I am sure that we are not going to be the last universally intelligent species on earth, but what shocks me is that we are apparently the first.
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Replying to @Plinz
The human form evolves on every planet that has the conditions for it. The "gods" mentioned in all cultures were humans from other planets. And they were here long before us earthlings.
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Replying to @movAX13h
Given the improbability of FTL travel and the inhospitability of Mars and Venus, it appears less likely that such gods came from from other planets than all the alternatives. There is also the motivational problem: rational aliens won't want to help us (Dark Forest Hypothesis).
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Replying to @Plinz
As soon as we discover a newly habitable planet in the future, we will look for creatures most similar to us and genetically interfere either by natural breeding or genetic modification to boost their evolution and help us colonize the planet. We too will make this mistake.
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Replying to @movAX13h
So your (improbable but not infinitely impossible) hypothesis is that space aliens bred chimps into the precursor of homo sapiens because they wanted to have lots of Starbucks before they take over?
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Replying to @Plinz
The gods have left a long time ago. What's left was earthlings trying to imitate because they could not explain technology and capabilities which lead to confusion and religious belives. Interfering in the evolution of a lower-developed species is very destructive.
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Replying to @movAX13h
What probability do you assign to that hypothesis, and why?
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Replying to @Plinz
I came to this conclusion after ~10yrs of reading old texts trying to decode our history, always knowing that the roman church had a monopoly on books/history for a long time. It's the knowledge they tried to hide by replacing it with spiritual and superhuman nonsense. Prob.=0.51
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I think I would require much stronger evidence than a spirited interpretation of some old tales to put the probability north of 50 percent. Alien DNA and tech, plausible possibility of FTL, etc. At the moment, the evidence for alien visits is similar to ghosts and weeping statues
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