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All-In [46825]
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Why we don't communicate with aliens. An explaination:
Apr 26, 2021, 12:47 PM
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They are probably all over the place. The fundamental error in the Fermi paradox is that it assumes that intelligence is a binary state. You are, or you aren't.
In reality, intelligence is likely a curve that you ascend. We are still to stupid to communicate with aliens. How would you communicate with aliens on another planet that had an earth technology level of 1000AD? You couldn't. A civilization even a hundred years younger than ours probably couldn't reach us.
The average star in the Milky Way is a billion years older than our sun. A billion years ago, life on earth was unicellular. Think about that. The average intelligent life in our galaxy would be as far ahead of us as we are multicellular organism. Of course we can't talk to them, and they won't bother with us.
We can only expect to communicate with the tiny fractions of intelligences that are at our level.
In other words: we need to find some really stupid aliens
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Take this to the aliens & shitpoastings boreds***
Apr 26, 2021, 12:50 PM
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Re: Why we don't communicate with aliens. An explaination:
Apr 26, 2021, 12:53 PM
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We are still to stupid to communicate with aliens
Right on
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he never said he taught English
Apr 26, 2021, 1:00 PM
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give him a break man.
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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How many breaks man
Apr 26, 2021, 1:01 PM
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Juan? Too? Tree???????????
FORE??????????????
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CU Medallion [60043]
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seriously though.....what is scary
Apr 26, 2021, 1:05 PM
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this dude will have two masters degrees.....in what, we have no idea, my guess is turf management so they will let him cut the soccer field and baseball field too.
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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I think it's pretty obvious by now first one is in
Apr 26, 2021, 1:10 PM
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Real Estate Management and the second is in General Home Repairs and Shipoasting
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Next up, FBcooch explains time travel, chaos theory, and
Apr 26, 2021, 12:55 PM
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how to fraudulently return amazon purchases filled with rocks.
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Lot o points [163012]
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I request quantum computing if that is an option.***
Apr 26, 2021, 1:18 PM
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To quote Stephen Hawking
Apr 26, 2021, 12:59 PM
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"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
Think of how we treat animals that are less intelligent than us.
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Lot o points [163012]
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My dog gets treated like a king.
Apr 26, 2021, 1:19 PM
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so we just need to learn to wag our tails.
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So, aliens are providing treats if I poop outside?
Apr 26, 2021, 1:26 PM
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They only talk with the smart folks
Apr 26, 2021, 1:10 PM
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You haven't heard from them . . . . . . .?
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Re: Why we don't communicate with aliens. An explaination:
Apr 26, 2021, 1:12 PM
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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Re: Why we don't communicate with aliens. An explaination:
Apr 26, 2021, 1:29 PM
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You're making a lot of assumptions here
Apr 26, 2021, 1:37 PM
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The first being far the biggest...How do you know that there hasn't already been an extraterrestrial encounter on this planet?
You can't necessarily assume that a civilization aged one hundred years behind us follows the same intellectual evolution that we did on this planet. Conversely, you can't assume a species that's older than us has followed the trajectory we did. I suppose it's a fair assumption to make, given there's no other data to compare against, but not one you can hang your hat on.
We could absolutely communicate with the equivalent of 1000 AD aliens. Just land a freaking rover on their planet and say "Hey man, what's up". I'm pretty sure we are trying to communicate out there, and have been for quite some time through radio wave signals. But to your point, how do we know that other species even went down the avenue of radio communication?
There's way more that we don't know, than there is of what we do know. We don't even know what other life forms could be...what if their biological cellular structure isn't carbon based, for example? There's a very high probability that they can live on a planet without oxygen. We evolved to succeed on our planet, not the other way around.
Then you have to take into consideration that time may be different relative to other systems, galaxies, etc. Different solar systems' evolutionary ecosystems may allow their species to live for hundreds or thousands of human years (that whole, one thing around the sun thing).
The biggest take away is really the only known - and that's your point around the number of stars and available systems out there. That makes it a 100% non-zero chance that there's life out there, IMO.
Nice shitpoast tho, well done. I'm interested to hear what documentary you watched this weekend that got you all giddied up for us lol
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From wherest did you copy/pasta that?
Apr 26, 2021, 3:06 PM
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buttcrack.org?
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Oculus Spirit [97716]
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Hate to say it, but we're probably at or near the top
Apr 26, 2021, 4:01 PM
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Sure, you can argue some aliens are so far advanced we can't communicate with them, whatever. BUT, they had to evolve to that point. And at SOME POINT they would be sending signals into space. And at some point, those signals would reach Earth. It took what, 3 billion or so years for life to evolve to the Wal-Mart shoppers we see today, and most of that evolution took place in 20,000 years, a mere blip in evolutionary time. And some day humans will evolve away, leaving what? Crickets. And definitely cockroaches. But like the beer commercial says "It don't get no better than this", if I had to guess. Tons of life out there probably. Very little at our level though. Just my guess.
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I think you prove a really good point with your post
Apr 26, 2021, 6:58 PM
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we ARE the really stupid aliens.
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Andromeda, the closest galaxy, is 2.5 million light years
Apr 26, 2021, 7:11 PM
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away. We could never communicate with anyone in Andromeda because it would take over 5 million years to get a reply. We can't communicate with anyone in any of the other trillion galaxies either.
We really could not communicate with many stars in the milky way.
There are only 76 stars within 100 light years. So it would take 200 years to get an answer back if we tried. The chances of life on a random 75 starts is insanely low, most stars are binary and could not support life on any planets.
Andromeda and the milky way will collide in a few billion years, but galaxies are almost all empty space so an collision will be extremely rare. They will just kind of go through each other.
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