The timeline is the tough part. To a civilization that's a billion years old, were a speck in time.

And that would be my guess.

It makes no sense to do much of what the UFO community suggests is happening.

Here's another thought experiment: if a huge object did hit the earth 65 million years ago and did throw a European-metric-****-ton of biological material out into space (as is suggested,) how long would that frozen life take to land on any planet ANYWHERE and reproduce at even the most basic level?...

I think that's the key issue.

It's so mind blowing you either say "**** it, I'm out" or it's something you want to look into.

On or off.
Left or right.
Dem or Rep...

Agreed.

I don't recall where i saw it, or who taught it (I believe it was Neil Degrasse Tyson) but he illustrated it perfectly.

Warning: I'm about to butcher what i learned, but i hope i can spit out the general idea.

He used an L.E.D particle board to illustrate how unlikely we are to find life because of the scale of time. Each time an L.E.D momentarily blipped on and off, that represented several hundred thousand years, or the life and death of a civilization.

The point being that time and space operate at such a grand scale that our mere existence and the existence of other intelligent civilizations is nothing more than a mere blip, and the reason why we haven't found other life is because they have already expired or not even come to fruition yet.

And because Time/Space is so vast and any signal would take so long to reach us that even if we did get a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization that it's quite possible that civilization has already come and gone before we even got the signal.

Think about that shit....if we ever actually do get a signal, that signal may have taken so long to get to us that those who sent it may have already been wiped off the universe thousands of years ago.....mind = blown.

That alien life? Single celled organisms.
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He is also deeply compromised on his beliefs due to his station in life.

He falls under that same sick Kaku succumbed to...

Life does not mean intelligent life. I, personally, believe that NASA has been sitting on evidence of life of Mars since the 70's. I also believe that a number of announcements they've made in the last half dozen years are in preparation for finally making the announcement that there is evidence of life on other bodies in the solar system. It all been ramping up in the last year or two.

As far as intelligent life making it here, there are lots of possibilities there. Because we haven't worked out how cross interstellar distances, or between dimensions, or in some other way outside our current infantile understanding of physics doesnot make it impossible. We have this mistaken belief that we are the pinnacle of science. Maybe we are. Maybe we aren't.

But as far as simple, basic life goes, it exits in huge variety on this planet, some of it in impossibly hostile conditions. I would be shocked if we don't find more of it in other places in the solar system.

That's just my opinion, of course.

No. "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

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When it comes to subjects like this, I always feel that mankind is supremely arrogant in thinking we have all the answers figured out regarding space. There is no telling what mode of transportation or communication advanced civilizations use to travel the void. It would be like telling a knight on the crusades how to use a Sat Phone to call in a cruise missile strike on an enemies castle. He'd figure it out with proper training, but couldn't possibly come up with it, much less construct it, on his own. That's mankind right now in relation to the possibility of star faring civilizations - we're the knight.

pffft do a search on Val Valiant Thor

Had never heard of that.

Upon reading about it, I wish I hadn't.

Or the horse.

Humans have just entered Pre-K regarding the Universe.

If Evolution and Survival of the Fittest are the guides, then human beings on Earth would be better off not trying to contact alien civilizations...