The cracked podcast, from the Earwolf network, releases its episodes every Monday morning and this week's topic was "Mind Blowing Ideas About Alien Life." It sounds silly but bare with me. They talked about alien life in ways that would not have occurred to most people. They claim that the death of alien sightings/UFO phenomena was camera phones and that we are unbelievably anthropocentric for being convinced the aliens' ultimate destination is "our backyard."
This episode caused me a mini-existentialist crisis way too early in the week. Firstly, they bring up the idea that aliens, provided that they exist and are intelligent, may already be among us. If we can very easily make a chimpanzee mom out of pillows to trick a baby chimpanzee, what assures us that aliens don't already fake themselves as humans. Well, our dominant views lead us to believe aliens could never do that because they would probably be clumsy at faking human emotions thus blowing up their spot. This is rather humorous because aliens would have the technology to travel across the universe to earth but would fail to replicate a simple smile.
Another centric view on the subject is that we feel attacked because aliens may need our resources. The fact that we think our resources are so "special" that creatures from other planets would use their advanced technology to get their hands on some water proves how human-centric we really are. Our planet is made up of the same elements of many other stars. There are also countless stars like our sun that can provide similar conditions to other planes, like the sun to earth, to create and sustain life.
Lastly, as a human race we have been doing research about space for such a minute period of time that chances are we won't find aliens any time soon.
Cracked Podcast - Mind-Blowing Ideas About Alien Life
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