🛸 👽 Hearing Tomorrow

[The Sultan]

Considering that it took 70,000 years to get here (assuming it was from the nearest solar system), they probably just want to rest - at least until they get hungry.

Hopefully, we're not too tasty.

70,000 years according to our understanding of technology. Maybe alien's brains are more advanced than ours. 

[pbiflyer]

70,000 years according to our understanding of technology. Maybe alien's brains are more advanced than ours.

I'm always stunned that these aliens can travel hundreds of trillions of miles across the harshest environment in the universe, but they still need flashy lights on their crafts to avoid collisions?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I'm always stunned that these aliens can travel hundreds of trillions of miles across the harshest environment in the universe, but they still need flashy lights on their crafts to avoid collisions?

#Nadjoke

[forgetful]

Is there/was there life outside our planet? I would think yes. Have they contacted us? I would think now. Just basing that on math and odds. How old is our universe? How old are others? Humans time on earth is just a blink of an eye compared to the age of the universe. Think of other solar systems/galaxies and how old they are, and how long a species would be around. Then them finding us during that blink of an eye, if their "blink of an eye" is the same time.

This is largely how I think of this, and an explanation for why we don't find evidence of advanced life outside our solar system.

Unless there is some fancy technology that deals with time dilation and speed of travel. The likelihood that a species would encounter are speck of the universe, while we exist is nil. Similarly, as we scour the universe with telescopes, the likelihood that intelligent life was generating signals that overlap temporally (taking into consideration the speed of light and related time dilation) with us looking for them is equally nil.

So, one of two possibilities regarding aliens.

1. Technology exists that is beyond our comprehension that deals with the speed of light and time/space dilation.

If this is true, and we've accessed alien technology as others claim...why haven't we used it to create more advanced forms of travel.

2. We have never encountered alien life/technology, which may or may not imply that there is no way to deal with the speed of light and time/space dilation issues.

Possibility 2 is more likely. Possibility 1 is more fun.

Either way, this hearing will have no effect on our lives.

[Jockey]

70,000 years according to our understanding of technology. Maybe alien's brains are more advanced than ours.

Exactly. I guessing that if they are that far advanced to solve space/time, they would see us as such a primitive society that we wouldn't be worth the trouble.

[lostpassword]

Is there/was there life outside our planet? I would think yes. Have they contacted us? I would think now. Just basing that on math and odds. How old is our universe? How old are others? Humans time on earth is just a blink of an eye compared to the age of the universe. Think of other solar systems/galaxies and how old they are, and how long a species would be around. Then them finding us during that blink of an eye, if their "blink of an eye" is the same time.

This is a common explanation for the Fermi paradox.  I am partial to the water world and zoo theories... simply because the are amusing to think about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[rocket surgeon]

when i saw the title of this thread, i thought it was going to be about the "little" big guy, pornhub accounts, blow, nasty guns and playing "do you know who i am" to other big guys. 

     the aliens are laughing, letting us self implode then fly in to sweep up the pieces

[Pakuni]

when i saw the title of this thread, i thought it was going to be about the "little" big guy, pornhub accounts, blow, nasty guns and playing "do you know who i am" to other big guys. 

     the aliens are laughing, letting us self implode then fly in to sweep up the pieces

Which do you think we find first, proof of alien life or the missing witnesses*?

* excluding those under federal indictment for selling weapons to Iran and serving as a Chinese agent

[jesmu84]

These hearings don't matter. Until there's hard evidence, it's all speculation

[MU82]

when i saw the title of this thread, i thought it was going to be about the "little" big guy, pornhub accounts, blow, nasty guns and playing "do you know who i am" to other big guys. 

     the aliens are laughing, letting us self implode then fly in to sweep up the pieces

You are a parody of yourself, a one-man Onion mocking himself. Well done.

[Uncle Rico]

You are a parody of yourself, a one-man Onion mocking himself. Well done.

He's probably been cleaned out by the gold coin scammers

[withoutbias]

when i saw the title of this thread, i thought it was going to be about the "little" big guy, pornhub accounts, blow, nasty guns and playing "do you know who i am" to other big guys.

Yeah, of course you did.

[Coleman]

We think too much of ourselves.

If there are aliens with the capabilities of interstellar travel out there, they really have nothing to gain from dealing with us outside of scientific curiosity. We are a relatively unspectacular species living on a dinky, out of the way planet. It's like one of us walking by an anthill.

Surely there would be some comedic value for them

[withoutbias]

Surely there would be some comedic value for them

RoQQQet's Scoop posts are all the comedic value they'd need.  Fairly good human defense right there.  They'd want nothing to do with humans if they saw the stuff he says.

A fitting username.

[Jockey]

You are a parody of yourself, a one-man Onion mocking himself. Well done.

Perhaps a result of an alien mind probe? The first real evidence of these dastardly travelers?

[MuggsyB]

Stop attacking 🚀.   The real question is what should we do in a Defcon 1 situation?

[tower912]

Make peace with your maker.   Pray for a quick death. 

[MuggsyB]

Make peace with your maker.   Pray for a quick death.

That's pretty sage advice Tower.

[MUBurrow]

Is there/was there life outside our planet? I would think yes. Have they contacted us? I would think now. Just basing that on math and odds. How old is our universe? How old are others? Humans time on earth is just a blink of an eye compared to the age of the universe. Think of other solar systems/galaxies and how old they are, and how long a species would be around. Then them finding us during that blink of an eye, if their "blink of an eye" is the same time.

This is mostly where I come out, but I think we tend to overly-deify theoretical alien civilizations on account of their necessarily-superior technology.  But that doesn't necessarily follow. Just because their technology would be so much more advanced does not mean they wouldn't have some of the same "universal" motivations that would make humans interested in other less advanced civilizations if we had the means.  Pure curiosity, rogue alien actors, and of course sex stuff are all reasons members of alien civilizations might want to f**k around on Earth.

[Skatastrophy]

Make peace with your maker. 

Love your mother.

[Hards Alumni]

Honestly, who knows.  I watched some of the testimony and found it interesting.

If these men can back up their claims or give congress meaningful further questions to ask then maybe it wasn't a total waste of time.

I think there is a better chance that we never hear about this topic again.  There are too many reasons that this stuff doesn't exist rather than it existing.

But I guess we will find out one way or another 

[Jay Bee]

Hopefully the press pool just asks KJP and then we'll all be fully enlightened

[Dr. Blackheart]

Love your mother.

Incest is best?  Explains Scoop.

[Lennys Tap]

Hopefully the press pool just asks KJP and then we'll all be fully enlightened

Her response will be what it almost always is: "I won't get into hypotheticals". For maybe the first time it will actually be suitable.

[brewcity77]

Stop attacking 🚀.   The real question is what should we do in a Defcon 1 situation?

Make sure that the panic bells and red alert are indeed detecting something here from somewhere else, not just a collection of miniature dirigibles.