YoungBuck95
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The universe is so vast that there is almost certainly life beyond just our planet. I do like the hypothesis that any life advanced enough to have interstellar travel destroyed their civilization years ago. Also like the hypothesis that a species so advanced to travel across the galaxy would have almost zero interest in someone as primitive as humans, let alone returning to the planet over and over again.
I could be persuaded that aliens are actually us, time traveling back for observation. If what people see is real, then it makes more sense because technology seems to be built upon current technology and preconceived human traits never something absolutely crazy. I think that's what hold me back from interstellar visitors, we like to put things in a way that we can understand, as imaginative as we are its always grounded in some human aspect. We can't comprehend beings that have no carbon base, etc... kind of like how everyone throws all these human components to the concept of God.
This is one of the things I think of routinely - how absolutely ginormous the universe is. I’ll go down rabbit holes of just looking at galaxies and it blows my mind each and every time. To think we hardly know anything about our galaxy and then realizing there are an absurd amount of galaxies is wild.
I said earlier on this CT that the deep sea might be the one of the scariest places, but I think I will say deep space is. The amount of stuff that could be out there that we do not know about is incredible.