A rather annoying article in the guardian today. Totally refutes any evidence and doesn’t really provide any explanations for them, instead defacing particular individuals who have made more exaggerated claims. No real effort made to understand the issue. V frustrating.
DJpowerhammer on
Well, I agree that we should look after each other. The rest is staggeringly short sighted.
Sputnik-overdrive on
It’s true tho, aliens don’t exist, if they did and they found us, they wouldn’t hide
MilkofGuthix on
I mean he’s not wrong. He’s using earthly rationale to comment on the situation and that’s currently all we have until those in power want to disclose more. We’d have to speculate and fill in the gaps to make it possible. That being said we should be admitting that we don’t know much and there’s a lot of room to discover more, so it should be taken more seriously than he suggests.
marcinjodlowski on
Assuming that civilisation that can possibly be 8 billion years old, will have the same level of technology that civilisation that is 10,000 years old, is beyond any level of retardation.
Emotional-Finish-621 on
The thing is even in this earth based technology and rationale there is people that would be willing to travel those lengths, just in order for their descendants to reach such a destination.
Icelander62 on
I personally don’t believe aliens have visited, but I can’t understand why the writer believes human 21st Century thought processes would apply to an alien species. If it wasn’t for an asteroid impact reptiles would still be running the show here, not us. Who knows how they may have evolved.
daedon_the_great on
The article to me seemed just poorly written and researched, can’t imagine what his book would be
VegetableRetardo69 on
What a boring and unoriginal take
ImSorryImMistaken on
Didn’t this guy rock up polishing Kirkpatrick’s and Green street’s trumpets a while back to sell his book?
The Guardian is a rag, they will provably publish any old shite.
DudFuse on
From the first sentence you can tell this is going to be a worthless article: ‘I never gave much thought to aliens beyond Star Wars.’ If Star Wars is your primary fictional touchstone on this topic you have no business trying to write about it.
Reading between the lines, the author smelled a decent story, tried to investigate and failed to make any headway. Now he’s written a book about that experience that will essentially boil down to ‘cold war paranoid metaphorical delusions are back in fashion because Trump and doomscrolling’.
Those last few paras are very telling: they’re just orthodox ignorant, unimaginative, head-in-sand talking points based on the assumption that these things must be carbon based ET and must not have tech beyond our understanding. Fucking pathetic.
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A rather annoying article in the guardian today. Totally refutes any evidence and doesn’t really provide any explanations for them, instead defacing particular individuals who have made more exaggerated claims. No real effort made to understand the issue. V frustrating.
Well, I agree that we should look after each other. The rest is staggeringly short sighted.
It’s true tho, aliens don’t exist, if they did and they found us, they wouldn’t hide
I mean he’s not wrong. He’s using earthly rationale to comment on the situation and that’s currently all we have until those in power want to disclose more. We’d have to speculate and fill in the gaps to make it possible. That being said we should be admitting that we don’t know much and there’s a lot of room to discover more, so it should be taken more seriously than he suggests.
Assuming that civilisation that can possibly be 8 billion years old, will have the same level of technology that civilisation that is 10,000 years old, is beyond any level of retardation.
The thing is even in this earth based technology and rationale there is people that would be willing to travel those lengths, just in order for their descendants to reach such a destination.
I personally don’t believe aliens have visited, but I can’t understand why the writer believes human 21st Century thought processes would apply to an alien species. If it wasn’t for an asteroid impact reptiles would still be running the show here, not us. Who knows how they may have evolved.
The article to me seemed just poorly written and researched, can’t imagine what his book would be
What a boring and unoriginal take
Didn’t this guy rock up polishing Kirkpatrick’s and Green street’s trumpets a while back to sell his book?
The Guardian is a rag, they will provably publish any old shite.
From the first sentence you can tell this is going to be a worthless article: ‘I never gave much thought to aliens beyond Star Wars.’ If Star Wars is your primary fictional touchstone on this topic you have no business trying to write about it.
Reading between the lines, the author smelled a decent story, tried to investigate and failed to make any headway. Now he’s written a book about that experience that will essentially boil down to ‘cold war paranoid metaphorical delusions are back in fashion because Trump and doomscrolling’.
Those last few paras are very telling: they’re just orthodox ignorant, unimaginative, head-in-sand talking points based on the assumption that these things must be carbon based ET and must not have tech beyond our understanding. Fucking pathetic.