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In this context, it actually makes sense to think in a human-centered way. Consider how many planets are capable of supporting intelligent (as we know it). No
by 100721 3y ago
In this context, it actually makes sense to think in a human-centered way.
Consider how many planets are capable of supporting intelligent (as we know it).
Now suppose we detect evidence of industrial behavior (certain pollutants, nuclear detonation, etc).
Would we not laser focus on that one planet and observe it with everything we have - including sending reconnaissance drones?
Furthermore, would we not want to avoid detection where possible, in case life does exist on said planet and it turns out to be an existential threat to humanity?
Also, it would be trivial to avoid detection in our own solar system. Duck behind a moon or planet, or just quietly float in the blackness of space, and no earthling will ever see you.
- joshuahedlund 3y ago> Also, it would be trivial to avoid detection in our own solar system. Duck behind a moon or planet, or just quietly float in the blackness of space, and no earthling will ever see you. Still human-centric to assume they would know what we can detect.
- heavyset_go 3y ago> Also, it would be trivial to avoid detection in our own solar system. Duck behind a moon or planet, or just quietly float in the blackness of space, and no earthling will ever see you. Feels like we're approaching a God of the gaps scenario here, but with aliens.
- NotSuspicious 3y agoComparing "God-of-the-gaps" to the UAP/UFO Phenomenon only makes sense if there is abundant, first-hand evidence for God that goes back several generations at least, is seen in numerous, opposing human-cultures and only can be ignored by debunking paradigms that vacillate wildly between a smug misunderstanding of pop-epistemology and the deeply, irrationally conspiratorial. Actually, now that you mention it . . . https://www.ufohastings.com/ https://www.ufohastings.com/ https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ https://www.uaptheory.com/ https://www.uaptheory.com/
- mcpackieh 3y agoThis parallel is no coincidence. As of yet, there is no empirical evidence for space aliens existing. What do you call it when people believe in things for which there is no empirical evidence?
- zzzeek 3y ago> Also, it would be trivial to avoid detection in our own solar system. Duck behind a moon or planet, or just quietly float in the blackness of space, and no earthling will ever see you. yet we have thousands of reports of UFO sightings (the vast majority seem to be in the US for some reason). So the aliens who can travel here in...assuming they come from a nearby solar system 4 light years away, and they are arriving as a result of observing "pollutants and nuclear detontations", meaning if they started traveling in 1950 (upon receiving the light from the first nuclear detontation in 1945) and UFO sightings picked up by the 1960s they traveled 4 light years in about 10-15 years, and can be "undetectable" except.... for thousands of non-confirmable sightings per year. I think the aliens aren't going to visit us until Zefram Cochrane achieves his first warp flight.