Poll : do you believe in aliens ?

[BlackDragonof1989]

I don't know, to be honest.

 

[RoloTomasi]

Yes, so very likely. One of my regrets if i'm going to ctb is that I might just miss that first contact event. But I'm also a bit nervous it might change how I feel for all the scifi in space with aliens on them that I watched.

 

[Brokenanddeadinside]

Yes I do believe there are I don't see how there can't be other life out there. I hope one day we find out for sure.

 

[deflagrat]

Sometimes I think about aliens coming to the planet to solve Earth's problems and give us free food, a place to stay and entertainment thanks to their robot labor. I have thought about several scenarios at this point, it's because I have nothing better to do. In my stories aliens are always these amazing creatures with high IQs and long lifespans thanks to science. I would probably want to be an alien myself, that's my way of escaping reality.

 

[Deleted member 847]

I do, I also think they were here in ancient times. The pyramids didn't build themselves and you can't see the solar system with your naked eyes.

 

[Lrdhlpme]

I think think there out there somewhere but our civilisation haven't met yet.

 

[Lrdhlpme]

Wouldn't it be amazing to fund a populated planet as advanced as us and see what they believe in, do they have religious beliefs and are they similar to our or completely different

 

[Deleted member 847]

Maybe ancient people met those aliens and thought they were gods and that's how religions were born

 

[Deleted member 847]

I can't believe we just came up with the idea of religion out of nowhere just to explain nature. It's nonsense

 

[JayZT]

So you're telling me that out of all these universes and planets that we are the only beings. I refuse to believe that, although I don't believe in all the "UFO sightings 100% real" videos, I do definitely think something is out there. How far away it is and if it's even intelligent is impossible to know but hey there is probably a goat walking about on a planet millions of miles away from us.

 

[Deleted member 847]

So you're telling me that out of all these universes and planets that we are the only beings. I refuse to believe that, although I don't believe in all the "UFO sightings 100% real" videos, I do definitely think something is out there. How far away it is and if it's even intelligent is impossible to know but hey there is probably a goat walking about on a planet millions of miles away from us.

And we think of life how we see it. But what if life can evolve out of silicon or other chemicals? Or even just energy, like astral beings. In that case the universe or multiverse would be full of life. I don't think life needs dna to exist. Or earth conditions.

 

[mattwitt]

We wernt created for Earth

Definitely not created for the original earth. The earth was RE created for organic life... At one time it was probably made up entirely of gem stones. (But that would be the biblical account that nobody believes in)

 

[Tiburcio]

Honestly, if I was an alien, I will go to invade this planet and I will see creatures like us acting as such assholes with others, I would run away from this shithole.

 

[Imaginos]

Personally speaking, I subscribe to the "Rare Earth" theory when it comes to this sort of thing. While yes, considering the size of the universe, it's basically a mathematical guarantee that simple life (on the level of bacteria, kelp, flatworms, etc.) probably cropped up somewhere else at some point within the past 13 billion years, the idea that this universe, or hell, even this galaxy, is teeming with what we'd consider complex or intelligent life is quite an erroneous one. Life is far, FFFAAARRR, more fragile/rare than we think. For it to show up anywhere, even in what we perceive to be "ideal conditions", is probably a 1 in 100000000000000 chance occurrence. If there are any aliens out there, then I highly doubt they are space faring (due to the inherent impossibility of interstellar travel regardless of technology), and they're almost certainly very few & far between (as in 20 instances of life in this galaxy alone, if that).



Even if we do entertain the notion that aliens are zooming around the cosmos, why in the name of Shiva would such a hyper advanced civilization want to waste their time with a bunch of worthless, unevolved, cretinous simians like humans? I'd say there's probably a quarantine zone around this solar system to warn any passer's by to stay well clear of the nearby planet of horrors, but frankly I can't see why they'd bother. This planet is an insignificant backwater, currently infested with an extremely overpopulated & rapacious organism (aka humans) that shows very little signs of intelligence and is, as a species, quite dull & uninteresting. If I were an alien (aside from wanting to laugh my proverbial ass off at how suicidally stupid humans are), I doubt I'd care one whit about some boring planet of shit like this one, just the same way anyone here would care one whit about investigating some mundane anthill or blade of grass in their backyard. Anyway, regardless of whether there are flying saucers or there aren't, either way, who cares. Matters about as much to me as to the existence of leprechauns, unicorns, or bigfoot. Nil. Since even if they did all exist, life would still be a merciless meat grinder and something I'd still like to leave ASAP.


