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I am sure that's it.
We are a drive thru Safari- UAP sightings have alien families laughing >

How sad would it be if we are actually the first intelligent life in the universe? >

Very uplifting actually, the first attempt at something usually sucks, shows there's lot of room for improvement for the universes next attempt. >

This is so unexpectedly optimistic, and very true >

If you're driving cross-country, you don't stop in Bumblefuck, Missouri. Makes sense. >

One of the better theories about aliens I have beard is that they really do use us as a tourist spot. >

Nice beard. >

ITT: People that didn't read the article. >

think about it for a sec... even if the nearest intelligent life that COULD see us. is probably seeing us a few thousand years ago.. and well.. we weren't exactly doing great back then.. making shit out of rocks, no technology, maybe some fire.. but hell even natural things can make fire.. so yah, we were just basic farmers and explorers.. with some basic communication skills.. nothing more. no advance civilization would take there time on us at this point.. we probably won't see any interested Aliens for a good 500 years or more.. WHY? because at this rate they could see the advancements we made over the last 500 years and then project where about we are now, and our intelligence level.. enough to try and esblish contact.. and this is assuming they are in a few thousand lightyears of us and have noticed us in the last 100 years (hopefully due to atomic bomb or something that might move faster than light but we haven't discovered it.. like gravity waves or something) >


think about it for a sec... even if the nearest intelligent life that COULD see us. is probably seeing us a few thousand years ago

we've had radio for a 100 years give or take.
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impossible for any signal ever transmitted on this planet to be more than 100 light years away (give or take)
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If biotic planets are common, putative advanced civilizations may send probes not to any planet showing biosignatures, but rather to planets with technosignatures, such as radio broadcasts. >

true, but they can still scan planets in the region and such the good old telescope way.. assuming they have super-masive awesome ones in space that make JWTS look like a baby.. then they could just see us and where we are at that time period. >

But they still can't do that faster than light travels. Right now, only a civilization with 100 LY radius of us could see us and that assumes our earliest radio signals haven't attenuated into the cosmic background radiation. 
The galaxy is roughly 50kLY in radius. That's just under 8 billion square LY, assuming you're talking a perfectly flat galaxy for a moment. In 1000 years, any radio signals we've sent could never cover more than 3 million square LYs - about 0.0375% of the galaxy. 
It doesn't matter how advanced their technology is, unless there is a way for particles to both move faster than light and convey information. If they're relying on light, we won't be visible at a distance to anyone in any kind of meaningful time frame. Its like finding a dinosaur fossil, and then expecting to find a live T-Rex somewhere. >

I'm not talking about RADIO WAVES man.. who cares if they can hear us or not. I'm talking about light waves.. literally LIGHT will be seen from our planet as any object that reflects light, and that light the reflected off us or emmetted from us, will be traveling at the speed of light.. and we've been around long enough for things to see us a few thousand LY away.. just like if we look at any planets in our telescopes, that's not RADIO WAVES we're looking at man.. it's Lightwaves, and it's a few Light minutes old or light hours old compared to when it left that planet, but things further away are light years and so on.. am i missing something here? I'mjust saying that they (aliens) could be looking at a bunch of dino's or they could be looking at our ansestors form liek the early 100BC time frame and we're just not that interesting to come and check out yet.. (assuming they even checked our planet out anyway from a distance).. then there's the question of whether they even have tech to visit us so far away, even in our own galaxy.. >

I would posit that there are very distinct signs of a lack of intelligence here. >

Posting that to r/science is some probably unintentional, nontheless high level, trolling. >

It’s not saying that we’re dumb, it’s saying that we’ve only been smart for half a second in the grand scheme of our species existence. 
Let’s say that we’re the only intelligent life in the Milky Way, and there’s intelligent life in the closest Galaxy to us, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is 25,000 light years away. If an alien on a planet in that Galaxy were to use a telescope to see us, they wouldn’t see an intelligent species, sending out radio waves trying to contact them. They would see primates who just figured out to use bags made out of vines. >

I don't think people even read abstracts tbh lmao (myself included, I skimmed it.)
Only skimmed it because I have been agreeing with this theory for soo so long now lol. A species capable of interstellar travel attempting to contact us at this point in our global development would be like me trying to strike up a conversation with a stink bug. More trouble than it's worth to understand us, probably (if this theory is "the" truth lol) >

