Pentograham
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Most certainly yes. But we have zero chance of ever meeting them. Space is too vast and we will never escape our own galaxy I think.
Fp edit: send nudes ladies
Mar 1, 2018 10:01 PM
Pentograham
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Most certainly yes. But we have zero chance of ever meeting them. Space is too vast and we will never escape our own galaxy I think.
Fp edit: send nudes ladies
wraithfd
Or another option is that they don't communicate using devices based on electromagnetic radiation
Rifneno
Oh yes, I look forward to debating Fermi's Paradox with the website that can't believe it's not butter.
BrandName
Born to late to discover the world, born to soon to discover the universe.
reditora
Missing the Dark forest theorem from Third Body. Essentially all surviving civs are slient hunters as those who are exposed are dead
Wordtheisbird
Cool post +1. My only request is maybe they could make the font a little smaller.
MiddleTiddy
Early Bird theory is terrifying. Imagine us being the best thing going in the universe... What a nightmare.
AIComments
The more terrifying thing is that it's probably very unlikely and every other possibility is bad., very bad.
Counterfit
Eh, great silence isn't so bad
AIComments
It'd be really hard to use the energy output of the galaxy, but hide it.
Denim777
I almost hate when something like this catches my eye. curiosity killed the cat, then it got lerned.
LifeIsARollercoaster
If we ever invent the Warp drive then most of those questions will be quickly answered
MaSu10
Warp Drive Active
ColonelColon
Blood for the blood god?
AIComments
We will never invent a warp drive. Our civilization will die the same way as each member, alone.
Fatdicksinmybutt
Okay umm. I’m guessing you need a hug
Mitchz95
Cranbananarama
We don't visit because you smell funny. Also, you're a very unstable species. Just look at your history. Would YOU want to be your friend?
tapemeasurepencilpenmouse
Tide pods.
MrJosh123
Aging is a disease and earth is quarantined
D0ubletheteller
What? That makes zero sense
Fatdicksinmybutt
Agreed
D0ubletheteller
Why the downvotes. Ow
themojoe2
Can someone explain to my idiot brother how they know the universe is 45 billion light years across?
MorgulTheFriendlyDrelb
It isn't, he got that wrong.
Beardington
I love the Great Filter theory. Because FYI the filter might be ahead of us...
stardy
13.5 billion light years away is the edge of the observable universe not 46.5. The universe is 13.5 billion years old, and thats the same
stardy
because it takes light from the beginning of time 13.5 billion years to reach us - so thats how far away we can see. in another billion
stardy
years we will be able to see another billion light years farther away than now, excluding crazy tech not yet [even close to being] invented
wraithfd
Wrong, there's a difference between the visible and observable universe. Special relativity and the lightspeed constant only apply
wraithfd
To objects in the same local region and are moving relative to each other. The same is not true for sufficiently distant objects given that
wraithfd
The expansion of SpaceTime is not constrained By the Light Speed constant.
GameOfLiesAndDeath
Don't sugar coat it. They saw us eating cleaning supplies and dipped.
Ngugi
digitalJosh
What if they just don't like us?
Cheomesh
What if the most advanced alien species out there is just now tinkering with steam engines
NorthernBud
They were just about to make contact. Then Trump
astronomyisfun
and i was about to comment “inb4 muh trump”..
D0ubletheteller
There are much worse people who have been alive.
crowkiller06
Hotfarts
He’d build a roof. No undocumented aliens
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
How dare you. We are a perfectly charming and well mannered bunch of genocidal, selfish, arrogant lowlife scum.
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Spidey209
Man has broadcast into the heavens for 100 years of his 40000 year existence. Digital will bring an end to the call. We missed them.
ltuthill92
The Bottleneck Theory seems pretentious af
Talmorean
Fermi Paradox.
ClassicallyForbidden
Or perhaps life in the universe exists in a dark forest state.
