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Quoted from Pinballer67:Simple answer: they aren't there.
Believe me: I wish they were!
I take the Star Trek theory of non interference. I would guess that just obtaining our history to take back would be incredible. I know that if we found an earth 2 we would go nuts comparing our history to theirs.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:So what?
By the way, ESP and all that is a crock, too, in case anyone was wondering.
What about Hyperthymesia? I’m very impressed with this ability and wish we all had it. The brain has a lot of untapped potential.
Hyperthymesia is an ability that allows people to remember nearly every event of their life with great precision. Hyperthymesia is rare, with research identifying only a small number of people with the ability. Studies on hyperthymesia are ongoing, as scientists attempt to understand how the brain processes memories.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160125-the-blessing-and-curse-of-the-people-who-never-forget
Quoted from phil-lee:The same guy has a good argument for why we will never establish a colony on Mars.
Not trying to be defeatist or negative, but when I hear good logic backed by facts its hard to ignore.
Not in our lifetime perhaps but would love to see it terraformed and watch the politics on who gets to move there. The entire process would be epic to live through and watch.
Quoted from PinballKen:Interesting article about China investing more into a SETI type program.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/
Since we lost Aercibo maybe we could get Jodie Foster over there to film Contact II.
Quoted from thekiyote:I could absolutely believe that Earth is some kind of Galactic Sentinelese planet, where, if there are aliens somewhere out there that know about us, there's a do-not-contact order out for us, probably for the same reason we have one for Earth's Sentinelese, in that they're considered to be an endangered tribe, previous attempts at contact were met violently and there's not many other opportunities to watch a stone age tribe function in the modern day. We're also probably fairly inconvenient to get to and any contact that would happen is because of either mistake or somebody breaking the rules.
It's also interesting to think about what those alien anthropologists actually know about us. It's completely possible to think that they might be able to arrive and avoid detection, sticking to uninhabited areas (of which there are still many), but not, say, know how to tap into our internet or even know how our society functions, kind of like how we can fly a plane over and take pictures of North Sentinel island, but we can't hear them talking or know how their tribe is structured. We can just observe the big structures and what people are carrying and try to make inferences.
Full disclosure, I don't actually think this is happening, but if somebody told me that it is, I wouldn't immediately write them off as crazy. It would also be a good explanation for a number of the sightings that can't be explained in other ways, while also describing why contact hasn't progressed further than that.
Assuming they are 'good' that would make perfect sense. You would hope if we make it that far into the future our species would turn out 'good' also and do the same if we were to find life elsewhere.
If the time travel stuff has happened we couldn't know if anything has been altered but sure seems like some of the important points of our past haven't changed. I'd love to go back and save John Lennon for example. But the consequences of doing so are mind boggling so hopefully it's in smarter hands if it's possible.
Quoted from vid1900:The Three Body Problem books are a masterpiece of sci-fi lit
The concept makes sense, a great reason why we probably shouldn't be sending out signals to say we are here.
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