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Where Are All the Aliens ?
Where Are All the Aliens ?
A legitimate question with so many possible answers. They might be here right now. They might be far away, oblivious to our existence. Hey, there’s even a chance they might not exist at all.
In 1961, at the world’s first SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) meeting in West Virginia, astronomer Francis Drake proposed an equation for loosely estimating the number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. While largely based on conjectural data, this equation gave a number of around 10,000 advanced alien civilizations in our galaxy alone.
Carl Sagan upped the ante, suggesting the number was closer to a million.
However, all these figures were based on the flattering assumption that all life must be carbon-based, like us. For all we know, the universe could harbor a myriad of life forms, based on silicon, nitrogen, arsenic or even elements we have yet to discover.
As Stephen Hawking once speculated, stars or even black holes could posses a type of consciousness, making them magnificently exotic life forms. Somewhere in the billions of galaxies, this scenario could have played out. The laws of probability even favor it.
This raises the legitimate question in the title: where are all the aliens? And why haven’t we officially met them?
These exact same questions bothered Italian physicist Enrico Fermi some 65 years ago, leading him to develop a hypothesis that we refer to as the Fermi paradox. It postulates the following:
- Our sun is your typical, run-of-the-mill star and it’s quite young. Our galaxy contains billions of stars that are much older than our own.
- There’s a high chance that some of these stars have Earth-like planets. If we take the Earth into consideration (duh), it becomes obvious that some of these planets might permit the development of intelligent life.
- Some of these life forms might develop interstellar travel at some point. Again, this assumption is based on our own endeavors that might someday lead to visiting other stars.
- Even without contradicting the laws of Newtonian physics by introducing faster than light travel, the entire galaxy could have been colonized in a matter of millions of years. Relative to the age of the universe, this interval is quite short.
Therefore, it stands to reason the Earth should have been colonized by now. Or at least visited. Intrigued by a silent universe, Fermi asked “Where is everybody?”
A civilization evolving shortly (again, relative) after the universe came into existence must have had billions of years to overcome any technological hurdles thrown its way. With the aid of artificial intelligence, such a civilization would go through an event called a “technological singularity”, becoming something we wouldn’t even be able to conceive.
Humanity itself might undergo this scenario, provided we don’t blow ourselves up in the meantime. As a hyper-advanced civilization, we could harness the power of our sun and eventually the power output of our entire galaxy.
Let’s take a leap of faith. Suppose this scenario is more than possible, let’s assume it’s inevitable. Shouldn’t we be able to detect the energy footprint of such an advanced civilization? Wouldn’t it leave behind signals or some kind of hint? If some alien races were able to make it through the singularity, as probability dictates, where are they?
They could be hiding. Maybe they left the physical realm for a virtual one. Given the chance, most of us would do it right now.
Blue, please!
Some believe that the answer is right in front of us, astronomically speaking. It’s dark matter.
You, me and everything visible around us is made of ordinary matter. But all the regular matter in the universe adds up to around 5% while the rest of the cosmos is made up of dark matter and dark energy. We know next to nothing about these major constituents that are responsible for the continuous expansion of the universe.
It’s been suggested that dark matter and dark energy might be a form ofcomputronium, a hypothetical substance that converts matter into computational power.
Such a scenario would mean the entire universe is one cosmic computer used by the most advanced of civilizations, serving purposes we wouldn’t even be able to comprehend. This mother of all computers could be running unfathomable simulations and for all we know, we could be living inside one right now. It could even be reshaping our universe or designing new ones altogether.
Maybe that’s why we never see hyper-advanced extraterrestrial civilizations; they’re too busy literally running the universe.
And maybe we’re part of one cosmic alien mind without even knowing it.
source: http://locklip.com/
Another one of those, ‘You couldn’t handle the truth, if someone actually told it to you’ deals.
Let’s just say that someone walked up and told you the following:
The ‘aliens’ are nothing but ‘other hominids’ made by other ‘creators’ (engineers, makers, gods, whatever term you want to use), but instead of giving them a ‘world’ to thrive on, they were only allowed to start on it, build technology, depart the surface, and then their world was taken away from them millenia ago. In effect, they are ‘just another variant of human’. Now, keep in mind, not all ‘engineers’ program their ‘children’ the same, so these little buggers are atheist (their ‘creator’ doesn’t talk to them, just kinda wound-them-up, and let-them-go’ kinda deal).
They are also ‘characteristically’ different than humans. We are, by nature, empathetic (we ‘feel’ the pain of others, like it or not). We find those that can function, devoid of ‘empathy’ as sociopathic. They have a natural state of zero-empathy (you might associate it to sci-fi as ‘being Vulcan’, but there are LOTS of evils that come from sociopathic outlooks, like mass murder, cannibalism, etc.).
Anyway, these ‘little gray guys’ have no emotions, seek pure knowledge for their own benefit, care nothing about you, I, or any other race or world – they are in it for resources and knowledge. PERIOD. Lying to achieve this goal is perfectly acceptable. Making promises means nothing to them, they have no valor or honor. Any road to a destination is just as good as the next. Think of them as ‘highly intellectual galactic cockroaches’, and you just about have it down pat.
Why would our ‘all-powerful’ creator allow this? Let’s just say that ‘all powerful’ that you were told only applies to ‘YOUR position’ in the grander scheme of things. Let’s say that ‘their creator’ is bigger, older, meaner and more-powerful than your creator, and well, school-yard rules are a universal constant.
As I always tell people – the Greeks had the ‘gods’ down pat a lot better 2500 years ago, than the Christians have managed to do so in this ‘new young age’. Oh, and about those little ‘gray alien guys’, they are highly atheistic, as a result of their creator never talking to them, leaving them little books, etc. So, the next time you wonder why your ‘nation’ your ‘world’ has seemed to suddenly go ‘Atheist’ since about 1950 or so, and you can’t understand it – realize, that in ancient times, the ‘little gray guys’ played the role of ‘gods’ to primitive man’s mind and legends; but now that we are ‘all grown up’ (so we think), they are just outright talking to not only our leadership (who keeps it all hush-hush still), but they have convinced our leaders and many of us that THERE IS NO REAL GODS (after all, they see ‘creators’ as just higher forms of life to even themselves).
They have no belief system, and they have enlightened our leaders that they should think the same way. Our leaders have taken them up on this.
Gods, creators, engineers, masters; whatever you want to call the higher ethereal forms of intelligence and power in the universe, it is going to be a sad day when that last button too far has been pushed, and everyone gets shown just how evil they’ve all been.
Then again, if someone told you all this – would you believe them and see how it all fits into what’s happening? OR, would you keep believing the newest religion on the block, while your world governments seem to be ‘taking new advice’ that they won’t justify, and keep calling it ‘science’, which it really doesn’t appear to be at all.
If you don’t believe this – then you really are going to be blown away, when the great ‘astronomical show’ happens, and the stars fall from the heavens. No, they won’t really fall. Then again, they might. While this world, and it’s humans are very real, there’s a lot of (what science calls, 3D holographics) going on out past the Oort cloud that only looks like spiral galaxies and distant realms. Keep in mind, modern science is based on this holograph. Existence is FAR OLDER than 14.5 Billion years, but I don’t want to ruin the big finish for you.