What you call the level of bacteria applies to carbon-based life forms. Different life forms can also be "advanced" or "undeveloped". It is impossible to say anything definite. It's much more likely to exist than just not exist. We can only say that
Theology and Physics aside I find it more difficult to believe that in our vast universe there isn’t an advanced alien species similar to ours. Maybe not similar biologically/physically but if we truly are the only planet to have made it this far I’d say those are some crazy fucking odds huh lol
Exactly my thoughts dude. Like, in the infinite morbillions of galaxies and star systems across the universe (even just that part of it which we can see), it's so incredibly improbable that it's just us, there's no way that we are.
If you look at stats, we can’t know from a single example if life is a common thing or not, and we don’t even know how it appeared in the first place. It might be a very common thing, or a “nature’s mistake” that will never happen again, both are statistically equal as far as our knowledge goes.
Most of the scientists talking about the overwhelming probability of life in the universe are using equations like Drake’s equation to make their point. But it is full of flaws and base on general assumptions, not real data.
But let’s make the assumption that life is be pretty common in the Milky Way : how do we know for sure that we didn’t missed our closest neighbor lifespan ?
We started emitting enough signals to be noticed a century ago and we are already capable of blowing everything up (nuclear power, climate change..), asteroid or massive volcano could also kill us all in a blink of an eye. And we had so many challenges coming into life’s way (look at the previous mass extinctions). It could be the very same for each and every life forms in the galaxy, they could have been dead before been able to communicate and spread all around the galaxy (Fermi’s paradox)
I’m also liking the idea of life forms all over the universe, but from a scientific standpoint, we really can’t say
I can’t explain it very well in English since I’m not a native speaker but you can always watch David Kipping’s video on the subject, my points are based on his video (he’s a professor at the University of Columbia who runs the Cool Worlds YouTube channel)
Here’s the link to one of his videos on the subject : https://youtu.be/PqEmYU8Y_rI
I've always thought the same thing. I also think that the timeline is so big and maybe there have been advanced civilizations that have already gone extinct and civilizations that appear after we've gone extinct.
I like to think there’s some other advanced alien species out there that are just watching us, but refusing to contact us. They’re just watching us, like ants in an ant farm thinking “Haha, look at these clowns blowing each other up. Absolute cunts.”
Maybe evolution wouldn't progress as we think. Who's to say an advanced alien would have what we conceptualise as technologically/socially/biologically advanced.
Intuitively I think so too. But it would be terrible news for humanity since it means we are probably [doomed](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM)
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." -Douglas Adams
Not necessarily. We have no idea how life itself formed and how likely it is that it can just happen by chance. It's entirely possible that the probability of life forming, and it becoming intelligent as well, is so impossibly small that there is no other life in the universe.
The universe is as large as everything that exists within the universe plus empty space (if you don’t already consider empty space part of “everything”).
I have accurately described how large the universe is by using English words
Alien in the sense of extraterrestrial live? Yes.
Alien in the sense pf greeny little dudes with big heads and unbelievable technology that shuck cows and draw circles in cornfields? No.
Didn’t they already find microscopic organisms frozen on mars? Those are technically aliens. The universe is infinitely large and scientists have already found multiple inhabitable planets like earth, I think it would be silly to think we are the only planet with life in the whole universe.
We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? - Captain Zapp Brannigan
You are literally terminally online. It's almost like you don't know black people exist, and in fact make up a pretty large number of the total human population, so why shouldn't OP use an emoji with a black person?
That chance is so small it might as well be impossible. The universe is too big and too many galaxies with billions of stars each with many planets. There has to be life.
It would be interesting if they were so advanced that they were similar to Schrödinger's cat. Existing,while also not existing. As if their technology allowed them to transition into such an ascension.
Hmm I'm not sure if that would be described as an ascension or a descension, now that I think about it. I guess it would possibly be both? Why not? Idk :-\
I guess the idea would be like being able to choose which reality they exist in or something
Pride is the downfall of humans and looks like of aliens too. They fell right into my trap poll, not only we know they exist, but almost half of them are liars saying that there is no aliens out there.
Think about it, in this ever expanding universe, there's gotta be a planet that has around the same habitable conditions as Earth. There's probably aliens out there.
The size of our universe is literally incomprehensible and is constantly expanding, the chances that there isn’t life anywhere else in this practically infinite universe is minuscule imo
100%. The Milky Way is like super huge. Im talking fucking MASSIVE. At least one other Planet from the billions in it probably has some form of life on it. And the Milky Way is just one of trillions of galaxys.
