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For a moment I deluded myself that this was SETI news, but was skeptical due to the proximity. It's so terrifying that no one's out there after billions of year

For a moment I deluded myself that this was SETI news, but was skeptical due to the proximity. It's so terrifying that no one's out there after billions of years and billions of star systems in the galaxy only.

sigmoid10 3y ago
Well, the headline is probably intentionally slightly misleading in that way. But it'll only fish certain people, because 10 million miles will only sound far if you know nothing about space.
sven_8127642 3y ago
There's certainly intelligent life out there. It definitely is horrifying that in the current age there's been no contact with, as you mentioned, billions of years of time spanned across the galaxy and billions of systems out there. You also have to think that we're occupying such a small portion of our species existence. There's hundreds of thousands of years of human history we just have zero record of. During that course of time, we have no way of knowing if there WERE attempts of advanced life to contact our planet/species, only for them to find (presumed) low intelligence or no means of advanced communications. Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes, but I imagine it'll be in the next few thousands of years if we can manage to remain relevant technology wise before CC cooks us.
- nyokodo 3y ago
  > There's certainly intelligent life out there… > Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes Certainty without evidence is faith. There’s nothing wrong with that exactly, I just like to point it out for the crowd, that may not include you, who judge other faiths for the same unavoidable human behavior that they blatantly and hypocritically indulge in.
thfuran 3y ago
Why is that terrifying?
- CooCooCaCha 3y ago
  Loneliness is creepy, it begs the question of why we can't find anyone else out there and the answer to that question leads to existential dread and fear. Why does life seem so rare? Especially since we've been able to find so many planets that seem habitable. Is it hard to jumpstart life? Or have there been many planets with intelligent life and almost all of them die out for some reason? Maybe technology is far more limited than our imaginations would like to believe and we don't hear from anyone else because it's impossible. Lots of thoughts here that don't sit well with most people.
mewpmewp2 3y ago
Not sure if I deluded myself, but the title did seem intentionally worded for this reason so I definitely cringed.

sigmoid10 3y ago

Well, the headline is probably intentionally slightly misleading in that way. But it'll only fish certain people, because 10 million miles will only sound far if you know nothing about space.

sven_8127642 3y ago

There's certainly intelligent life out there. It definitely is horrifying that in the current age there's been no contact with, as you mentioned, billions of years of time spanned across the galaxy and billions of systems out there. You also have to think that we're occupying such a small portion of our species existence. There's hundreds of thousands of years of human history we just have zero record of. During that course of time, we have no way of knowing if there WERE attempts of advanced life to contact our planet/species, only for them to find (presumed) low intelligence or no means of advanced communications. Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes, but I imagine it'll be in the next few thousands of years if we can manage to remain relevant technology wise before CC cooks us.

nyokodo 3y ago
> There's certainly intelligent life out there… > Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes Certainty without evidence is faith. There’s nothing wrong with that exactly, I just like to point it out for the crowd, that may not include you, who judge other faiths for the same unavoidable human behavior that they blatantly and hypocritically indulge in.

thfuran 3y ago

Why is that terrifying?

CooCooCaCha 3y ago
Loneliness is creepy, it begs the question of why we can't find anyone else out there and the answer to that question leads to existential dread and fear. Why does life seem so rare? Especially since we've been able to find so many planets that seem habitable. Is it hard to jumpstart life? Or have there been many planets with intelligent life and almost all of them die out for some reason? Maybe technology is far more limited than our imaginations would like to believe and we don't hear from anyone else because it's impossible. Lots of thoughts here that don't sit well with most people.

mewpmewp2 3y ago

Not sure if I deluded myself, but the title did seem intentionally worded for this reason so I definitely cringed.