Alien in picture: "Would you look at that! These hairy, savage bipedal creatures covering this unremarkable nearby rock are actively killing their one & only biosphere! They'll literally be extinct within the century! How fucking stupid can you get! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

 

[Dip]

@Imaginos Also space travel requires industrial civilization, and industrial civilization and ecosystems don't tend to get along too well by our experience.

 

[Imaginos]

@Imaginos Also space travel requires industrial civilization, and industrial civilization and ecosystems don't tend to get along too well by our experience.

Exactly. What's more, when you factor in the enormous cost of energy required for space travel, the constant/hyper lethal threat of cosmic radiation, physical deterioration & atrophying in space, an ever expanding universe, tiny pebble sized collisions causing huge damage due to the insanely high speeds necessary to get anywhere at all in space, and the speed of light barrier, it's highly unlikely any species of a similar technological level to our own, or greater, ever makes it out of their local solar system. The cost of civilization eventually becomes too great and the species in question either ends up destroying themselves, or the available energy taps out and they remain trapped on their planet forever. It's a sad predicament, no doubt, but, I mean, when has life ever not been that? Of course, there's no space civilizations. Life's too boring/unrelentingly disappointing for anything even mildly interesting like that.

 

[Dip]

Exactly. What's more, when you factor in the enormous cost of energy required for space travel, the constant/hyper lethal threat of cosmic radiation, physical deterioration & atrophying in space, an ever expanding universe, tiny pebble sized collisions causing huge damage due to the insanely high speeds necessary to get anywhere at all in space, and the speed of light barrier, it's highly unlikely any species of a similar technological level to our own ever makes it out of their local solar system. The cost of civilization eventually becomes too great and the species either destroys themselves, or the available energy taps out and they remain trapped on their planet forever. It's a sad predicament, no doubt, but, I mean, when has life ever not been that?

Life itself is just contributing to the process of entropy, let alone civilization.

Of course, there's no space civilizations. Life's too boring unrelentingly disappointing for anything mildly interesting like that.

If you were near a supernova, you'd be more than mildly interested ^.^

Multiwavelength X-ray, infrared, and optical compilation image of Kepler's supernova remnant, SN 1604.

 

[Soon4me]

 

[skitliv]

considering how big the observable universe is how could there not be

I find this incredibly depressing and scary for some reason

 

[Tiburcio]

I find this incredibly depressing and scary for some reason

We are nothing man.

Dust as much.

 

[mattwitt]

 

[Rollo]

considering how big the observable universe is how could there not be

And mind you it's only OBSERVABLE universe. Which they say stretches in equal distances in all directions from Earth. It's a sphere with Earth at it's very center. So either we just so happened to reside in the center of the entire Universe. Or there's simply a limit of how far we can observe from Earth. So the entire Universe can be much bigger than observable or even infinitely big.

 

[mattwitt]

And mind you it's only OBSERVABLE universe. Which they say stretches in equal distances in all directions from Earth. It's a sphere with Earth at it's very center. So either we just so happened to reside in the center of the entire Universe. Or there's simply a limit of how far we can observe from Earth. So the entire Universe can be much bigger than observable or even infinitely big.

And then you got people theorizing on all that multiverse stuff lol : )

 

[Soon4me]

 

[BlackDragonof1989]

I think I'm a believer in aliens now guys, maybe I'm gullible, but I think I was more gullible to apply my blanket skepticism to this as well. Thank you.

 

[mattwitt]

I think I'm a believer in aliens now guys, maybe I'm gullible, but I think I was more gullible to apply my blanket skepticism to this as well. Thank you.

The Governments of the world only have a few tactics.
# 1 They flat out lie and just say aliens and ufo's piloted by aliens just don't exist at all and could never exist.
# 2 For every real account of aliens & ufo's the disinfo agents come out with 1000 fake accounts.
# 3 Make everyone think there's something wrong with you if you believe in all the aliens and ufo stuff

 

[Tiburcio]

I'm still waiting our invasion... but that space guys are taking too many time

 

[Deleted member 847]

I believe we were created as slaves (my hypothesis) by them. It would explain the missing link in our evolution and why we can't naturally adapt to any environment on earth. But then we became useless for them as they didn't need us anymore and left the planet.

 

[Rollo]

And then you got people theorizing on all that multiverse stuff lol : )

Yeah although even observable universe is so huge already that either unobservable part in our dimension or possible other parallel dimensions don't really add a major point in significance. Still closest to us is alpha centauri and it would take about 14000 years to reach it with current maximum spacecraft speed - so it doesn't seem anyone is going anywhere from Earth.

 

[Soon4me]