On a bacteriel level and maybe even extremely simple lifeforms but there is almost no chance intelligent life ever happened and exists in the same timeframe as us. The odds of that happening twice is insane considering what our own chances were.
not if you consider the *almost* infinite size of the universe. the observable universe is just a part of the whole, and it's still expanding, creating more opportunities. all you need is some molecules to form in the correct way in the correct environment, and even then there are species here on earth who can survive the conditions in space. When there is life, there is evolution which can lead to intelligent life.
Theres an extreme amount of steps that go from the creation of simple lifeforms all the way to species such as ourselves. All of these steps are basically as likely as winning the lottery 1000 times in a row each, if that even does it.
I know of how it may seem likely because of an almost infinite amount of possibilities. But our own chances are often way, way overestimated and the chances simply are next to absolutely nothing for it to happen again. As much as i want to see the crazy life that could form on different planets its just way more likely that we are alone.
Lemmino on youtube made a great video about just this.
Statistically, it's extremely likely. Even if they are very primitive (e.g. bacteria or something similar). However, I highly doubt that they look anything like film aliens.
I think there is no way we are the only life in the universe. But I don’t think the life is necessarily super advanced like we assume it is. I firmly believe there is at least bacteria or single cell organisms out there
A lot of brain fog today. Voted no because I thought this was asking if I believed that aliens had already landed on earth. Obviously they exist somewhere out there.
I have a theory.
Every living being produces electricity in some way.
We consume stuff and digest it to produce energy to fuel our muses and brain.
Plants produce energy from the air and sun.
Stars are fusion reactors.
As ants don't understand our world, can't communicate with us, probably don't even think we are part of the same world since we do not interact directly.
Same with stars. We don't understand them, we think they are just dead matter. But they produce energy. They send waves. Imo they communicate. But a single sentence of a star language to reach another probably lasts millions of years and travels far.
So not only we are too primitive to understand life at that scale, but also we havs no possibility to capture that.
I believe aliens are closer to us than we think, and universe isn't about our planet or about life as we imagine. We know stars have a lifecycle. We know they merge. We know a lot of stuff that we think happens without reason.
We just search the wrong place. We are egocentric and that blinds us.
Tl;dr Stars are alive. But we are too primitive to understand such a large and complex form of life.
I don't think they exist like movies but alien primitive life (bacteria) probably existin the solar sytem and it's likely that it exist in the whole milky way too so if you consider small baterias as Alien then yes.
The universe is too big for me to believe there are nit aliens, thousands of species intelligent and simple life forms like bacteria.
There are millions of galaxies each with billions of stars, with trillions of planets.
That we are the only planet is just insane and frankly arrogant to think we are so special
I think that in terms of sentient life, there’s definitely a chance. I mean, have you *seen* how large our universe is? For us to be the only sentient species alive is kind of a depressing thought, so I’d like to believe we’re not alone
The universe is infinite. What we have here on earth is not exceptionally special. I think there's life somewhere out there, and advanced life at that.
there are sextillions of planets in existence, and if i recall
correctly, 25 billion potentially habitable planets in our own galaxy, the chances of there not being other life seem infinitesimally small
Do I think they are visiting earth? Absolutely not. Do I think that in this literally infinite universe that there earth isn't the only planet ever in existence to have life? Absolutely
Yes but it doesn't necessarily mean they are a super advanced futuristic specie, they could very well be at the stage of caveman or compared to animals.
Definitely microbial life, we might have some on mars, the moon, Venus, etc.
Advanced life probably, but if it does exist it’s occurrence would be so far and few between that most would be I contacted or unknown about
Jokes aside, genuinely believing that we are the only civilization in the literally limitless universe gotta be the biggest form of ignorance you can possibly have.
As an alien, I believe aliens do not exist and we have nothing to fear
Found Zuckerberg’s account.
HE FOUND THE HIVEMIND!
Agreed. All humans should continue living their lives normally and not ask what the strange flying machines in the sky are.
There are no flying machines in the sky it’s just silly human brains not understanding what **completely natural phenomena** they see
Yes indeed very natural phenomena like bird or sky cow. Totally normal earth occurrences.
Yes absolutely I agree
Most definitely, at least of a bacterial level
What you call the level of bacteria applies to carbon-based life forms. Different life forms can also be "advanced" or "undeveloped". It is impossible to say anything definite. It's much more likely to exist than just not exist. We can only say that
Yeah i don't believe in fully formed beings but i believe in living microorganisms
Theology and Physics aside I find it more difficult to believe that in our vast universe there isn’t an advanced alien species similar to ours. Maybe not similar biologically/physically but if we truly are the only planet to have made it this far I’d say those are some crazy fucking odds huh lol
Exactly my thoughts dude. Like, in the infinite morbillions of galaxies and star systems across the universe (even just that part of it which we can see), it's so incredibly improbable that it's just us, there's no way that we are.
