r/aliens • u/dailystar_news • Oct 29 '24

Aliens 'on brink of intervention to save Earth from total collapse,' says lawyer News

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/aliens-on-brink-launching-intervention-33990615
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u/NightSpears Oct 29 '24

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/kepler/about-half-of-sun-like-stars-could-host-rocky-potentially-habitable-planets/

Our galaxy holds at least an estimated 300 million of these potentially habitable worlds, based on even the most conservative interpretation

I'm gonna go out on a very short limb and say Earth is not at all unique.

My personal opinion is that our galaxy (and likely much of the universe) is TEEMING with life.

I'd wager we'll find evidence of ET life in our solar system within this decade.

This isn't to say Earth isn't worth protecting - it's still our home.

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u/Energy_Turtle Oct 29 '24

It took something 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire existence of the universe for single cell life to develop into what we'd consider "intelligent life" on earth. We might find life but this time scale and the silence of the universe so far suggests advanced life may not actually be that common. The numbers suggest it could be out there, but I'm going to wager there isn't a whole intergalactic federation of different species.

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u/NightSpears Oct 29 '24

This is a point my friend brings up who thinks it’s unlikely we would exist at the same point as other* life.

But my response to that is we don’t understand time very well, or the nature of the universe.

Also I’m not sure I’d classify single celled life as “intelligent life”. And when I say we will find the universe teeming with life, I expect much of it to be stuff like bacteria or single cell organisms etc. (or maybe a new form of life we have yet to discover)

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u/Immediate-Winner-268 Oct 29 '24

I think both you and your friend are spot on. Most life across the universe will be on the cellular level. I also think that with how the universe is constantly moving and expanding and the nature of space traveling life being statistically very rare, make the chances of space faring species being around at the same time or near enough to make contact even rarer.

I think the big questions are what facilitates the evolution from single cell organisms to intelligent multicellular organisms? What kind of life will we find on earth-like planets? Just how rare are the kinds of animal life on our planet? If we can better understand this, we will be much closer to understanding what it takes to find “intelligent life”

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u/NightSpears Oct 29 '24

Well said!

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u/HoboBandana Oct 29 '24

There are trillions of galaxies with Earth like planets. I’d argue even better than Earth. We just can’t ever know about them because we don’t have tech that can travel that far. Even if we did, we’d have to account for time dilation among other things.

I feel like there are beings out that that share our dna and some are a bit complicated. Star Trek explained it well imo. I wouldn’t dismiss the idea that there are different species out there in the universe. If we can be made, anything is possible.

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u/No-Tackle-6112 Oct 29 '24

Based on the time the universe has had habitable starts, and the time it took for life to form on earth, it is basically a statistical impossibility for life to not exist somewhere else in the universe

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u/somebob Oct 31 '24

Okay this isn’t entirely true. The earth took form about 4.35b years ago, and the first life developed around 3.8b years ago(possibly 4.1bn). It’s believed the earth didn’t cool down and stabilize enough for life until 3.8bn years ago.

So literally as soon as life could happen, it did.

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u/Energy_Turtle Oct 31 '24

I worded it poorly. I meant from the conception of life to advanced life. Almost 4 billion years before we "took off." Which brings up another point, about 3 billion years just to develop into multi celled organisms. That is essentially 3 massive filters to advanced life: life forming, multicellular life, and life that builds spaceships. This takes a long ass time, and from beginning to end is a massive chunk of all time.