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Lood wrote
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Hnaknaw wrote One of our probes just passed outside of our galaxy, and it's one of the most intense things I've ever seen. The vastness of our galaxy alone is impeccable. To think we're the only ones out there is absurd.
Outside of our galaxy? If you have a source for this I'd be interested in reading about it.

If any of you are familiar with the Fermi paradox, it sure does pose a problem to alien life. For those who aren't familiar with it, in simplest terms it simply questions how with such a high probability of life elsewhere, how has nobody reached us yet?

Being a gaming site, I suggest that you all check out Elite Dangerous. It's the only game I've ever come across that accurately shows the sense of scale we are dealing with when talking about the size of our galaxy alone. It's pretty incredible.


Unless other life is immortal or something of that nature, it would take them an insane amount of years to reach us if they're traveling from a different part of the galaxy.
This is true. High speeds actually reduce the aging process since time isn't necessarily (tangible? not sure that's the right word). If something were to travel fast enough, aging would ALMOST come to a stop.

I really hope that in my life time, long-distance travel through worm holes or something of the like becomes a reality


no matter what it'd still be thousands of years later on their home planet or area.
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texako wrote
Lood wrote
texako wrote
Lood wrote
Hnaknaw wrote One of our probes just passed outside of our galaxy, and it's one of the most intense things I've ever seen. The vastness of our galaxy alone is impeccable. To think we're the only ones out there is absurd.
Outside of our galaxy? If you have a source for this I'd be interested in reading about it.

If any of you are familiar with the Fermi paradox, it sure does pose a problem to alien life. For those who aren't familiar with it, in simplest terms it simply questions how with such a high probability of life elsewhere, how has nobody reached us yet?

Being a gaming site, I suggest that you all check out Elite Dangerous. It's the only game I've ever come across that accurately shows the sense of scale we are dealing with when talking about the size of our galaxy alone. It's pretty incredible.


Unless other life is immortal or something of that nature, it would take them an insane amount of years to reach us if they're traveling from a different part of the galaxy.
This is true. High speeds actually reduce the aging process since time isn't necessarily (tangible? not sure that's the right word). If something were to travel fast enough, aging would ALMOST come to a stop.

I really hope that in my life time, long-distance travel through worm holes or something of the like becomes a reality


no matter what it'd still be thousands of years later on their home planet or area.
You're also not wrong about that lmao. My point was less about that and more about the fact that aliens should have reached us by now.
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Lood wrote
Hnaknaw wrote One of our probes just passed outside of our galaxy, and it's one of the most intense things I've ever seen. The vastness of our galaxy alone is impeccable. To think we're the only ones out there is absurd.
Outside of our galaxy? If you have a source for this I'd be interested in reading about it.

If any of you are familiar with the Fermi paradox, it sure does pose a problem to alien life. For those who aren't familiar with it, in simplest terms it simply questions how with such a high probability of life elsewhere, how has nobody reached us yet?

Being a gaming site, I suggest that you all check out Elite Dangerous. It's the only game I've ever come across that accurately shows the sense of scale we are dealing with when talking about the size of our galaxy alone. It's pretty incredible.



Sorry it took so long to reply, but this is the article on space.com for the Voyager 1 probe.(article) An article was published in 2013 confirming that in August 2012 the probe officially left the galaxy and is now in route for a 40,000 year mission to Gliese 445 (very distant star). If you're ever curious about where the Voyager crafts are, you can track them with the link (here). There was also a picture released, just before Voyager 1 left our galaxy. It aimed its lens back towards earth and snapped a great picture, i'll spoiler it below. I'll give you one guess on where earth is in the picture
https://selfportraitoftheartist.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/voyager-earth1.jpg
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I think there is life out there. I don't like the term 'aliens'. I'm a strong believer that there is other human life out there somewhere. Wouldn't make sense for it just to be us.

I hope more information is found out in the coming years as it's something that interests me alot.
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Being billions of lightyears away, those Aliens are probably long gone by now. Based on the time it takes for a signal to reach Earth from that distance.
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i do not believe in aliens like at all
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Loke wrote i do not believe in aliens like at all
What about lil mayo
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There has to be more than the human race, someone is watching us destroy our own world.
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Yeah theres definitely some form of extratestical life out there.
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I believe there's aliens, but at the same time you gotta realize the odds of us ever finding proof that they exist, let alone meeting them, are astronomical (pun intended).

It's confusing to think about too, because the radio waves and lights that we may have seen could be coming from billions of years in the future or the past, so even if we heard them, there's never gonna be proof that they exist in the exact moment that we do. It's always gonna be maybe they exist maybe they don't because we will never have proof.
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