• ki77erb@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If an advanced civilization developed the technology for interstellar travel, and came all this way to earth, I suspect one of 2 things will happen. Either their tech is so advanced that we won’t even detect them, or they show up ready to communicate or destroy us.

    I can’t see them clumsily flying around, getting seen and whooshing off like some dumb teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch.

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        8 months ago

        I mean if you look at it like *observe and don’t interact" then it makes a lot of sense why the craft keep going into the ocean. It’s the best place on earth to hide and you can get anywhere on the planet that way.

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        8 months ago

        I can see humanity as being an entertaining sitcom or something to an advanced spacefaring race. O ho ho ho they are so divided and primitive!

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        They travel thousands of light years just to pick up some ding dong and toss him back. I just picture a grey little alien dropping off a hillbilly after a solid butt probin’ with a finger over his mouth uttering, “Shhhh! No one will believe you.”

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      Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don’t really have anything special.

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      I don’t get why everyone was always assuming ‘alien’ vs “time travelers.”

      The interest in Earth, general similarity to our own tech but more advanced, coupled with non-intervention makes a lot more sense under those conditions than aliens.

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      It amuses me that they get caught on VHS flying around clumsily, but no one’s ever seen anything out in space. How did they get into the atmosphere? Not one telescope on the planet can spot ships flying towards the planet

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        Actually there have been numerous videos of unknown flying objects in space. Where did you get the idea that there were none?

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        I can believe it when we can barely manage to spot an asteroid heading in our direction before it’s basically whizzing past us

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          8 months ago

          Do you mean the 34 thousand plus near earth objects that NASA monitors every day? Those “barely managed to spot”?

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              Never said they track everything.
              There’s no aliens buzzing around though.

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                You implied we could see everything with telescopes, we can’t even see everything with the tech nasa employs.

                Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t change the fact that we’ve missed lots of stuff that’s hit or missed earth despite your asinine claim we don’t miss anything.

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                  I never said we don’t miss anything. How stupid are you? If all you want to do is nitpick bullshit go bother someone else.

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                    You’re relying on the absence evidence to say something isn’t possible.

                    I provided proof that we don’t see everything, which is proof that it’s not impossible.

                    It may be nitpicking, but it’s the words you said. Don’t want to be corrected, don’t say incorrect shit dude lmfao.