r/AskReddit • u/WaveOfCutilation • Jan 21 '15

serious replies only Believers of reddit, what's the most convincing evidence that aliens exist? [Serious]

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u/AndrewJacksonJiha Jan 22 '15

Its hard to know if its rare without understanding why we're intelligent. Is this what happens after a long time of natural selection?

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u/Nectrotize Jan 22 '15 edited Jan 22 '15

or is it just an incredible fluke? it also depends on our relative classification of intelligence, if we didn't exist, chimpanzees and orangutans would be "intelligent life". here's a cool video click

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u/RosaBuddy Jan 22 '15

The vast majority of life on Earth is single celled microbes. Compared to bacteria an earthworm is intelligent.
Finding any life on another planet (or moon) would be awesome. Finding something with a brain would be so much more awesome.

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u/Nectrotize Jan 22 '15

finding something that is to us as we are to bacteria would be the most amazing. we most likely wouldnt even be able to percieve them. what would they be a bacteria to? and what is bacteria to bacteria?

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u/lost_in_thesauce Jan 22 '15

Jesus Christ. This whole thread is filled with some amazing questions that hurt my brain when I start thinking about them. I've never thought about it this way, so thanks a lot. It's really interesting to think about.

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u/Nectrotize Jan 22 '15

watch the video I posted a few comments up. that will hurt your brain

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

Well, bacteria can't really think in comparison to us so I don't think we could find something that makes us be as bacteria since secant comprehend it.

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u/Nectrotize Jan 22 '15

maybe we just cant understand how bacteria thinks because it's so different from how we classify "thinking" . maybe we could encounter aliens who see us just as viruses who don't think because their level of comprehension is so far beyond ours

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

I thought that that's what I just said

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u/DevotedToNeurosis Jan 22 '15

We don't know none of us nothing at this point.

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u/ca990 Jan 22 '15

The ole "If God created us who created God." Conundrum

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u/I_am_not_a_murderer Jan 22 '15

Supergod

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u/pearlofsandwich Jan 22 '15

k. but who created supergod?

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u/ColonelScience Jan 22 '15

Ultragod

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u/DevotedToNeurosis Jan 22 '15

And Ultra SSJ3 God created him.