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You would think that knowing we aren't as smart as we think we are might lead us towards trying to fix that. That is the hope anyway I guess.

I don't think that is how we normally work in this society these days. We aren't inspired by better, we are victimized by it and try to tear it down.

But we also surprise ourselves when we least expect it sometimes too...

This is true. Perhaps an alien invasion would be the only thing that might have a chance of uniting humanity. Sad, isn't it?

Yes, very sad! I have a feeling it's going to take something that big though.

I agree with you. It has to be outside humanity, otherwise it will just be like it is now - human on human violence.

Yeah, for sure!

steaming pile of existential crisis

interesting ... I thought it was going to be about us realising that the whole aspirational thesis of capitalism - that it is possible for us to make a good/better life - was blown. I hadn't expected the faith direction.

that it is possible for us to make a good/better life

Whoever made the tech, must think we are like trying to teach a shark compassion.

I think you would probably like Billy Carson or Jason Jorjani. They talk about some pretty wild shit and I love listening to them with their takes on history. Some of it is that we aren’t the “smartest” or best humans that have lived and are likely on the 5th or 6th iteration of the human species. It really makes you question the history we are told - how long were the dinosaurs from us? “Trust the experts” when they fabricate the message to suit their needs? Fun mental shit to play with!

I think the whole alien thing is comical. There’s no way that we are the only intelligent life form out there. There’s more freaking galaxies than there are grains of sand. That’s nuts!

I think one of the sad things I realized is that we are likely not going to be able to travel the galaxies for a while because our bodies are so tied to and reliant on the earths atmosphere, sun, electrical energy and all kinds of stuff that if we were to be on a space voyage for 20 years we would likely fall apart at the current technology we know about.

Then there’s the thought that we live in a dome and the space station is a load of horse shit :D lots of fun theories to mess with!

Will have a listen at some point :)

There’s more freaking galaxies than there are grains of sand. That’s nuts!

So the "scientists" say! ;D

We can't even get out of our own solar system - getting out of the galaxy might require some kind of wormholing. If they are a thing...

I agree with you, people are not going to accept even the most irrefutable truth if it goes against their faith.

I was watching some video from England the other day showing hundreds of meters of dinosaur footprints through a quarry. That god is a wily tester of faith to go to so much effort for a deepfake, just in the off chance someone digs them up.

:) that is funny.

I finally accepted. I think there are aliens or UFOs. In science fiction movies. :) Those who believe in simulation theory can also believe in the existence of UFOs.

You don't think there is anything else out there, that earth is the only planet with intelligent life? Might be true.

What do you think your reaction might be if it is proven to you there is extra-terrestrial life. Does it change any of your other beliefs?

I need to witness something to decide and believe in it. In that case, my belief may change.

In 2-3 decades, a telescope in space will detect in the spectrum of exoplanet atmospheres those elements that indicate signs of life. We will know exactly where there is primitive protein life (perhaps not only primitive).

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This type of subject has always fascinated me, and I have seen several documentaries on Netflix about it, I also read the book Los Astronautas de Yavé by JJ Benítez, where he talks about Jesus Christ being an extraterrestrial put on earth, and when the bible talks about us being made in the image and likeness of God, it refers to a species of humans that has already evolved so much that they left this planet, in short there are so many things that one does not know what to think.

In some documentaries I have seen, they talk about us being prepared for an alien invasion that is coming, but it is nothing more than a parody of those who run the world, so if we were really ‘invaded,’ it would be hard to believe that it is true.

The truth is, many of us don't even believe in what we see anymore.

We won't have to repel an alien attack. They have known about this planet for a long time. People also don't fight ants.
UFOs exist, there is an otherworld with souls, the Universe is much deeper than modern science imagines

I've always thought there were aliens out there somewhere. As we slowly fill in the numbers in the Drake equation, it becomes statistically ever more likely. Why they'd come to a backwater part of the galaxy liek Earth is another matter entirely....

Of course, we don't know how advanced they are, but if they are able to come here they'll have to be more advanced than us. Either in terms of FTL travel, stasis technology or super-extended life expectancy.

If we want to know how that goes, we only have to look at what happened in the Americas (North, Central or South, the results were pretty much the same) when the Europeans turned up.