Are we alone in the universe?
Watch this postTwo questions that I hope will bring in some interesting perspectives about life, the universe, and everything.
1. Is there intelligent life out in the universe (other than here...and yes, I get the joke about there being not a lot of it here on earth)
2. Has the earth been visited by intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe
As curious as I am about the answer to these questions, I am also interested in how others think about this topic.
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All living in an alternate reality, just a huge video game where we can manifest our thoughts into a reality.
The biggest waste of energy and thought is in giving in to the fear emotion.
If for some, fear is food, they must be revelling in the fear people are experiencing of the generated fear porn in todays news outlets...
Humans are so very ignorant when it comes to physics we actually don’t know what 99% of the universe is made of.
Our brains just cant comprehend the mind boggling size of the known universe, I think it was Carl Sagan that said humans are unlikely to ever leave our solar system so inter galactic travel seems very unlikely.
Why haven’t we been visited, the part of the Fermi paradox I find most likely to be the explanation is that civilisations that have achieved the technology for space travel have also reached the necessary technology to destroy themselves, which seems to be where humans are at the moment.
I personally doubt humans will be around for much longer a thousand years if we are lucky.
Dinosaurs roamed the earth for around 160 million years modern humans about 300,000 years didn’t take us long to wreck the place.
You may find this interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_explanations_for_the_paradox
Advanced beings have no need to travel great distances for years, perhaps they are interdimensional and interact with us through four-dimensional space. String theory shows this is possible.
There is a plethora of information to be had if you dig deep enough.
Ancient texts and stone tablets from around the world tell us very clearly of gods visiting earth in their flying machines in and around 1500 BCE and even older, as far back as 5000 BCE. How is it, that in such far flung and so-called primitive societies, they tell the same stories?
The bible that people read every day in modern times, tells us the same thing.
In around 1428. Renaissance artists such as Masolino da Panicale, “The Miracle of the Snow,” show gods flying in a saucer with dozens of accompanying saucers clearly visible.
https://youtu.be/8Li1OvvuBYI?si=DOdZmp20f3djQyzY
The Indian Vedas, Mahabharata scriptures tell of flying vehicles called vimanas that the gods used to fly back and forth from their heavens.
These gods instructed humankind on many things, such as agriculture, sciences, health, astronomy and in everything needed for a step up the evolutionary ladder.
Declassified military documents show us that visitations and interactions are nothing new and continue to this very day.
In light of so much information, why are we still questioning the fact?
Lol, I doubt very much any form of intelligent life would play ‘hide n seek’ if they were able to visit us, at any time of man’s existence. UFO/little green men stories are exactly that, stories. We would know if we had visitors from outer space. Majority of humans are gullible and believe what they see/hear/read about on this subject. Books/films/documentaries are not convincing enough. Show us a little green man or a spaceship and maybe then I will accept their existence. Nanoo nanoo
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Perhaps there is a Star Trek solution to this problem developed by some advanced life form. 🙂
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I think we should consider ourselves to be on our own on in the Universe. Mainly because should there be other life out there, we can't communicate so they do not exist. Remember when you look up at the stars at night you will not know how many exist in real time. It takes so long for the light to travel to us ,that star may infact not exist anymore. When you look at the stars you are looking into the past.
Steven Hawkins said that looking up to the skies gives people something to dream about.
I tend to think there's no point looking up when the ground beneath your feet is crumbling. Climate change
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Watched a Sunday morning programme, about this very subject.
They reckon that aliens would be more insect liken not bipedal like us.
Personally.... I believe, why in all the trillions acres of the universe, what makes us so special
As for spaceships.... I have seen something, very close up that can’t be explained.
A few years ago, a large ‘cigar shaped’ / small airship was hovering virtually just above some houses near me.
I thought it was actually landing, I observed it & suddenly it was gone
Note: Daytime, lovely clear sky & no drugs or alcohol involved.
I have only told a few people.... but you can imagine their response
WE ARE NOT ALONE...
Q1) No evidence
Q2) Again, no evidence.
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there must be other planets with Intelligent life on, some may be more advanced than our world others may not. i think that they have visited our world. They probably did not want to make contact with us after they have seen the mess that we have made of our world with global warming, wars etc.
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Nuclear war or accident for example or the road we seem to be treading now runaway climate change, perhaps humanity has reached the point of no return already.
When you think about it dinosaurs roamed the earth for millions of years we seem to have messed up the planet in just a few thousand years.
Super nova’s could be a civilisation many light years away that not satisfied with splitting the atom decides to split one more fundamental particle, oops what was that flash.
I remember reading during the Manhattan project (building of the first atomic bomb) no one was sure that splitting the atom would not cause a chain reaction and vaporise the Earth but they did it anyway, I guess no one would be here to tell them off.
if it were possible to visit one planet every second it would take 32000 years to visit them all.
With approximately 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe so guestimate 63 million years at one galaxy a second, that's just to visit each galaxy each of which contains many billions of planets.
So at a realistic rate of travel for even a far advanced race you are talking many times the age of our planet just to visit all the galaxies.
Just to travel from one side of the observable universe to the other would take 93 billion years at the speed of light (186,000 miles in 1 second).
Personally I would think many more planets have life some much more advanced than ours, we will probably never know of them, the numbers are just far too vast.
The old saying more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth is probably true, so try to imagine each grain of sand on earth has 10 planets around it and you are trying to find the one with a tiny person on it.
Have we been visited my guess is yes, when you look at all the creatures on earth only humans have advanced at such an astounding rate I think we had help with our genetics.
Why have we not been contacted, have you ever tied talking to an ant, if others in the universe are so far advanced to be able to travel the vast distances involved we are ants in comparison.
It is interesting to ponder while witnessing humankind's current endeavors to make our species multi-planetary.
You might find this interesting.
Other forums just place each comment in order of time.
I visit a lot of different sites and it never ceases to amaze me how counter intuitive some are almost deliberately designed to confuse.
Rant over.