Do you believe in Aliens? (Page 247) zeffur: 2000 miles south of Diego Garcia Island is the continent of Antarctica. You aren't taking a boat through that mass of ice. lol There is no passage that leads to the other side.. lol  zeffur: I'm going to postulate that the hollow earth is really just a portal to another dimension... zeffur: How do you know that for certain? I could be your neighbor & pretending that I live in the USA. ghostgeek: In a 2020 study, researchers suggest the answer to the Fermi paradox could be pretty bleak: Maybe all the intelligent civilizations have annihilated themselves. Jeez, 2020, that’s a little on the nose. This is the Fermi paradox stated at its most succinct: The universe is unfathomably gigantic, but so far, we’ve never seen any sign that there’s intelligent life anywhere else. We’ve never observed an extraterrestrial living thing, or uncovered any evidence for extinct ones. As we peer further out into our corner of the universe using more and more powerful telescopes, for example, people continue to hold out hope that we’ll find evidence of a civilization, Dyson sphere, or anything just around the next corner. But there’s a problem with that line of thinking. A civilization that we’d see from this far away, let alone one that could have built something like a Dyson sphere, is likely to be peering back at us. Why aren’t they sending telescope satellites through our part of space? And how can it be that out of all the planets and systems we’ve peeked into so far, we’ve seen nothing? [ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-used-to-be-aliens-in-our-galaxy-but-they-killed-themselves-off?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ] ghostgeek: Too young, and, like us before very recently, they simply won’t have the means yet. Too old, and they could be stripped of technology in a post-apocalyptic burnout. They could even be extinct. In fact, the research includes parameters for extinction and the idea of “self annihilation,” a probability that could be extraordinarily high. “Since we cannot preclude the high possibility of annihilation, [this result] suggests that most of the potential complex life within the Galaxy may still be very young,” the scientists explain. That means there could be a proliferation, but it’s of other civilizations that can’t push out into the galaxy yet—just like us. [ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-used-to-be-aliens-in-our-galaxy-but-they-killed-themselves-off?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ]  crawlingdespair: @ghostgeek: You know, that doesn't seem like such a farfetched idea. Our galaxy could very well have had extraterrestrial life, but self-annihilation is very possible. Plus, we don't know how every planet works in terms of its climate, livability, and lifespan. The notion that every planet has the same elements as the Earth is very shallow thinking; we have to keep in mind that the universe offers so much more than our solar system and its characteristics. There's also the possibility of underground civilization systems that could be at play. To keep themselves safe from any outside forces, why not just bury underground? It's not that crazy of an idea. For the point of them not sending telescope satellites, I'm not that sure on, but maybe they just don't want to have the off-chance of an invasion of their home planet. I'm sure we wouldn't want that either. That's just what I came up with, though. I'm not an expert on aliens .  lori100: greys and other aliens have a sense of humor...they have mimicked human's shock when seen making humans laugh......an alien told a guy humor is rare in the universe which is why humans are unique......laughter reduces stress in the mind and body instantly.....so that alien the guy met observes comedy and collects bits from it to share and teach others ghostgeek: It's a funny thing, but no cases of levitating people have hit the news where I live. Yes, I suppose seeing someone sailing past the bedroom window with nothing to support them could be so common in America that nobody bothers to mention it at the breakfast table, but here in good old Blighty I think it would still raise a smidgen of interest. Actually it's like Jesus walking out of his tomb in downtown Jerusalem. You'd have thought that somebody would have been mildly surprised at meeting a strolling corpse, but no, not a flicker of interest from anybody. I have to say that in both cases I tend to doubt the claims. Just me, of course, but there it is. ghostgeek: Well now, seeing as America is armed to the teeth, how come greys, greens or any other colour of alien don't get wheeled in to the emergency departments of the nations' hospitals? | Science Chat Room 6 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
