Yet Another Aliens Thread

[Ruptga]

It's great news though, apparently humanity is one of the First Ones and we just never noticed until now.

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed. And, the party won't be over when the sun burns out in another 6 billion years. The bulk of those planets — 92 percent — have yet to be born.

This conclusion is based on an assessment of data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the prolific planet-hunting Kepler space observatory.

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second link with commentary

 

[Gunslinger08]

Intelligent alien life is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, because of the news. I am not a physicist or anything, so this is my novice opinion.

I'd be interested to see how our definition of "habitable" has changed over time. Life may have evolved that doesn't match the parameters we currently expect.

Even if we do eventually find intelligent alien life, it seems highly unlikely we'll make meaningful contact with them. Assuming FTL travel and communication (such as traversable wormholes) is impossible, it could take thousands to billions of years for a round trip of messages. That assumes that we can figure out a way to communicate that they'll understand and that we can send a transmission powerful enough to reach them.

 

[dr150]

Earth may be early to the game of thrones, but that still leaves billions of planets/civilizations that are more evolved.



......We will ultimately have to bend the knee to the hive queen when she arrives with her minions.

 

[Denly]

We have technology to analysis to the whole "universe"?

 

[SlitheryDee]

In a nerdy way I kinda like the idea that we end up being one of the great "progenitor" type races. The ones that are always in sci fi universes who built an incredible, unfathomably vast empire in the distant past before disappearing mysteriously, leaving all their derelict technology behind for younger races to fight over.

 

[Ruptga]

We have technology to analysis to the whole "universe"?

If we can see it, we can analyze it. It takes time though, so for now we take a sample and extrapolate. From the second link:

Since Kepler started taking data in 2009, we’ve been introduced to a menagerie of small rocky worlds orbiting sun-like stars. Some of these thousands of worlds orbit their stars within the habitable zone — the region surrounding a star that’s not too hot and not too cold to allow liquid water to persist on its surface. By extrapolating from Kepler’s comparatively small dataset, astronomers have predicted that there should be around 1 billion Earth-sized worlds orbiting within their stars’ habitable zones in the Milky Way. If we consider there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, there’s a huge number of habitable, Earth-sized worlds throughout the cosmos.

In a nerdy way I kinda like the idea that we end up being one of the great "progenitor" type races. The ones that are always in sci fi universes who built an incredible, unfathomably vast empire in the distant past before disappearing mysteriously, leaving all their derelict technology behind for younger races to fight over.

I'd rather we be one of the races that gets its act together over the millennia, then hangs out somewhere to do its own thing. Whenever some upstart comes along wrecking shit we can put them down, then go back to peacing out. But if we all die then we won't exactly be around to feel sorry for ourselves, so that could be ok too I guess.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

 

[Protoman25]

It's things like this that make me wish that after we die we go into noclip mode and we can fly around and explore the universe :'(

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Humans be crazy.

 

[BUTCH1]

It's always been mind-boggling to me that when the Hubble see's is something that is 500,000 light-years from here, we are looking at that galaxy/ Star/Nebula as it was 500,000 years ago.

 

[Attic]

Yea it's interesting stuff.

I wonder who the most attractive alien in the universe is, can they compare to what south america pumps out?


The universe has an awfully long time and space for things to play out. I also wonder about inter dimensional beings and then time travel.

If time travel is inevitable (not saying it is) wouldn't some dumb shit Biff eff it all up for everyone? Yet it hasn't happened, so no time travel, so we die off at some point (which is fortunate?).


I ate 3 yogurt granola bars while reading and responding to this thread.