Poll Where are all the aliens? Are they hiding?

They could already be here as bugs. Do you really think aliens would look like us? What if our pets are evolved aliens?

 

I think we found Galifrey

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo

That or Roko’s Basilisk is messing with us.

UFO propulsion—a radio sail?


https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/marine-scientist-suggests-searching-earths-oceans-for-usos/

 

Rather more subtle than Saturn's pattern.

 

I, for one, welcome our new Quagaar overlords!

Any species that's figured out how to traverse the cosmos and all of the figurative hurdles therein gets my awe and respect.

And, of course, getting outside the spaceship to traipse around the joint. Then again, if it's true that bacteria and fritters reviving having been dormant in now-melting glaciers that ended up frozen when glaciers took off like hotcakes during the formation of the last ice age and everyone's in a tizzy in how zillions of humans and other species might die because of those, and those are all on the same planet... Never mind any beings from another planet and what they're bringing along with their matching baggage, cookbooks, and guitars to sing folk songs with?

Do they come from a planet that supports life as we know it? Or rather, at least as compatible in terms of temperature, gravity, oxygen, and so on, requirements? Life could develop elsewhere and under conditions that we might otherwise think are impossible. But compatibility being one issue, communication might be that much more difficult as well...

Silicon-based? Silicone-based?

A species that developed with the ability to breathe helium might be fun... if it expels hydrogen, it's got its own fuel source to toot out. If humans could eat beans and toot out rocket fuel, we'd all be interstellar.

 

Still have to factor the mass of the beans into the rocket equation though...

 

Bill's no fan of the Prime Directive
https://www.space.com/william-shatner-ufo-hearings-ridiculous-video
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...k_Shatner_beams_in_to_remote_meeting_999.html

"You mean, some highly intelligent being goes 10,000 light years with advanced technology, arrives here and hides?"

 

Helium doesn’t make many compounds, far too noble for that, but maybe it could play some role in the digestive process of a space based entity that excretes buckminsterfullerium and burps formerly intercalated helium atoms

 

Might explain why Rygel, Dominar of the Hynerian Empire, on Farscape farted helium.

 

Well…here is a clearing house…of sorts
https://www.space.com/pentagon-ufo-office-new-website-report-sighting

https://www.aaro.mil/

 

meanwhile Avi Loeb can no longer look at anything for longer than five minutes without discerning extra-terrestrial origin.

 

He just needs the Centauri hair now.

 

My take was always either they're too far away (the Fermi paradox) or they're already here in the solar system and have been for a very long time.

Not only that, Hawking's observation was valid: that technology develops primarily as a result of the pressures and needs of war, and that a truly spacefaring race would likely have developed technology due to being very aggressive and unyielding. They most likely would not be here to benefit us, but to secure resources by any means necessary. Human life would be an after thought, if a thought at all. More Borg-like than Vulcan-like.

 

5 - I don't think there's anything out there that is comparable to Human beings. And at such a vast distance both civilizations would be dead before contact.

 

In all the vastness of the Milky Way alone, I find it inconceivable that we're alone. Others have explained, far better than I could, as to why we haven't observed aliens, or had contact with them, but they're out there. I firmly believe that.

 

Once humans get a working warp engine, we'll do what we do best:

Establish a chain of greasy spoon diners in orbit over every major civilizational world, and fill the galaxy with our pop culture. lmao