SorteKanin

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Jokes on you, I love the clumps of chocolate in milk with cocoa powder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Yes. Describe it as best as you can and let the developer reach out to you if you want. A good maintainer will ask follow up questions for more specific stuff that you may not have provided at the start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Highly illegal in the EU.

Source? I've signed contracts before that includes clauses saying they can basically read my work email whenever they want.

Screen and web history sounds pretty illegal though, but would love to hear what law that is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

New fetch just dropped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

... What? Okay I get all of them except the SNQ one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

forget what’s real, I want to write a story with humans interacting with aliens that’s consistent with what we see now.

You just have to make it a bit sci fi. Like say it's the year 2400 or whatever and Earth achieves radio contact with another civilization. Maybe they're 100 light years away so you'd jump 200 years every time a message is sent and returned. Not sure how you'd tell that story but that's the most realistic thing I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you really saying that "aliens have not been to Earth" and "aliens have been to Earth" are equal when it comes to speculation? You would need a lot of evidence to prove the latter and there's a lot of theory to support the former.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

our current theories are probably downright primitive to any advanced life form and there’s undoubtedly blind spots in modern day science

"All due respect", this is pure speculation. We may very well be at a close approximation of physics and have a reasonably accurate understanding of the limitations. Or we may not be. But there is not really much of a reason to think that what we know now about the limitations of the universe (like the speed of light) should somehow be upended by new discoveries or theories.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

"Something" is much more likely to be aircraft from Earth or atmospheric illusions or hundreds of other possibilities and the probability of it being actual aliens is basically 0%.

Why won’t the US gov tell us or show us everything they have?

Isn't it also funny that all these UFO sightings almost exclusively happen in the US, the country seemingly obsessed with UFOs? And other countries basically don't see them at all?

Also isn't it weird that despite giving literally everyone and their kid a smartphone with high resolution cameras, we still haven't gotten any convincing footage of any alien UFOs? You'd think if there were aliens, someone would've filmed them by now (hint: there are no aliens on earth to film).

Doesn’t that make you at least a little curious?

Yes, it is easy to fall into this "I want to believe" trap. Of course it makes us curious. But that should not blind you from what is real.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

imagining someone traveling using wormholes or other technologies humans have no clue about

Our current physical theories suggest that there is no "shortcut" to travelling between the stars and it will likely not become any easier with future technology. There is no way around light speed and conservation of momentum.

I don't doubt that alien civilizations would want to visit if they knew we existed - we certainly would want to visit another civilization if we knew it existed. But the problem is that it's just not physically feasible. The most likely scenario is that we achieve some kind of radio communication with another civilization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly even centuries is like... a crazy timescale for space travel. There's so many things that can go wrong and there's nothing saving you in space. Generation ships is a cool idea but it is that - just an idea, at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

No amount of technology will let you go faster than light. There's no reason to believe that technology will just keep expanding and allow us to somehow travel easily to other star systems. Actually our current understanding of physics seems to suggest that we might never be able to do that.

Just because we want it to happen doesn't mean it will or that we should think it will. Hope is not equal to truth, unfortunately.

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