Initially I did a spit take because it just seems so silly, just preposterous. But on second thought Seth Abramson is not a jokester he's a pretty serious researcher so let's wait and see but could this be the beginning of alien apocalypse dystopia blah blah blah.....??
I don't believe it at all really, I mean come on. The task of interstellar travel is just... immense. I won't believe it until I see it really, I get that theoretical interstellar aliens would have some kind of incomprehensible tech that allows them to travel FTL but I don't know if that's actually even possible so yeah it's just a little ridiculous to me
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FTL isn't real and there's no reason to believe it's possible. You might as well just say "Yeah they wished on a unicorn to travel the eleventeen billion light years to get here.
Yep exactly
thank you for the response, I thought it was pretty silly myself also but then that little inner engine started spinning, and I got excited, "hey, maybe we will be able to rise above the mundane for a bit, and focus on cool, earth shattering stuff..." but yea, no.
Well, hey if they come with actual evidence, then OK that would be really really exciting. I mean, it's I guess possible, just don't believe it until I see it
Hate it break it to you, but even if we are 'able to rise above the mundane', this weird thing called the material conditions of existence keep popping up and have a far greater affect than any traveller.
The main reason I'll never believe until I see it is pretty close to yours, but also: if aliens have achieved interstellar travel, we are literal ants to them. We are less than ants, really. Why would they ever maintain secrecy? Like, what kind of weaklings or cowards would they be that they're hiding from organisms that are less than ants to them? Maybe if they wanted to do some kind of scientific study and didn't want to disturb us?
Yeah also a good point. Another thing is, we're capturing them? How exactly? Why are they such fuck ups that they manage to crash all the time also lol. The counter argument for this is to initiate contact without intimidating us, which I guess is plausible but idk seems a little far fetched