/sci/ - Science & Math

Fuck*ng when.

So, NASA will soon reveal we are not alone in this galaxy. Who do we send forth to represent our species - our keenest politicians, our brightest linguists, our genius physicists or our most knowledgeable anthropologists? (I nominate a mullah, a beekeeper and a drunk Chinaman.)

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-conference-on-discovery-beyond-our-solar-system/

We are the oldest, most advanced, intelligent life in the universe.

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>>7607337
When the ayylamos come to take everyone from Earth they will only take the intelligent ones with them.

You will be left on this planet.


ayy

>>6950292

It's pointless to assume that alien life forms would even remotely resemble a human.
Human creativity is essentially taking something you're familiar with and enhancing it / mixing it with something different. Every depiction of demons, angels and mythical creatures in general (nobody has ever seen things like that) is based on a mix of humans and/or animals.

That's creativity in a nutshell. That's why we imagine any extraterrestrial race to be similar to us. (pic related)

We don't know what they look like and I don't believe that we will every encounter any alien civilization. Perhaps they already found us (which is very unlikely) but we aren't capable of interacting with them.

>semi-relevant article about Fermi-Paradoxon
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-theories-on-why-we-arent-visited-by-aliens-yet