The Truth Is (Finally) Out There

[Boggy Man]

This evening, I read an interesting article about the discovery of an essential molecule in space that could have seeded life on Earth, and other worlds:

https://nautil.us/we-came-from-outer-space-360264/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

And, while reading through this thread, I kept on thinking about this song:

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

[fear359]

If anyone thought that we were the only ones in the entire universe, must be on a serious and long time high. We aren't alone and the reason no one has dropped in to say hi is would you fly action the space to land in this crazy planet? Liars, cheaters, murderers, rapist, we are like a TV show to them,. They let us see their ships so they can watch us all go crazy.

[Theo]

Like others have said, I've always thought that for one to think that we are alone in a universe where there are more stars — let alone the planets that surround them — than grains of sand on all of Earth, is not logical (channeling my inner Spock here ). That said, given the incomprehensible vastness of space and the fragility of intelligent life, baring some future tech that we have yet to discover, the possibility that we are being visited by extraterrestrial life, while greatly intriguing, is also very remote.

That said, I also believe that hundreds of years from now we will look back on the technology of today as we do now look back on the primitive technology of the dark ages. So who knows what might be possible in the future, that is, if our reckless leaders don't send us back to the stone age before then.

I also have a somewhat more likely theory to explain some of the more unexplainable sightings. Maybe what we are seeing is our distant descendants coming back to visit and study our primitiveness. Many physicists and mathematicians agree that time travel is possible, given enough energy. So who knows, what we're seeing could be more "terrestrial" in nature than we sometimes think.

[Fred588]

You can tell when a story of seeing an alien being is false (by intent or not) because the being tend to look like ourselves. The real ones look like (and ARE) cats, and the enslaved us millennia ago.

[MadMax359]

You can tell when a story of seeing an alien being is false (by intent or not) because the being tend to look like ourselves. The real ones look like (and ARE) cats, and the enslaved us millennia ago.

we do wait on them hand and foot, and take out their poop

[Mynock]

You can tell when a story of seeing an alien being is false (by intent or not) because the being tend to look like ourselves. The real ones look like (and ARE) cats, and the enslaved us millennia ago.

That makes me think......I can't for the life of me remember the title or Author, but when I was a kid I remember reading a really cool Sci-Fi/Adventure novel set thousands of years in the future where mankind had destroyed itself via nuclear war and Cats and Dogs had evolved to take our place.

The book doesn't explain this, which makes things confusing at first, but as the Cat-Man protagonist moves through the story he slowly learns about the strange ruins his people have lived among all their lives and the true origins of his own species and the "Barkers" which are the Dog-People antagonists.

Silly premise, but I remember it being a really good read.

[PA Jack]

Certainly the math is in favor of life somewhere else - quadrillions, quintillions, and orders of magnitude beyond those numbers of stars and potential planets. The key factor is the limit on the speed of space travel. We keep saying that it is limited by the speed of light. That may be true, or maybe not - there may be physics beyond what we know now. It may not happen in this millennium, but a visit will certainly happen sometime. Probably not right now, but who knows?