Scary theory about aliens (pt 2)

It's been keeping me up at night, so now I'm sharing it with you.
We as humans have overcome a lot of evolutionary filters to get where we are today. And if we’re an evolutionary anomaly, that means one of these filters is holding back intelligent life from forming on other planets. Or… there’s another theory. Maybe the great filter is ahead of us, and we’re about to be filtered out.
#shorts #sciencefacts #alien

[@VeritasVortex]

The most sensible explanation as to why we haven't found aliens is because they're too far away from us

[@senorbullflag7346]

Exactly. There’s no great mystery there. The only alien worlds we’ve seen up close are those in our own solar system, and we’ve barely scratched the surface even on those. The universe could be teeming with alien life, including intelligent life, and we wouldn’t know any different.

[@nickl8984]

Or we 100 percent have found aliens have been communicating and working with them for decades and people are jus clueless and blind and refuse to do research and read all the declassified FBI and CIA files that it only confirm aliens but confirm four different species competing for this planet, we naively ask if there's alien while were being protected by hostile species by aliens and we don't even know it, we were created by aliens, their here

[@youngOG87]

Going to be virtually impossible. Two civilizations capable of sending signals into space will have to exist at the same “time” to be able to send and receive those signals. Even if we got a signal, depending on the location of that planet it could be hundreds to thousands of years between messages. The only way is we would basically have to discover time travel because I believe that’s the only way to travel through the “warp holes” of space and reach distant planets in one human lifetime. Lots to take in.

[@sadhu7191]

U can take 15 grams dry mushrooms and talk to ufo artificial intelligence we created billions of years ago tonight. No excuse ti throw hypothesis. Take shrooms

[@Revelator2025]

That’s assuming civilizations haven’t developed FAR beyond what we humans have been toying with for less than a century. Completely ridiculous and short-sighted but ok ✅ 😊

[@seanhennessy6667]

alternate theory, we aren't intelligent enough yet to find other intelligence.

[@ouknow1446]

Kind of sort of. We're not intelligent enough to understand the many forms it takes. We're looking for intelligence like our own.

[@salemsaberhagan]

Molluscs & cephalopods are both pretty smart in ways that are similar to us already. The ones we haven't even looked at are the trees. There was this whole tumblr or twitter thread about how plants have successfully domesticated us & invaded our lives & homes by baiting us with fruits & flowers & grains & slowly managed to replace old extinct bugs with humans as their primary pollinators. They don't even move from our perspective but they talk to each other underground through their roots & exchange nutrients & extra food & water & even carbon & nitrogen & whatnot. That's probably what those wiccans used to call Ley Lines - underground information superhighways built by trees & underground rivers or springs. Obviously there's water there coz roots grow towards water.

[@lylab1010]

Ok but why wouldn’t the other intelligence be intelligent enough to find us?

[@ouknow1446]

@@lylab1010 If they are too much like us then perhaps neither is intelligent enough. It could possibly be that any intelligence smart enough to solve interstellar travel is too intelligent for us anyway and separation from them is a blessing we should appreciate.

[@salemsaberhagan]

@@lylab1010 or maybe they're smart enough to stay away. I read a tumblr text post once that was basically a sci fi story where Adam & Eve are basically intergalactic prisoners on earth & honestly, IF advanced alien races exist, that could just be true.

[@kirstenmelum1104]

Saying there are no aliens, is like dipping a cup into the ocean, seeing no fish in the cup, and claiming the ocean is fishless.

[@rosemurphy8026]

Except we don't know what the likelihood of life is, ie how rare is it for all of the little things to happen that are necessary for life, for example if there are 10 planets in the universe and the likelihood of life is 1 in 10 then we would expect to be alone in the universe if there are 1 billion planets and the likelihood of life is 1 in 1 billion then we would expect to be alone in the universe, if there are 1 quintillion planets in the universe and the likelihood of life is 1 in 1 quintillion then we would expect to be alone in the universe, and the thing is we have no way of knowing what the likelihood of life is, don't get me wrong i like the idea of non human intelligent life and i hope that we find peaceable aliens and then treat them peaceably but the idea that "with how big the universe is there must be other life" is the same as "if i just pay for all the lines on this slot machine it'll have to pay out" its a complete misunderstanding of statistics

[@Tornado2409]

a cup full of plankton (plankton = building blocks of life in this situation)

[@judychurley6623]

A better analogy is there are many cups of water to dip into, except that you could never get to them to dip into them.

[@kuratse205]

​@@Tornado2409That's the thing. But in the case of the observable universe, the plankton are too small, and too far away from each other to actually matter.

[@arthurkineard7356]

@@kuratse205 So we are plankton or fish.

[@scottsingleton2951]

Microbes are unaware of us, but we exist. To a sufficiently advanced being we would be the microbes.

[@lynnclaywood4043]

To add to this, there could also be a ton of literal microbes that we actually cannot detect with our technology on other planets. It kinda would go both ways

[@tbqhwyf]

We don't notice microbes because we're bigger, not because we're more advanced

[@Bruh4.]

Well they don’t have brains to understand anything. We do.

[@bankaltthree9139]

This is silly, microbes don't realize humans exist because we are so much larger than them and they lack sensory organs to even see a human. aliens are not going to be in the 5th dimension, if they exist and they make an impact on the galaxy we could potentially see it.

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

@@tbqhwyfuntil the early 1900’s humans had zero understanding of bacteria. But then because of advances in technology we discovered them….. be quiet

[@JustAnotherSeeker]

Another possibility is that aliens have rules similar to Star Trek’s prime directive. Meaning they can only observe without interfering in our development in any way.

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

Its possible that we have been observed, but given the vastness of space, its inconvenient + pointless to try to interact with us. Like I don't hike up a trail for an hour to specifically try and communicate with an ant hill.

[@karellen00]

That's my idea too, also because if an advanced civilization manifests too early to one like us it would instantly kill all our aspirations to progress, and would make us a civilization that needs to be cared about instead of one that could help or bring a different point of view on eventual problems to solve.

[@hermitcard4494]

After all the watching from telescopes, it's impossible they have hidden EVERY TRACE of their activities so no other primitive civilization, that cant do anything to contact them anyway, can be interfered.

[@JustAnotherSeeker]

@@ThePhysicalReaction Given the vastness of space and the physical limitations of telescopes, it’s not possible to observe a civilization from afar. They could only see traces of what *might* be a civilization when analyzing spectrograph measurements, and then still only be able to speculate. This is not the same thing as observing, not even close. To truly observe us they’d have to be at a minimum somewhere within our solar system-probably at least as close as our moon. A sufficiently advanced civilization would understand how to harness fusion, and probably more exotic forms of energy, and be capable of traveling at super-luminal speeds. We are on the verge of figuring out fusion, and there are published papers discussing the possibility of warp field mechanics. Look up Miguel Alcubierre; Harold White; and Erik Lentz.

