As to the real-life question of alien life, time and distance make the possibility of encountering alien life very unlikely.
That's just an assumption made on the grounds of some overbearing ideology that I'd suspect forms the majority of your personal beliefs. It's just a way of coloring inside the lines of the common, vaguely respectable view of the cosmos stemming from hundreds of years of scientific materialism.
It is utterly preposterous to suspect that we haven't encountered alien life yet, when we ourselves are alien to anything outside of our biosphere. We have only begun to explore outer space after mere tens of years of creating the technological and political groundwork required to do so (the second really being more of an impediment). Yet, in our time studying biological life (also a mere speck of time) and space we have provided ourselves with enough data to easily and objectively discern that certain organisms can survive and travel in the vacuum of space quite easily, ourselves being a somewhat decent example, though we are not at all biologically designed to do so unlike other organisms, but I won't get into that right now. Also objectively, we can tell that the process of forming or sustaining some basic biotype does not require miraculous conditions, that is, Earth is really not a special planet for what we can tell, for obviously we've observed similar planets not that far from us. While this does not essentially or directly boil down to the possibility (or unlikelihood) of an alien civilization being in our close proximity, which is what I suspect you really meant when you typed "alien life", it's still somewhat telling of the variety of change that is upon both the macrocosm and the microcosms of some of the planets in observable space.
And this is just a brief view on some of the materialistic reasoning coupled with some basic insight into the laws of the cosmos that I haven't really mentioned (since I'd have to dispute much more of the materialistic worldview of blindly idolized "science").
I partially blame your trivial way of looking at "alien life" on a thinking characteristic of looking at the Fermi paradox as being somehow crucial and assuming that we haven't "met" alien life.
I see Fermi paradox as a kind of ideological feitishization of our relative impossibility (or limited possibility) of travelling significant distances in OUTER space, as well as sending or receiving messages through the subjective "void" that is the vacuum of outer space. I don't see that vacuum as a void, unless I am looking at it either from a very personal, psychological, spiritual, but also mythological and historical perspective or indeed, the sort of materialistic perspective required to actually discuss the hardships of travelling in the vacuum. The main issue here is that we ignore the INNER space of the human psyche and all our "venerable" scientists have really done to signify this is come up with very peculiar and admittedly fascinating, though greatly inapplicable mathematical equations, such as those observed in quantum physics.
And we have no idea how long spacefaring civilizations really last. Maybe, assuming they exist, they die out after a couple thousand years. In a 14.5 billion year old universe, our 100-year snapshot of space is such an instantaneous blink of the eye it would be miraculous if we found anything. It's like trying to find Donald Trump by looking at one square inch of randomly-selected Earth territory for one second.
This is exactly the sort of paradoxical argument I am trying my best at correcting.
First of all, there is very little we can do to discover what's really beyond our solar system or even on any near planets we've managed to observe with our ridiculously faint objects and senses unless you entertain my notion that we can through, I guess I'll just name it "esoteric" means, though they are not at all that by themselves.
Second of all, there is an ENORMOUSLY HUGE amount of evidence for all kinds of sentience in this negligible, as you'd have it, amount of spacetime. I simply cannot boil this down to a moment of truth if you will, without first requiring a bit of mental exercise form you. That would just be no fun. But please, amuse me by rolling with the punches and actually be willing to defend your viewpoints and maybe I'll award you with at least a portion of that significant truth. If not, this sort of mental exercise has never hurt anyone.
Third of all, please, if an alien is reading and understanding this, DO NOT find Donald Trump and if you do, please understand that he is a dank meme primarily and a real person only secondly.
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truther
8 years ago
Well done. An amazingly long read that nevertheless kept me reading to the end.
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bwana_dik
8 years ago
Ah, seeing how you sort of share my perspective, I should have directed it at the OP.
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