Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals ⢠đ ⢠25 yrs ago
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Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals ⢠đ ⢠25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "The Problem With "The Rare Earth Hypothesis"" video.
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To OP- exactly. Whenever conditions are "right", life will develop on a planet. Maybe there is a creator, but the universe isn't finely tuned to US, humans, at least not in the way these folks mean- we just happen to be the end products of a planet that ended up with just the right conditions for complex life to occur.
I happen to believe that there are 1000s of planets with forms of life on them in the milky way, I'm sure one day we'll find out. Life doesn't exist most places in the universe- does that mean the universe is tuned against life? Lol no, or at least, not entirely. Limited planets in habitable zones will have life, all others will not.
My car becomes highly tuned for operation when I fill it up with gas. If the tank is empty, it suddenly becomes very untuned.
I'm not an atheist, but the presence or absence of life on a planet can't be used as proof of a creator Being, basically.
Because look at all the places life can't exist.
And then sometimes it does. If there IS a Creator, clearly they only wanted life in some places, under some conditions but not others.
I have no problem with those with religious beliefs, but it's not accurate to say the entire universe is tuned to the existence of human beings, ergo, there must be a Creator. It is more accurate to say, it also very much tuned AGAINST us, and that wouldn't necessarily be proof against a god either. But it's silly to only look at Earth while conveniently ignoring all the places life CAN'T exist, which is most of everywhere else.
It would be more statistically accurate to conclude life on Earth is one hell of a fluke. I don't believe we're alone in the universe, or our galaxy, but life certainly seems to be rare compared to planets without life.
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 @DeadmaN-2112 first of all I just want to let you know that I do appreciate your thorough response, but unfortunately I'm not even familiar with this "tic tac" reputed UFO that you referring to. I'm going to have to go look it up to understand what your referencing. I totally get where you're coming from and I appreciate all of your technical details, but I don't think that there's any harm done in merely believing the possibility that aliens may exist. I also think it's very interesting that there have been thousands, not just a few, of anecdotal claims of sightings over the years. I'm sure quite a few can proven or attributed to very mundane or man-made causes, but there are some to this day that remain unexplained.
What is the harm in believing that other advanced ETs exist and may have already visited this planet? It's just an opinion, one that may or may not be proven in our lifetime.
I just think statistically speaking, it's highly unlikely we are the only intelligent life in this cosmic galaxy currently. And if a sufficiently advanced race of aliens did have the technology to visit and observe this planet while keeping themselves concealed from the large majority of people, of course there wouldn't be very many verifiable claims or sightings to be shared. Their position would be analogous to human beings observing animals of the wild from some kind of concealed position that the animals were unaware of. Maybe the guys on Ancient Aliens are all a bunch of hoaxster-pushing frauds and that may well be true, but I'm not ready to write off the entire possibility of alien life somewhere else in our galactic neighborhood just yet.
One that may already be advanced enough to the point that they have mastered space travel and for all we know may have been visiting Earth for decades or centuries. All I'm saying at this point is, we just don't know. I mean we really just don't have any way currently of knowing for certain one way or the other. There's a documentary that you may find not convincing, but I found it to be very thought-provoking, called Unacknowledged. I think Hulu or Tubi has it if you're ever interested.
I just don't see why the concept is considered so far fetched for some. I would say with certainty the possibility is there, not yet the proof. I just think there are too many accounts to be attributed all to people with hallucinations or some kind of mental illness or because they have some kind of agenda. I just don't think that's true in all cases. I think there are a small number of legitimate unexplained encounters out there. You you may write it off as a silliness, but I find the crop circle phenomenons extremely intriguing and I don't believe all of them are hoaxes; they just look too darn complex and they show up overnight and are done in such a way that precludes the possibility of them being man-made with simple boards on strings. The details are in that episode that I mentioned and I actually rewatched it recently, that's how I remember it's number. I guess they could be lying or deliberately trying to fool the untrained listener, but they sounded pretty convincing to me and I may not have an advanced degree, but I like to think that I have a reasonable ability to suss out nonsense when I hear it, and I'll be honest, I found the supporting information regarding the alleged ET-produced formations very fascinating and, at least for now, intriguing and worthy of further study.
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 @DeadmaN-2112 it does, but it doesn't say we can't believe in the POSSIBILITY of other realities.
The universe is vast. To think complex life only exists on earth after 13B years is not logical to me. Statistically, I'm sure it's arisen somewhere else, if not 1000s of other planets by now.
And again, maybe not. Maybe we really are the first, but even so, I don't think we'll be the last. But it's the height of human arrogance to discount the possibility of alien life outright. I can't prove or disprove that they have already visited Earth, but I believe they exist somewhere.
Whether humans will ever personally interact with aliens is another question- but I hope we get there eventually. I'd like to think there are many alien world's with complex life on it right now as we speak, as well as civilizations that have long come and gone and those that haven't begun yet.
I hope I'm right. Will a real space federation one day exist???? Who knows???? I'd say it's certainly POSSIBLE. Beyond that, we can't really say because we just don't know. But to say for certain there is no simple or complex alien life?
With billions of planets in this galaxy?????? Nah, I find that too much of stretch and sooner or later I expect to be proven right.
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