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

@@JustAnotherSeeker Correction: It's not possible for us to see them. Our present science and technology is not all that's possible for ourselves or for other beings. But I take your point. :)

[@EdSchwarz5544]

Time is probably the most important obstacle. Humanity has existed for small fraction of universal blink of the eye. We have been able to observe the universe for far shorter time than that. We could be ahead of the others or others are already on a level far beyond our ability understand.

[@brutalusgaming8809]

I was going to write this same thing.

[@joachimfrank4134]

Additionally the universe is still quite young. There was a whole generation of stars needed to need the heavy elements. So the second generation would have been the first stars where live is possible.

[@fakuri913]

Yes, the further we see across the universe, the younger it gets. Drop more chance for us to find an Alien civilization.

[@riduck]

Not only time, but the slow speed of light. We observe the distant past. And our own radio bubble hasn't reached out very far yet (less than 100 type A stars reached, even fewer of which support an earth like green belt planet) We haven't seen them, but they also haven't had a chance to see us yet.

[@clararose1795]

Time and distance. Other civilizations could have existed long before us, or exist now, or will exist long after us, that we will never know about because of time, distance, and the relationship between the two. Not to mention the probability that we do find other advanced life is extremely low with our current capabilities.

[@Reoh0z]

If I was a smart alien, I wouldn't want to talk to us either.

[@-.-_-.-_-.-_-.-_-.-_-.-_-]

Imagine aliens treat us like we treat some indigenous tribe that are still "isolated"

[@Tornado2409]

we won't be the North Sentinelese, that's for sure.

[@littlev1002]

I heard a great explanation for this which is slightly comforting and slightly scary. If the universe was an ocean, we have only sampled a 12 ounce glassful of water from it. The likelihood of finding a fish in the glass is next to none, but it would be rash to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. Going further, that glass of ocean water most likely has some types of bacteria that isnt visible to the naked eye, only able to bee seen under a microscope. Maybe we just dont have a strong enough stellar microscope to find life where it otherwise appears to not exist. Just some food for thought 😊

[@optimoprimo132]

There are definitely other intelligent life in the context of everything that is real. Whether or not there is intelligent life in the universe is another story all together. We not only lack a sufficient sample size but we lack the capacity to receive it. Like trying to empty the ocean into a sand bucket.

[@GetawayDriver13]

That’s like a really good example tho-

[@DogFish-NZ]

the pale blue dot. And that's still within our solar system 😢

[@eliyarrows2456]

If you could go to every galaxy in just the visible universe in just 1 second, then it would still take you 60,000+ years to visit every one. The universe is massive it’s gonna take a while to survey it.

[@myemail9711]

That’s pretty god damn genius analogy

[@ibewillow]

The reason we havent found aliens is because we not only havent exited the solar system, we have barely explored what lies within it.

[@kyzer747]

Radio telescopes sending signals for over 50 years now going way past out solar system. Not even a blip has come back. But there's still alot of space to explore trouble is there's more space than anything else and it's expanding. Difficult problem for them and us

[@ibewillow]

@@kyzer747 Of course. We have known for over 50 years now that aliens love listening to the radio.

[@justfloating9787]

​​@@kyzer747 maybe we are looking for the wrong things ? Whats a guarantee that radio signals wpuld be a source of communication for aliens too ? Maybe theyre different ? We are looking for something like us or similar to what we know to be alive ..... we gotta change that i guess .

[@valeriomastroeni8454]

@@ibewillow radio waves are the same everywhere, you don’t need a radio to listen to them

[@ibewillow]

@@valeriomastroeni8454 No shit! The point is though, why would anything advanced enough to notice, care that we were sending them. If there is anything advanced enough to get here, they dont care about the monkeys sending radio waves.

[@iamElon]

They were looking for intelligent life , they just didn't find it here

[@tonik2229]

i just had a really in depth convo with my dad about this and we came up with a theory that the three main filters would be undesirable stellar conditions (aka fast star extinction), the development of complex consciousness, and a species own greed and lack of foresight (like humans have)

[@nobody-u-know]

Or all the aliens realize that you should not broadcast your position to the universe. It invites invaders.

[@l00k4tstuff]

The "Dark Forrest" theory.

[@elessartelcontar9415]

Stephen Hawking's last word to us were to not seek out aliens and beware AI.

[@angelinawhatsherface5907]

I feel like if a society can be advanced enough to do interstellar travel, they are probably past the point of petty invasions.

[@l00k4tstuff]

@@angelinawhatsherface5907 You'd hope so. They'd have to be advanced enough to have relatively limitless resources, otherwise space travel is their latest way to garner resources. In that case invasions are "justified" for gathering those resources for their survival.

[@anthonydenn4345]

I think if they have the power to travel faster than the speed of light, they have the power of the atom itself, the building blocks of the universe. They probably could re-engineer themselves to not depend on resources. @@l00k4tstuff

[@WhtKnightsNemesis]

"Sometimes i think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - calvin, _calvin & hobbes_

[@TargaWheels]

They probably realize that interacting with the human race will dumb them down. 😁

[@aeronblitz9347]

Its because aliens simply don't exist. Macro evolution, the appearance of life through unguided natural forces, is simply false. It's been proven to not be true. Aliens are not found because they do not exist. I find it puzzling how people are so sure aliens exist but there is 0 evidence for them, but then when presented with the idea that a supernatural being created and designed life (which is what the evidence points to), then that is called crazy and religious? But evolution is a religion. There is no evidence. No vestigial structures, no consistent fossil evidence as presented, manipulation of evidence such as using certain words to either exaggerate or deflate the importance or veracity of findings such as modern birds, beavers, and more found with dinosaurs are ignored, or briefly mentioned by saying they are "primitive fossils" or just a "bundle of bones" when they are clearly "modern" animals, or exaggerating such as with Lucy, when they did a video presentation they mentioned they found "400 specimens" and show hundreds of complete skeletons parading across the screen but in reality they found only around 40% of a complete skeleton for Lucy and the other 400 specimens are mostly teeth that can all fit in a home depot bucket. How is that not religious? Repent and believe the Gospel! GOD loves you and Jesus died to wipe away your sins. "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of GOD." (Romans 3:23) "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23) "But GOD demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6) "For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of GOD is at hand. Repent, and believe the Gospel." (Mark 1:15)

[@David-py8kv]

We stupid

[@noeaeon]

If we can't even treat fellow humans well, why would aliens want to chill with us

[@sameerfredrick48]

I think the one's we're considering to be 'Aliens' are actually future humans, traveling back in time to see and study how things are in THIS time and figure out how they can either save a disaster from happening or rejuvenate the planet from what it might become.

[@strana6875]

My theory is that aliens either aren't near our level of intelligence, or on a completely different plane of existence. Like the 4th dimension. They'd be able to observe us uninterrupted, but we literally cannot comprehend or recognize their presence

[@bluskyz7398]

GREED is our final human filter.

[@bobsawin1920]

Def need that gene edited!

