Anon on the alien disclosures

Posted by Hefty_Commercial3771@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 27 comments

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Alien life is almost certainly out there. It has never visited earth. Interstellar distances are way, way bigger than you think. Every single UFO encounter is based on a brain misfire or people getting freaked out by a weird noise at night.

If you got anal probed, it was probably just your uncle.

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0xE4-0x20-0xE6@reddit

Idk why it’s so commonly assumed that there must be alien life out there. Yes, the number of planets in our galaxy is massive (and when I’m talking about alien life I mean in our galaxy, not necessarily in the universe, which might be infinite, thus nullifying this whole debate), but the conditions necessary for life to emerge on a planet, let alone complex intelligent life capable of flying off a planet, might just be so small as to outweigh the number of planets out there. I think it’s just much easier to grasp scale of hundreds of billions of planets then it is the probabilities associated with what it might take for life to form. As to why there’s life on earth, that can easily be explained by there being life in the universe once we expand the scope beyond our galaxy, but it might be so sparse so as to average out to less than one alien civilization per galaxy.

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darklightmatter@reddit

You're operating on the assumption that only life can only be carbon-based. Like it's impossible for life to evolve with a different base element.

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Fidel_Cashflows@reddit

You don't even have to extrapolate to an infinite universe. Just in the observable universe there's over a trillion galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of star systems. Even if there was only 1 planet with life per galaxy (doubtful) and less than 1% of them resulted in a species capable of civilization, we're still talking about billions of advanced lifeforms just in the slice of the universe that we can see. It's almost a certainty given the scale of the universe.

What's more dubious is extraterrestrial visitation on earth. Given the mind-numbingly long distances even between stars within a galaxy, it's overwhelmingly unlikely that we've ever been visited, even more so by organic lifeforms instead of drones.

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LazarusPizza@reddit

The important part is that if they ever had the tech to visit us, then we probably wouldn't be able to detect them anyways.

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LarryLiam@reddit

And then we should be happy that they only want to probe our asses.

What are we supposed to do if they were hostile? Imagine an early human, who just discovered how to sharpen rocks, fight against a modern drone. The human loses every single time, because he just doesn’t understand what he’s fighting against. And even if he did, he’d have no way of reaching it. Now just scale that up a bit, and you’d basically have our level of technology, which can support limited space flight, compared to theirs, which supports manned interstellar travel assumably faster than light.

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0xCx@reddit

It's like those Russians trying to fight drones with sticks lol

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heqra@reddit

it's basically infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters.

The conditions for life are specific, but in an infinite universe, they're going to exist pretty much period.

If it is simply an unimaginably large amount of monkeys on an unimaginably large amount of typewriters, it's still pretty unfathomable to think life wouldn't form anywhere else.

I view not believing in life elsewhere as pretty similar to the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe, we just simply are not that special.

Now has it ever reached us? Pretty doubtable. And a whole other discussion.

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Sethleoric@reddit

It doesn't have to be intelligent life. I genuinely think the first alien life we find will be the fossil of a single celled organism in a riverbed that formed and died like a billion years. Or yknow, one of those The Expanse sea slugs or something.

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Zentrion2000@reddit

And you think we are that special? It is a number too large for only us to have won this lottery, maybe the tech to travel through the galaxy doesn't exist, but even we with our self destructive nature can grasp the idea, so maybe, just maybe some other species a little smarter than us can actually do it, but than chances of we interacting with such species is even smaller than having life on a planet. But again we know nothing really, and probably never will.

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NoCard1571@reddit

My take has always been that life is probably very common, but intelligent life (that can build civilizations) is extremely rare.

I mean here on earth it took 4 billion+ years for us to emerge from the primordial ooze, that's nearly a third of the Universe's history.

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NeighborRedditor@reddit

With the number of galaxies being so incredibly large, there might as well be an infinite number of planets to potentially host life, even life that we cant comprehend. Even if the probability is miniscule for any given solar system, the sheer volume makes it a likelihood that life exists elsewhere. I think thats why people treat it as an assumption.

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sculksensor@reddit

The world wasn't made for us to live in it. We adapted to the world, and shaped it just as much as it shaped us. If anything, life is probably extremely abundant in the universe. The conditions for life to form are relatively basic, it's more than likely there's many planets in our local group with basic unicellular lifeforms. what's not basic is for life even somewhat similar to ours to form, because we've changed this planet and shaped it's conditions for life.

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MisterMaroonYT@reddit

Life as we know it. But who’s to say life has to take our route to intelligence

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

I remember that one greentext where anon tried using those microwave radar dishes on some microwaveable popcorn and the popcorn tin just exploded

Meanwhile the radar said it looked like something 3 km/around 1.5 miles across appeared for a second then disappeared

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Reaper-Leviathan@reddit

I hope aliens are real and they’re just hiding because I’m tryna tap that alpha centauri or andromeda ass

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ChoiceFudge3662@reddit

Genuinely what is this alien disclosure shit, my mom won’t stop talking about how aliens are real and they have infer dimensional portals, I’m assuming she’s just seeing some AI shit on YouTube and thinks it’s real.

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barryhakker@reddit

Doesn’t matter if she’s hit

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ChoiceFudge3662@reddit

My mother is not hit from dragonball super no

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YodasGhost76@reddit

Let the aliens come. We’ll show those motherfuckers whose made in the image of God

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DM_cool_bird_pics@reddit

I don’t like our odds. That would mean they have the technology to traverse mind-numbing distances, while we’re still struggling with when to use who’s and whose.

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internetlad@reddit

Anon thinks he's gonna be duke nukem when in fact he's gonna be one of the babes who gets biomorphed to make alien babies.

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PointsOfXP@reddit

r/aliens has just gotten sad. Even the way they're shitting on the white house posts. These people have legitimate issues and I think the white house knows exactly what they're doing. Not saying gangstalking is real but it might as well be

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DripRoast@reddit

I wonder if a sunken cost kind of phenomenon would be a better explanation. You know, like when you tell a stupid lie for too long, and you find yourself in way too deep to admit the truth. That, but generations of institutional embarrassment worth.

Bur yeah, obviously it's a bunch of bogus, and yadda yadda yadda. I just want aliens to be real man. It sucks that inept government goons are part of the package deal, but we've got them anyway!

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WaveDash16@reddit

A: government subsidiary companies have literal fire from the gods and have every incentive to hoard it until it can be understood and reverse engineered and replicated for profit.

B: the funding for these crash retrieval/investigations projects was acquired from tax payers illegally and under a lie, therefor everyone involved is likely guilty of white collar crimes

C: having advanced tech secret, even if we haven’t yet managed to understand it, keeps it out of the hands of the USA’s adversaries, whereas popping the lock on it might invite argument that it shouldn’t belong to any one person, government or company.

Honestly the list goes on, if the US government has retrieved non-human craft there’s a thousand reasons not to share it.

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Bowman_van_Oort@reddit

Beg your pardon?

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