Comments by "didgruntleddansnyderfan" (@didgruntleddansnyderfan) on "Why Can't We See Evidence of Alien Life? | Documentary" video.

  1. You can't know that, and therefore it is not a theory. Idle fancy doesn't need to be based on anything, but theories need to be based on observations.
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  2. That might be a good idea if you could guarantee it wouldn't immediately result in power mad people becoming world dictators in short order. But you can't, so no thank you. Having real nations at least ensures everyone has somewhere to escape to if their government goes bad.
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  3. You'd need to be a lot more ruthless about it anyway. A tribal approach with a shaman weeding out the evil people like the Indians used to do. etc. and then staking them out for the wildlife. With our legalistic, sissy approach to everything it will never work.
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  4. Life, sure. Intelligent life, why not? But alien civilizations, absolutely not. That people keep imagining that and even taking it for granted I blame solely on Hollywood, which can and does use magic to handwave off all the reasons interstellar travel is impossible. Even the most realistic sci fi I have seen - the Expanse - eventually had to invent magic to solve the extreme distance problem. And why is alien civilizations a step too far? Because as far as we know it's a species-specific trait that requires language, writing, opposable thumbs etc. There are no other species here out of a million that has ever developed even one of the traits required just to build a land-based civilization right here, and people are expecting that? Might as well expect moose antlers, only it's even more ridiculous. Lots of animals have antlers. Maybe alien antlers could be a thing? Moose antlers almost certainly not. Civilizations even more certainly not. Everyone is drawing mermaids at the edge of the map again. We always draw mermaids at the edge of the map, which is something Percival Lowell should have reminded us of a century ago. But evidently we never learn.
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  5. Let me guess: you live close to a US army base where they've been working on holographic technology for the last century? If you look at the stats you'll find than 99% of all "UFO sightings" are from the USA. Isn't that weird to you? Aliens travel the stars and when they get here they only want to visit one small country while ignoring the rest of the planet, and most of all they're super interested in US army bases? Not Russian or German military bases, just American ones? About 75% of all American "UFO sightings" were reported right next to military, and particularly Airforce, bases. This is what one might describe as highly suspicious.
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  6. Well, no one is going anywhere until after careful observation anyway. I don't think it's possible, but if you are absolutely sure you've found the perfect place to go maybe you send a generational ship off to colonize it. It's just that we're adapted to this biosphere and extremely unlikely to be perfectly, adequately or even remotely adapted to a different one light years away, nor particularly likely to survive for long that far away. But whatever the case you're shipping steps and at least a few centuries. Probes+observation first, people second in the most ideal and improbable case. But we need to look. We can do that already, and there's no reason not to. Refusing to look is retrograde behavior.
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