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[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 60 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (27 children)

If an advanced civilization developed the technology for interstellar travel, and came all this way to earth, I suspect one of 2 things will happen. Either their tech is so advanced that we won't even detect them, or they show up ready to communicate or destroy us.

I can't see them clumsily flying around, getting seen and whooshing off like some dumb teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 8 months ago (12 children)

It amuses me that they get caught on VHS flying around clumsily, but no one's ever seen anything out in space. How did they get into the atmosphere? Not one telescope on the planet can spot ships flying towards the planet

[–] z500@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I can believe it when we can barely manage to spot an asteroid heading in our direction before it's basically whizzing past us

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean the 34 thousand plus near earth objects that NASA monitors every day? Those "barely managed to spot"?

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Never said they track everything.
There's no aliens buzzing around though.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You implied we could see everything with telescopes, we can’t even see everything with the tech nasa employs.

Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t change the fact that we’ve missed lots of stuff that’s hit or missed earth despite your asinine claim we don’t miss anything.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I never said we don't miss anything. How stupid are you? If all you want to do is nitpick bullshit go bother someone else.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

You’re relying on the absence evidence to say something isn’t possible.

I provided proof that we don’t see everything, which is proof that it’s not impossible.

It may be nitpicking, but it’s the words you said. Don’t want to be corrected, don’t say incorrect shit dude lmfao.

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