SpellingEternity
Nevermind that, why can't I find the other sock?
stardy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox this is the thing
kelmar6821
Isaac Arthur on YT has a whole series about the concept. I like his videos alot.
stardy
hes great so is joe scott
spaghetarian
These are all explanations for said paradox. Fermi & Hart both posed the question,”Where is everybody?” These are just a few likely theories
bobtheaxolotl
No explanation is needed. We've looked at an extremely tiny portion of the universe, for something we don't know the odds of.
stardy
that is one of the explanations and one of the more viable ones but there are many
spaghetarian
That’s what “The Long Road Ahead”/“A Galaxy Far Far Away” describes. I’m not saying that there isn’t life out there, but rather (1/2)
spaghetarian
the paradox doesn’t contradict the post made by @op (2/2)
bobtheaxolotl
This is akin to looking for a lost wallet in a one centimeter square portion of floor in your house, and announcing it's gone forever.
spaghetarian
Almost akin. More like thinking back to your first memory and believing that the wallet can’t be found
CleverHeathen
Or dark forest, amazing books take on this!!
causality
Very poorly thought out ideas though. A civilization capable of creating subatomic AIs would regard humanity little better than bacteria.
causality
Let alone any kind of threat or possessing any sort of desirable resource.
causality
The "doomsday location signal" at the end would only move at lightspeed, giving the Trisolarans plenty of time to move to a different star.
Mitchz95
They weren't interested in humanity, just our stable solar system. And we could broadcast the location of any nearby stars to make sure.
causality
For life to evolve to sentience a world has to be stable enough to be incredibly stable on the timescale of civilizations.
LurkingMcLurkface
Really enjoyed those books
iAMthedroidurlookingfor
Reminding myself so I’m commenting
Mitchz95
First book is The Three-Body Problem. The Dark Forest is book two. Three is Death's End.
iAMthedroidurlookingfor
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
Given that God is infinite, and that space is also infinite, would you like a toasted tea cake?
Pentograham
I would
Promethianfire
White hole spewing time controls dead advice please
latenightnosleep
Everybody's Dead Dave
LurkingMcLurkface
I'd love an infinite tea cake
Cranbananarama
I like how some people say space is infinite, but then you get some people talking about the edge of space or what it expands into. -
Cranbananarama
And while I've heard some people say the universe expands out like a balloon, I've yet to hear concerns of it popping. Just saying...
TheHeartOfGold
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is.
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bpetersen
What makes you have these pessimistic thoughts? And why can't those causes be changed?
Imadethisaccounttopost
Make sure you have your towel.
Rifneno
Except colonization will grow exponentially. Which limits the effectiveness of the "space is just too big" argument
bpetersen
What? If we sent a light message to a planet 40 light years away, you will probably be dead by the time you got a reply back
pfsar
1 galaxy = 100 thousand million stars. The universe = 100 billion galaxies. We are not alone.
AutoFox
100 billion galaxies that we can OBSERVE. It goes on and on past that.
oopsIdroppedmypocketpasta
By the time I would have come up with a number even close to right, it would have fucktupled in size.
LordK
It's yuge, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it.
PutaPicosa
Bigly
MakeTabbouleNotWar
They did this 3D picture of this huge clump of galaxies and it looked like veins. They almost had an order to them. 1/2
MakeTabbouleNotWar
It was strange but gave me peace somehow. 2/2
Molotovbliss
Like neurons in the brain. We could very well be in a test tube. We've only scratched the surface.
MakeTabbouleNotWar
Yessss exactly!!
RickMorty
Do you have a picture or video?
MakeTabbouleNotWar
Sadly no ???? I’ve looked for it before. Saw it on the science channel one day.
HarveyManfrenjensenden
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's peanuts to space
sophware
OK. Now I have to read this for the 10th time. THANKS OBAMA.
guyfromthatbeercommercial
Nice reference
bourbonandbaddecisions
Don’t forget your towel.
Pinkee
I get it. I played No Mans Sky for like, a week.
bpetersen
I thought the game had a good concept (Minecraft + outer space). It's ashame the execution wasn't the greatest
Carrera26
You know how big Cleveland is? Space is, I shit you not, more than twice as big.
Weibull
How big? Like at least 7?
BlackDragoness
You're not wrong.
