Asklemmy

55570 readers

488 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

Do you believe in aliens? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 hours ago by BlackSnack@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

That’s a yes from me. But I wanna hear what others think.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Life on other planets? Seems likely.

Life on earth started pretty soon once the conditions were met.

Intelligent life (humanlike), maybe not. Most probably not. Out of millions of species through billions of years only humans have evolved to have this kind of thinking machine during a relatively short period of time.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The universe isn't really that old so it probably just hasn't had time to start getting crowded yet. We should really get our shit together in the next million years or so and get on top of that.

[–] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Funny of you to think humans will even be around in 100 years, let alone one million.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 minutes ago

Honestly given that we are a very intelligent generalist, I think it would be very hard to completely eradicate humans.

But I would agree that we could have a crazy bad collapse and have to start way over due to a much smaller habitable part of the planet and maybe that habitable area shifts around making us nomadic or something. That would probably make it a lot harder to redevelop tech. Source: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/environment-understanding-atmospheric-and-ocean-flows/content-section-4

Figure 18 shows that such a warm, stable period has been very unusual in the last 800 000 years, yet it is only during the Holocene that agriculture and the civilisations that rely on it have developed