Life in these star-systems could have spotted Earth

phys.org ^ | 6/23/2021 | by Cornell University

[Jeff Chandler]

Quick, hide!

[Magnum44]

[jonno]

Yep - there is no guarantee that these other life forms aren’t looking for a new crop of slaves.

[cgbg]

One might imagine that worlds beyond Earth that have already detected us, are making the same plans for our planet and solar system,

Yeah, because they will think and be exactly like us.

"Experts" are total morons.

[LibWhacker]

No, they wouldn't have to think exactly like us.

[Gen.Blather]

“Yep - there is no guarantee that these other life forms aren’t looking for a new crop of slaves.”

Bacteria are trying to kill us for our entire lives. We hardly notice because we have evolved with those bacteria for hundreds of millions of years. We will probably never walk on another planet without wearing a moon suit. That’s because any other life would almost certainly kill us as our immune systems wouldn’t recognize it. Forget about the chest bursters. They couldn’t survive in our body any more than we could live in the same room with them without full body protection from microbes. I laughed when Kirk kissed the green alien girl.

If somebody is going to use us for slaves, they’ll need to enslave us using our own political sys...hey...

[BradyLS]

“Yu humanz ahr—howw dou yu zay itt?—toadal reetaardes.”

[CapnJack]

I would think that if any other star system within 100 LY of us who might have or are observing us would have some type of radio communication on their planet.

That would be something we could detect, and we would know there was someone "out there"

Unless there are those on Earth that were preventing or hiding those Exo-transmissions from us

[jonrick46]

A distant civilization could have seen us using a cosmic telescope:

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Any aliens within about 70 lightyears can easily infer a technological civilization on our planet by analyzing our television and BMEWS radar signatures.

[Getready]

Thought experiment. An oxymoron.
“I want federal money”, said many astrobiologists.

[fso301]

Exoplanets around these nearby stars have a cosmic front-row seat to see if Earth holds life, the scientists said in research published June 23 in Nature.

Every one of them is a sterile wasteland.

[fso301]

I would think that if any other star system within 100 LY of us who might have or are observing us would have some type of radio communication on their planet. That would be something we could detect, and we would know there was someone "out there" Unless there are those on Earth that were preventing or hiding those Exo-transmissions from us

Why are these people so self loathing that they always assume we are not the most advanced lifeform of our type in the universe?

[twin2]

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[Deplorable American1776]

Space Aliens landed in DC and looked at AOC, Hank Johnson, Fredericka Wilson, Maxine Waters, the squad, Nancy, Chuck, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Meghan McCain and Lisa Murkowski, so they know there isn’t intelligent like there....

[Calamari]

No, no, no; They think we are exactly like them.

[cgbg]

they always assume we are not the most advanced lifeform of our type in the universe?

It is the lifeforms of other types that concern me. :-)

[Deplorable American1776]

Don’t they know slavery is banned here? 🤓 We have to meet them and tell them that we can’t be slaves, since America banned slavery in the 1860s... 🤓

[minnesota_bound]

#7 you mean Klingon-19 ?