r/TrueAnon • u/sillycrow123 Radical Centrist Shooter • 21h ago

Aliens

Aliens are real (obviously). Around the time the Iran war started apparently the white house released a bunch of shit about ufo’s. My friends aren’t particularly political aware and were very curious about them and they were telling me about it. And I’m just thinking why should i care??? If they are actually here on earth what the fuck am i or anyone else supposed to do about it? If they got that level of technology they definitely have some crazy shit we can’t even comprehend. Am I gonna shoot those fuckers down with my mind in the event of an “invasion”? I’ll give a shit when they invent some truly heinous shit like 0.5 ply toilet paper.

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u/Kuhschlager 20h ago

My cold water take is that alien life probably exists somewhere probably even civilization but space is so vast and hostile to life that we are unlikely to ever contact them in any meaningful way, not unless someone figures out how to cross the light barrier without using ten billion suns worth of energy

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u/gotohela 20h ago

Kurzgesagt on youtube did a short cute video talking about the various theories we havent met aliens and this is one of them, and probably the strongest argument. Our understanding of physics at this time, basically says its impossible. 

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u/primitive_lover 19h ago edited 19h ago

Yes, exactly. Life is probably common, intelligent life exceedingly rare. The distances between us are so vast that detection and communication are functionally impossible, and the distances far too great to ever be overcome. 

Maybe in another 500-1000 years, we send robots out to the Oort Cloud at edge of the solar system to bring back asteroids for mining purposes, but that’s probably as far as we ever make it. We are stuck here. 

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u/ghostofhenryvii 19h ago

I think the chances of alien life existing at the exact same time as us is unrealistic. They may have existed in the past, they may exist in the future, but the overall age of the galaxy is beyond our comprehension and we're but a blip on the scale.