https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planet-detected-nearest-neighbor-star-proxima-centauri?tgt=nr

Man...i hope I'm still alive when we discover life on other planets.

chaos & destruction?

or

peace & harmony?

Try to fuck 'em.


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>chaos & destruction?
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>or
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>peace & harmony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftGMOQcniOk

humans will never get this shit right.

EVAR!

1/25th of the nation will live in sheer bliss while the rest of us eat each other.

99.9% of all conclusions regarding aliens and/or our potential interaction with them is 100% rooted in our understanding of the human race and science fiction fantasies.

This includes the scientists who based their search for “planets that can sustain life” because that search, at least based on most reports I’ve read on the subject, tends to presuppose life as *we* know it.

Even if we look at the way humans interact with each other on micro and macro scales, there’s no telling how we will interact 100, 200, 300, 1,000 or more years from now.

So how we’ll interact with another species from another world depends on too many factors to count and at least half that equation (the aliens) is a complete unknown that relies on too much conjecture to take seriously.

kim stanley robinson's aurora from last year is a good example. though i guess we're only talking about "hard" science fiction.

you're right....we really have no idea what to expect.

it's hard for us to even wrap our heads around the distances and the possibilities. but it's exciting though. i was talking about this with my class today, and it's pretty fucking amazing (even though i think it was suspected) that there's a planet this close, that's almost Earth size, and that it's getting similar amounts of energy from promixa as we do from the sun.

at this point, it seems like the technology and will *might* be out there to find evidence of extrasolar life and maybe even send probes within our lifetimes, which i wouldn't have believed possible a decade ago.

so how the fuck are we going
to get along with beings from another planet or galaxy

Who knows where how human society will function at that point.

Who knows what any potential alien species would look like, let alone how they would receive another species such as ourselves.

We could wind up a perfect match for all we know, just good ol’ PB&J.

having an "other"

humans with different beliefs are presently co-existing better than any other time in human history.

But I was more talking about non-intelligent life. I don't think anything that there is any chance we encounter intelligent, social beings in my lifetime.

that's dope.

say its just a planet full of animals....we go there and start slaughtering everything because we want to terraform and develop.

say its a planet with intelligent life? too many scenarios on how that might play out, but I don't have any faith in the human race to be diplomatic.

thought i had the other day on this topic. Earth is 4 or 5 billion years old. Say this new planet is 6 or 7 billion years old. that's almost 2 billion year evolutionary head start. look at how far humans have come from 10,000 BC to 2016. still so much we can't do as a species like faster than light travel. but in a billion years time we might have mastered teleportation.

we run up on a species that already has a billion years on us in existence, all of a sudden we are the ants on an ant hill about to get squashed.

they'd probably figure out we were here
and would probably figure out how to Mayflower to another solar system before us

http://i.imgur.com/f7FdEdG.jpg?fb

why haven't they yet?? maybe the have??

start going down the rabbit hole at that point.

but personally, i'm on the "universe is way too big for it to be just us" train.

intelligent life out there may have taken a different path towards intelligence. maybe humans are the only ones warring with each other. another species might have the key to existence that doesn't include conquering and colonization. that's life as we know it, but what about unknown life?