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[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Why wouldn't they use spaceships

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"They" are using spaceships, but they are men building top secret aircraft.... They are not beings from other stars.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The universe is 13.7 billion years old.

It would be unlikely that someone would show up in the next 10.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Ok unlikely. Even any mainstream scientist will say it's possible

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ever hear of the dark forest theory? The universe is teeming with hostile life so every lifeform tries to stay as silent and safe as possible and here we are blasting signals out into space so everyone else avoids us because we must be crazy or total badasses.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I grant the possibility.

You would expect unaliened probes first. Or some kind of communication attempt via EMR (Or something the propagates equally fast ... gravity waves perhaps, if they've got absolute fucktonnes of energy. )

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

Yeah and we might not be able to detect that

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

Almost certain that they would be targeting a civilization with more mature technology than us.