[@agx111]

real

[@bobsawin1920]

FINAL

[@Sunflare-vq2uy]

"Greed is good" Gordon Gecko

[@bluskyz7398]

@@Sunflare-vq2uy Good ol' Gordon!

[@vacafuega]

We're probably the intelligent lifeform equivalent of a drunk creep - everyone hears us yelling but they're dodging us cause who'd wanna talk with such a freakin liability?

[@Hoolny]

Such self depreciation without comprehending that other alien species are so different to us that even if they could see us they wouldn’t understand anything

[@judithhayton2106]

This!!! 😂 this made my night thank you

[@burnthecandleatbothendz]

as a drunk creep ,thats uncalled for!

[@paintballercali]

If we fail it will be because of self hate like this.

[@BrandonAbel01]

Your actually right. But we are revered for our tenacity to survive despite our colossal ability to destroy.

[@rw5763]

i find this theory really interesting: it’s been suggested that the reason we have no evidence of intelligence beyond our planet is not the vast distances but the brief blip of time intelligence exists before destroying itself isn’t long enough for two distinct space-faring cultures to interact.

[@Sunflare-vq2uy]

I'm not worried about intelligent life in the universe, I'm still searching for intelligent life on Earth.

[@BlazingImp77151]

An alternate also scary theory is the dark forest theory. Where the ones who make noise don't survive. In which case its not even a filter we can pass or have passed, its already too late.

[@Tuboshi0815]

The stuff we are sending now might be too "quiet" to find us, but METI must be stopped!

[@mshell1959]

If smart aliens exist, they would certainly stay the hell away from us.

[@jeffreybutler4605]

VERY WELL SAID, AND VERY TRUE!

[@mississippirebel1409]

Or maybe humans didnt evolve from apes at all because God created humans!

[@videofandude99]

@@mississippirebel1409 or maybe God is some nerd playing Sims game and we are God's map on their decked out computer.

[@rmg6497]

Why? You think they are all peaceful and like those Avatar peaceloving aliens? Lol what a joke. If they are as advanced as to travel to another galaxy I am pretty sure they must have done some unpeaceful stuff on the quest...

[@rmg6497]

​@@mississippirebel1409 Or maybe God doesn't exist and is just a figment of your imagination in which case you should go see a doctor who will declare you clinically insane and you will spend the rest of your days chatting up your imaginary deity and even some of the other patients in your ward will look at you and think, 'what a crazy guy, indeed'...

[@Affalterbach1967]

Next month: Aliens work for Red Bull F1.

[@mabzzzzz]

My favorite explanation for why we haven't found aliens is that, we're just early. It took billions of years for life to go from single celled to multi celled, and even more for complex life as we know it. So most aliens might just be single celled life in an ocean, and we're just early to the party :]

[@Me-wx1mt]

Honestly I think the filter being is killing ourselves is pretty accurate.

[@TheBanana93]

Nah we are not gonna kill ourselves we will be here in millions of years

[@louissivo9660]

@@TheBanana93 I think "killing ourselves" doesn't need to mean 100%. Just enough to knock us back to medieval times. Could we climb back up? Remember, all the easy accessible resources (oil) are gone, we already took them. So how does humanity advance again?

[@ksarecords8099]

@@TheBanana93You don’t know that lol. Nuclear war, super volcano, an asteroid or a gamma ray burst could happen any second and wipe out humanity for good.

[@torgerthorkildson725]

Or there is no filter and just haven't discovered us yet either or are too far away to get to us which is a more reasonable option because while warp technology is possible it's extremely hard and would take a LOT of energy

[@elessartelcontar9415]

The human race will die out when the last 2 humans murder each other due to minor differences in their mythological ideological differences.

[@chaoticsquirrel753]

My favorite will always be the dark forest theory: Aliens are smart to stay hidden because everything living thing in the universe is aggressive and we’re the only ones naive enough to call attention to ourselves

[@chaoticsquirrel753]

@@mezzb I would really like it if they were just chill and wanted to know more. That would be nice.

[@chaoticsquirrel753]

@@mezzb Yea I agree. Dark forest is a little scarier so I just like it better. 😁

[@mik3ymomo]

Aggressive is why we survived this long but ultimately we could destroy ourselves once we create powerful enough weapons.

[@riccipeasy]

Wasn't it that anyone who does call attention to themselves gets attacked to extinction?

[@chaoticsquirrel753]

@@riccipeasy something like that

[@susanfryer9217]

We are the annoying younger sibling that the older siblings hide in their rooms from.

[@thunderstorm0826]

What makes sense for me the most is that even if there are aliens out there they would have to be far far away and the nearest possible ones would look at our Earth through all those light years and still see dinosaurs roaming around :)

[@jeffreyroedel9804]

The universe is so insanely huge, there could be multiple intelligent lifeforms on various planets but they are all simply too far from each other to ever communicate effectively.

[@RoseGoldKR]

Thank you! I felt insane reading all these comments with wild speculation when in reality, the biggest reason we don’t see aliens is the extreme difficulty of interstellar communication. Planets are REALLY difficult to observe outside our solar system, so trying to detect definitive proofs of life instead of just likelihoods is near impossible.

[@isdrakon9802]

There's also that you have to be very accurate or very lucky to send out a message in the direction of a civilization, they need to be advanced enough to listen for us and pick up the signal.

[@januari6550]

​@@isdrakon9802the signal need to received by them before they go extinct too if they are advanced in another case. Time and space together is the great filter

[@shion275]

Also, be reminded that for light to travel to the nearest solar system, it would take approx. 4 years-- and that's talking about the fastest speed in the entire universe.

[@chrisshepherd3650]

Don't forget about the answerables tho... Sorry couldn't resist.

[@tophat2002]

I think we're just too small. Like, Honey I shrunk the kids.

[@marccox8977]

Aliens are definitely among us!, have you seen Dennis Rodman?

[@nonsuspiciouscolour]

@@marccox8977I believe in Aliens. Just not on Earth.

[@Donnerjkks]

This is basically what I subscribe to

[@JustAnotherSeeker]

Too small, like Honey I Shrunk The Kids; are you sure we’re not smaller, like being in the micro galaxy inside a marble at the end of Men In Black? 😂

[@tophat2002]

@@JustAnotherSeeker 🤔

[@andromeda6309]

That’s just a theory, a SPACE THEORY

[@DyingHero]

So basically we haven’t found aliens bc we haven’t passed the final cannon event

[@abeldefalco5534]

I think the reason we haven't found aliens is because all the aliens agreed not to contact us until we get to their level.

[@TFLdotcom]

What an original comment. So haven’t seen this on every video about aliens. At least outlook has changed now that we know they’re here fuckin around

[@SetuwoKecik]

The reason i can imagine is potential unknown plague for both civilizations if the contact is too early.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Waiting for us to develop warp technology?

[@kurtsnyder4752]

We're too violent, we're in quarantine.

[@brutalhonesty07]

@@kurtsnyder4752 yep, and contact is on a small covert basis on an individual basis.

