I think we should be looking inter dimensionally for alien life rather than extraterrestrial.
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entwine413@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s really stupid to not believe in aliens given the size of the universe.
underwire212@lemm.ee 11 months ago
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 11 months ago
How?
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Orvil did a episode on that where they found a two dimensional universe with life in it. The bad part, three dimensional life cannot exist in two dimensions with a digestive track, it gets split into two parts.
I can’t imagine a forth, fifth, or sixth dimension or how a three dimensional being could survive it.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also given the scale of time of the universe. We as humans have only existed for a small amout of time on the vast scale of things.
Countless alien civilizations may have existed and destroyed themselves, and may others may have not come into existence yet.
0x0@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Revelation Space (#scifi) delves neatly into that.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’d believe it when I see evidence. Otherwise it’s just a possibility.
dgbbad@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
We are the evidence. Life can happen. It’s been proven. If it’s happening here, it’s crazy to think we are somehow special and it’s not happening somewhere else out there.
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
alien doesn’t necessarily mean sapient, humanoid or even anything larger than a walnut. if you took life on earth as a sample of the universe it would be much more likely for an alien lifeform to be a plant or bacteria. and even an animal is more likely to be an insect than a mammal-like animal, much less anything humanoid.
(someone should look into the numbers my source is just vague memory at this point)
capybara@lemm.ee 11 months ago
People who are interested in aliens and UFOs rarely solely make this argument. Often, they’ve encountered or somehow know of these aliens.
0x0@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That’s a bit of an oxymorinic argument those people use. If an inteligent species dropped by and had ONE look around, they would NOT turn on their high beams.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If an intelligent species was able to travel the distance to actually reach us that’d mean they are far far far far beyond our technological capacity. It’d be game over if aliens ever reached us.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
If aliens don’t exist, how come all the bigots keep bitching about illegal ones? 🤔
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Ancient alien theorists say yes
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s really stupid to believe aliens visited earth given the size of the universe.
entwine413@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I also agree with this statement, although it’s well within the realm of possibility that life on Earth was seeded by an ancient extraterrestrial civilization. That’s a timescale of a few billion years.
But it’s still not as stupid as thinking that the supreme creator of the infinite universe has a personal interest in your actions.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 11 months ago
That would make some sense if not for overwhelming proof of evolution of both, animals and nature
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What about the American people constantly complaining about aliens illegally entering their country? Explain this!
tauren@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fucking Englishmen in New York.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Those are 2 completely different statements.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It wasn’t a refutation. It was added information.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Comments should come with this disclaimer. People get so upset when you continue the discussion for no reason.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Sorry I was not 100% sure so I figured I’d resoond just in case.
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah the idea that aliens exist but haven’t been here yet is basically the plot of the awesome series
s_s@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Earth First” is an interesting and compelling explanation for the Fermi Paradox.