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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If there's one question in this universe that I want answered it's if we're alone or not. I've been thinking about it ever since I was a kid. I am skeptical about UFOs being aliens though. We need the scientific community to finally take this subject seriously.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Of course we're not alone, unless by alone you mean any civilization advanced enough to do interstellar travel will have blown itself to bits first and so we will never meet them.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's perfectly possible that Earth is the only place with actual life on it.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. They become ultra Liberal first due to excess comfort and undergo dysgenic collapse. Even if they recover, they are unable to reindustrialize owing to a lack of cheap fossil fuels and rare earth metals which had been exploited to death during their first industrial revolution.

They are thus trapped in a state of society corresponding to 18th century Europe. But perhaps with more improved weaponry