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Sep 26, 2022 11:16 AM
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StevenFarmer
Is it? Aliens didn't exist until this era or something? If there was a Human Astronaut in it mouth, sure.
Kightzeareau
Not really. Dinosaurs were defending the planet from Aliens. Not that complicated.
AvgWhiteShark
When Mondays get weird.
ElBarbu
Basically this https://youtu.be/hUUaMD2l7Ms
TungstenOrbital
Time to reverse engineer alien tech
Carl99
Now if it was holding a sign that said "end nuclear testing now" it would really complicate things.
thekeyislost
Alien sightings are just time travelers.
iTakeHourLongShits
This is basically the plot of Darling in the Franxx
fractalsphere
New information only complicates things if you're trying to stick to a bad narrative.
RoutemasterFlash
I think a god-tier troll would be to bury an iPod or something down at the Neolithic layer at Stonehenge or similar.
RoutemasterFlash
Might take a few millennia to pay off, of course.
Rayplays
DickMercenary
sometimesiupvoteatrandom
Astramancer
lordfwahfnah
There it is
rightsaidfredsshirt
I’ve always wondered what proof of ET life would do to religions.
brandonblk
depends. either they would worship them. or holy war because they dont match the "true image of our made up holy person"
Hyndisfox
Some religions would have no problem with it, they'd even expect there to be life elsewhere in the universe.
Greenwaxy
Depends on the people.
TheyDontKnowAndYouCantTellEm
DrMissAnonymous
Flawless
steelundecided
Still funny
DropDrop
But.. but we'd already placed a flag. It's our moon now.
Rhinta
Apparently it's just fully bleached from the solar radiation.
DarwinGreen5
how did it hear the fart?
Kreia
ground vibrations
karvis
This is more complicated...
TellusEidolon
Raptor jesus was real
InsertUnimaginativeUsernameHere
Velocipastor
Bob64
Vallete
Idk, scientists would be like "oh my gosh! I get to study dinosaur anthropology?!!!"
PoopSammich
That would combine what I went to school for (anthro) AND my love for dinosaurs. Dream career
theduckening
While everyone was arguing if Jesus was white, brown or black. Everyone was wrong and he was a raptor all along.
3Davideo
Made even more interesting since the cross was derived from the humanoid-specific execution method.
MajinChaser
Raptor Jesus
3Davideo
Velocipastor
Greenwaxy
Doesn’t complicate jack. That’s a career-making dig write-up. This is what people don’t get about actual science/scientists.
barnwolf
Everyone knows the real scientists are actually in on the scam.
Xenarion
Eh, complicated doesn't mean bad.
stayingalive4life
It would’ve been even better if the yeti had been riding the t-rex.
Belisaurius1
Well it does but not for the discoverer. Let the theoreticians fight it out in the bloody halls of academia.
SilverNicktail
Are you telling me scientists aren't actually all part of some conspiracy to...uh...something something denial of god?
FuzzyX
Proof of alien life/technology/civilization/intelligence would be a Nobel award moment in news that would change the world.
TheFeralDog
Yup humans are alien to this planet. That's our ancestors ship right there
drduffer
Absolutely going to get tenure after this paper. ⬆️
SquireRamza
Still only make about 70k a year
CanadianCobraChicken
Hell; a Nobel prize might be in order
DogTaxEvader
("A career-making dig" would be an enormous understatement in this case)
Filanwizard
yeah when the black Ford LTD shows up and the black suits get out he wont remember the dig. it was just swamp gas off a weather balloon
Filanwizard
sunyudai
The complication is proving that you didn't stage it.
EatingFiftyBagels
Well, unless they're construction workers.
merrilup
You have Comlicated this
manulofdoom
IRL, the two would assume it's a hoax first. Would do some tests to figure out whenever the fossil was real at least, and when it was faked>
manulofdoom
>Then, if the saucer turns out to be consistent with dinosaur age, do even more tests. Then even more. Then call every1 they know to repeat>
manulofdoom
>the tests, then they all go "either all our machines are REALLY broken, or..." and then the whole scientific world goes into ecstasis
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
It complicates it by upping scrutiny around findings and conclusions by exponential factors, I'd wager. Career-making, one way or another.
sortofkindamadbutnotreally
Well I think the scrutiny is when its stuff like the antikythera mechanism, which is complex, but not completely impossible to have been 1/
sortofkindamadbutnotreally
Made by human hands. If it was like a completely preserved flying saucer, complete with fossils of ET, probably less skepticism..probably2/2
madcauseimflagrant
Agreed. Empirical evidence actually clarifies for the non-delusional.
sfbiker
Nobody is going to believe him unless more evidence is independently found. He'll spend the rest of his career defending himself.
lrateyourrig
Damn you Fiji Mermaid!!!
jimmyman999000
See you later, Bigfoot!
CelestialSea
You've apparently not known many real scientists. I had a friend overturn decades of scientific thought, got shunned, couldn't get published
CelestialSea
Ended up giving up on science and turning to teaching. Eventually the community came around but it took 10-20 years.
CelestialSea
If anyone's wondering, it was on the nature and purpose of glial cells in the brain.
locallurker
Thanks for sharing. My first thought reading the comment was on this exact thing, I think officially called neuronal bias
CelestialSea
Lot of it was career driven. Even the head of her lab torpedoed her because his career was built on the common understanding of glial cells.
CelestialSea
Bunch of old men don't want their life's work thrown in the bin because it was all garbage science, understandable, but still wrong.
locallurker
Yup, I guess I hadn't expected scientists to act like every other group of humans
PlaidBastard
TO BE FAIR, it's not always great for the person who figures out everyone before them was Big Wrong about something elemental.
cabalin
How would this prove anyone wrong?
PlaidBastard
Consider Wegner, the poor motherfucker whose life was ruined by proposing Plate Tectonics.
megodk
Galilei is another example
W0lfsbl00d
Right?! It's like these people have never seen a disaster movie. That person is always getting the shaft or sacrifices themself for th group
SIGMA920
Disaster movies have fucking stupid plots to the point that it's like horror films, the characters are dumb so the plot can happen and
SIGMA920
there is action rather than a bunch of people logically defeating the villain or dealing with the problem at hand.
W0lfsbl00d
Show me on the doll where Genre Films hurt you. And if a cookie cutter bothers you that much you must've stopped watching MCU at 3rd film.
JaromirAzarov
It would complicate things for pretty much every society on the planet. Definite proof of extraterrestrial life would be a game changer.
RecurringNightmare
as it is almost statistically proven that aliens exist the real game changer would be the 'they can come here any time' part of that picture
JaromirAzarov
No, it's not... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf
RecurringNightmare
thats one paper by a bunch of philosophers about a mathematical/physical problem...questionable...also both the drake equation and fermi >
JaromirAzarov
ANY research in that area is philosophical at best, because we're lacking proper data for several parameters. Did you even read the paper?
RecurringNightmare
> paradox aim at alien civilizations more advanced than us so we could detect their existence...reduction to 'alien life exists somewhere' >
fractalsphere
At some point there will be a telescope or something that shows us proof of other life out there and we will collectively lose our minds.
JaromirAzarov
Only if they're close enough, otherwise it's physically impossible to detect anything definite.
SIGMA920
Why would it do anything of the sort? There's almost certainly other intelligent life somewhere else in the universe. It's almost certainly
SIGMA920
not going to resemble anything we know or expect, but it exists. Spacefaring? Not a guarantee but possibly. If so that'd be great, if not
Greenwaxy
Or already extinct. Like the T-Rex it was found with. Fa fa!
SIGMA920
that's still a good thing.