I didn’t realize this was an unpopular opinion
Neither have I.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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Yup, it's strange that's so unpopular when it's mostly what current science points to:
Massive universe => It's pretty much certain that there's life, even intelligent life, out there.
Light speed limit => It's highly unlikely that we will meet each other.
Light speed limit
Well before that limit, it seems that there's another crippler to space travel-- the idea that it's extremely grueling, destructive and dangerous to travel at high speeds. For example...
Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg
im going to downvote because I think this is the norm myself.
This isn’t really an unpopular opinion, most scientists and astronomers agree with you. I don’t get this superstition / conspiracy theory either. E.g. no believable physical evidence has ever been put forward. The idea that “extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence” doesn’t seem to hold with some uneducated people; it’s like with the Loch Ness monster or with the Big Foot, pure make believe and lalaland stuff.
I dont think it is? Definitely not in the circles I run in, (work, social and family.) You may have just stumbled into a pod of simpletons. They congregate from time to time.
My only, somewhat serious, disagreement is the signal comment. If they did send a signal and it's in a spectral band we monitor, we monitor a small percentage of the sky(low single digits) and even if it was from one of those areas, we've only been doing that for less than 100 years(probably closer to 50). If species sent a rf signal which arrived here during the French revolution we would never of noticed.
Chariots of the gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.
I think this is more of a "want to believe" than a true belief. I hope.
I don't think it's a mainstream opinion that, for instance, the Egyptians needed alien intervention to learn how to put a brick on top of a brick until you formed a pyramid. But I guess I do know a lot of people who say that since there's no way to definitively know what's going on a million-billion lightyears away, they're open to the possibility.
But for the people who "the truth is out there" is religion, they're not going to let a little thing like evidence get in the way of their beliefs
You realize that if we had verifiable proof of extraterrestrial visitors, the powers that be would never release that info. Religious people would throw the world into chaos, social and financial systems would collapse, cults would pop up everywhere... The world as we know it would end.
And a world we don't know yet would commence, possibly improving untold numbers of lives
The world, as people knew it, has ended at least three times that I can think of.
Transition from stone to copper age.
Bronze age collapse.
The industrial age/digital age.
People don't like to acknowledge that last one, but seriously. When was the last time you saw anyone using a horse as a pack animal? How about a whale oil lantern? Carrier pigeon for communications? The world that my great great grandparents knew ended during my great grandparents, and grandparents lifetimes, and has been replaced by something that hasn't settled into some sort of normal yet.
Amish don't count here. They're refusing to enter the new age.
You and q are both right. But yeah I agree if there was proof the government would bury the hell out if it
Put down the crackpipe and turn on the TV. There is a history channel documentary proving that they have. Its called "the proof is out there".