For good reason.
@EllyOnTheGo i voted yes but I'm not convinced the 2 are connected. Also, IDK if the aliens are on Earth.
@EllyOnTheGo sure, why not?
@EllyOnTheGo that there is intelligent life out there somewhere, probably. that said being have or will visit us, almost surely not. I am extremely pessimistic about the possibility of FTL travel and a generation ship visit is fantastically unlikely.
@anatman @EllyOnTheGo
It is also reasonable to suggest that intelligent life in the oldest parts of the universe might well have existed and gone extinct long before our own solar system began producing even simple life. We shall never know. 14 billion light years is a very, very long way.
@stueytheround @anatman @EllyOnTheGo This. 93 billion light years of the known observable universe. 5% of this universe is made of matter.
We shall never know.
@EllyOnTheGo Aliens existing somewhere? Yes
Visiting Earth? Not so much.
I think Kathleen Madigan had it right. We are probably the Alabama of the Universe. Intelligent life probably avoids us like the plague.