• @pyre@lemmy.world
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        816 days 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)

      • @dgbbad@lemmy.zip
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        415 days 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.

    • @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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      616 days 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.

    • @capybara@lemm.ee
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      516 days 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
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        115 days 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
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          215 days 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.

        • @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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          115 days 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.

    • @s_s@lemm.ee
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      015 days ago

      “Earth First” is an interesting and compelling explanation for the Fermi Paradox.