President Donald Trump’s “bonkers” announcement Thursday that he plans to release government files related to alien life raised an immediate red flag for some journalists, and two of whom warned that the announcement was a clear smoke screen to distract the public from something far more nefarious.W...
  • criticon@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    If they discover us first this would happen in their planet:

    It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to "we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      The ship filled with interstellar face-eating parasitic spiders parked in the middle:

      “Alright boys, we got a 25 light year jump in either direction, which ones we wanna hit first?”

    • wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Only if you assume a human like logic system. Which there’s no reason to.

      Were just meat suits taking guesses at things. Its possible that were wrong on how everything fundlementally works. Because were limited to our monkey senses.

      Who knows what literal alians will use to rationalise our existence

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I was having a discussion on a philosophy discord about a year back. The discussion dove into theoretical alien rationalities… like, “what if an advanced fungus-like life form evolved into an intelligent species that would have no use for something like an internet, and they started their societies with that advantage?”