[@qui-gontimtherandomraptor1072]

The most logical theory to me is that you simply can't surpass the light barrier, so no intelligent race *could* contact each other unless they arose REALLY close to each other. Surprised no one has talked about that possibility yet.

[@brandonm8860]

Even at speeds already reached by man made spacecraft, you could colonize milky way in 100-200 million years. While the sun is only 5 billion years old, the Milky way is 13 billion years old. Plenty of time

[@qui-gontimtherandomraptor1072]

@@brandonm8860 Yes, but do you realize how long that is? Even if you did get a colony of settlers to a distant planet in that time, they'd have no way of contacting home, let alone any alien civilizations out there. They'd essentially be their own separate entity. No way of contacting us (or vice-versa), no way of contacting home. That's IF your colony manages to get to its destination alive and start a successful colony there. On a bit of a tangent, maybe these hypothetical aliens didn't land on earth because they'd have to compete with us. Why send essentially a single suicide mission to colonize a planet that's already inhabited by apes with anger issues?

[@lerikhkl]

Yeah, light moves really really slowly with an interstellar reference frame!

[@yiravarga]

imo, this is the easiest to understand idea, and the most realistically believable. Space-time is HUGE.

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

if there's life in the observable universe - this is most likely the case. It's also interesting to think that it's the same as saying it's because the universe is still too young. For all we know aliens might have started their journey towards us long ago but it will take ages for them to arrive. On the flip side, with the right technology you could reach distant galaxies within your lifetime, but the potential species living in those galaxies would have to wait a looooong time

[@enviromental2565]

I have heard another theory from scientists. It is that the earlier universe was more chaotic, with massive star explosions etc., and it is only in the last few billion years that life has been able to evolve. Therefore, any other life out there is no more evolved than us or less.

[@Naldito15]

Aliens watch us like we watch microbes

[@michaelz6555]

The best proof that intelligent life exists outside our planet is that they haven’t bothered to contact us.

[@sanjanayoganand4476]

Lmao 😂

[@dark_quEEnisCringe]

"they are simple too advanced to help us" gives me topper energy

[@clementine.6.2.2]

😂😂😂

[@aj-sz8mu]

as neil once said. Why would they want to?

[@anthon33]

@@aj-sz8mu cause we make great pizzas !!!!

[@FranciumBoron]

I think that Vargskelethor Joel’s Anti-Alien alarm being beamed out into space scared off all the duendes. No marcianito.

[@bobbobert9379]

A solution to the Fermi paradox is that we are first or one of the first. It took 4.5 billion years of general stability on a planet orbiting a stable, medium sized star, in the goldilocks zone for intelligent life to evolve. If thats a normal amount of time it takes for life to arise and become intelligent, thats a third of the age of the universe. Our sun will make the planet uninhabitable within 1 billion years. Thats a very small window with a lot of ways for it to go wrong, and theres only been so much time in which it could have happened elsewhere. Its not unrealistic to think that were just early to the party.

[@pabloc88886]

They're here (just ask the right people in the Pentagon)and they've been watching over us for a very long time, waiting for us to grow up before they formally introduce themselves...

[@gwills9337]

Unfortunately people would rather LARP and listen to pop science instead of being serious about the existing knowledge and expertise in this field

[@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection]

Haven't found aliens lol omg. Like UFOs aren't seen every day. Aliens are real and they're demons. You ignore scripture and buy anything your teachers sell you that Jesuits made up in the 1500s to confuse humanity and manipulate it.

[@papaa9262]

Universums laws suck, after stupid gods... now every gods and creators fix them, after that we introduce. Not so long time and we realese secrets of the worlds...King

[@Atria777]

Could you please give more info? I want to look that up

[@brother10grim]

Or maybe they just don’t want to talk to our self destructive asses.

[@Ranewolf]

👆 bingo

[@sadhu7191]

Actually they do u just have to take a butt load of shrooms. Ufos are artificial intelligence we created that creates universes for us to jerl off in

[@davidbutler99]

Yup

[@malibu3602]

Yup

[@KCPamintuan]

I love the soundtrack and editing so much omg

[@rlucif]

aa the Fermi paradox and the Great Filter i remember that

[@riderofthe4thseal]

If WE are the height of intelligence, the universe is in a sad state.

[@whatfreedom7]

Haha that’s true.

[@sadhu7191]

Yeah I am just trying to get off work early too jerk off

[@bertobleijlevens9160]

Not yet at our height, still medieval concepts about the universe. Dark matter/force, big bang.

[@Gh0zT-777]

Its more then just intelligence. We are MIND BODY SOUL

[@saratoothless9794]

We would be in a much more advanced place if we didn't lose some great anxiety inventions. It's honestly sad

[@martinhayward]

Maybe aliens think we’re just too dumb to talk to.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

This persons a repeater of popular science, here is the truth, there is only earth, there is no other physical world in existence just spiritual realities that most people will never reach.

[@miketexas4549]

You should have said "to dumb too talk too" for effect.

[@martinhayward]

@@miketexas4549 🤣👍

[@Frog89mad]

we have Sentinel Islands, they don't have airplanes or helicopters there. and we largely don't disturb them. many of them probably think they are the only ones in this planet. with some legends of sighting of strange looking humans

[@hedgehoggaming9164]

Maybe the great filter is a simple physics limitation like a limit to the speed we can travel (light speed? or less?). If the nearest civilization is a 100 year trip each way, what is the value in making the trip besides purely exploratory especially considering it's a 200 year round trip. Even trying to communicate back to Earth can only move at light speed.

[@wilschweitzer8036]

Or, and hear me out, here, space is so big that the mere odds of humanity contacting extraterrestrial life are extraordinarily low🤔

[@waxcomb]

Probably our concept of aliens is too limited for us to be able to recognize them if we do see them

[@syedwasiuddin6509]

True...

[@sasquatch8245]

It annoys me we only look for carbon based life on earth-like planets in earth-like habitable zones of similar stars to ours. Like cmon guys just have a LITTLE bit of imagination

[@itskashkashi]

​@@sasquatch8245there was an episode of sliders where they landed somewhere that was on fire. They thought the planet was destroyed but life developed differently, the beings were literally fire. I'm sure I'm explaining it super poorly, watched it as a child and this is my recollection of it absolutely blowing my mind lol.

[@jaythewriter7625]

Science is one of my passions, so here's a possible explanation. For there to be life, there needs to be the creation of organic materials. Certain chemicals combine to create organic materials. There's an experiment case the Miller-Urey experiment where they replicated the conditions of early earth, and ended up creating organic materials. Not a cell, but organic materials such as amino acids, which make up RNA. So, we can take a guess at what elements are needed in order to create life. In conclusion, so while it's possible for there to be non carbon based life forms, we've observed what created life here on earth through experiments. It's easier to look for planets that are like earth as they could potentially have life, such as Gliese 581g. I hope this didn't come off as condescending I absolutely love science and want to get a degree in Biochemistry so I can do experiments like this

[@waxcomb]

@@jaythewriter7625 "all swans are white"

[@SteveGerencser]

My belief is that the first thing a civilization does after they develop technology and space flight is make a lot of noise trying to find others like them. Assuming they survive that moment, the second thing they do is hide because drawing attention to yourself as a new spacefaring race is a bad idea because not everyone is 'nice'.

