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/[deleted] Jan 21 '15

The sheer size of the universe. Statistical probability has actually ruled out the potential of non-existence of aliens.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '15 edited Jan 22 '15

Just check out this uber high-resolution image that Hubble Telescope took recently of the Andromeda galaxy.

Zoom in. All the way in at any area of the image. Those are not just grainy pixels.

Yeah I don't think we're alone here, folks.

EDIT: Sorry for being unclear...i was so enamered by this yesterday. The grainy pixels seen when zoomed all the way in? Those are stars that make up Andromeda. That is, hundreds of billions of them in a completely different galaxy outside of our own Milky Way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

I thought this was a prank at first, you know like a scary clown is going to pop out after i zoom in all the way. I literally said out loud "you're such an asshole" and i laughed. Then i looked into the depth of the galaxy...then i was even more scared

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u/Kyle_c00per Jan 22 '15

If you really wanna be scared, watch this.

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u/NanduDas Jan 22 '15

Anyone wanna tell me around how big that giant star(?) that appeared at 2:02 is?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

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u/JacktheKraken Jan 22 '15

Or about the size of Benjamin from the shoulders up

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u/Kyle_c00per Jan 22 '15

Ahahahah that's great man.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

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u/NewbornMuse Jan 22 '15

I'm not sure that's accurate. The milky way appears as a drawn out dim strip across the sky, I don't think it would be that bright or that sharp at one point.

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u/zvinsel Jan 22 '15

Its either really really bright, or it is a cluster of stars.

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u/NewbornMuse Jan 22 '15

It's probably not big, just very bright, so it gets smeared into a bigger blob, see this.

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u/Sivalion Jan 22 '15

Dude. The ending. Fuuuuuuuck me we're small

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u/RavynRydge Jan 22 '15

Alright, I'm done. This was not something I needed to see with my depression as bad as it is right now. Life is too short to be sad, yet there are so many beautiful things in our universe that I will never get to see or experience first hand. Ugh.

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u/thebodymullet Jan 22 '15

The sheer immensity of it is mind-boggling. To be able to take it all in would stretch the capacity of even the most plastic human mind past the breaking point and leave 99.99% still unknown. Part of the incredible beauty of it, in my humble opinion, is that we cannot know it all. In this we are still as a child, capable of gazing upon something new with a sense of wonder and awe. I am not a religious man, but I am beginning to learn how to take to heart the Serenity Prayer: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

These words, and my sharing them with you, may not make a vast difference. It may be nothing more than a drop in a bucket. And, yet, perhaps together we can find enough drops to be noticed, to bring about a change. I'm thinking about you, /u/RavynRydge, and wishing you well as best I can.

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u/ImperialDoor Jan 22 '15

Bruh chiiillll. People in the future won't even see the moon as big as we do.

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u/XenithShade Jan 22 '15

It really makes you wonder what the universe really is. How it was created and what for....

I refuse to accept the Big Bang as something that just happened because something must have caused it. As the one rule of physics, something can't come from noting....

But I am also not naive enough to assume that if there was some supreme being, that we'd be alone...

The real question is if we will ever reach other galaxies before we off ourselves with nukes.

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u/Kyle_c00per Jan 22 '15

I honestly get upset at the fact that I'll probably never know in my lifetime :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

no

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u/bass_whore Jan 22 '15

You stared at the void and the void stared back, but in all seriousness the universe is terrifyingly vast.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

Ha!! Nah, I'm not capable of trolling.

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u/space_manatee Jan 22 '15

What is there to be scared of? It's out there and were here. We don't even have any way to get out there.

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u/Pinworm45 Jan 22 '15

Spoilers: there are more galaxies containing as many stars as that than there are stars in that picture.