Are Already Here, Says Stanford Prof With , Defense Ties

Yeah I can be pretty oblivious to what's right in front of me sometimes

To coin a popular phrase

I have to let it sink in

>anti reading pilled queen

Basado

Never let those nerds bully you into (((reading)))

Neighbor I was exaggerating but you are as well. Even if they had a 2-3 billion head start on us, heck even 1, that's a lot of frickin time. And a lot of civilizations considering how vast the universe is — so even if the vast majority don't exceed us in technological development for one reason or another — a couple would. By a billion frickin years.

My point is I don't think ayylmaos are out there

Would we want to establish diplomatic relations with some backwards shithole in Africa with no natural resources or worthwhile technology?

We do though?

To aliens, we are probably the equivalent of the backwards African shithole

If an ayylmao could get here, we wouldn't be like a backwards African shithole to them. Not even close. More like an amoeba lol. That's how advance they're gonna be compared to us.

If they ever find us (they won't because nobody's out there), we're dead. And not because they care about us and consider us a threat. It'd be because we'd get in the way of whatever they're doing and we'd just be the collateral lol.

Me? No. Chatgpt? Here you go

The Fermi Paradox is kind of like that, but with aliens instead of kids. There are billions and billions of stars in the universe, just like there are lots of kids at a big party. Some of these stars are even like our own Sun, and they might have planets around them, just like Earth.

Now, if there are so many stars and planets out there, we might expect that there should be lots of aliens too. But here's the tricky part: we haven't seen any aliens yet, and we've been looking for a long time.

So scientists wonder, "Where are all the aliens?" They call this the Fermi Paradox, named after a smart scientist named Enrico Fermi who asked this question a long time ago.

If the kids at a party thing threw you off then it's because I originally asked it to explain it to me like I'm a 5yo lol

The Great Filter

Certainly! The Great Filter is a concept that suggests there might be some big challenges or obstacles that prevent civilizations from advancing and spreading out into space. It's like a tough test that civilizations need to pass. If a civilization fails this test, it might not survive or progress further. We don't know exactly what this filter is, but it could be things like natural disasters, self-destruction, or other difficult problems. The existence of the Great Filter could explain why we haven't seen any advanced alien civilizations yet. It's a way to understand why the universe seems so quiet and empty, despite the many potential opportunities for life.

iirc:

Fermi paradox: the universe is so big and time is so long that the odds of two advanced(space faring or otherwise) civilazations run into each other is statistically remote and unlikely.

great filter: all civilaztions run into a common catastrophe that leads them to destroy themselves(or be destroyed by something, see dark forest theory) before they can become successfully spacefaring/run into other alien civilizations.

This but unironically tbh

Listen to penny, she is queen chud

Usually satellites are just a solid light that disappears once it reaches the horizon such as the ISS (which you can confirm if you've seen by using the ISS tracker) but I have seen satellites that you described that blink as well and from what I read it is do to their solar panels spinning and reflecting the light so it appears to turn on and off. but the size of the light is the same it just fades in and out.

I've also seen Starlink before and it's a straight line of lights that disappear one by one when they get beyond the point where the sun hits them

But thats not what I saw on this night the thing literally expanded from a small point into a large ring of light (if you held a dime up to the sky it was about that size) then disappeared.