High degree of confidence that we are not the only communicative species in the galaxy [maybe the cluster], much less the universe. The probability that we encounter another of these species is practically zero, though.

We're just now seeing light from stars in our galaxy that was emitted nearly 100K years ago. The most distant star we've observed is 9 billion light years away. Sentient life can evolve in 100K years, and with the upper observable limit being 9 billion years, it's inconveivable that we don't share this universe with someone else, we just can't see it.

I think it’s more inconceivable that there are people on this world that think they know everything. So much out there to stretch the knowledge of our most intelligent.

Too many sightings for me to ever believe that.

Yeah those pesky scientists... always trying to question things.

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just land and say “hello.” That’s what we would do if we found life on Mars. The secrecy angle makes no sense to me.

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just land and say “hello.” That’s what we would do if we found life on Mars. The secrecy angle makes no sense to me.

I think it’s been brought up before but if you haven’t yet, watch the “ unacknowledged” documentary . Lots of food for thought . Put me firmly in the there’s no fucking way we are alone camp too.

Unacknowledged on Netflix spells it all out

I’ll watch “Unaknowledged”— sounds interesting. But humans can’t even observe a clam without messing with it, so I’ll be interested in how other species watch us without interacting. Unless they do interact, and alien abductions are real.

Iirc Peoria Matt will vouche for Unacknowledged being at least thought provoking and not tabloid garbage.

Iirc Peoria Matt will vouche for Unacknowledged being at least thought provoking and not tabloid garbage.

Was Peoria Matt abducted? Probed?

Unacknowledged is great.

I think it’s more inconceivable that there are people on this world that think they know everything. So much out there to stretch the knowledge of our most intelligent.

Is there supported evidence? I remember him being on Rogan’s podcast years ago. He came off as sketch.

So, if extraterrestrial life does NOT exist, then someone please explain to me Dignified Rube?

I would say that we are not alone, but I would also say that most so-called "sightings" are just people seeing something natural or man made in the night sky that they do not understand.

It may simply be impossible for faster than light travel to actually be accomplished. I believe some MIT physicists calculated that to reach FTL speeds would require a power generation sources that is more than 10x greater than our own sun's total output. If that is true, then while we may not be alone, other intelligent lifeforms will certainly not reach us nor will we ever reach them.

Right, cus if we can't do it, nothing else can.

I just don't see how you can generate 10x the power of a star.