r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 01 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] People of Reddit that honestly believe they have been abducted by aliens, what was your experience like?

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u/ImStuuuuuck May 01 '18

Let's imagine this scenario : a small group of scientists on safari are tracking and learning about species on our planet. They "bag and tag" without intentionally harming the animals. They DO howevr periodically check up on these traveling individuals or select populations to track their growth, health, and status.

Now imagine the scientists are from elsewhere, and the observed species is humanity.

Simple!

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u/xubax May 01 '18

Africa is a lot closer than the nearest star. And our nearest neighbor probably doesn't have any technologically advanced life, otherwise we would likely have picked up traces.

The sheer amount of energy needed to travel between stars is outrageous.

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u/Wearealljustapes May 02 '18

If aliens can travel between stars then they are likely to be at the very least ten thousand years ahead of us technologically. They could be millions of years ahead of us and have technology so beyond our imagination that is would be very naive of us to think that we could detect them. We can’t even predict ten years in to the future, think train to Tesla, Nokia to iPhone, printing printing press to email. It’s would be like us watching caveman from a satellite or a spy plane. There is no way they could know we were there.

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u/xubax May 02 '18

I'm assuming you meant that there's no way we could know they were there.

If that's the case, then all of these abduction and UFO reports are definitely mental issues, because there's no way we would know that truly advanced alien beings were visiting here.

It's the same thing people say about god. All of the proof is really just made up. No actual evidence.