Aliens be judging your kinks and fetishes… 👀

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    By extension, ufo and alien abduction stories may be likened to animals trying to get others to believe they saw a tree flash a brilliant light late at night.

  • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    It’s called Dark Matter. C’mon, what’s more likely, 85% of the universe is completely unobservable by chance? Or by design?

    Any post-scarcity civilization that advances past Prime Directive territory just quantum-shifts half a dimension to the left so they can all hang out together without bothering anyone else.

    Aliens don’t judge you, though. No judgemental species can collaborate long enough to go Dark, you either evolve past those primitive instincts or self-destruct.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Which is probably why they haven’t tried to make contact. “Oh look! It’s a planet full of fundamentalist chimps with nuclear weapons” “should we pop over and say hi?” “Nah, fuck that noise!”

  • sicarius@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 hours ago

    This is a topic in the 3 body problem series of books. The aliens have photons (?) that spy on everything the humans do so the humans have no way of planning against their attack without them knowing. The humans assign a few people to make plans with no oversight and without telling anyone else their plan.
    Highly recommend the books.

    • Lazhward@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 hours ago

      “Congratulations human! You’ve won the ‘most depraved’ award! You’ve been deemed not worth enslaving, instead you’ll be rewarded with a swift and painless death!”

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 hours ago

    There was a TV SciFi series for kids with some guys from the future arriving in our time to solve an issue, and they had cameras the size of pins they could stick anywhere to see what’s happening.

    The fun of the series was that those guys from the future had barely a clue how to blend in in our time, with a historian of them trying to make them fit in.

  • remon@ani.social
    111·
    14 hours ago

    Unless these aliens can break the laws of physics their cameras will produce heat and have to send signals somewhere. So we’ll be able to detect them.

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      143·
      14 hours ago

      Humans didn’t even have the technology to observe most of the eletromagnegtic spectrum for like practically all of human history apart from the recent hundred of years or so, bold of you to assume there isn’t higher form of techology that’s undetectable to us. I mean, the North Sentinese and other uncontacted tribes around the world still can’t even fanthom that we are talking to each other using radiowaves in the air.

      There is this sci-fi novel called Three Body Problem and

      spoiler

      the aliens used a high tech AI supercomputer called the “Sophons” that can be invisible to humans and are spying on Earth in order to plan for an invasion. Humans only figured out after scientists started dying, seemingly mysteriously.

      Its sci-fi, but like, they could just take advantage of the tech we already have and hack our servers to gather data, and even if humans figure it out about the hacking, they would just think it was human criminal and its just labeled as a “databreach”. (Who knows, maybe one of the databreaches are actually just aliens gathering data.)

      Like… goverments run by humans already out so much cameras in the streets, aliens can just… tap into the feed lol. Use our own surveillance state against us.

      • remon@ani.social
        61·
        13 hours ago

        bold of you to assume there isn’t higher form of techology that’s undetectable to us.

        I think it’s very unlikely that there will ever be a technology that can get around fundamental laws of nature, like entropy.

        • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
          82·
          13 hours ago

          Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.

          Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

          • remon@ani.social
            33·
            13 hours ago

            Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism?

            No, I don’t think it’s comparable. We’ve figured out most of the big picture, now it’s mostly just filling in gaps here and there and making correction. I doubt there is an entire new force or field hiding that would allow completley undetectable communications from us. Maybe you could do something with neutrinos, we’re quite bad at detecting them for now.

            Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

            Yeah, I’ve looked through an infrared camera and seen pictures from x-ray telescopes.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I tried going down this line of thinking too, but any assumption you make is predicated on the belief that they would use means that we are familiar with. Just because we do not know of a way to do such and such does not mean it does not exist. This post is referring to a fundamental epistemic problem.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    9·
    16 hours ago

    The birds are watching you.

    Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.

    If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.