing what happens when you mix engineers and alcohol, I could see a bunch of drunk human engineers doing something like that someday when we have the capability!

 

[paisleywookiee]

There are so many planets around so many stars in so many galaxies, it is almost impossible for ours to be the only one that supports life. The difficulty traveling such great distances means that for aliens to come in contact with us would require them to be extremely intelligent, which means they would be smart enough to avoid us.

So in this case is absence of evidence proof that they exist?

I mean, I'd certainly turn the Cosmic Winnebago around, that's for sure.

 

[Jarick]

Like most things I can't directly observe, I'm pretty agnostic. I'm sure aliens exist somewhere but no idea if we'll ever encounter them in the course of our humanity.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

Any species that can bend spacetime to their will, won't consider us to be intelligent life

 

[Sleezy E]

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

The aliens get here, so someone starts playing this really obnoxiously loud whilst telling them how much we love them. So they leave.

 

[ChordInversion]

I find the Dark Forest Hypothesis to be compelling. The smart move is to avoid being noticed on a cosmic scale, because once you are, your days are numbered.

In any case, aliens wouldn't come here, sneak around, and kidnap a couple of randos. They'd either wipe us out to take our resources or wipe us out because we're so utterly untrustworthy.

 

[Baba]

In any case, aliens wouldn't come here, sneak around, and kidnap a couple of randos. They'd either wipe us out to take our resources or wipe us out because we're so utterly untrustworthy.

Or, just sit back and watch us do it to ourselves, which, we are well on the way of doing, lol.

 

[Baba]

The universe is SO vast and SO old, I mean, I could never really comprehend it, but I find myself starting to not even believe it. Like, I'm starting to entertain the simulation possibility, that's how much I can't wrap my head around:

1. How it's so big
2. How it's so old
3. Why it even exists in the first place

 

[ChordInversion]

The universe is SO vast and SO old, I mean, I could never really comprehend it, but I find myself starting to not even believe it. Like, I'm starting to entertain the simulation possibility, that's how much I can't wrap my head around:

1. How it's so big
2. How it's so old
3. Why it even exists in the first place

Variants of those questions would all apply to a simulation, too. I tend to posit corollary questions: Why are we so small and fleeting, and with that in mind, why do we even exist?

 

[Baba]

Variants of those questions would all apply to a simulation, too. I tend to posit corollary questions: Why are we so small and fleeting, and with that in mind, why do we even exist?

YES!!!!

Like, what is the point of this existence?

 

[Chocol8]

Like, what is the point of this existence?

The point is to develop increasingly better technology over many generations until we can travel across 100's of light years of space in a fraction of a second, find other intelligent life forms, and then anal probe them. At least that's what the aliens seem to do, and they are smarter than us!

 

[Chocol8]

The universe is SO vast and SO old, I mean, I could never really comprehend it, but I find myself starting to not even believe it. Like, I'm starting to entertain the simulation possibility, that's how much I can't wrap my head around:

1. How it's so big
2. How it's so old
3. Why it even exists in the first place

How vast could our universe really be if it is entirely contained inside a black hole and is just one of many such universes in a larger universe?

 

[Whizzinby]

The point is to develop increasingly better technology over many generations until we can travel across 100's of light years of space in a fraction of a second, find other intelligent life forms, and then anal probe them. At least that's what the aliens seem to do, and they are smarter than us!

You gotta appreciate their sense of humor. After a long flight, aliens be like…

 

[ChordInversion]

YES!!!!

Like, what is the point of this existence?

I've worked in tech for over 30 years, but I got my education in philosophy and mathematics. The answer that I keep arriving at to your question is simple, but not easy: You have to choose. There cannot be a definitive answer. Unless the act of choosing is itself the point, there is an enormous chance that anyone who ever pondered that question came up with an answer that is at best only partially correct. And that goes for anyone who will ever ponder it, too.

Sleep tight.

 

[fetishfrog]

I find the Dark Forest Hypothesis to be compelling. The smart move is to avoid being noticed on a cosmic scale, because once you are, your days are numbered.

In any case, aliens wouldn't come here, sneak around, and kidnap a couple of randos. They'd either wipe us out to take our resources or wipe us out because we're so utterly untrustworthy.

I always find it interesting when people assume hyper intelligent beings would behave as we did when we discovered people and cultures we deemed (always incorrectly) to be less advanced. Perhaps we behaved that way because we're all a bunch of idiots.

I've worked in tech for over 30 years, but I got my education in philosophy and mathematics. The answer that I keep arriving at to your question is simple, but not easy: You have to choose. There cannot be a definitive answer. Unless the act of choosing is itself the point, there is an enormous chance that anyone who ever pondered that question came up with an answer that is at best only partially correct. And that goes for anyone who will ever ponder it, too.

Sleep tight.

I agree with this. Meaning and purpose are always self defined, even by those who outsource their worldviews to already established ones, which are all of them.

 

[Baba]

I've worked in tech for over 30 years, but I got my education in philosophy and mathematics. The answer that I keep arriving at to your question is simple, but not easy: You have to choose. There cannot be a definitive answer. Unless the act of choosing is itself the point, there is an enormous chance that anyone who ever pondered that question came up with an answer that is at best only partially correct. And that goes for anyone who will ever ponder it, too.

Sleep tight.

Seriously, I'm kidding. I appreciate what you said, and any other info/opinions you'd like to share. I'm just trying to be funny.

 

[Baba]

How vast could our universe really be if it is entirely contained inside a black hole and is just one of many such universes in a larger universe?

Well, if you believe the astrophysicists, it's pretty damn vast.

 

[Chocol8]

Well, if you believe the astrophysicists, it's pretty damn vast.

Yeah, but what I said about our universe just being one of many inside a black hole that might be the center of just one of billions of galaxies inside another universe is what the latest thinking is after recent James Web telescope discoveries. Basically as vast as our universe is, it may all fit within a pin prick of another universe!

The entire thing is mind blowing. I think I might need massive doses of psychedelics to even begin to grasp it!