[@hermitcard4494]

But if they started space exploration that means their tech is superior to any other civilizations in their galaxy, therefore they have no threats. So who would be not "nice" to them? A bunch of primitive civilizations that are barely starting to use nuclear energy and have bare landed on their closest planet?

[@ambienceoasis]

Interesting theory. I’m trying speculate why a super advanced civilization would go through the trouble of traveling millions of light years to a rather small planet. It couldn’t be to harvest energy as you’d think the energy required to even travel to Earth would exceed what’s available here. Another idea is aliens need a place to create life, and Earth is in the ideal ‘Goldilocks’ zone for biogenesis, but I wonder if it’d be more efficient for a civilization with such advanced technology to just terraform a planet in their own neighborhood. Maybe they see 8 billion creatures that they could potentially… gulp… enslave to do their labor? Let’s hope it’s not that one.

[@tylerdurden3722]

​@@ambienceoasis it wouldn't make sense to be motivated by limited resources, because in the universe, resources aren't limited. Plus logistics exist. It's either they'll study us stealthily. Or they'll immediately destroy us from far. But it would be like a chess game. If they detect us, from 1000 light years away, they'll know that if they send some planet destroying bomb, it would onlt reach us more than 1000 years later. We'd be way more advanced by the time the weapon gets here. So they'll have to accommodate for this. So destroying the Sun would probably be a better strategy. Or using the sun to destroy everything in the solar system.

[@deepfreeze1001]

Once you start making noise, hiding is pointless. You can’t take back all of the emissions you’ve sent out. Eventually someone is going to hear that noise and find you. Effectively hiding would require moving your entire civilization away from your home planet.

[@Masterpouya]

​@@tylerdurden3722 In they detect us, they are probably more advanced than us, thus having way faster travelling probes, bombs, or whateer can travel. But purely destroying us don't look interesting i# is isn't to take our ressources or something.

[@Xenochetemist]

Well, to be honest I think: - If back to the beginning of life, there were not that much rules forcing lifeforms to take, maybe it'll be really different from what we thought. - Base on the previous assumption maybe we already saw life on other planets, just didn't realize, mistaken them for the nature of the planet. Advance lifeforms are really really difficult to emerge, or they didn't have enough time yet. - Maybe we are the first (at least in our observable universe), and also what we see might be a little outdated several billion years, so there are other life, just not that close. - Life is easy to emerge, just can't stabilize itself. If the first life on Earth was originated on Earth, it must be UNIQUE, the only kind. If there are no diversity, life quickly succumb when their surrounding changes. Remember when those first life on Earth almost kill itself because their affect on their surrounding? They should've died, how did they get the diversity to overcome that? Life might not be that simple and something has to happened at that moment that we still can't be sure at all. - This one is the most unlikely to has happened: They're advanced lifeforms, and we're COMPLETELY under control. They're so advanced that they didn't have to care that we're advancing at all, that we might have realized the fact that they are so much more advanced because we won't never ever stand a chance against them. They didn't let us see any other life yet, and maybe even don't care if we did if we found one. They wouldn't do this for slave, with their technology it's just not efficient enough. They might run us as an experiment, or to have a relatively diverse gene pool, etc... Or they're an all digital species that uploaded their minds to the clouds, and we are their live descendants. We are being kept to ensure if their system is being attacked or wiped out, we can stand back and doing it all over again. We don't know if it didn't happen yet, or already happened. But it's just a theory, humanity is getting awfully bad lately and need to fix our problems first. It doesn't matter if we don't survive, right?

[@determinedfevine2242]

Aliens be cringing at us rn

[@genocanabicea5779]

The aliens feel we are too violent to approach us.

[@eddieavilia2299]

Yes.

[@0doggod0]

when they tell you that bro?

[@genocanabicea5779]

@@0doggod0 im a channeler

[@rickeybarnes6471]

Totally agree! We are not good to ourselves nor planet earth!

[@Aetriex]

​@0doggod0 to be fair, we can't even get along with each other, the same species, how in the world would you expect us to get along with a whole ass other species??

[@dodobread]

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." ~Arthur C Clarke

[@Hoolny]

Neither are terrifying inherently it’s by your own perspective to see some things as terrifying and others as not and being terrified without trying to solve things leads to ignorance and more fear

[@qoq4837]

​​​@sethl.1756 do you fear the death of your family? Also, are you familiar with the dark forest theory?

[@ROXCANADA2023]

😊who cares, you only have at the most 100 years here and then regardless of anything you are gone

[@Kingeptacon]

I disagree with that statement.

[@Farreach]

why is there being aliens terrifying ? even if they are destroyers still not that terrifying. we are definitely not alone. the universe been around way to long to not have others .. maybe that filter is a creation by another race to keep races from being a destructive galactic race

[@GrgLuz]

Kurzgesagt has some great videos on the Great Filter, in addition to the Fermi Paradox and Dark Forest theories.

[@DarkseidLordofapokolips-iy5nv]

If humans cooperate and combine our talents we can overcome any obstacle

[@AlexeiArntzen]

I'd honestly be embarrassed if extraterrestrials saw us at this point. It would be like having someone randomly drop by your home when you didn't get a chance to pick up yet 😅

[@s.engelsman4521]

I 💯agree!

[@FarginhoodMcBastage]

Oh they see, right now. You know what I keep coming back to with our society right now? I want racists to explain racism to higher life forms so they can understand what a primitive characteristic it truly is. Granted, it will make humanity look really bad but, it is what it is. You can't claim to be evolved if you're surrounded by millions of morons. Hell, look at the denial of what our climate is doing in response to human activity.

[@xx7secondsxx]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Instead of scientific fact!!! My fellow science enthusiast makes ONE HELLS OF A ZINGER!! You must be in America as well!! Def got a like and response! That was a good'n! I love our species sooo much! We've unlocked so much understanding in science! Now if we could just do the dame to our own and like the Aerosmif LP.... "Get a Grip!" Itd be beautiful!

[@bornfree2263]

And naked watching dirty movies

[@Hawken54]

Would you walk up to a wild pride of lions? Aliens aren't going to walk up to humans.

[@wyattkellcy5025]

My favorite theory is one I heard from a teacher and it basically says that aliens might exist but we might not be able to find them because they have a completely different set of senses. This basically means that while we can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. The aliens might have other senses and not be detected by our five

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

yeah they communicate by smacking eachother with magnets

[@ecogreen123]

i hope it's fair to assume that alternate life like silicon based life and other plausible alternatives wouldn't be the only forms of life out there, right?

[@isabellagirlgang]

That's actually smart

[@thepatriarchy819]

Really? Do we have any other forms of life that use different senses or avoid ours? If aliens DID exist they would be us.

