Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "" video.

  1. So the man makes the point about red dwarf stars being poor candidates for life. Makes sense. And since roughly 75% of the stars in our galaxy are red dwarves the odds of intelligent life in the Milky Way shrink considerably. When you couple that with the delicate balance our solar system has managed to maintain, and the variables that go into life on our planet, well, slim may not have left town but he's close. Forgive me if I don't do the happy happy joy joy dance if some microbe is discovered on some moon. If I can't talk with it I'm really not that pumped up. Okay, you prove life can exist if water is present. I can look out my window and see that. And this stuff about transferring our consciousness to some machine or maybe even a light beam, well I know the transhumanists get all gushy about a post-human era but the argument itself is fraught with so many contradictions it's really too ridiculous to even talk about it. For starters, transhumanists are atheists by default. You can't want to play God unless you believe someone doesn't already have the job. And if you don't believe in God you can't believe we have souls that can survive death. Yet, that is exactly what they are claiming they will one day be able to pull off. They substitute the word soul for consciousness, treat it like it is nothing more than a collection of digital data, and believe that somehow, someway, they can transfer it to something, and then go along and enjoy the ride, an eternity in some heaven they have built for themselves. These are people who don't believe in souls, heaven, or hell mind you. What they have are egos the size of Dyson Sphere. I think the law averages alone weighs in favor of intelligent life existing somewhere in the universe. To say otherwise is to be just as arrogant as the crazy transhumanists who think living life as a soulless cyborg or riding on a moonbeam is a desirable outcome worth striving for. Perhaps, if we stick around long enough, we'll figure out how a few people will be able to outrun the red giant our sun will become one day, maybe setting up shop on Titan for all I know, but we will never leave our little cosmic corner of the universe and our alien kin will never reach us, so the question; "Is E.T. out there?" will never be answered with any certainty. That's my take on it. And I believe that is part of the plan as well, but that's me. Here's something, how about we figure out how to get along with each other before we worry about having a family get together with our cosmic cousins. Live long and prosper you crazy star voyagers. 🤟
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