Extremely doubtful. To “watch us” you’d need to emit some form of communication. We would have come across something concrete by now if that was the case.
lol
I was honestly considering making a comparison to how only a few centuries ago, people were sure that there was no continent between Europe and East Asia, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t there.
Also I wouldn’t be surprised. This year has been awful, it wouldn’t shock me at all to discover we also got quarantined from the rest of the universe during it, too.
Yeah, we’re waiting for our friends in the Andromeda Galaxy to give us a phone call.
Supposedly we have though. Just depends on who you talk too.
Also, it’s amusing to see us assume we “would know”. If something was smart enough to watch us they sure as hell would know how to be invisible.
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Yes, but it doesn’t matter.
You will never leave the earth.
Not necessarily, it could simply be that their methods of communication are too advanced or too alien for us to detect with our standard methods of detection.
If they were sufficiently advanced to seriously watch us from afar, there is no reason to believe that their technology would be anything but magic to our primitive minds.
Hell, there’s no real reason to assume that their technology would be anything even remotely similar to what our simple simian minds could conjure up.
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We’re already seeing some signs of possible life on both of our closest neighboring planets. If either one actually ends up having life, then it could be a strong sign that life may be far more common than has previously been believed.
They could literally be communicating through different dimensions like time. Interstellar kinda stuff.
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Well there is the giant floating rock like thing that every government has known about since the 60s but never mentioned it aka “black knight”, not a firm believer of the theory but 2020 seems like a bad sitcom atm.
Also any race capable of intersteller travel would be leaps and bound more advanced than us hell far as we know they could park a ship at the edge of a galaxy and be recording us primitives like a wildlife photographer.
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Well, just don’t talk to loons and you’ll be fine. Communication scientists have been trying to figure this out for a while, look up the SETI project.
No matter how advanced a civilization is, they would still be constrained by laws of the physical world. You wouldn’t be able to make this sort of communication “invisible”.
I do concede however that there could be forms of long distance communication we haven’t yet discovered, but even that would leave some sort of evidence behind.
I’m not calling you foolish or anything but your method of thinking is exactly the big flaw of humanity. You simply haven’t comprehended the possibility that a being that can potentially transcend dimensions would leave a footprint if it desired not too.
We are speaking about an intelligence beyond comprehension. Which is in fact possible. Perhaps not probable. But you get the idea.
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If they’ve managed to master interstellar travel or the ability to ‘watch us’ without time lag in the thousands of years, I would say that’s a very high probability, actually.
Precisely. I’m really referring to the idea of something who has possibly been here from the start, or perhaps before us. Which again, is very possible.
We already know mars had baterial life but yeah, I do think there is probably advanced life out there.
Without a doubt.
Only humans could be so narcissistic as to think, given the size of the universe, that Earth is the only place with life, intelligent or otherwise.
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I mean the amount of energy you would need to harness to break open dimension in time and out the other end is theorised to be the amount of energy of a large star.
There isn’t a chance they would be able to mask that, no matter how advanced.
I feel like the whole “hyper advanced” beings narrative is just a diet of too much Hollywood.
4.5 billion of years of evolution and the smartest the Earth produced is us. And we as a species have only been awake for 250k years of that and we’re in the process of degrading our only habitable planet.
The idea of hyper intelligent beings is the one which is extremely unlikely, not Life in the universe. Most hyper advanced civilizations have likely destroyed themselves a while ago.
Or if advanced civilizations do exist in other galaxies, they could be in similar stages as ours, incapable of proper intergalactic space travel.
I think they’re more saying that time is running out for humans on the earth, and it kind of is unless we terraform our entire planet in the next 100 years. Most of us will be dead but it’s a thing that needs to happen.
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Honestly, i think it’s just a vast endless continuum of nothing.
The universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. Bold of you to assume no planets have had billions of years of head start on us.
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You missed the other part of that paragraph. We’re literally in danger of becoming extinct in the next couple of hundred years.
The likelihood is that many civilizations rose and fell due to their own technologies or technological limitations, long before Earth was even formed.