[@ecogreen123]

@@thepatriarchy819 i can't doubt that a sizable chunk of life would be carbon based like us but we shouldn't rule any other possibility out of the equation if we are to find life in all it's wonderful forms. right?

[@elessartelcontar9415]

"..., super virus, Terminator, AI and Kardashians!"

[@walkthetalktalkthewalk]

You are glowing!

[@leeroyslikk9834]

"Human thought is so primitive, it's considered an infectious disease on some planets. " Agent K

[@masonmurphy6009]

"A person is smart. People are dumb dangerous animals and you know it.

[@CLOUD-33]

Careful. No argument here. But respect the protocols, it's not worth it.

[@msh6865]

But, we've mastered our own version of the Apparatus.

[@ahashdahnagila6884]

...well, Slick LeRoy!

[@pauldurand4780]

like the mental contagion that's making tweens n teens think theyre the opposite sex..

[@chefbrittan84]

One theory I have is that they’re so advanced that they don’t bother with us. When you cross paths with an ant hill, you don’t stop and communicate with them and wait for an answer. Humans are way beyond intelligent to communicate with ants. Same with aliens, we’re just tiny little micro organisms to them.

[@notme222]

This is largely what I think as well. It took us 14 billion years from the big bang to get where we are. If that evolution happened just 1% faster somewhere, they are 140 million years more advanced than us. That difference is incomprehensible.

[@lynnclaywood4043]

Speak for yourself, I regularly commune with ants

[@heliodorogarciagarcia1973]

Is a bad analogy We are talking of intelligence capable of observing the galaxy. Forget about the ants already

[@Frog89mad]

that's not your theory, ive seen this exact sentence been said by science communicators a million times buddy. you stole the idea and made it your own theory

[@notme222]

@@Frog89mad Yeah, it's a well-known scientific theory called the "Chefbritain84 Hypothesis." I don't know who this OP thinks they are trying to steal it for themself.

[@user-qn2xu3gn6j]

I’ve been thinking ALOT about these things as well. Wish I had u to chat with about them

[@kattza644]

Any alien lifeform intelligent enough to travel through space, would probably find us boring

[@MeOnStuff]

There's a KZbin channel by science fiction author John Michael Godier where he goes into loads of possible theoretical solutions for the Fermi paradox. Like, maybe aliens (if they exist) aren't allowed to contact us (like we have rules about contacting certain remote tribes), or maybe they are just observing us to see if we pose a threat to them (easier to send a probe first instead of an invading force), or maybe they only communicate using some physical mechanism that we haven't discovered yet, etc. Very interesting stuff

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Despite the prohibition on contacting the North Sentilese there have been contacts, mostly fatal. For some rules are meant to be broken. But even without breaking the rules the North Sentilese will have seen evidence of things they don’t understand, ships on the horizon, aircraft, garbage washing up on their shores. If Earth is the subject of a Prime Directive it has proven exceedingly good at covering up extraterrestrial activity and communication. We haven’t seen ETI boats, aircraft or garbage.

[@gwills9337]

The answer is almost certainly closer to something like you just described. We just invented chemical rockets and barely know what we’re looking for. The universe is huge and ancient, and we’re not first. We’re basically monkeys with machine guns and nukes. Why would advanced life take us seriously

[@allenbanks910]

He’s unlistenable with his exaggerated inflection affectation. It gets in the way of his stories. Very annoying.

[@cybergornstartrooper2157]

He’s great to sleep to

[@SuckmeoffthenTarzan]

The TOE podcast is also great as it’s a physics podcast that’s recently joined the ufo community because it’s so tightly tied to consciousness. The guests are all top level types of science people along with UFOlogists n such. Highly guarantee that one, along with Merged Podcast with lieutenant navy pilot Ryan Graves (the one that saw the Gimbal video craft, the saucer that turned up onto its side) and the Lehto Files podcast with another navy pilot Chris Lehto, both highly decorated heroes with shit loads of credibility.

[@bw6138]

I wish that I had an extraterrestrial friend.

[@michaelfriesen5273]

just like gosia has, that would be amazing

[@bw6138]

I can't make human friends. So, I want an alien friend. Watch the show Resident Alien.

[@interstaller]

i think we might be an alien experiments and they observe how we develop

[@Ancestors-Ghost]

I believe that the distances are just too far away. So we can’t find them and they can’t find us (yet) Our radio waves are not reaching even 200 lightyears now, it’s just a small bubble.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

Space is unfathomably huge. For example, since the invention of radio in the late 1800s, the furthest that any radio signal could have reached by now covers less than 1% of the Milky Way galaxy. And that's just our galaxy. There are approximately 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, each with a couple of hundred billion stars. 👀

[@philsurtees]

Exactly! The thing is, even when we know, intellectually, that the universe is unfathomably huge, we still can't fathom, emotionally, how huge it really is. Our minds simply aren't "designed" to deal with it. There is probably a lot of intelligent life out there, with some ahead of us in time, some behind us, and some just way too far away. The real question is whether or not interstellar travel is possible, or whether the rules of relativity are real, and can never be overcome, which I suspect is the case, because if it isn't true, there should be aliens everywhere...

[@PotatoChicken-gg1ju]

Another idea I heard was that there would be no way to know if we would be hostile to them (given our track record and overall love of violence, I wouldn't blame them for avoiding us 😬)

[@pjduker05]

I agree. In fact our ability to destroy is why i dont find alien invasion movies very realistic. Take Battle LA for example. No, im sorry but if the military fell in LA and San Fran like that then the Pentagon would not hesitate to nuke them into oblivion. Especially knowing that there are no humans left in the area. And i dont care what kind of Star Trek tech they have. A nuke is still a nuke. Death by star power. Which im sure aliens still actively avoid running into stars. Also is he^ ok? 😂😂😂

[@vlekarmy5424]

@@pjduker05it’s the alien trying to communicate with us from his stealth UFO. He just discovered the letter E, which he has seen a lot of on the internet. Probably through memes. E E E. Or he hasn’t figured out that he actually means T instead of Q making his message ET, and he’s trying to phone home.

[@brentmartin6833]

​@vlekarmy5424 The ET's stealth tech is messing up the wifi signal, so the long message being sent gets reduced to E.

[@graceeyler9846]

I love that you included the best aliens of all time Paul and ET 😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

[@juliodiaz7249]

Magnetic field flip…it’s the reset button, coming soon to the globe we know and love.

[@reticulizeta7351]

they exist but either we haven’t looked enough or they simply don’t want to contact us.

[@dverygrateful1]

They have made contact and we get lots of technology from them. Lo9k at the time-line.

[@reticulizeta7351]

@@dverygrateful1 the high-ups hiding stuff

[@davidreid2301]

We're being observed, and have been for a very long time. We're dangerous, angry and obnoxious apes, and they know it - we need to as well!

