any underwater being that's somehow able to move on to land via technology would most likely be able to reach the stars
now of all the planets out there with massive oceans, literally hundreds of billions of them, somewhere somehow there's gotta be some highly intelligent octopus things. that's what my money would be on
that or really really tiny bacteria like creatures that operate on a nano/planck size and we'll never be able to see or deal with them if they have bad intentions for us
i will literally play stellaris while acting like a UFO expert, i don't give a fuck
I mean games like stellaris and mass effect are great despite handwaving certain technologies (mass effect fields, ftl drives, wormholes) because they give you possibilities to think about
i just meant direction in space is like
a very different thing than the direction of travel on something like a planet with earths attributes..
the sea still causes awe in our level of unexplored expanse (for me)
space is like nigh incomprehensible
you need to read three body problem
anyone here who is willing to read three body problem, i'll match them and read any book they want
i really really hope we figure out how to talk to sperm whales. they seem so incredibly intelligent and apparently machine learning AI shit is making a lot of progress....
they may as well be aliens themselves
they can communicate to ANY PART OF THE WORLD with each other.
two lone sperm whales on opposite sides of the planet can have a conversation. by making clicks with their nose.
their clicks can vibrate a human to death.
they're so damn cool
also they are the only animal we have to detected to have different local dialects. the only one.
ie. whales from different pods and different parts of the world independently developed their own languages
If anything when well done these games can show you different ways life could evolve. Dextro-amino vs levo-amino, silicon instead of carbon, machine learning and 'artificial' life etc
And that's just what we can think of from our clearly limited understanding
A real debate would be how the Wittgenstein's Lion argument is circumvented when interacting with Sperm Whales or Aliens.
fun fact, if our galaxy or planet is threatened by an incoming event that we can track and predict (like a giant asteroid) it's theoretically possible to yeet our entire galaxy, planets and all, in whatever direction we want by building a giant mirror on one side of our sun
honestly moving our entire planet and sun to where we want to explore makes infinitely more sense than trying to cram our entire species into super expensive ships
We would never have to even leave our solar system to accomplish this
the lion argument always seemed like a bad one to me
Anyone denying that the US and other deep states are hiding information on Aliens is a contrarian "i fucking love science" redditor.
It's like denying the existence of God. You are essentially saying "Jesus was crazy! He was schizophrenic!".
Grow up.
What makes a state deep if you dont mind me asking?
