Scary theory about aliens (pt 2)

It's been keeping me up at night, so now I'm sharing it with you.

We as humans have overcome a lot of evolutionary filters to get where we are today. And if we’re an evolutionary anomaly, that means one of these filters is holding back intelligent life from forming on other planets. Or… there’s another theory. Maybe the great filter is ahead of us, and we’re about to be filtered out.

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[VeritasVortex]

The most sensible explanation as to why we haven't found aliens is because they're too far away from us

[seanhennessy]

alternate theory, we aren't intelligent enough yet to find other intelligence.

[EdSchwarz]

Time is probably the most important obstacle. Humanity has existed for small fraction of universal blink of the eye. We have been able to observe the universe for far shorter time than that. We could be ahead of the others or others are already on a level far beyond our ability understand.

[Reohz]

If I was a smart alien, I wouldn't want to talk to us either.

[littlev]

I heard a great explanation for this which is slightly comforting and slightly scary. If the universe was an ocean, we have only sampled a 12 ounce glassful of water from it. The likelihood of finding a fish in the glass is next to none, but it would be rash to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean.

Going further, that glass of ocean water most likely has some types of bacteria that isnt visible to the naked eye, only able to bee seen under a microscope. Maybe we just dont have a strong enough stellar microscope to find life where it otherwise appears to not exist.

Just some food for thought 😊

[JustAnotherSeeker]

Another possibility is that aliens have rules similar to Star Trek’s prime directive. Meaning they can only observe without interfering in our development in any way.

[nobody-u-know]

Or all the aliens realize that you should not broadcast your position to the universe. It invites invaders.

[mabzzzzz]

My favorite explanation for why we haven't found aliens is that, we're just early. It took billions of years for life to go from single celled to multi celled, and even more for complex life as we know it. So most aliens might just be single celled life in an ocean, and we're just early to the party :]

[ibewillow]

The reason we havent found aliens is because we not only havent exited the solar system, we have barely explored what lies within it.

[WhtKnightsNemesis]

"Sometimes i think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." – calvin, _calvin & hobbes_

[vacafuega]

We're probably the intelligent lifeform equivalent of a drunk creep - everyone hears us yelling but they're dodging us cause who'd wanna talk with such a freakin liability?

[scottsingleton]

Microbes are unaware of us, but we exist. To a sufficiently advanced being we would be the microbes.

[jeffreyroedel]

The universe is so insanely huge, there could be multiple intelligent lifeforms on various planets but they are all simply too far from each other to ever communicate effectively.

[susanfryer]

We are the annoying younger sibling that the older siblings hide in their rooms from.

[tophat]

I think we're just too small. Like, Honey I shrunk the kids.

[kirstenmelum]

Saying there are no aliens, is like dipping a cup into the ocean, seeing no fish in the cup, and claiming the ocean is fishless.

[Me-wxmt]

Honestly I think the filter being is killing ourselves is pretty accurate.

[Xenochetemist]

Well, to be honest I think:
- If back to the beginning of life, there were not that much rules forcing lifeforms to take, maybe it'll be really different from what we thought.
- Base on the previous assumption maybe we already saw life on other planets, just didn't realize, mistaken them for the nature of the planet. Advance lifeforms are really really difficult to emerge, or they didn't have enough time yet.
- Maybe we are the first (at least in our observable universe), and also what we see might be a little outdated several billion years, so there are other life, just not that close.
- Life is easy to emerge, just can't stabilize itself. If the first life on Earth was originated on Earth, it must be UNIQUE, the only kind. If there are no diversity, life quickly succumb when their surrounding changes.
Remember when those first life on Earth almost kill itself because their affect on their surrounding? They should've died, how did they get the diversity to overcome that? Life might not be that simple and something has to happened at that moment that we still can't be sure at all.
- This one is the most unlikely to has happened:
They're advanced lifeforms, and we're COMPLETELY under control. They're so advanced that they didn't have to care that we're advancing at all, that we might have realized the fact that they are so much more advanced because we won't never ever stand a chance against them. They didn't let us see any other life yet, and maybe even don't care if we did if we found one.
They wouldn't do this for slave, with their technology it's just not efficient enough. They might run us as an experiment, or to have a relatively diverse gene pool, etc...
Or they're an all digital species that uploaded their minds to the clouds, and we are their live descendants. We are being kept to ensure if their system is being attacked or wiped out, we can stand back and doing it all over again. We don't know if it didn't happen yet, or already happened.
But it's just a theory, humanity is getting awfully bad lately and need to fix our problems first. It doesn't matter if we don't survive, right?

[BlazingImp]

An alternate also scary theory is the dark forest theory. Where the ones who make noise don't survive. In which case its not even a filter we can pass or have passed, its already too late.

[mshell]

If smart aliens exist, they would certainly stay the hell away from us.