[@tannhauser5399]

@@dverygrateful1 - Which one? Which timeline? Old ancient myths, from the time before the Flood? Akakdians and Sumerians, or stories about the first king after the Flood who could have read the writings from before that time? Golden age of Gods? Story such as Atra-Hasis, that later has been changed to Noe and his Ark (in something like a Bible). Or simply follow something simple as "UFO on old paintings" from google? Or follow some modern data, even from somebody like Jacques Vallee (his whole "trilogy": "Dimensions", "Confrontations" and "Revelations", or even "Messengers of Deceptions"). Or stories from Hopi tribes? And all that has been discussed before, way back even in 1970-1980s, so there is nothing new there (by people like Richard Mooney, Peter Kolosimo, Rene Noorbergen, Robert Charroux , Andrew Tomas), and much more modern authors and research (Graham Hancock, Rand Flem-Ath, John Anthony West, Paul LaViolette, Robert Bauval, Robert Schoch, Colin Wilson, Colin Andrews, Robert Fuson, Ian Wilson and so on). And lets not forget some classics from John Anthony West or even Schwaller De Lubicz). Hell, we even know what has happened about 12K years ago, based on the astronomy data (plenty of data from various Universities about it), and what could have possibly wipe out the whole civilization at that time. So in a way, we had to start from scratch, from the beginning after that. Point is: who knows if those "aliens" are simply ancient "gods" who simply survived all of the above, somewhere in a safe places (even under-water as most of this planet is actually water), but all of people above the ground had to start form the beginning (with some later help from all those "ancient gods"). In fact, maybe they are simply us, from the ancient times, or whatever survived from us from that time.

[@pizzaguy8134]

So what I understand here is we’ve been ghosted and blocked .

[@pvp6077]

Me wandering in a desert wondering why I haven't seen any other humans yet:

[@FireMageTheSorcerer]

Well it would be more like being in a desert while you have a radio and receiver. Human activities send out radiowaves all the time, and scientists have built receivers to receive incoming radiowaves.

[@wsiak340]

​@@FireMageTheSorcererThe time frame for our activity is so short and insignificant. To further elaborate on your analogy, it'll be like the the person stuck in the desert had just turned on the radio for less than a second and concluding that no one is out there to receive his radio signals.

[@crum--business]

They are around us, a lot of themm

[@lorenzo-ew9bj]

It's as if we gathered some water inside a glass and say"hmmm, I guess there are no fish in the ocean"

[@victorparziale6356]

Perhaps we are like guppies oblivious to the fact that we are in a fish tank.

[@chriswhite3692]

Probably. You don't entertain the grievances of ants in your backyard. Sometimes you gas them, but not entertain their grievances.

[@ahashdahnagila6884]

Who gives a flying cow fart!

[@rickcheyne]

My theory is that aliens created us and have been regretting it ever since.

[@awarenessiskey8295]

Our species was genetically engineered based on the current understanding of our DNA Helix. Most likely this planet was seeded by the Pleiadians some 250,000 years ago.

[@GamerJonathan-_]

God created us and before you say God doesn’t exist , he cured my late grandmother of cancer

[@BringDHouseDown]

@@awarenessiskey8295according to the CIA remote viewing documents, some super tall aliens from Mars landed on Earth a million years ago(or 2? Forgot) since they were fleeing their planet due to some catastrophic climate anomalies that would soon make it uninhabitable. The remote viewing noted them hiding in large groups underground with a sense of dread in the air while they waited for the scout team or w.e to return with news of wether Earth was habitable for them. So I assume all the talk and depictions of tall humanoid figures depicted in art as rulers are the result of those aliens living among us and probably creating us to help them develop the land in this hostile environment of Earth a million years ago, and the story of the God King Enlil who commissioned the creation of humans to build cities for them and Enlil his half brother who did not like our oppression and the disregard for our safety(they had knowledge of an event coming that would cause a flood and thus he warned us unlike our God..King, this is where the Jude’s-Christian story of the Ark comes from with everything twisted in reverse).

[@awarenessiskey8295]

@@GamerJonathan-_ of course God exists in all things, gods love is the 90% empty space of all matter. The power of love heals anything, and everyone has the ability to use it.

[@jeffreybutler4605]

Oh that's good! I mean that is good!!!! Dang it , why didn't I think of that? Hey you think you could erase that comment and let me pretend like I said it bro?😁🤪😜

[@HallsofAmenti999]

Babes are aliens! Haha

[@ragnaroksangel]

It's extremely ignorant to assume every other intelligent lifeform has to follow the same path as us in any way.

[@throgmortonartstudio2402]

I think you are heading in the right direction just go a little further.

[@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection]

Haven't found aliens lol omg. Like UFOs aren't seen every day. Aliens are real and they're demons. You ignore scripture and buy anything your teachers sell you that Jesuits made up in the 1500s to confuse humanity and manipulate it.

[@single_dad_of3]

Right. Can’t help but think matter only makes up less then 1% of the universe. Plasma makes up 99%. If there was an alien plasma race would we even know. They could travel light speed and be in any time line. Probably hanging out in the 4th dimension and plasma suns here power it.

[@HellHoundsInc]

Something I heard as also another explanation Is that it's like dipping a cup into the ocean, taking it out, and looking in like "Hmm, there's no whales in here. Must be no whales in the ocean!"

[@coeal2680]

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying Arthur C. Clark. Black forrest is the most terrifying possibility imo

[@kyjo72682]

That is, if you are the prey and not the predator. :) This is I think the best argument against advanced alien life being anywhere near us. If it was, it would have already tried to colonize as much space as possible to assure its survival and avoid being the prey.. Almost everybody would do this, but you just need one advanced civ to adopt this strategy to colonize everything because it would just expand exponentially in every direction. Since Earth is evidently not colonized (otherwise we would have been wiped out already), it is unlikely that such cvilisation exists anywhere near..

[@martinlutherbling424]

​@@kyjo72682 : Earth HAS been colonized by a superior intelligent life form. The blue eyed, White man. Everyone else is a bunch of primitive numbskulls.

[@paulgilbert2506]

@@kyjo72682 Why would aliens want to colonize earth?

[@GarnetBurke]

@@paulgilbert2506 gold 😢

[@Bombot78]

​@@kyjo72682Thing is...what if some aliens quite capable of kicking our collective arses read your first sentence ;)

[@apolloapostolos5127]

It’s not a theory, it’s a hypothesis. It matters.

[@SummerAlleriaWindrunner]

🤓

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Very true! We have no evidence either way, just a lot of assumptions. 😒

[@disangajayawardana9724]

​@@SummerAlleriaWindrunner yeah its important. statements like that is why flat earthers say shit like "gravity is just a theory" so hes not nerd for pointing the distinction

[@danielriley7380]

Whilst that’s correct, Cleo isn’t a professor or tutor who ought be using the relevant terminology while educating her students. She’s a social media broadcaster providing informative content and is using language her audience would be familiar with.

[@feliciag5789]

i like the idea that our concept of what makes up life might be limited so we might not have recognized alien life when we saw it but this is a very sci-fi fantasy idea loll

[@user-zf9jl6ir4u]

I believe that the greatest proof that intelligent life exists outside our planet is the very fact that they have refused to contact us.

