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Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:05 PM Oct 13

It's 'Extraterrestrial Week' on StoryTV

Humans have been wondering for ages, Are we alone?"

Where do you stand on that question?


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Earthlings are the only intelligent life in the universe
0 (0%)
Intelligent life exists elsewhere, but it's always stayed home
5 (45%)
Intelligent life has been visible from Earth
0 (0%)
Intelligent life has landed on Earth
4 (36%)
THEY'RE HERE!!!
0 (0%)
There is NO Choice 6!
0 (0%)
I've met them
1 (9%)
There is no intelligent life in the universe
1 (9%)
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PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,378 posts)
1. If there is other intelligent life out there,
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:39 PM
Oct 13

or ever has been other intelligent life out there, the odds are astronomically high that we will ever contact them.

Most people simply don't understand how vast the distances are between stars, that the speed of light really and truly is a limit to how fast we can go.

And there is zero proof of any kind that anything from elsewhere has ever landed here.

nolabear

(43,841 posts)
2. I vaguely knew the two men from Pascagoula who claimed abduction.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 07:09 PM
Oct 13

I lived in NO at the time but largely grew up in Pascagoula. My grandmother ran a cafe where the two of them hung out a bit. At the time there was a spate of sightings, both in the sky and under the water where the river meets the Gulf of Mexico.

There are many YouTubes about the incident. Do I believe it was real? Beats me. But did THEY believe it was real? It sure as hell looked like it. It messed with their heads something fierce, and frankly I don’t think they were the type to maintain a lifelong lie. Just shipyard workers, basic blue collar Southern men.

Intractable

(1,450 posts)
3. There's a big difference between the development of single-cell life, multicellular life, intelligent life, and
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 09:39 PM
Oct 13

life that can send out electronic signals (or spacecraft) to the cosmos.

Famous British celebrity astronomer Brian Cox believes that the frequency of intelligent life could be as little as one occurrence per galaxy.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
7. I have 30-something Marvins
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 02:57 AM
Oct 14

Mostly figurines and T-shirts. Always loved that little fella for some reason. I'd rather watch a Bugs/Marvin cartoon than any other, except maybe Betty Boop.

hunter

(40,266 posts)
8. 'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:46 AM
Oct 15
For centuries, great thinkers have pondered why, given the hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, we have seen no compelling signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Now, scientists are mulling an intriguing possibility: if aliens exist, their technology may be only marginally better than ours. And having explored their cosmic neighbourhood for a while, they simply got bored and stopped bothering, making it difficult to detect them.

The scenario, described in a new paper, embraces the principle of “radical mundanity”, which shuns the notion of extraterrestrials zipping around the universe after harnessing physics beyond our comprehension. Instead, it proposes a Milky Way that is home to a modest number of civilisations with technology not wildly more impressive than our own.

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/15/bored-aliens-has-intelligent-life-stopped-bothering-trying-to-contact-earth


This puts words to my favorite theory.

In this universe faster-than-light travel is simply impossible and complex systems do not survive interstellar travel at sub-light speeds.
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