posted in Asklemmy
Do you believe in aliens?
That’s a yes from me. But I wanna hear what others think.
Replying to @BlackSnack@lemmy.zip
Life on other planets? Seems likely.
Life on earth started pretty soon once the conditions were met.
Intelligent life (humanlike), maybe not. Most probably not. Out of millions of species through billions of years only humans have evolved to have this kind of thinking machine during a relatively short period of time.
Replying to @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The universe isn’t really that old so it probably just hasn’t had time to start getting crowded yet. We should really get our shit together in the next million years or so and get on top of that.
Replying to @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Funny of you to think humans will even be around in 100 years, let alone one million.
Replying to @bertlewirth@lemy.lol
By “we” I’m really thinking of all earth based life/intelligence, rather than just humans as they exist today. But yeah if humans self-delete in a way that doesn’t involve being replaced by something similarly capable (for instance a planet of the apes type scenario), then it’s probably going to be a lot longer than a million years before we recover, which could start to erode our cosmic timescale head start over life elsewhere in the universe. So we really shouldn’t do that just yet.