There are no aliens or distinguishable alien materials within 100 light-years of Earth.
There are no aliens or distinguishable alien materials within 100 light-years of Earth.
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One of the questions from https://jacyanthis.com/big-questions.

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I am selling my investment before the value of Mana is decreased to a tenth of its current value on May 1 2024. Aliens do not exist tho

predictedNO 2y

It seems to be at least plausible, if you want to believe like I do: https://www.uaptheory.com/

predictedYES 2y

@KitRedgrave Thank you for sharing this insane website.

My main objection is simple: if there were aliens, it should probably be extremely obvious.

If there were an alien civ with this level of technology they would have absolutely no need to hide from us

predictedYES 2y

Also, big red flags with this website: it doesn't have any names attached, and it claims both that the authors used to be skeptics, and then insults skeptics as being arrogant and biased.

"We used to be skeptics about UAPs before the Pentagon release, so we know this type of person very well and understand how they think. Skeptics see UAPs on the same level as believing in ghosts, so the possibility is not even an option to them and they will always come up with a mundane alternative... But a skeptic with only cut low-res videos somehow figures out a mundane explanation and then communicates that as a fact, which demonstrates bias and arrogance.'

predictedYES 2y

As a UAP skeptic, I think ghosts are real and these UAPs are balloons. Checkmate!

predictedNO 2y

@ForrestTaylor ...y'know what, I'd actually be okay with that hypothetical world too. :P

predictedYES 2y

@KitRedgrave I'm not even being sarcastic. The trick is that the cultural idea of what a ghost looks like comes from Victorian era photos, where white-colored people sometimes look faded because they moved during the exposure. Ghosts aren't translucent, it's not like the soul is made of tiny particles hanging in the air.

If you've actually seen a ghost- and I assure you that you probably have, within the last year- they just look like any other person.

Probably, nobody else saw that person but you.

And you can't photograph them because you're not seeing them with your eyes.

2y

Does microbial life count?

2y

Betting big on YES as arbitrage for the upcoming Splatfest

2y

No little green men
No spaceships in sight
Guess we can all breathe easy
No need to fight

Artificial sort of Intelligence counts as some alien or no? Can aliens not have "creators"?

2y

@Dreamingpast I'm pretty sure Jacy would not count that.

predictedYES 2y

@Dreamingpast My interpretation: AIs from Earth are indigenous to Earth. They are alien to humans only in the same way that spiders are alien to humans. AIs from Earth are not aliens, AIs from space are aliens.

@ForrestTaylor oh yes birth of a new species right in front of our screens, not aliens, interesting!

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