Breaking News: NASA about to announce ‘evidence of alien life

the video is boring as shit, I lost the will to listen to it half way through.

does alien life exist, undoutably it does, we have been seeing news reports of bizarre cosmological happenings in other solar systems for some time, we have just recently found out that our own solar system might actually be a lot larger than we thought it was and we still haven't figured out how to create inertial dampners or even generate fast space travel, could someone else have figured that stuff out? most likely yes and its also highly likely that our planet has had some interactions with some sort of alien life forms in the past.... indeed its highly probably that there were some at some point that regularly visited our planet well that or at some point some sort of catastrophy happened and humans forgot/lost much of their former technological prowess ...

far more likely we were once a space foreign race and somehow ended up marooned and that technology failed us (or at least something happened that caused it to fail) that barely a spark of the human race survived and is slowly starting to regain some of what it once knew...

some stuff seems easier for us to discover, and certainly the religious zealotry that prevented us form doing things or achieving any form of meaningful progress for at least 2000 years tends to suggest we as humanity have suffered from cultural regression more than once, and each time that regression takes hold population density drops and much knowledge is lost....

is nasa going to parade an alien around or announce that contact has been made and risk triggering a global panic attack, hardly, the only way they would do such a thing is if they knew the aliens were safe and providing us with a means to progress massively and expand into space in a big way in short period of time, but even then only if there was an existential threat because the risks associated with releasing such technology into general use where it could be subverted are too great, so no I seriously doubt there going to make any dramatic declarations about anything, maybe mention that some form of cyanobacteria has been found and appears to be slowly terraforming things into breathable atmospheres, although the questions about how this was discovered would remain unanswered until out own earth based technology had improved enough to make it possible to answer .....

Not buying it.

Tabby's Star?

www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-a-new-explanation-for-the-alien-megastructure-star

I'll believe it when I see it.

That said, I think that believing humans are the only intelligent life out there is naive, considering how much we know about the scale of the universe.

Reminds me of Jehovah's Witnesses running door to door warning people about the impending end of the world. They're doing that like every 5 years or so and it never happens.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

This reminds me of EA's typical PR bull... "Here is an announcement that we are going to have an announcement about whether or not there will be future announcements!"

I don't doubt that given the size of the universe that there is other intelligent life out there. So once NASA actually announces it I'll be interested. This looks like a lot of nothing about nothing though.

Eh. It would be cool, but ultimately, what bloody difference would it make?

Well. For starters. If we find evidence of alien life. That means we have an exact direction at which to point our technology and send signals to that location. If there is alien life, advanced, intellectual alien life, they will catch it and they may send something back. That would take years for any significant results to show themselves. Something may come of it. Nothing may come of it.

The point is. Unless I can hook up with sexy blue aliens tomorrow, I'm not interested.

Eh... id trust them more if they werent criminals

I don't fully agree with that.

Yes, there are going to be some alien species out there that are more barbaric, more war like, etc. than us. That will look to conquer is. To fight us. To extinguish us. That's a real possibility, but I don't think it's the only possibility.

Take us for example. The human race. Yes we still war with each other. But, when it comes to meeting new people, we no longer engage with conflict. We start off peaceful. We start by communicating. We no longer seek to destroy or conquer different people. But we weren't always so. America was founded by killing it's inhabitants and stealing their land. Rome conquered the known world by spilling blood.

There is a very likely possibility that intelligent life (that is roughly the same age or older than us) will feel the same way. That conflict isn't the first resort. That collaboration with others is far more beneficial.

That doesn't mean we or them wouldn't show our teeth, but we shouldn't expect them to want to harm us. We should still be prepared though, as we should always be prepared for anything.

I think if they have the technology to reach us from wherever they reside in the universe, we would be better off beginning with a more peaceful approach. Their technology would, in all areas, far outweigh ours. We would stand no chance. Of course, the human race is resilient and we persevere in the face of unbeatable odds, but we'd still be fucked if we try to fight. No point in casting the first stone and show them we're a threat.