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- Jun 4, 2024
Not to me. Years ago I watched a video of some astrophysicist/astronomer (I cannot remember who) saying that the existance of extraterrestrial, sapient life and why they do not contact us had many reasons why. The two that stuck out to me were:I think the possibility of aliens not existing is a lot more frightening than almost any scenario where they do exist.
1) We are the first sapient species in the universe
2) we are the last
I really don't think it's that scary. There may be life like us out there, and if they are able to observe us it's probably Star Trek "don't contact the locals in any way" sort of stuff. I think the shit like the Grays, Reptoids, and all the Scooby Doo-esque cryptids people believe in is bogus. They'd be hyper intelligent beings who are far above our understanding and have no need to study and disect us. We believe they do that because people love putting human emotions and qualities onto other things, because if ee found an alien we would study and disect them like the savages we are.