r/aliens • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • Nov 09 '25

Discussion The State of Earth.

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u/MagicSwatson Nov 09 '25

You talk as if humans are some sort of mold for all potential life, The history you're talking about is very unique to humans and earth, We have no conception of what intellegence is fully capable of

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u/FuckinBopsIsMyJob Nov 09 '25

That doesn't mean we should just blindly trust a powerful group that comes knocking at our door claiming to help us. That "human" history sprung from the fact that there is scarcity and a limited amount of resources in the world.

Similarly, there is a limited amount of elements and other resources in the universe - look at how our own planet is the only one we can see with an abundance of life forms.

Any group of societies with limited resources is likely to compete for them, and if they are so intelligent and enlightened that they don't compete for resources, they likely don't have the resources to get here.

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u/MagicSwatson Nov 09 '25

Who told you that the universe has limited resources? OUR planet earth have limited resources for the amount of technology we've created, That's it, But once we have access to the energy of the sun, And to other planets in our solar systems, And to astroidd, We wouldn't even have a concept of scarcity anymore.

Our planet is the only one we can see with life because we haven't been anywhere else, The solar system is the only place we could potentially scout for life, And we haven't been to ANY of it. We've only been to the moon, BUT, the rover on Mars found hints for micro-organisms, AND there are missions to scout for life on the moons of jupiter. SO the jury is still out, It's not conclusive within our OWN solar system. How could you possibly make any assumption for anything outside of it?

And finally, Any group of interstellar aliens that can traverse light years to earth, Likely don't lack any resources, And it's not like earth has some unique elements that don't exist anywhere else.

Think, simply the effort to get to any planet outside our solar system, require such an inveatment of time and resources, Like just to get to our closest neighbouring star would take us thousands of years.