MossyFeathers

Iirc a nuclear rocket would cut travel time down to centuries between stellar systems. While cruising the galaxy in one go might not be feasible, travelling to a nearby system would be.

Wasn't part of the Fermi Paradox that a bunch of scientists got together and found that you needed super duper extraordinary evidence that aliens hadn't visited earth; because a civilization capable of building any form of self-replicating exploratory drone would have been able to map our entire galaxy in less than 1,000,000yrs, assuming a speed of 0.1c?

Iirc the fact that we haven't found a probe, interstellar message, colony ships or artificial extraterrestrial satellites yet is the super duper extraordinary evidence that supposedly disproves their existence. Our galaxy alone is so huge that the fact that there aren't aliens is the weird part.

Also, part of the reason why exploring the galaxy would be so slow is because humans are too scared of nuclear engines. We're literally shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to space travel because we're too paranoid of nuclear to find a safe way of getting a nuclear engine into orbit. Nuclear engines would dramatically reduce the travel time not just within our system but also other systems to something reasonable.

Probably not. If so, they're probably intentionally avoiding us for one reason or another.

Do aliens exist elsewhere in the universe?

Almost certainly. Our universe is a very big place.

Is it possible aliens have been here?

Well, sure! Humans like exploring, aliens may also like exploring. If aliens had a similar desire to explore as humans, they'd probably eventually end up in our solar system.

However, that doesn't mean any of the videos or photos are real, nor does that mean they were here during human history. For all we know, they could have stumbled across our planet, took a bunch of pictures of dinosaurs, got bored, hurled a rock at the earth and then left.

Edit: We don't really have any strong evidence for or against it. On the one hand, we haven't seen any (that we know of). On the other hand, it could be that we're looking in the wrong places or have misidentified stellar phenomenon as being natural. We really don't know.

I bet it's fake.

I said that I'd be very concerned if I pissed and farts started coming out instead. Like, I went to pee but farts came out of my urethra.

Where do I read more about this?

There's actually a lot of cool science stuff that AI is doing, it just isn't in the public eye.

Can you really be considered complicit if you're forced into it? You can't force consent, why should someone be able to force me to be complicit? Nearly everything we consume has almost certainly touched a slave or sweatshop worker's hands at some point, and unfortunately most of it is either impossible (because it doesn't exist) or extremely impractical (too expensive and can't afford it) to replace with ethical labor.

Imagine if poop came out!

Europe is all old culture, no new culture. America is all new culture, no old culture. Yes, I know that's not 100% true, but how many European countries have their version of Hollywood, Disney or silicon valley? Iirc india, China and Japan all have their equivalents, where's yours?. You just don't spend anywhere near the same amount of money on movies, music and TV. On the opposite side, European art tends to be a lot more mature, however you have to spend money promoting it if you want to compete with the US.

Are you saying you literally just made up shit and coincidentally referenced a science thing?

"Nooooo... My feet! Let go of my feet!"