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That’s what the feds say.
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Submitted 9 months ago by throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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peteyestee@feddit.org 9 months ago
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Joke’s on them, that’s my kink.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The animals know there is a weird device there, they just sniff at it and keep going. Humans would probably investigate weird out of place things, especially in cities and more dense areas.
janus2@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
the aliens judging the alien porn I watch:
daggermoon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So aliens are watching me jerk off to femdom? Good, I want them to see.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
By extension, ufo and alien abduction stories may be likened to animals trying to get others to believe they saw a tree flash a brilliant light late at night.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not just cameras… Probes👽😮
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which is probably why they haven’t tried to make contact. “Oh look! It’s a planet full of fundamentalist chimps with nuclear weapons” “should we pop over and say hi?” “Nah, fuck that noise!”
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s called Dark Matter. C’mon, what’s more likely, 85% of the universe is completely unobservable by chance? Or by design?
Any post-scarcity civilization that advances past Prime Directive territory just quantum-shifts half a dimension to the left so they can all hang out together without bothering anyone else.
Aliens don’t judge you, though. No judgemental species can collaborate long enough to go Dark, you either evolve past those primitive instincts or self-destruct.
sicarius@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is a topic in the 3 body problem series of books. The aliens have photons (?) that spy on everything the humans do so the humans have no way of planning against their attack without them knowing. The humans assign a few people to make plans with no oversight and without telling anyone else their plan.
Highly recommend the books.throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
photons (?)
Sophon
sicarius@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the one, and the humans making plans were called wallfacers.
Sorry I wasn’t sober when writing that comment last night.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There was a TV SciFi series for kids with some guys from the future arriving in our time to solve an issue, and they had cameras the size of pins they could stick anywhere to see what’s happening.
The fun of the series was that those guys from the future had barely a clue how to blend in in our time, with a historian of them trying to make them fit in.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
judging
So when the hell do we find out the results from the judging? What can we win?
Lazhward@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Congratulations human! You’ve won the ‘most depraved’ award! You’ve been deemed not worth enslaving, instead you’ll be rewarded with a swift and painless death!”
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Joke’s on them, I’m vanilla AF.
suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
humans are animals
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
wild
suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
can you define ‘the wild’? what about houseless encampments, are those humans in the wild? we treat them like animals, so maybe you’re onto something.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 9 months ago
Try sun is the flash the universe is a camera
We are inside a black hole being observed.
ICastFist@programming.dev 9 months ago
I suspect they’ll just stop bothering with the surveillance and go straight for reality tv and internet porn, much more telling of us as a whole
Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Or, they can abduct people and anyone who says they were abducted will be called crazy? 🤔
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
the lizard people be like
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 months ago
And the probes are actually just cameras they put up our rectum.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Sofons be like.
remon@ani.social 9 months ago
Unless these aliens can break the laws of physics their cameras will produce heat and have send signals somewhere. So we’ll be able to detect them.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They could easily send the signals away from us. How would we detect something like that?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Heat is directed into the 8th dimension.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No wonder why the Red Lectroids are so permanently pissed off.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I tried going down this line of thinking too, but any assumption you make is predicated on the belief that they would use means that we are familiar with. Just because we do not know of a way to do such and such does not mean it does not exist. This post is referring to a fundamental epistemic problem.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Humans didn’t even have the technology to observe most of the eletromagnegtic spectrum for like practically all of human history apart from the recent hundred of years or so, bold of you to assume there isn’t higher form of techology that’s undetectable to us. I mean, the North Sentinese and other uncontacted tribes around the world still can’t even fanthom that we are talking to each other using radiowaves in the air.
There is this sci-fi novel called Three Body Problem and
spoiler
the aliens used a high tech AI supercomputer called the “Sophons” that can be invisible to humans and are spying on Earth in order to plan for an invasion. Humans only figured out after scientists started dying, seemingly mysteriously.
Its sci-fi, but like, they could just take advantage of the tech we already have and hack our servers to gather data, and even if humans figure it out about the hacking, they would just think it was human criminal and its just labeled as a “databreach”. (Who knows, maybe one of the databreaches are actually just aliens gathering data.)
remon@ani.social 9 months ago
bold of you to assume there isn’t higher form of techology that’s undetectable to us.
I think it’s very unlikely that there will ever be a technology that can get around fundamental laws of nature, like entropy.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Those aliens will be vexed for sure!
bstix@feddit.dk 9 months ago
The birds are watching you.
Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.
If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
your car
Laughs in lack of driving license
ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The government and corporations can do that too
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Bold of you to assume I’m unaware
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You know that documentary show “Spy in the Wild” where they film animals using animatronics that look like those animals. Well aliens are probably doing it right now to us. Lifelike androids are among us. Some of us are even married to them and have kids with them. The aliens are so advanced that they can human robots that are human like down to the cell.
Slovene@feddit.nl 9 months ago
They live!
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah, they are gonna notice the violence & greed too in terms that it impedes progress of the species & degrades the environment we depend on.
But butt-stuff too, yes, it’s very popular on the galactic local sector news.
Etterra@discuss.online 9 months ago
I mean, yeah. If someone had the technology to not only fly half a billion light years to get to our little mud ball (in person or with advanced machines) they’d have a trivial time hiding and blending in. Most likely for the same reason, since there’s literally nothing we have that they could want other than to study us as a curiosity. The only resource we have that they couldn’t find easier and more abundantly, or reproduce from samples, is our culture. That’s it, that’s the only thing we have that might be considered with the effort. Not water, air, energy, precious metals, phosphorous, brains, mates, food, slaves, vassals, soldiers, or anything else that would be worth the trip.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I mean, if you can reasonably bridge the gulf between stars, scientific advancement is basically all that’s left, unless it’s just your culture to be slaving, warmongering dickheads. Your home solar system probably has all the raw materials and energy you could ever ask for.
seven_phone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think honestly that is the most likely answer to why aliens have not visited, they just are not interested.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They saw the horrors that our species can do in wars and promptly left the planet
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I always thought it was the transmissions of zombies, vampires, Werewolf, yokai, and godzilla.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I mean other humans already do this. Satellites are staring at you 24/7, even when youre inside they can theoretically track you with infrared/disruptions to the wifi signal or other epectromagnetic signals, or even using sound waves. I doubt they have the processing power yet to watch everyone all the time but its a safe bet that there are certain humans under constant surveillance by somebody.