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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

we continue to look for intelligent life in the universe because we have yet to find any here

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641 2 points 1 week ago

"Stop shaving you don't have a beard"

Corpseing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

We can't even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we've settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For Space King!

[–] nevemsenki 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's be xenophobic, it's really in this year

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's find a nasty slimy ugly alien to fear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Xenos only deserve contempt.

[–] Acronychal 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Damn that’s awesome

I know what I’m listening to while painting tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE

[–] thevoidzero 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.

[–] danc4498 2 points 1 week ago

Imagine what alien flesh would taste like! Mmmmm😋

[–] workerONE 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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X-7 Hats are out of this world!

[–] Anticorp 10 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, we have to find it before we can kill it.

[–] Agent641 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our thirst for blood cannot be bound by Sol's gravity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Corn for the Khorne flakes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sno for the Sno-Cone?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There is a reason we direct antennas to detect intelligent live away from earth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Seek out new life and new civilizations, and introduce deadly biological pathogens to their ecosystems!

[–] Pregnenolone 4 points 1 week ago
[–] RubberElectrons 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This saddens the hell out of me. I'm doing what I can to keep my impact minimal but still. To be alive, to engineer, hurts the planet if you're not very very careful.

[–] portuga 3 points 1 week ago

Is there life elsewhere on the universe?

Most likely

Does it move?

Shoot it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely. Sapient life? Most likely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But will we ever have the chance to kill them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Unless we can find a way to regularly exceed the speed of light... Not directly.

But Von Neumann probes might be the most efficient method of mass murder ever conceived!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Probably not, fortunately for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How can we sleep at night knowing they are living peacefully without democracy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.

[–] IndiBrony 1 points 1 week ago

I suddenly want to play Championship Manager. Couldn't possibly tell you why.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Just think about how much different life is just here, alone. I can't believe that there's absolutely nothing else out in the universe when there's so much variety of life here.

[–] SoftTeeth -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US is currently descending into a fascist theocracy.

That's just a fact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Congrats, you dragged US politics to a post that's about something else! 🏅

[–] SoftTeeth -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Literally everything is political.

You'll realize this when you grow up

The results of the US descending into a fascist theocracy will result in tangibly less climate action.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I cam't wait to be a grownup like you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Username checks...out...? 😂