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>Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens Exoplanets weren’

>Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens Exoplanets weren’t confirmed to exist until 1992. Just sayin’.

rvnx 3y ago
And our goggles to see far away aren't that great. We barely know anything about the surface of these planets. The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  >The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books. Not in the slightest, that's the worst strawman against it (and for the record, I am an atheist, so drop this line of argument now before I'm forced to counter-insult you.) Try the Rare Earth Hypothesis. There are only 10^11 stars in the Milky Way galaxy, you don't need to stack up many terms in a "Drake equation" to push the result to near zero in the Milky Way. The Rare Earth Hypothesis is consistent with all empirical observations thusfar. Furthermore, even if there were other intelligence species like us in our Galaxy, they would be incapable of reaching us just as we are incapable of reaching them. To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft.
  - Jevon23 3y ago
    >To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft. FWIW, I think this is a much stronger argument against the existence of aliens than “they don’t fit with our current understanding of physics (which is known to be incomplete anyway)”.
- wredue 3y ago
  We don’t need to actually see the surface of a planet to know whether or not that planet harbours life capable of space travel depending how far away the planet is. Unless they took a completely different, or radically faster pathway to interstellar travel.
  - rvnx 3y ago
    https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image.png https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image.p... These are pictures of exoplanets made in 2022. I doubt we really know what is going there. The best we can do is to guess the chemistry of the atmosphere and assume that all forms of lives require the same setup as on Earth.
    - wredue 3y ago
      Assuming they have technological advancement similar to ours, we know that they don’t harbour intelligent life as of their light year distance away.

rvnx 3y ago

And our goggles to see far away aren't that great. We barely know anything about the surface of these planets. The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books.

mcpackieh 3y ago
>The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books. Not in the slightest, that's the worst strawman against it (and for the record, I am an atheist, so drop this line of argument now before I'm forced to counter-insult you.) Try the Rare Earth Hypothesis. There are only 10^11 stars in the Milky Way galaxy, you don't need to stack up many terms in a "Drake equation" to push the result to near zero in the Milky Way. The Rare Earth Hypothesis is consistent with all empirical observations thusfar. Furthermore, even if there were other intelligence species like us in our Galaxy, they would be incapable of reaching us just as we are incapable of reaching them. To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft.
- Jevon23 3y ago
  >To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft. FWIW, I think this is a much stronger argument against the existence of aliens than “they don’t fit with our current understanding of physics (which is known to be incomplete anyway)”.
wredue 3y ago
We don’t need to actually see the surface of a planet to know whether or not that planet harbours life capable of space travel depending how far away the planet is. Unless they took a completely different, or radically faster pathway to interstellar travel.
- rvnx 3y ago
  https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image.png https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image.p... These are pictures of exoplanets made in 2022. I doubt we really know what is going there. The best we can do is to guess the chemistry of the atmosphere and assume that all forms of lives require the same setup as on Earth.
  - wredue 3y ago
    Assuming they have technological advancement similar to ours, we know that they don’t harbour intelligent life as of their light year distance away.