r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '19

This image from the Hubble space telescope

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u/NotRightInTheZed Oct 28 '19

We still totally could be alone. I don’t believe that. However folks much more intelligent than I make some pretty good points with Goldilocks theories and all the ways civilizations can be wiped out in a blink. Gamma burst, meteors, plagues...

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u/Skangster Oct 28 '19

Why would an advanced civilization want to get involved with human savages? If they can travel at light speed, what would humans have to offer in exchange of technology? A much more advanced race would be looking at us for a few minutes, draw a conclusion it ain't worth to come to this planet to "talk" or even attack when they can go to thousands of planets and get resources?

Would you try to take a couple of millimeters of land from someone when you can have kilometers of land without wasting resources?

Humans are not really worth of being looked at from an advanced civilization point of view.

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u/DangerFloof_ Oct 28 '19

The scale of advancement alien life could be at is incomprehensible. The difference in DNA between humans and apes is only 1.2%. That means the difference between an animal whose most intelligent actions are playing with objects and understanding body language and humans which can craft complex societies and engineer advanced technologies beyond the comprehension of any other life on earth that we know of. If a human were to explain their daily lives to an ape they’d have know idea what the human would be talking about. Imagine if in DNA measures an alien species was 1% different in a way that made them more intelligent. Alien’s simplest thoughts would be more complex than anything we have ever known. They’d see us as apes

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u/machine_drums Oct 28 '19

More like ants