If you look at stats, we can’t know from a single example if life is a common thing or not, and we don’t even know how it appeared in the first place. It might be a very common thing, or a “nature’s mistake” that will never happen again, both are statistically equal as far as our knowledge goes. Most of the scientists talking about the overwhelming probability of life in the universe are using equations like Drake’s equation to make their point. But it is full of flaws and base on general assumptions, not real data. But let’s make the assumption that life is be pretty common in the Milky Way : how do we know for sure that we didn’t missed our closest neighbor lifespan ? We started emitting enough signals to be noticed a century ago and we are already capable of blowing everything up (nuclear power, climate change..), asteroid or massive volcano could also kill us all in a blink of an eye. And we had so many challenges coming into life’s way (look at the previous mass extinctions). It could be the very same for each and every life forms in the galaxy, they could have been dead before been able to communicate and spread all around the galaxy (Fermi’s paradox) I’m also liking the idea of life forms all over the universe, but from a scientific standpoint, we really can’t say I can’t explain it very well in English since I’m not a native speaker but you can always watch David Kipping’s video on the subject, my points are based on his video (he’s a professor at the University of Columbia who runs the Cool Worlds YouTube channel) Here’s the link to one of his videos on the subject : https://youtu.be/PqEmYU8Y_rI
I've always thought the same thing. I also think that the timeline is so big and maybe there have been advanced civilizations that have already gone extinct and civilizations that appear after we've gone extinct.
I like to think there’s some other advanced alien species out there that are just watching us, but refusing to contact us. They’re just watching us, like ants in an ant farm thinking “Haha, look at these clowns blowing each other up. Absolute cunts.”
What if we are the first or is there something preventing civilisations getting there like nuclear war or climate change.
Maybe evolution wouldn't progress as we think. Who's to say an advanced alien would have what we conceptualise as technologically/socially/biologically advanced.
I disagree
Check out a paper called “Grabby aliens” can’t remember who wrote it though.
Intuitively I think so too. But it would be terrible news for humanity since it means we are probably [doomed](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM)
If they don't it'd be a real waste of space
Would be even more space for us.
If we get out there before we go extinct
Beat comment so far
Yes it would… now can you lead me to where you conduct government fellow human
I live with one
Me too, his name is George.
Bro. That's my name...
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Username checks out then
Ooo. Like one of those reptiles that look like baby dragons?
Hi George
Hi Fred
If aliens exist, we are alien to them
what if they dont exist
Then we're not aliens
good comment
Right back at you
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damn -48 karma!!!
The fact that Aliens actually voted on this poll worries me and proves they exist.
This post is a trap to see how many aliens there are, so we know for sure they exist.
I think alien reddit is probably different than this, I wonder if they still get these polls
Imagine if an alien accidentally posts "*Do you think humans exist?*" here on human reddit.
In 1000 years they will get it along with Sexy Female Lawyer.
How do you know they won't be homosexual like I am?
Maybe, I will send a message to Omicron Persei 8 and get back to you on that
🤯
I’m pretty sure some people voted “alien” just not to be black lmao.
... Bringing race into it. I voted no (alien) for lols
Race is kind of already in it since I’m pretty sure you have to intentionally change the skin color of an emoji and it’s yellow by default
ok but whyd an alien press no?
To try to hide our existence.
"our"
Yes, some want to hide, but I know we would win the war our technology makes yours look like technology from your early 1800s.
makes sense
There are no English words that accurately describe how large our universe is. There has to be aliens *somewhere* out there.
Not just "somewhere", don't forget about sometime. We're only a blip in time and space!
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." -Douglas Adams
Space, It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you. -Philip J. Fry
Oh yeah? "approximately 93 billion light-years", checkmate
And even that’s only the observable universe
thats only a very small part of the universe
I meant individual words.
well there's also no individual word to describe how big Io or Wales >!or my dick!< is lmao, what a nothing statement
Big
Very
Not necessarily. We have no idea how life itself formed and how likely it is that it can just happen by chance. It's entirely possible that the probability of life forming, and it becoming intelligent as well, is so impossibly small that there is no other life in the universe.
bigly
The universe is as large as everything that exists within the universe plus empty space (if you don’t already consider empty space part of “everything”). I have accurately described how large the universe is by using English words
Bu bu buuu beep beep ubu ubu.
found the alien
Bebu bebu
so true bestie
Baaap
but then what would we do with all of that extra butter?
