Well the industrial revolution changed things as much in relative terms. Maybe more. Maybe this is the intermediary stage before the AI takes over and that’s what they look for. Or they class any bio-tech species as advanced and everything else as pond life. Or they’re looking for warp capability. Or whether their enemies, the Ass-Hiders of Rigel-7 have got here first.Roujin wrote:I would also add that once a society builds its first computer it is not very far away from being insanely advanced. Like we've had computers and in less than a century have a decentralised planetary communication and data storage network, are able to operate in low earth orbits and visit other planets in our solar system and now we're on the edge of what are going to become for all intents and purposes functioning AIs that are able to help us understand the quantum nature of the universe in ways we don't yet understand.
I think any alien civilisation that found us, would also be able to recognise what are the things that quickly lead to leaps in the development of a society. Like the industrial revolution we had off the back of harnessing steam power at scale for the first time.
monkey wrote:Your turning this into ‘monkey thinks alien abductions are real’ which I don’t. I just don’t think that the possibility of them is on a completely different plane from ‘aliens have visited Earth.’ They might be trying to work out where we came from, how we evolved, genetic analysis from sections of various yocals from all over the world. Maybe they just really like arses. Extra-terrestrial bum lovers. Why would they visit and not be interested in taking biological samples?Roujin wrote:Like why on game reserves where extremely endangered life exists like rhino populations, which are monitored by the park rangers, is there never any sign of weird mutilations reported on rare/exotic fauna? What is it about US cows and humans that is so interesting to aliens coming here?
Roujin wrote:Re: lightspeed. It's an important distinction, because at least for us dummies, exceeding the speed of light would be evidence of a civilisation that is actually beyond our own technological horizon.
Like, going faster than the speed of light, is the equivalent of hacking the fundametal properties of the universe as we understand them. It could be entirely possible for all we know. That means these are aliens who are able to harness essentially limitless amounts of energy from somewhere, which is difficult for us monkey brains who are operating on the concept that mass and energy are connected, the ability to store or harness the amount of energy required to accelerate to light speed would require a fuel source that is completely unknown to us.
monkey wrote:He’s actually Swedish and doesn’t realise it.
Skade wrote:Dyatlov Pass incident solved?
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2021/01/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov?__twitter_impression=true
Might be of some interest to those here.
GooberTheHat wrote:Paradoxical undressing is thought to occur with 25-50% of hypothermia deaths, so I don't think it's particularly puzzling.
GurtTractor wrote:Fuckin love that film.
superflyninja wrote:What conspiracy theory/mystery do you guys think has a snowball's chance of being real?
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