Ask HN: Is there any credible evidence for ET intelligent life?

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Post by dosy » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:20 PM UTC

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Post by splodge » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16204.jpg

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Post by hprotagonist » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

i do not believe that we have any such evidence.

I’m open to the possibility that extraterrestrial life exists. I suspect that it’s mostly prokaryotic — and i don’t think there’s any credible evidence for advanced alien civilizations or the like, to date.

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Post by blocked_again » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

splodge wrote: post #2

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16204.jpg

What is the story with this image?

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Post by wuunderbar » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

splodge wrote: post #2

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16204.jpg

And what exactly am I looking at here?

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Post by gmuslera » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

Not that I'm aware of. And maybe we will never have one, by far most of the universe is out of our reach and (detailed enough) sight. We might eventually have evidence of ET intelligent life in some point of the future, but never will have of the lack of it.

But the size and age of the universe makes the odds of us being an unique case very improbable.

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Post by staunch » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 4:58 PM UTC

AFAIK the closest thing we have is the very recently released USS Nimitz incident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident

And even this example is very very far from being enough evidence to believe extraterrestrial intelligent life has visited Earth.

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Post by chralie66 » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

blocked_again wrote: post #4

splodge wrote: post #2

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16204.jpg

What is the story with this image?

"UFO buffs zeroed in on a portion of a panoramic photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover in September 2012. These viewers spotted an object that looked like a rat lying between two rocks. While it's a creative idea, the "Mars rat" is unlikely, scientists have said. The Red Planet has extremely cold temperatures, is baked in radiation and lacks a thick, protective atmosphere like Earth's, making it an extremely hostile environment for life." [1]

Doesn't seem legitimate.

1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/media/mars-myths-6-red-planet-hoaxes...

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Post by willmeyers » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

splodge wrote: post #2

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16204.jpg

Just for clarification (since OP didn't give any insight to the picture he/she posted), it's a picture of the "Mars Rat"[1]. It's just a funny looking rock.

[1] https://www.space.com/21455-mars-rat-curiosity-rover-drive.h...

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Post by ndethore » Wed, Jul 04, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

It depends on your definition of "intelligent life", but if you're talking about a life form that we, humans could observe and interact with using our few senses then I'm afraid that the answer is "no". Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord recently published a paper that demonstrate a substantial probability that we're alone our galaxy and perhaps observable universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

Can you guys hear the cosmic crickets too? lol