Funny thing about earthlings ... especially Americans: We think we're exceptional. Therefore, if WE haven't been able to travel far enough to find another planet with sentient life on it, we are quite certain that no one else in the multiverse could possibly be advanced enough to have visited us, took one look at the mess we've made and said, "Best we leave these naked apes to their own devices and find another planet to colonize."
Do aliens exist on other planets out there in the vast universe? Most likely. Have they learned how to travel faster than light? Extremely doubtful. Have they visited Earth? More doubtful. Even at 1/10th the speed of light it would have taken 40+ years from the nearest star, 1/2 of it spent speeding up and 1/2 of it spent slowing down.
When the entry for Earth was updated in the newer edition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” it was changed from “harmless” to “mostly harmless”; ‘Nuff said
I’ve always been a skeptic. The closest star system to earth is Alpha Centauri and it’s 4.37 light years away and even though it has known planets, it contains red dwarf suns which means there will be no life on those planet planets. And that system alone is 25,700,000,000,000 miles from us. And you also have to take into consideration the fact that all of those planets in twinkly lights that you see in the sky is light that’s coming from thousands if not millions of years in the past so any civilization that might exist whose light we might be seeing our millions of years dead now. And there is no known technology even imagined technology the would allow any living being to travel those distances in a single lifetime.
Didn't someone involved with the Air Force (possibly at some point in the past rather than active) say more recently that the gubmint believed we probably had been visited by aliens based on some pretty compelling testimony from multiple AF pilots, and possibly more recently than the 90s? I have not gone back to try and find it, but I feel like I saw a story fly past about that in the last few years...
Due to the size of the Universe, I would be very surprised if aliens did not exist. And I don't just mean microbial life. But intelligent life. In fact there is an equation called the Drake Equation. This equation was designed to work out how many advanced civilizations are there in the galaxy.
It was concluded that there must be 10 million advanced alien civilisations within our Milky Way Galaxy alone.
Yet due to the size of the galaxy, it is unlikely any of these aliens would bother to come and visit us.
Just a quick correction @Jamesfell. Maverick was/is not a Navy pilot, nor a naval aviator. He's an imaginary being. A fucking figment. People who get their boxers in a bunch over it need to be reminded of this, forcefully if necessary.
I mean, it'd be nice, unless they were like us only technologically way more advanced. Then it'd be horrid. Just ask anyone who's ever been colonised by Europeans.
Aliens have the same low, low threshold for roving their existence:
Say "hi", just once for everyone to see. That should be very easy to do for both the creator of everything and a lifeform that can travel many light years to get here.
John, there IS an edit option on this platform. Look at your comment. Now look at those three dots (fancy people call it an ellipsis) at the upper right of your comment, opposite your name on the left. Now click on the damned ellipsis (I'm fancy). A drop-down will appear with "Edit" as the top option. Click on it and your comment will be returned to the "compose box" where you can edit the shit out of your fucked-up comment. When you're finished, click the "Save" button and your comment will reappear in the thread looking like you never fucked up.
If you're using a mobile device, go find a fucking computer because I can't help you.
Hi Dale, yes, there is an edit option, *sometimes*. I have used it more than once on comments on other Stacks, because English being my mother tongue I can't spell or type for shit. That said, it is not available on my comment here, the ellipses give me just 3 choices: share/hide/delete. No edit. I suspect this is a function of the level of subscription and/or IQ of the comment author. I should have acknowledged that editing can be available instead of that blanket statement.
My subscription level is the same as yours (I suspect), but I just checked to see if I could invoke the "Edit" function. I could.
Apparently, the Substack gods want the whole world to know you can't type for shit. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on.
Speaking of the Substack gods, I would like to cordially invite them to go fuck themselves for making subscriptions so expensive. If I bought paid subscriptions for every Substacker I admire and respect, I would have to be Elon Musk. And I'd rather eat 12 pounds of dog shit for the rest of my natural life than be Elon Musk.
Well waddya know, my freedom of expression is being oppressed, suppressed and repressed by the SubStack sky spirits. Not sure if I should take that as a compliment or a criticism of my opinions and or shitty writin'. If I was inclined to wear orange makeup, shit in my pants and commit too many crimes to count I'd ask a friend who once read the Wikipedia page for civil law to help me sue the bastids.
If aliens did visit, they probably took one look at us and ran like Hell.
Then there's that 😆
Now and then I think about the beacon that set off the events of ‘Alien’... Turning out it’s a quarantine/warning thing...
... and I wonder if maybe there’s one of those here.
