Aliens are real ya'll they know all the secrets of the universe 👀

candylover246: *secretly an alien*

I do believe in extra-terrestrial life, to be honest. I just think that they prefer staying on their own planets, or that their technology isn't that advanced for other planet travels (much like ours), so they don't visit us. Or, they might not know about us. Either theory could be possible. *shrugs* This is just my opinion, though, so don't hate me. Aliens might not actually exist. =P

Lovely icons btw

I find it hard to believe that any species could create the technology to travel to us. First they would need to figure out how to travel at light speed, then they would have to survive a journey that could take hundreds of years.

It's hard to imagine that Earth is the only planet with living organism.

Okay so I think there's a few options here and I don't know which one is the most likely.

Either:
1. Civilisations might emerge and develop and burn themselves up simply too fast to find one another. We're not just spatially isolated, but temporally isolated.

2. Considering the age of the universe, what are the chances that our neighbours are right at our level? It's far more likely that they're way, way behind us (and can't communicate) or way, way ahead of us. If it's the latter, consider that we exist in a backwater, pretty far out on one arm of the galaxy. Go to Google Maps and input "central Australia" then click "+" several times until you get to nothing and nowhere and that is where our solar system is - way the fuck off the highway. They probably see no benefit at all in communicating with us. And considering our distance to anywhere important, we wouldn't have developed the tech to communicate with them. Maybe we're just relatively in the stone ages, trying to call the other side of the world with smoke signals.

3. I've read that our type of sun and solar system, which is good at supporting life, is actually among the first of its kind. So maybe we're it. Maybe we're the ancients that get to fuck around and be enigmatic badasses leaving strange wonders for other races a billion years from now.