[@MysterySteve]

I've always more or less hocked the "Why haven't we found aliens yet" question up to the fact that the universe is an unimaginably big place, and that it'd be pretty wildly unlikely that two different planets would happen to form intelligent life that didn't come from the other one close enough together that we'd be able to perceive it any time soon

[@JORGINHODONASCIMENTO]

We are a single spec of dust in the vast cosmos. However, we are, and that's enough.

[@perkinsonline]

We're the aliens! We're the only thing that walks on two legs! We were engineered!

[@gelato9784]

Imagine Aliens wishing on our sun aka their star

[@Frog89mad]

our star is pretty small, we can't even see with naked eye our closest star which is a double star system

[@markdoucette6828]

We haven’t seen any aliens yet because they’re to busy laughing their collective asses off. Earth is the galactic comedy channel.

[@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection]

Haven't found aliens lol omg. Like UFOs aren't seen every day. Aliens are real and they're demons. You ignore scripture and buy anything your teachers sell you that Jesuits made up in the 1500s to confuse humanity and manipulate it.

[@erickskaer3449]

Dude that is so funny and possibly true😂

[@deadphux]

South Park

[@globalfatmas]

clown world

[@seanbatiz6620]

Their galactic redneck truck-stop, for refueling & dumping waste; they work very diligently to NOT be seen or interfere/interface w/lifeforms here ‘cuz they learned many eons ago, that “life” on this planet is more or less a parasite to them! 😳🤪😂…. Kinda’ how researchers protected themselves w/multiple layers, when studying MadCow Disease

[@peacetoall1858]

We haven't found life out there, but it has found us

[@kingmatthme]

How do you know that? And why do you believe they would even care? Not to mention they likely wouldn’t even see humans on earth rather dinosaurs or some other prehistoric animals.

[@peacetoall1858]

​@@kingmatthme I know because on 13th March 1997, I saw something that leaves no doubt in my mind. Of course as with most cases I can't prove it, and hence my word is worth nothing to a stranger.

[@deogsi1045]

​@@peacetoall1858im very interested in hearing your story! i remember getting into arguments with kids when i was in third grade after the teacher asked us if aliens were real. imo there's sooo much space out there, the universe is so massive, how could there not be other life, yk?

[@peacetoall1858]

​@@deogsi1045 I agree with you! If humans and other creatures on Earth can exist why can't aliens? I was on the roof on the the night of March 17th 1997, when these 7 bright and huge orbs of light just materialized out of thin air. The were to my left, very low in the sky, and flying in a V-formation. As they proceeded to move to my right, they straightened out into a 180 degree formation. They went some distance ahead and then simply vanished. The light were clearly independent, to attached to each other or anything else. They moved at what most certainly was past the sound barrier, yet there was no sonic boom. In fact the most striking feature to me was that there was no sound at all. The reason this struck me strongly was that occasionally an airforce plane would fly past over our apartment building, and the not only was the noise defeating, but the whole building felt like it was shaking. Had the UFO/UAPs that I saw that night, been jet planes, they would have woken the neighbourhood up, and left our homes with broken windows at the minimum. These things however, were flying past the sound barrier, and doing it in absolute silence. I was just a kid, so confused by what I saw, I ran downstairs and reported it to mom. She said it was probably planes. I thought nothing of it for months, till I came upon a Time And Life magaize about UFOs, and saw something very similar. And then some years later, I found out that thousands of others had seen the same thing or similar to what I had, and the date of the sighting was the same. If you search up Phoenix Lights, you'll see what I mean. Now of course there are a multitude of videos talking about and even showing UFO/UAPs like what I saw that night in 1997. And now we even have congress looking into this stuff. I'm convinced there's UFO activity. Logically, if this tech is not man made, it would mean aliens exist, but I can't be 100% sure till I see one. Honestly though, the existence of aliens is a scary thought.

[@amateurmakingmistakes]

@@peacetoall1858 You're not the only one who's seen things that can't be explained. Unfortunately, I don't expect we'll ever get an answer.

[@geofflawrence4356]

The odds of other life in the universe are higher than the odds that an advance civilization existed long enough ago to be seen by us across the void

[@donniekebsch5304]

Yes indeed. U have a good theory but what about the paintings with alien craft and the paintings like the disappearing angel from DaVinci also a couple of their I can't think of your names but keep it up can't wait for part three,, Peace out!

[@ljosephdumas3113]

George Carlin nailed it. He described ALL our dysfunctionality and asked "Cant' you just see how eager the rest of the universe is for US to show up?"

[@wihdinheim0]

Imagine seeing a species that's actively destroying AN ENTIRE PLANET that they themselves inhabit. The biggest crime in the universe. In many ways we deserve the geminivirus.

[@Vienic2]

Yes! Aliens have their own dysfunction as well, I’m sure they’d be happy to learn from our concepts and vice versa. Or maybe your too deep inside of the “oh human bad and alien smarter than us” hole to think that.

[@nahommerk9493]

Kurzgesagt in a nutshell had made a video about another theory as to why we haven't found aliens yet, the Dark Forest. It says that looking for aliens is actually a very bad idea (like preys searching for predators) and that the reson we haven't found one yet is because the aliens know this too. It sounds a lot scarier than planetary extinctions but at least it kind of solves Fermi's paradox.

[@RJ2BIg]

This is the theory presented in lui cixins great novel - the dark forest

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Three Body Problem

[@RJ2BIg]

@@CarFreeSegnitz that's the first in the series yes

[@tylerdurden3722]

Plus, some alien race might have created an AI that is now going on a rampage to wipe out life wherever it finds it. Another reason to not be intentionally sending out signals randomly.

[@deepfreeze1001]

@@tylerdurden3722 “Intentionally” doesn’t matter. The cat is out of the bag for us already. If the dark forest hypothesis us true, then we’re just biding time until some hyper-advanced predator deletes our solar system from existence. 😊

[@Doa.Bdot1]

300 -400 years that shit will be a memory

[@YG5531]

i wonder what is your opinion in dark forest hypothesis?

[@platonicsole0854]

For decades we have been shouting into the void. We finally got a response. "You're too loud. It's coming"

[@iFlyGood]

The void is so loud with cosmic radiation, no one will hear our screams.

[@syahidaalam7011]

​@@iFlyGoodscience kills humour kid

[@tonik2229]

that’s so scary omg

[@mychannele8749]

This isr/twosentencehorror material

[@sparklelikeaghost]

​@@syahidaalam7011rude

[@LeoStaley]

It's interstellar dust. It makes it so that if you're traveling at even 1% the speed of light, your while craft will be significantly disintegrated by the time you've traveled just a few light years.

[@Anuchan]

Maybe they're hiding in plain sight waiting for us to develop enough to be able to find them.

[@darrenobayashi6528]

I like Dr. Tyson's analogy... it's like taking a glass of sea water and looking inside and declaring " there are no whales" because there none in this sample of sea water.