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Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe
what are the statistics that aliens would exist in the same timeframe as humans?

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Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

The Protagonist posted:

really good!


...anywhere even approaching the same place? really bad!


there really is no paradox, or the answer to the paradox is 'we made bad assumptions'

Aliens could realistically be looking at us from billions of light years away. Sadly, by the time the light/images got to them we no longer exist.

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Your Rain posted:

you should consider the time you're alive is basically 0 out of the infinite time scale and there is probably no aliens at this time

Time only exists during the period I observe it. :colbert:

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE

you hosed it, friend

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Yeah, awareness of Bon Iver is the one positive thing I can say I got from SA. :)

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