Maybe they saw the Hitler signal and say, "Oh hell, no. Not in my backyard."

kek

the space jews

@Laucivol hitler's broadcasts were the olympics tho lol

>oh hell no, I'm not having ***exercise*** in my solar system

I go now

phone low battery so i may be gone for the night

The speeches got out, too.

true

TBH I don't think they're even viable

If an intial signal is.. and with sensitive enough equipment?

octopus are aliens that stranded into our oceans and had to devolve, degenerate to survive our enviornment

dont @ me

the signal intensity decreases exponentially with distance

and there's the cosmic background ~~and background from other sources~~ to contend with

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/493327813277908993/598881435025145883/efb41effbdfac5cde95edcc18a432f02.jpg

Possibility 1) We are observing electromagnetic waves, sent out by alien civilizations eons ago, and we *just happen* to be capable of observing them *precisely* in the window that they actually use electromagnetic waves for communication.

Possibility 2) It’s a naturally occurring phenomena that is continually occurring.

I’m going with 2), folks.

I did work with satcom and LOS eq.. so got a handle on it.

But, I tend to agree with #2.

i just want aliens

>fast radio bursts can be simulated by opening a microwave on earth

>aliens are just opening their planetary microwaves

That said, it's not conclusive # 2.

>***BUT WAIT***

>The EM drive is a microwave strapped to a cone

what if all alien civilizations died trought the same event: global communism

>aliens are using EM drives

@Laucivol Because we are yet to explain the origins of said waves.

were getting close to ito

very bad

yeh this is prolly the great filter

“Omg aliens!” Is clickbait.

Just as the nuclear age was.

well the nuclear age didn't kill off the romans

nah

rampant degeneracy did

but ye aliums

fast radio bursts are neutron stars or some shit

True, but the Romans weren't about to break the stars.

are we?

i mean doesnt proxima centauri have like 3 earth-like worlds

Just remember: Walt Disney was a major proponent of space travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZImSTxbglI&t=6s

Just a hair away.

also if we did find aliens

what would they look like

@ebinmemes22 Arguable. I tend to put more stock in the “Inevitable collapse resulting from the attempt to manage an empire spanning three continents.”

We'd yeet them.

what if an insect became the dominant species on some planet

or a fish

Fish women.

Insect: Starship Troopers.

or a bird

@robert from kinoplex hot bird women.

yES

Or we'd fuck them.

Where the alien bird women at?

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Most likely the former.

If life, or even intelligent life, evolved on a planet in a distant star system, we would have absolutely no way of predicting what form it would take.
We don’t know what natural environment it evolved out of, we don’t know what predators/prey it evolved alongside. We don’t even know if the predator/prey dynamic would even apply.
We don’t even know if that other planet evolved life based on carbon or if it was some other element.

Basically, if history is any lesson, it's war.

humanoid alien concepts are the creepiest shit

period

Ever see the Disney show about the hypothetical of what Mars might look like?

They theory crafted Silicon-based lifeforms.

@Laucivol I've read War of the Worlds.

*Really* fascinating.

I seriously doubt that alien life would appear *anything* like us.

Think it was from the 50-ish.

We aren’t going to meet sexy blue humanoid ladies. Sorry folks.

@Laucivol most were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZImSTxbglI&t=6s

Maybe. @Scale_e

@Laucivol Not gonna happen, bruh.

Walt was able to get Verner Von Braun to talk on his show.

So far we haven't seen shit.

The guy was connected.

@robert from kinoplex earth-like just means earth-sized

We're in the realm where absolutes are absolutely useless.

They're probably either Venusian, martian or mercurian

I'll be honest, I'm willing life will look more like us than not.

Very ded jej

I for one am hoping for Futanari aliens looking for pets

It would make everything easier if they're more like us than not, though.

Convergent evolution is a thing.

^

True, as we've see on our own world.

If we managed to evolve and become an intelligent species with our format, then it's hard to think a similar convergence would occur. The background would be drastically different, but they would still look similar to us.

2 arms, 2 legs seems the most efficient choice

4 legs would require bigger brain

I can see something like an octopus gaining sentience

I can absolutely say “We are not going to discover a race of sexually compatible, attractive blue alien women who are waiting for strong earth men to teach them our strange customs of M-F-F group sex.”

Eh, our brain:body mass as I get it is fething huge.

For example, let's say, instead of an ape-like template, these aliens developed from something similar to equine species.

@Scale_e that's where you're wrong, kiddo

Citation needed.

@Little Boots go away brony

They might have fewer digits and a drastically different face, but they'd definitely need some way to actually manipulate their environment, meaning that thumbs would still develop in-part.

And also herbivores won't have the time to be smart

(Unironically there are no citations. That's my point.)