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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 | |
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| Intelligent life exists elsewhere, but it's always stayed home | |
5 (45%) |
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| Intelligent life has been visible from Earth | |
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| Intelligent life has landed on Earth | |
4 (36%) |
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| THEY'RE HERE!!! | |
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| There is NO Choice 6! | |
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| I've met them | |
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| There is no intelligent life in the universe | |
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,378 posts)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)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 dont think they were the type to maintain a lifelong lie. Just shipyard workers, basic blue collar Southern men.
Intractable
(1,450 posts)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.
JoseBalow
(9,028 posts)boonecreek
(1,336 posts)here's Calvin's take on it.

Coldwater
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Oeditpus Rex
(43,094 posts)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)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.