/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11464931]

>dude either there are super advanced aliens OR we are completely alone in the universe!!
why can't there be a third option? why must we deal in absolutes?

[Anonymous No.11464985]

>>11464931
Because of the law of the excluded middle

[Anonymous No.11464999]

>>11464931
There are obviously aliens out there. Alien life would be very similar to Earth life too, especially plants

[Anonymous No.11465165]

Because they’re too dumb to think that humanity is not yet technologically capable of determining that the so-far silence is due to a lack of aliens

[Anonymous No.11465174]

>>11464985
*fallacy

[Anonymous No.11465808]

>>11465174
what fallacy?

[Anonymous No.11466046]

>>11464931
>Took a billion years for life to appear on Earth
>Took another long span of time for multicellular life to appear and crawl out of the ocean
>Took yet another long period of time for humans to appear
>Out of all the millions of animal species on Earth, only humans have civilization
>Out of all the human societies on Earth, only an insignificant percentage developed civilization while the rest were living naturally in tribes and clans
I think it's unrealistic to assume that intelligent life is common. And it's also unrealistic to assume that intelligent lifeforms would have the same ape-like instinct for conquest and domination, which is what civilization requires.

[Anonymous No.11466296]

>>11466046
Just look at octopuses and cuttlefish. They are intelligent and all they want to do is be left alone.

[Anonymous No.11466390]

>>11466296
they're pretty cool
sometimes they want to be petted, or to get inside of small spaces just to see what's in there

[Anonymous No.11468068]

>>11464931
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[Anonymous No.11468419]

>>11466296
based cuttlefish respecter