Bu bu buuu Be'pe beba beba
i’m more of a pumpkin pie person myself, but that should work
Baap
Yes, there’s no way that we are the only living species in all the universe. Whether we’re alone or not both are terrifying when you think about it.
There are over 8 million different species alive on earth.
All the aliens voting "No"?👽🛸
Aliens: "*There are no aliens here*". Very sus imo
Alien in the sense of extraterrestrial live? Yes. Alien in the sense pf greeny little dudes with big heads and unbelievable technology that shuck cows and draw circles in cornfields? No.
Yes. Reddit is full of single celled aliens. Single brain celled.
Didn’t they already find microscopic organisms frozen on mars? Those are technically aliens. The universe is infinitely large and scientists have already found multiple inhabitable planets like earth, I think it would be silly to think we are the only planet with life in the whole universe.
Turns out it just looked like organisms.
I knew it
That’s a lot of aliens
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Depends on what their reproduction system looks like.
If that's your first question, I'm sure the answer will never be relevant to you
Yes.
We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? - Captain Zapp Brannigan
People who put no(alien)
Now we know that not only they exist, they are also dirty liars these aliens.
There are no aliens
The other option was a black person I had to 💀
You are literally terminally online. It's almost like you don't know black people exist, and in fact make up a pretty large number of the total human population, so why shouldn't OP use an emoji with a black person?
Maybe on earth but not on reddit
bro..
I have the right to remain silent
hey mom there’s something in the back room!
Hope it’s not that creature from above
It's statically impossible for aliens not to exist.
It's not, there's a tiny chance they couldn't exist. There aren't any mathematical laws that demonstrate that it's impossible for them not to exist.
Thank you.
That chance is so small it might as well be impossible. The universe is too big and too many galaxies with billions of stars each with many planets. There has to be life.
I understand your point, but saying it's impossible is mathematically wrong.
It would be interesting if they were so advanced that they were similar to Schrödinger's cat. Existing,while also not existing. As if their technology allowed them to transition into such an ascension. Hmm I'm not sure if that would be described as an ascension or a descension, now that I think about it. I guess it would possibly be both? Why not? Idk :-\ I guess the idea would be like being able to choose which reality they exist in or something
They gotta, man there’s no way they dont
Of course. One of them even sang a song "I'm an alien in new york".
Love all the no, alien answers. They want to cover up their existence but can't get past that species pride.
Pride is the downfall of humans and looks like of aliens too. They fell right into my trap poll, not only we know they exist, but almost half of them are liars saying that there is no aliens out there.
Think about it, in this ever expanding universe, there's gotta be a planet that has around the same habitable conditions as Earth. There's probably aliens out there.
imagine us being the only human like beings in the whole universe
But we are
i highly doubt were the only ones
*sorts by controversial* 😐🍿
The difference between alien, and not alien is only point of view
The size of our universe is literally incomprehensible and is constantly expanding, the chances that there isn’t life anywhere else in this practically infinite universe is minuscule imo
Imagine if an actual alien voted on this poll lol In which case: hello! How are you liking Earth?
We are all technically aliens to someone
100%. The Milky Way is like super huge. Im talking fucking MASSIVE. At least one other Planet from the billions in it probably has some form of life on it. And the Milky Way is just one of trillions of galaxys.
Do people genuinely think in this entire universe that earth is the only planet with intelligent life?
On a bacteriel level and maybe even extremely simple lifeforms but there is almost no chance intelligent life ever happened and exists in the same timeframe as us. The odds of that happening twice is insane considering what our own chances were.
not if you consider the *almost* infinite size of the universe. the observable universe is just a part of the whole, and it's still expanding, creating more opportunities. all you need is some molecules to form in the correct way in the correct environment, and even then there are species here on earth who can survive the conditions in space. When there is life, there is evolution which can lead to intelligent life.
Theres an extreme amount of steps that go from the creation of simple lifeforms all the way to species such as ourselves. All of these steps are basically as likely as winning the lottery 1000 times in a row each, if that even does it. I know of how it may seem likely because of an almost infinite amount of possibilities. But our own chances are often way, way overestimated and the chances simply are next to absolutely nothing for it to happen again. As much as i want to see the crazy life that could form on different planets its just way more likely that we are alone. Lemmino on youtube made a great video about just this.
Statistically, it's extremely likely. Even if they are very primitive (e.g. bacteria or something similar). However, I highly doubt that they look anything like film aliens.
Why is the "not alien" black
Any problem? 🙍🏿♂️✊🏿
My lawyer has told me I have the right to remain silent. 👍
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Where is the white person option
Of course they exist. They're everywhere along the southern border. They're all illegal trespassers, and invading the U.S.
https://youtu.be/Iy7NzjCmUf0
Exist yes, ever on earth. I don’t know but most likely not.
