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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
seriouspost: when we find alien life, what will the specifics be? will it be some lame rear end bacteria, or like, some undoubtably artificial signal from space?

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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Screaming Idiot posted:

Bacteria. At most. In all likelihood there are no aliens anywhere.

I think the more likely possibility is that the universe is so vast the various intelligent races never come across one another.

Probes are possibility, maybe. But not piloted crash, most likely.

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

rezatahs posted:

i feel like they may start us slow with bacterias even though we have been in contact with actual intelligent life for a while :greenangel:

Having you been to dc? No way they could keep something like that secret

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Chomp8645 posted:

The problem with space is that it's boring.

In media space has aliens, lasers, mysteries left behind by the ancients... and everyone gets to cruise the galaxy with warp drive and artificial gravity. It's cool and exciting and a new adventure always awaits!

In real life space has nothing. No aliens, no lasers, no ancient mysteries... and you travel at glacial speeds while peeing in a bag and eating lovely food. It's tedious and lame and nothing is out there but new kinds of rock and radiation.

if we blow our alien wad on bacteria people will be like oh oh there's alien bacteria that will make me poo poo a lot uh ok, we gotta hold out for the good stuff (alien equivalent of pete & pete)

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