Why haven't we encountered aliens yet?

[WeWuzFinns]

Theory 1. Conditions for life are rare and we don't have any life near us. Or the conditions are so rare that we are the only ones.

Theory 2. All life eventually becomes intelligent and discovers gene editing. Intelligent life is heavily incentivised to use gene editing, leading into the creation of mathematically optimal species and the destruction of the precursor species. Currently they are just waiting for us to cuck ourselves by becoming them before making contact.

Theory 3. Technology makes people so comfortable that evolution doesn't favor being intelligent anymore. With the rises and falls of technologically advanced civilizations, no intelligent life will ever reach the technological capability for space travel.

Theory 4. They have seen the trannies, making them dislike us.

Theory 5. We have, but it is a conspiracy.

Theory 6. They don't want to make direct contact, but still use the Internet to research us.

Theory 7. Space travel is slow making seeking intergalactic living space not worth it.

 

[Anti-Intellectual]

Because the universe is so fucking massive on a scale that's nigh incomprehensible in numeral values to all but the most brilliant astrophysicists. There are trillions of stars in the universe and I don't doubt that there aren't extraterrestrials on them already but the distance between us is vast and reaching one another is likely not to happen for a long time.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Terry's space alien gave our planet a bad review when the CIA niggers killed him

 

[Skitarii]

Where's the option for "OP is a faggot"?

 

[Llama king]

Because aliens are a human concept.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

The government is keeping too tight a lid on it.

 

[Boobalover]

Idk what you're talking about I encounter them daily. They usually hang around gas stations waiting for work and blast music in some strange language from their homeworld.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

Our planet is under quarantine for spiritual impurity (evil). There will be no contact with other planets until after the Last Judgement. We're not missing much, the other intelligent aliens were also created in God's image and thus are basically human anyway. Any and all "aliens" we see until then are either fakes created by the Deep State and/or their WEF puppetmasters, or angels that we are going to be told are invading evil aliens we need to fight.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old. This may seem ancient to us, but it actually isn't that old on an epochal timescale (particularly considering that the universe is still expanding due to the force of the big bang, and likely will continue to do so for many epochs to come). Further, given that the conditions for life to evolve are extremely rare, that life forming requires a great many things going right, and that the sky may decide to smack the reset button by dropping meteors onto newly evolved extraterrestrial life, I think it's a possibility that humanity is alone simply because we're the first form of life to successfully evolve as far as we have.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

"Aliens" don't exist. God only created one planet with life, and that planet is Earth

 

[Apochrypha]

It's completely possible there is life on another planet - whether or not that planet is nearby or even in the same galaxy is debatable, and highly unlikely. It only makes sense to believe in life somewhere else but we won't be seeing them anytime soon.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Pretty much anything you could come up with on this topic has been covered by this autist:

Isaac Arthur

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

Because the universe is so fucking old on a scale that's nigh incomprehensible in numeral values to all but the most brilliant astrophysicists and planetary geologists. There are billions of years to the universe under which to evolve intelligence and I don't doubt that there aren't extraterrestrials who spent the two-three million years growing up to that stage already but the time between us is vast and existing at the same time is likely not to happen very close together.

The spooky shit, is that I believe we're more likely to find a museum dedicated to a third dead sapient race in the ruins of a second than some Star Trek federation of planets. The super spooky shit? For a long time we studied the Romans but couldn't repeat their level of technology. Civilizational declines probably have got nothing on two sapient species tech differences. We might find a dead advanced civilization of whale-sized insectoid crab creatures shaped like siphoviridae, and their greatest monuments will be to some alien grey fungus thing that took 20,000 calories a day but had no organs just very advanced cells that doubled as nerves and muscles making them strong blobs of brains shaped like a dick with prehensile tentacles which invented colossally more sophisticated technology then the already indecipherable crab horrors.

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[Penis Drager]

Even if life is extremely common in the universe, intelligent life is likely quite rare. Even on our own planet, the Mesozoic lasted nearly 200 million years with just as much biodiversity as exists today and a host of highly successful fauna who were going about quite happily. The world of today, a mere 60 million years later, would probably not look a whole hell of a lot different if not for an absolute fluke of a global mass extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs, making way for mammals to obtain dominion in a new world with significantly less competition. Even then, Homo Erectus didn't show up until about 2 million years ago. This was about the time the absurd caloric investment of "human level" intelligence finally payed off in such a big way. But even then, "civilization" is only about 10,000 years old.

The sort of prosperity we see today is an absolute and utter fluke. And in a few million years' time, we'll either have progressed to an interplanetary race or (more likely) succumbed to the dust and the world will have long forgotten we, or any other "intelligent" being, had ever tread its surface

 

[Some Manajerk]

The same reason you don't go visit the man down the street. You know, the half shaved beard, bottle of moonshine in one hand and rusty shotgun in the other, ranting in his yard at 3am about how the cows are trying to steal his teeth.

 

[Merried Senior Comic]

Because the universe is so fucking massive on a scale that's nigh incomprehensible in numeral values to all but the most brilliant astrophysicists. There are trillions of stars in the universe and I don't doubt that there aren't extraterrestrials on them already but the distance between us is vast and reaching one another is likely not to happen for a long time.

This. The average person can't conceptualize the size of our own solar system, let alone something like the Sloan Great Wall.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

we already did but we werent around for it. why do you think the dinosaurs when extinct? you really think a meteor took them out?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

My theory we're like ants to them.

Try going to your nearby ant colony and 'make contact'.

Try to explain mathematics and physics to them.

Tell me how that works out.

 

[Akashic Retard]

Because Earth is The Truman Show for aliens

 

[Whatevermancer]

Because every civilization eventually fucks itself over and goes extinct. They either shit all over their environment so that it becomes unlivable or go on a war and wipe each other out with nuclear/bio weapons.