Funny thing about earthlings ... especially Americans: We think we're exceptional. Therefore, if WE haven't been able to travel far enough to find another planet with sentient life on it, we are quite certain that no one else in the multiverse could possibly be advanced enough to have visited us, took one look at the mess we've made and said, "Best we leave these naked apes to their own devices and find another planet to colonize."
Do aliens exist on other planets out there in the vast universe? Most likely. Have they learned how to travel faster than light? Extremely doubtful. Have they visited Earth? More doubtful. Even at 1/10th the speed of light it would have taken 40+ years from the nearest star, 1/2 of it spent speeding up and 1/2 of it spent slowing down.
When the entry for Earth was updated in the newer edition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” it was changed from “harmless” to “mostly harmless”; ‘Nuff said
I’ve always been a skeptic. The closest star system to earth is Alpha Centauri and it’s 4.37 light years away and even though it has known planets, it contains red dwarf suns which means there will be no life on those planet planets. And that system alone is 25,700,000,000,000 miles from us. And you also have to take into consideration the fact that all of those planets in twinkly lights that you see in the sky is light that’s coming from thousands if not millions of years in the past so any civilization that might exist whose light we might be seeing our millions of years dead now. And there is no known technology even imagined technology the would allow any living being to travel those distances in a single lifetime.
Didn't someone involved with the Air Force (possibly at some point in the past rather than active) say more recently that the gubmint believed we probably had been visited by aliens based on some pretty compelling testimony from multiple AF pilots, and possibly more recently than the 90s? I have not gone back to try and find it, but I feel like I saw a story fly past about that in the last few years...
But maybe he was just another kook? Obviously not something that made a big impact on anything...
We examined the records of five billion humans and found that most of them are not Kim Jong Un.
That's your opinion, man.
Due to the size of the Universe, I would be very surprised if aliens did not exist. And I don't just mean microbial life. But intelligent life. In fact there is an equation called the Drake Equation. This equation was designed to work out how many advanced civilizations are there in the galaxy.
It was concluded that there must be 10 million advanced alien civilisations within our Milky Way Galaxy alone.
Yet due to the size of the galaxy, it is unlikely any of these aliens would bother to come and visit us.
Just a quick correction @Jamesfell. Maverick was/is not a Navy pilot, nor a naval aviator. He's an imaginary being. A fucking figment. People who get their boxers in a bunch over it need to be reminded of this, forcefully if necessary.
While I don’t like Don Henley much, he was right when he sang “They’re not here, they’re not coming.”
I'm firmly in the "Highly unlikely" camp myself.
I mean, it'd be nice, unless they were like us only technologically way more advanced. Then it'd be horrid. Just ask anyone who's ever been colonised by Europeans.
Aliens have the same low, low threshold for roving their existence:
Say "hi", just once for everyone to see. That should be very easy to do for both the creator of everything and a lifeform that can travel many light years to get here.
Ain't happened yet because it'll never happen.
*proving their existence. I want an edit option for comments on this fucking platform
John, there IS an edit option on this platform. Look at your comment. Now look at those three dots (fancy people call it an ellipsis) at the upper right of your comment, opposite your name on the left. Now click on the damned ellipsis (I'm fancy). A drop-down will appear with "Edit" as the top option. Click on it and your comment will be returned to the "compose box" where you can edit the shit out of your fucked-up comment. When you're finished, click the "Save" button and your comment will reappear in the thread looking like you never fucked up.
If you're using a mobile device, go find a fucking computer because I can't help you.
Hi Dale, yes, there is an edit option, *sometimes*. I have used it more than once on comments on other Stacks, because English being my mother tongue I can't spell or type for shit. That said, it is not available on my comment here, the ellipses give me just 3 choices: share/hide/delete. No edit. I suspect this is a function of the level of subscription and/or IQ of the comment author. I should have acknowledged that editing can be available instead of that blanket statement.
Things that make you go, "Hmmm ..."
My subscription level is the same as yours (I suspect), but I just checked to see if I could invoke the "Edit" function. I could.
Apparently, the Substack gods want the whole world to know you can't type for shit. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on.
Speaking of the Substack gods, I would like to cordially invite them to go fuck themselves for making subscriptions so expensive. If I bought paid subscriptions for every Substacker I admire and respect, I would have to be Elon Musk. And I'd rather eat 12 pounds of dog shit for the rest of my natural life than be Elon Musk.
Well waddya know, my freedom of expression is being oppressed, suppressed and repressed by the SubStack sky spirits. Not sure if I should take that as a compliment or a criticism of my opinions and or shitty writin'. If I was inclined to wear orange makeup, shit in my pants and commit too many crimes to count I'd ask a friend who once read the Wikipedia page for civil law to help me sue the bastids.
I assume this Wiki-educated friend reminds you of Ivanka.