I'm pretty sure they don't

I find it quite hard to believe we are alone in a world this big @PowerElephant

I find it hard to believe we wouldn't have noticed alien life already if it was real

Why would you notice it?

Can we already observe the surface of other planets in other galaxies?

Radiowaves

Why do you assume they would be more technologically advanced than us?

If a civilisation ever got to radiowaves that's all it takes

What if they don't have a civilization and are what we would consider animals?

It doesn't take that long to produce sentiernt life, if evolution is to be believed

There are an untold number of planets out there bilions of years older than ours

Surely one of them invented TV?

What makes you think that?

What makes me think what exactly?

That they would invent TV?

It's not that hard to make and it's very useful

Or radio

Like if you know about electricity you know about radiowaves

And milions of planets have bilions of years of history more than we do, so a head start of bilions of years as far as technological proggress is concerned

a lot can happen in a billion years

Not saying it's impossible, just extremely improbable for the universe to be so deafeningly silent if life really can evolve

In a galactic sense Radio waves are fucking slow(766mph). Any civilization that had developed radio would have to have done so thousands upon thousands of years ago.

We've also found bacteria on other planets before, which, does count as alien life.

It's not a question of whether or not alien life exists. We know it does. The question is regarding civilizations.

We know that planets habitable by creatures like us are are fairly rare also.

The closest habitable exoplanet is 4.25 light years away.

edit: wtf did i get that 766 mph from?

that's not right

radio travels at light speed

Yeah I was gonna say

yeah, that's sound waves that are 766mph

bad search string

We never did find bacteria on other planets dude, that was all hoaxes or just plain old contamination

A few times misinterpretations of data

I belief that when looking for aliens we are only looking for shit that we can perceive and that's understandable, however when we look at the world from the point of something small like fungus, it becomes clear why we seem to be so lonely in this universe

If you look at fungi on blue cheese, you'll realize it's the *only* fungi on the cheese, and that's what we are maybe

All of life on earth could just be the fungi on this universe that's going to get eaten in a few billion years because we populate just enough of the cheese for it to be good and some fucking alien nigga is gonna eat our whole universe on a slice of pizza

An ant has no absolute idea what shit like electromagnetic waves are, there could very well be entire other universes constructed withing the electromagnetic world yet we fail to see it because of on how huge of a scale it is to us and we will most likely never perceive it

That's why we haven't met any other life forms

Because the fact that we are in the top layer of reality, over microbes, over atoms and other shit is just such a small chance compared to what we could be

Look at the life of a cell of penicillin fungi on blue cheese