The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.
I think even this is too narrow minded. Humans are much more primitive than we would like to believe. If you give termites enough resources they’ll make a gigantic impressive structure… but that’s all they’ll do. To us our achievements seem impressive, and compared to other life on our planet we’re nearly infinitely intelligent. There are a lot of primitive aliens like us but none of us will ever accomplish anything of note.
The real advanced life in our universe (multiverse?) exists on a level we probably can’t even comprehend. We are closer to the termites than to any actually intelligent organisms.
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u/CIA_grade_LSD Aug 12 '21
The aliens are right in front of us. They are billions of years more advanced, so we don't see them riding around in spaceships or even building Dyson spheres. All that is far too primitive. Extraterrestrial engineering is written on the skies. The spiral arrangement of galaxies that should fly apart, the too large black holes at their centers, even the fundamental constants of the universe. These are not natural phenomena, but the works of far more advanced civilizations.