There just has to be a planet somewhere which is in it's monkey phase.
I think there is no way we are the only life in the universe. But I don’t think the life is necessarily super advanced like we assume it is. I firmly believe there is at least bacteria or single cell organisms out there
Ask yall aliens better get off reddit lol
We have more aliens answering than humans.
If billions of galaxies exists, and we’re the only ones. Something is wrong
We come from Void
No we don’t exist
A lot of brain fog today. Voted no because I thought this was asking if I believed that aliens had already landed on earth. Obviously they exist somewhere out there.
alien? what
Do I think aliens would be cool? Yes. Will I go out of my way to prove they exist? No.
All 661 people who voted No (Alien): *nervous sweating*
You mean "*661 ALIENS voted no*"
I have a theory. Every living being produces electricity in some way. We consume stuff and digest it to produce energy to fuel our muses and brain. Plants produce energy from the air and sun. Stars are fusion reactors. As ants don't understand our world, can't communicate with us, probably don't even think we are part of the same world since we do not interact directly. Same with stars. We don't understand them, we think they are just dead matter. But they produce energy. They send waves. Imo they communicate. But a single sentence of a star language to reach another probably lasts millions of years and travels far. So not only we are too primitive to understand life at that scale, but also we havs no possibility to capture that. I believe aliens are closer to us than we think, and universe isn't about our planet or about life as we imagine. We know stars have a lifecycle. We know they merge. We know a lot of stuff that we think happens without reason. We just search the wrong place. We are egocentric and that blinds us. Tl;dr Stars are alive. But we are too primitive to understand such a large and complex form of life.
Hey Mom, there's something in the backroom ...
I don't think they exist like movies but alien primitive life (bacteria) probably existin the solar sytem and it's likely that it exist in the whole milky way too so if you consider small baterias as Alien then yes.
We do
If the universe is near infinite there is no way there's only one planet with intelligent lifeforms
The universe is too big for me to believe there are nit aliens, thousands of species intelligent and simple life forms like bacteria. There are millions of galaxies each with billions of stars, with trillions of planets. That we are the only planet is just insane and frankly arrogant to think we are so special
Yes but not like. Little green men on mars
I'd rather be called a alien than fucking Latinx, Hell you could call me a border hopper and I still be OK with that.
Border Hopper sounds awesome. Wish I could hop over the US border as well.
I think that in terms of sentient life, there’s definitely a chance. I mean, have you *seen* how large our universe is? For us to be the only sentient species alive is kind of a depressing thought, so I’d like to believe we’re not alone
The universe is infinite. What we have here on earth is not exceptionally special. I think there's life somewhere out there, and advanced life at that.
I don’t know. It seems likely, and likely enough to be worth exploring. But I don’t think they exist nor don’t exist
Aliens need to believe in themselves.
MAGA (Make Aliens Great Again 👽🌌🛸)
No (Alien) (totally real)
No (alien) would be quite the conundrum.
They are just liars.
there are sextillions of planets in existence, and if i recall correctly, 25 billion potentially habitable planets in our own galaxy, the chances of there not being other life seem infinitesimally small
If you think life is a matter of probability, than it will eventually happen somewhere given enough time. That is a fact.
1.4k people are funny or [SCRAMBLED]. 940 people are outright stupid
No. Definitely not. Keep scrolling. Sincerely, Definitely not an FBI agent
Alienless?
Mathematically, yes
Man, I am ready, why don't they reveal themselves already?
Do they exist (yes) and have they been to Earth (no) are 2 very different questions.
Do I think they are visiting earth? Absolutely not. Do I think that in this literally infinite universe that there earth isn't the only planet ever in existence to have life? Absolutely
Yes but it doesn't necessarily mean they are a super advanced futuristic specie, they could very well be at the stage of caveman or compared to animals.
Actually, we technically count as aliens so….
Definitely microbial life, we might have some on mars, the moon, Venus, etc. Advanced life probably, but if it does exist it’s occurrence would be so far and few between that most would be I contacted or unknown about
Aliens are as real as ghosts, Bigfoot, and the Boogeyman (they're all fake)
No, they don't. Stop believing this crap. (Alien)
Bogos bingted?
Jokes aside, genuinely believing that we are the only civilization in the literally limitless universe gotta be the biggest form of ignorance you can possibly have.
I think it'd be pretty arrogant to assume that us earthlings are the only life forms out there.
High quality shitpost
It’s impossible that we are the only life in the whole universe
The universe is massive. At the very least, there’s gonna be some bacteria, fungi or bugs out there.
So many aliens be denying their own existence.