Yes but that spoonfull includes our whole solar system and well beyond relatively. So while it's possible there may be intelligent life somewhere, we don't know,but there is no evidence of any.According to experts if we compare to the search us humans have conducted to water in the ocean then we have searched a tablespoon full of water. So by comparison there is no fish in the sea because we haven't seen evidence in that spoonful of water.
The graph should go back to the 50s for context. I bet there was an even higher number of people with the search term of "aliens" then. (It just was in terms of asking the local comic store guy but should be included in that graph or it means shit - man.)I agree with all your sentiments for what it’s worth. By any kind of objective measure conversations on UFO/aliens has picked up massively in the last year. Yes you could just ascribe it to Twitter bollocks, but there’s also been a glut of articles put out by global news media consistently in the last few months (not just the edge ones either but the NYT, The Guardian, AP, Reuters). Or… you can measure it by how often people are looking up search terms like “aliens” to see the massive spike:
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You can also measure it by governmental activity. There have been congressional committees in the US, yes. NASA are doing a conference on UAPs literally tomorrow. There’s also been statements on UAP activity by the Canadian government and former UK MoD officials as well as meetings held between AARO and five-eyes.
This activity has very clearly been amplified massively by the incidents regarding the Chinese spy balloon and the several other statements by the US and Canada about shooting things out of the sky earlier in the year. There is a national security paranoia around this at the moment which is pretty plain to see (whether that’s aliens is another matter) and the noise around it is being driven by government entities that quite demonstrably won’t stop talking about UAPs.
To suggest that the increase in alien talk is just a few nutters on Twitter is almost as unbelievable as the ET fossil currently lying in the Mexican Congress. It’s everywhere and we’ve hardly been able to get away from the topic for about 10 months as evidenced by this thread because NASA keep holding fucking press conferences.
Probing Kim Kardashian's arse would take several lifetimes.
I don't think we know that for 100% either.What we do know is there is no intelligent life anywhre close and there is and hasn't been any intelligent life on earth, in our solar system,nor any of our closest stars.
Brian Cox suggests life in the universe is teeming BUT at one species per galaxy.
Interesting. Did he explain why?
Yes we do know, anything else is just science fiction immagining.I don't think we know that for 100% either.
An intelligent life could be on Earth now and it could have been for a long time. There are places on our planet that haven't been discovered because it's extremely difficult to do so and there are probably plenty of discoveries yet to be made in science. So if an alien race wanted to be unfound but still present and they have technologies far beyond ours they could be here right now. In fact they could be on this forum.
Yes but that spoonfull includes our whole solar system and well beyond relatively. So while it's possible there may be intelligent life somewhere, we don't know,but there is no evidence of any.
What we do know is there is no intelligent life anywhre close and there is and hasn't been any intelligent life on earth, in our solar system,nor any of our closest stars.