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[-] ki77erb@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If an advanced civilization developed the technology for interstellar travel, and came all this way to earth, I suspect one of 2 things will happen. Either their tech is so advanced that we won't even detect them, or they show up ready to communicate or destroy us.

I can't see them clumsily flying around, getting seen and whooshing off like some dumb teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch.

[-] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 years ago

I could see the studying us like we study animals

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I mean if you look at it like *observe and don't interact" then it makes a lot of sense why the craft keep going into the ocean. It's the best place on earth to hide and you can get anywhere on the planet that way.

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can see humanity as being an entertaining sitcom or something to an advanced spacefaring race. O ho ho ho they are so divided and primitive!

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

They travel thousands of light years just to pick up some ding dong and toss him back. I just picture a grey little alien dropping off a hillbilly after a solid butt probin' with a finger over his mouth uttering, "Shhhh! No one will believe you."

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

People travel to the other side of the planet to study ants.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Good point. I now believe in aliens.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don't really have anything special.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Unless they don't give a fuck if we see them.

[-] OtisRamflow@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

I would guess there are dumb alien teenagers as well.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Student driver

[-] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Safaris dont give a shift if the animals in the wild see them

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ukraine doesn't care if Russians see their drones. Why would aliens? If ufos are alien craft there's zero chance there's an alien in there.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't get why everyone was always assuming 'alien' vs "time travelers."

The interest in Earth, general similarity to our own tech but more advanced, coupled with non-intervention makes a lot more sense under those conditions than aliens.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'm starting to think they're inter dimensional, not extra terrestrial. Google what would a human in 4d look like to us, and it sounds just like the descriptions of angels in the Bible. Our brain just glitching out and seeing them as a mess of eyeballs and appendages. They can pop in and out of our reality, seemingly out of nowhere.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago

It amuses me that they get caught on VHS flying around clumsily, but no one's ever seen anything out in space. How did they get into the atmosphere? Not one telescope on the planet can spot ships flying towards the planet

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Actually there have been numerous videos of unknown flying objects in space. Where did you get the idea that there were none?

[-] bahbah23@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago

Other than Oummammua (or however it's spelled) name one that even remotely resembles a ufo

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Well I certainly don't know what their names are, but here is a video from NASA that shows a UFO in space.

https://youtu.be/0LS9z7n5iHU

[-] z500@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can believe it when we can barely manage to spot an asteroid heading in our direction before it's basically whizzing past us

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago

Do you mean the 34 thousand plus near earth objects that NASA monitors every day? Those "barely managed to spot"?

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Never said they track everything.
There's no aliens buzzing around though.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You implied we could see everything with telescopes, we can’t even see everything with the tech nasa employs.

Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t change the fact that we’ve missed lots of stuff that’s hit or missed earth despite your asinine claim we don’t miss anything.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I never said we don't miss anything. How stupid are you? If all you want to do is nitpick bullshit go bother someone else.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

You’re relying on the absence evidence to say something isn’t possible.

I provided proof that we don’t see everything, which is proof that it’s not impossible.

It may be nitpicking, but it’s the words you said. Don’t want to be corrected, don’t say incorrect shit dude lmfao.

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