Aliens? Both Canada and U.S confirm they are shooting down unidentified objects.

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[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

considering most planets that could harbor life are hundreds of millions of lightyears away

Actually, there are billions of 'potentially' habitable planets in our own Galaxy. But if you take into account the Rare Earth Hypothesis, this cuts the number of potentially habitable planets down by many orders of magnitude. It would not be terribly surprising if Humans are the only sentient race in the Galaxy.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I read this theory recently that said our star system may be among the very first areas in the universe to mature enough in terms of the elements available for the synthesis of complex life to be possible. So we may be end up being the oldest race among sentient beings in the end. Chances are by the time another arises we'd be long extinct.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would be very interested to learn about that theory. Do you have a link?

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/what-if-we-dont-see-aliens-because-they-have-not-evolved-yet/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08448.pdf