715 new worlds discovered

[Tsar]

I'll just stay hopeful that if people ever get the power to end poverty/hunger/disease/etc. they would actually use it.

Dude they don't need alien tech to do that now. America has the power to do it now but its not in their best intrest.

[The Joker]

Sort of on topic I guess but I do believe there is life out there, I also think who or whatever they are will be significantly smarter, more advanced and intelligent than we are....I mean just look at the state of Earth...Nothing could be worse than we are lol

[addam]

Don't have such a negative view of humanity Sure we've got lots of problems, but we're still technically in our infancy as a species, still evolving. And there is a lot of good in this world, and a lot of potential for good

[The Joker]

Don't have such a negative view of humanity Sure we've got lots of problems, but we're still technically in our infancy as a species, still evolving. And there is a lot of good in this world, and a lot of potential for good

Mmmm I think if we ever stumble upon another planet with living creatures/people/aliens, the Americans will go looking for oil, the Taliban will try hijacking their spaceships to crash into shit, Europe will try taxing them to death and force a single currency on them, we really don't have much to offer them, the aussies will show them how sheep are supposed to be used, China will copy all their tech and then sell half assed versions of it...I can go on lol

[addam]

Mmmm I think if we ever stumble upon another planet with living creatures/people/aliens, the Americans will go looking for oil, the Taliban will try hijacking their spaceships to crash into shit, Europe will try taxing them to death and force a single currency on them, we really don't have much to offer them, the aussies will show them how sheep are supposed to be used, China will copy all their tech and then sell half assed versions of it...I can go on lol

Haha perhaps What an interesting story that would make

[Ike_009]

SA would corrupt their government and Zuma would build a house on their moon for his 90th wife

[AlphaJohn]

I'm with wheelchair man on this subject. There is most probibly life everywhere in the universe as the building blocks are all over the place. In fact life never even formed on this planet we now call home, we hitchhiked on a rock.

The only question is, is there ingeligent life, or more advance than us ie survived the self desruct age. If there are the we should do everything possible to hide from those beings, cause we will be the natives in this Spanish inquisition.

[AlphaJohn]

The Fermi paradox is really interesting to read up about, it's basically this:

So maybe life on earth is unique

The biggest problem with Fermi Paradox is that it thinks that more advance tech = instant travel. Problem with that thinking is that everything in physics tells us faster than light travel is impossible, hell matter can't even get to the speed of light.

And you need faster than light travel to get anywhere. I mean for one look at humanity's current reach at Light speed(There are stars bigger than our reach) vs size of the universe

So yeah, there is that

[Snare]

The biggest problem with Fermi Paradox is that it thinks that more advance tech = instant travel. Problem with that thinking is that everything in physics tells us faster than light travel is impossible, hell matter can't even get to the speed of light.

And you need faster than light travel to get anywhere. I mean for one look at humanity's current reach at Light speed(There are stars bigger than our reach) vs size of the universe

So yeah, there is that

That would bring forth the opposing problem. Considering if there is vastly intelligent life out there; and they managed some form of interstellar travel; would it not be tremendous waste of resources to go a little rock such as our own for no other purpose than conquest?

[DarthMol]

Interesting note on FTL travel - one of the things that makes it impossible is that you would not be able to navigate since your sensors would not be able to send and receive signals fast enough before you got there. In other words FTL travel necessitates FTL commnications.