Or…… what if there isn’t any other “intelligent” life out there.  What if this is it >

The problem is that’s a statistical improbability >

Either that, or they've observed and seen what a destructive, divided species we are, and decided to let us bake for another couple millennia before checking back in to see if we've evolved or just killed ourselves. >

Earth: a primitive race where god plays a major role in daily living and politics >

Yeah the title isn't accurate at all; This is talking about a potential reason we haven't been directly contacted - namely that other advanced civilizations have not received our radio signals yet.
It has nothing to do with our intelligence. >

Mostly harmless >

"They came here, saw a traffic jam of off-road vehicles, and left" - Gallagher >

Another possibility is that we are not very tasty. >

I don't think aliens have detected Earth yet.
Even if they do, I don't see a reason why they would spend trillions of their monetary unit to visit Earth.
Unless, of course, they are so advanced that interstellar space travel is cheap. >

I wholeheartedly believe that there are many hundreds of intelligent alien species out there. There’s what, 550 billion star systems in our Galaxy alone? Even if intelligent life is 1 in a trillion, if you average 5 astral bodies per system, that’s nearly 3 Trillion astral bodies that could possibly play host to an intelligent alien species. So just imagine how many possible extra-galactic intelligent alien species there are, but also consider how big those numbers are… we would need there to be such extremely unbelievable luck that there is an intelligent alien species out there, and that that intelligent alien species has developed FTL Travel, and then that alien species happens to discover us. 
That’s like trying to find a single grain of sand in a haystack the size of the sun. >

it's the navigational hazard warning beacons that surround this system
..... broadcasting fox news highlights >

Lol, we know exactly why, we’re on the bottom side of the Prime Directive. We have not yet accepted what we are and chosen to serve our purpose of our own free will. We still choose war and slavery to finance the human economy. We choose to exploit human suffering for fun and profit, so have not yet reached Quantum Self Awareness, so they can’t yet serve as our teachers. Instead they have to watch us for when we launch nukes in war again, in case they need to give us an abortion to protect the womb of Earth. 
The only tool we have to fix this problem and have then come on down and say hello and introduce us to the Universe is the Hydrogen Economy. Why we choose to ignore it truly baffles me, because it solves all energy, fresh water, and carbon problems that we face along with economic. We eliminate carbon from the global energy equation and in the cause, we deplete down nuclear waste to a non radioactive state. People just don’t want to invest anything at all in creating a future, choosing to just exploit the past to self destruction. >

Aliens haven't contacted earth probably because there's no planet within hundreds of lightyears that we think could even harbor life let alone intelligent life. The idea aliens exist when we know for a fact they don't exist in our solar system has always puzzled me with people. >

Its basically the law of averages. There are 8 planets around this one star. There are at least 100 billion stars in our small galaxy. When you look up in the sky, scientists estimate that there are over 100 billion galaxies in that viewing area alone. That's a lot of planets for only one to support life. 
With these kinds of numbers, I have trouble understanding how people wouldn't believe there are aliens. And if you consider how far we have come in just the last century, imagine if we had another thousand years or even a million. Do you think we could figure out faster than light travel? Because there are systems in our galaxy alone that has existed for billions of years longer than ours. >

You can't use statistics on a sample size of one. >

Check their assumptions.          

Kipping’s conclusion is that if planets with similar conditions and evolutionary timelines to Earth are common, then the analysis suggests that life should have little problem spontaneously emerging on other planets.                 

Again, we only have a sample size of one. It's a guess dressed up in a mathematical dress, but still a guess. >

So is the big bang theory, yet a few certainly believe in that. >

It's well supported because it has a lot of observational evidence for it. Exactly what observational evidence is there for aliens (I'll give you a hint .. zero). >

They are not a scientific probability. The correct answer is 'we don't know'. >

It’s fair >

there are lots of resources though...moreso than anywhere else in this  neck of the galaxy. if aliens existed, had the technological ability for interstaller travel, and by some weird set of circumstances found themselves in our solar system, they'd help themselves to what we've got to offer. >

Yeah I haven't seen many signs of intelligence here either >

Terrestrial tadio+TV broadcasters have been blasting strong signals into the void for about a century. Program content would *prove* a lack of humanity's intelligence. 8-) >

Now we just have to wait for the signals to reach Omicron Persei 8 >

I don't disagree.