US starts project to find alien life

[Anomalocaris]

More seriously... they need to stop (All of them) trying to find extraterrestrial life. And especially need to stop attempting to contact said life. They are very likely *not* friendly if they as a race have managed to survive for so long.

Given the likelihood of their being much more advanced than we are, it seems unlikely that we can find them if they did not already know of us. If they already know of us, then clearly we are not significant enough to bestir their unfriendness into decisive action, or else we wouldn't live long enough to wonder whether we should try and find them. Since we are still here, I would say they could not be bothered to notice when we find them.

[Cinjin]

More seriously... they need to stop (All of them) trying to find extraterrestrial life. And especially need to stop attempting to contact said life. They are very likely *not* friendly if they as a race have managed to survive for so long.

Given the likelihood of their being much more advanced than we are, it seems unlikely that we can find them if they did not already know of us. If they already know of us, then clearly we are not significant enough to bestir their unfriendness into decisive action, or else we wouldn't live long enough to wonder whether we should try and find them. Since we are still here, I would say they could not be bothered to notice when we find them.

Maybe they're several thousand years behind us and they have no understanding that their planet is even a sphere rotating around a star. Perhaps we're the most developed species in the galaxy and UFOs are simply government technology.

[Minimalist]

We can hope that they are so advanced that they don't need any fucking gods.

[Anomalocaris]

Maybe they're several thousand years behind us and they have no understanding that their planet is even a sphere rotating around a star. Perhaps we're the most developed species in the galaxy and UFOs are simply government technology.

If the universe can produce nothing better in 13.5 billion years than a species so riven with imbecility as to sustain the cult of Jesus for 2000 years , then I would say the universe is not intelligently designed or created.

[Violet]

More seriously... they need to stop (All of them) trying to find extraterrestrial life. And especially need to stop attempting to contact said life. They are very likely *not* friendly if they as a race have managed to survive for so long.

Given the likelihood of their being much more advanced than we are, it seems unlikely that we can find them if they did not already know of us. If they already know of us, then clearly we are not significant enough to bestir their unfriendness into decisive action, or else we wouldn't live long enough to wonder whether we should try and find them. Since we are still here, I would say they could not be bothered to notice when we find them.

Unknown likelihood + unknown likelihood = oh let's be reckless explorers?

A planet with previously unknown life on it is as useful to an advanced race as the Americas to those who 'discovered the new world'. It is quite worth the taking, even if it is of little worth strategically. It remains that reckless behavior in regards to exploration and especially expansion will end us.