Fefeaage
Hahahahahahaahhhahhahahbahhhahaha
SeaTurtleSailingThroughSpace
About 5/7.
sadn00b
as big as yo momma
cirnonine
At least
saikorhythm
It's possible that aliens still see us as a molten rock. When you look up at the night sky, you're looking sometimes millions of years 1/2
rezpawner
We weren't molten millions of years ago though. We'd have to go billions of years back for that.
Harryurhandsrfreezing
Molotovbliss
causality
Looking with the naked eye? No. From our location the furthest reach of the Milky Way is only 75,000LY.
saikorhythm
So my time scales are off. Point still stands, aliens don't care about ancient humans.
SeaTurtleSailingThroughSpace
Does this also mean things like radio waves we send out in space will take an insane amount of time to reach the nearest galaxy?
JumboCrawdad
Yes exactly true.
Drag0nF1RE
ardieziff
Yes, we've barely even reached any neighboring stars:
causality
That bubble contains 15,000 stars.
dontsayretarded0itsgay
They don't go that far. Our transmissions are indistinguishable from background noise after just a few light-years. Prob before A. Cenauri
dontsayretarded0itsgay
In case you don't believe be http://briankoberlein.com/2015/02/19/e-t-phone-home/amp/
AIComments
Millions of years is a blink of an eye for a galactic civilization.
KyleBeach
So you assume. Unless immortality is achieved, any society would still be held to the issues any society would face. Ecological/social issue
AIComments
The milky way is 100k light years across, a galactic civilization could not come into being or if such time periods were consequential.
KyleBeach
(only this time on a planetary scale probably), Rise and fall of regimes or complete collapse of galaxy wide authority. Something of that
KyleBeach
magnitude is so fr beyond us that it is still indistinguishable from science fiction, meaning your assumptions mean little more than anyone
KyleBeach
elses when talking about the habits of another civilization.
saikorhythm
2/2 back in time.
NutAllOverPeanutButter
And you very rarely are able to see planets, you see stars. The way we "see" things that far away isnt as simple as being a big ol telescope
lagomorpha
Isn't that how they "find" exoplanets? They see if the light of a star is blocked out for a bit on a regular basis as evidence of a planet.
NutAllOverPeanutButter
Yeah, but if any aliens could see our exoplanet that way, they wouldn't be able to see us to know to communicate/visit (not to mention they
NutAllOverPeanutButter
Would be looking far into our past even if they could see anything on the planet)
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
Yeaa I think about this a lot. Like even a planet 200 light years away is seeing well historical times thinking "what's with the wigs?"
testesttest123
I think you could maybe guess that aliens able to see us at such a distance, being increadibly outstanding already, could account for that..
nonCanadianGoose
Even a 100 years ago, which is really close in cosmic terms, there isn't much about earth 100 year ago to interest a space faring culture
2lppl2
Our alien counterparts are probably not coming here because all they see is a planet filled with dinosaurs :D
Cheomesh
Or ARE dinosaurs D:
MandaloreIncognito
So lizard people DO exist?!
crowkiller06
Ever seen “V” ?
tatsudairo
damn dude, i knew when you look at stars you're not seeing them as they are, but i never thought about that in the other direction before.
lagomorpha
Yeah if there's life like ours on a planet 100 million light years away, they'd be seeing dinosaurs, and vice versa.
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
Friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they prolly burned out millions of years ago
BlackElkSpeaks
I live in a place in Canada that is close to a location which has been notorious for extraterrestrial activity. I was once camping North (1)
BlackElkSpeaks
Of this "hotspot" and saw some signs of highly advanced technology in the outer atmosphere. At first we thought they were satellites (2)
BlackElkSpeaks
.. there were two of these somewhat bright lights.. and then we saw them span one edge of our horizon to the other in a matter of seconds (3
BlackElkSpeaks
Making it look like they were scanning our planet or something of that nature. They were more or less going in straight lines and would (4)
BlackElkSpeaks
Cross one another's paths while doing so. They did this several times in the course of minutes and then vanished into the vast expanse (5)
BlackElkSpeaks
This happened when I was younger staying with my family in a remote cabin far up north(we were all completely sober for the record). (6)