I just find it kind of funny most people assume that aliens; if they even exist, are more advanced than we are. I'm pretty sure that plays into our fear of the unknown and the foreign. But there's a chance that they have the same level of technological advancement as we do, or are much more primitive than we are.
But I also think it's just a chance for people to ***** about how much they also hate other people too. i,e. "They'd wipe us out after seeing how stupid we are" ect. We don't know how'd they would judge us either. Again if they even exist.
Guess I'mma get
extra nerdy on you people today.
The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Our sun is 4.6 billion years old, and Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old. Life has existed on the planet for roughly 3.5 billion years. Human beings, in their current form, are about 200,000 years old. And of
that, we've been advanced enough for some sort of space monitoring for, generously, about 100 years.
Now this is where it gets interesting. Evolution is slow, taking millions of years for the smallest changes.
Except when it comes to us. Our evolution was crazily, insanely fast. We went from a species cognitively similar to a chimpanzee, to a fully formed human being, in about 10 million years. In evolutionary perspective, it happened basically overnight. We did not evolve directly from chimpanzees, but chimpanzees are far, far more similar to that common ancestor than we are. And we don't really know
why.
Humans have progressed exponentially faster than any other species on the planet. And we can see this same trend in our technological advancement. We invented the first plane, that could hold sustained flight for less than 1000 feet, just barely over a century ago. And now we're more or less completely capable of putting a man on Mars, should we ever actually want to do so.
The point being, that even among terrestrial species, we are a
fluke. We evolved faster than our understanding of evolution says that we should have.
And this ties back into the age of the universe. It's hard to wrap your head around the concept of 14 billion years, but the point is that it's not infinite. The universe hasn't existed forever. It had a start time, and any potential life in the universe would take time to form. Using Earth as an example, it took about a billion years from the time the planet formed for the earliest forms of life to take hold, and then it took another 3.5 billion to get to us. But we're an outlier among our own planet, nothing else even comes close.
And when we look for alien planets that are Earth-like, meaning they're roughly the same size and the same distance from their sun as Earth is, and thus have potential for Earth-like development of life, we find that most of them aren't much older, and many are younger, than our own planet. So if we follow through with the conclusion that our own evolution happened much faster than it should have, it's quite possible the reason we haven't found alien life is because
we're the first to reach this level.
