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No matter how many all-nighters you pull devouring volume after volume of dust-laden encyclopedias, it will never be enough. Because learning is a process, and there’s no end visible on the horizon.

But most of us are just fine with one or two "did you know that?" facts always ready to be served at a dinner table. Except they get old fast and nobody wants to listen to another “banana is a berry,” like, ever.

Luckily, one Reddit user who goes by u/RyanBlitzpatrick did everyone a favor and asked people on r/AskReddit “What's a fact that just blows your mind?” 3.6K upvotes and 3.5K comments later, the results are in and you’d better get your notebook ready, 'cause these are some of the hand-picked knowledge bites that may honestly surprise you.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones When you dream, one part of your brain is making up the story, and another part is experiencing those events and is genuinely surprised by all the twists in the plot.

jayantadey1996 , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones 2006, which doesn’t feel THAT long ago, saw the death of two colossally old tortoises. The first, Harriet, was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos on the HMS Beagle. She belonged to Steve Irwin at the time of her death. Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin shared a “pet.” Estimated to have lived 176 years.

The second, Adwaita, was born before the United States declared its independence from England. Think of it: just 14 years ago, there was a land creature alive that was older than our country. Just incredible.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on the planet together. Since then at least one person has remained on the international space station

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I wish it was as easy to remember these facts as it was to scroll through. In reality, we do learn things every day, but not much of that information sticks with us.

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But memory is a very complex function. It turns out, much of it is generated not only through recollection, but also through the emotions that are attached to it. Shahram Heshmat, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield, believes that “emotion affects all the phases of memory formation.”

For example, “Attention guides our focus to select what’s most relevant for our lives and is normally associated with novelty.” And nothing focuses the mind more than a surprise which escalates emotional intensity.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year.

Also, that same year, Betty White was already 7 years old.

Rob_Vegas , wikipedia Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The oldest living tree in the world methuselah is 4851 years old

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That the Oxford Univeristy is older than the Aztec Empire

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Oxford University established in 1096, the alliance of three city-states forming the Aztec Empire occured in 1428.

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Another interesting thing which escalates long-term memory is not the recollection of a fact itself, but rather the so-called mood memory. Prof. Heshmat explains that “Our current emotional state facilitates recall of experiences that had a similar emotional tone.”

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For example, being in a bad mood primes us to think of and remember unpleasant moments.Having said that, most of the things we forget easily have to do with our inability to put them in our long-term memory.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.

That's like you standing in New York and hearing a sound from San Francisc

armagoei , NASA Goddard Space Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones If time travel were possible, you would need a time-and-space-machine to survive the trip, otherwise when you travelled back in time, the planet would be at a different point in its rotation around the sun and our solar system would be at a different point in space as it rotates, which means you'd travel back in time and be in an empty part of space

brad-corp , Herman Rhoids Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The International Space station is closer to the earth than San Francisco is to L.A

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can bike from SF to LA in 42 hours, less than the typical 2 day trip to the ISS (though some have been shorter)

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Meanwhile, forcing yourself to memorize things is likely not to be very effective because our brains are not capable of making sense of dense information quickly and forming strong associations.

It's better to use super simple tricks such as visualization (imagine what you are trying to remember), repetition (boring but effective), and learning the opposite things (create associations in your head).

And never underestimate the power of understanding that which you’re learning, because you'll never be able to remember something you can’t explain yourself.

#10

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Arctic foxes can survive temperatures as low as -70 degrees Celsius

Weeneem , Tambako The Jaguar Report

#11

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones If an underwater bubble is collapsed by loud sound, light is produced and no one knows why

1 -Mark_YU5MAV- , AleGranholm Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Some people don’t have an inner monologue, like they literally don’t have a voice in their head.

DublD96 , Matt Gibson Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones A woman once jumped off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building but the wind pushed her back and she fell on a ledge on the 85th floor. She survived.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The fact that nobody knows that if we all see colours the same way

anime_fan77 , oh_debby Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think about that. It's more than just how you identify a color. There are colors in the aqua family I see as blue and my husband sees as green.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That there are people in the world who don't like music. Not one specific type, but music as a whole.

That both blows my mind and disturbs me

IncertRandomNameHere , Eugene Peretz Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope I don't run into any of these people, because we wouldn't be vibin'!

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones I still can’t get over the fact that teddy roosevelt got shot and continued to give a three hour speech

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i remember learning about that i think it went like I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Ant biologists still don't know the maximum life span of most ant queens. They just live too long to keep track, and they're not too easy to keep in captivity. The longest one on record is like 30 years old, and there could easily be species that live longer than that

Broflake-Melter , yokohamayomama Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones There is a termite colony in the Amazon Rain Forest that is the size of Great Britain and is almost 4,000 years old. There are also hundreds of millions of termite mounds

Redditor_2017 , cell Report

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The U.S government has an official for a Zombie apocalypse. CONPLAN 8888 also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance was written in 2011. And just in case you think it's weird bureaucratic humor, the first line reads, 'This plan was not actually designed as a joke.'

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There are more trees on Earth then there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Confirmed by NASA.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoon of material from one would weigh around 10 million tons

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If the timeline of the universe (up to now) was compressed into a year starting on new year's day, Homo sapiens would appear at 11:54 pm on December 31st

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Mitochondria is only passed down by mother so there's a concept of mitochondrial eve, all humans today have their mitochondrial dna derived from her

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hold onto your hats if you're a white supremacist. The place or origin is believed to be East Africa.

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#24

Strawberries aren’t berries.

But bananas are

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The Fermi Paradox.

With the number of potentially habitable Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, it’s very strange that we haven’t detected alien signals of any kind so far.

There’s lots of theories as to why that is, but my favorite is called the great silenceDark Forest (which sounds way cooler). Basically everyone else out there is being quiet and not transmitting because they know of some danger that we are unaware of, and they don’t want it to find them. Gives me chills.

Edit: It’s interesting that most of the replies here, joking or serious, correspond to legitimate theories on the Fermi Paradox.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may be transmitting in an entirely new form which we don't possess

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M O'Connell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the rather interesting part of modern digital broadcasting. Without a decoding algorithm, digital broadcasts just look like noise. Our signals certainly could be making it to another form of life, but without a proper decoding algorithm, the 1s and 0s just appear to be background noise. The Drake Equation includes variables for (among other things) the length of time any extra-terrestrial society would be actively using or listening for analog signals.

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Mama Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe we are the danger and they don't want us to find them and come take over their planet.

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DforDorothy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are limited to our resources, including transmitters and receivers. Their signals might be out of our range of capacity to observe.

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Danieletc
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps we are unaware that we are the danger in our universe.

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MiraiJack
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it's because Humankind has a bad reputation.

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Kathy Baylis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We haven’t yet earned our place at the Cool Kids’ table in the school cafeteria.

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Jerod Baker
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is entirely plausible that if there are earth like worlds out there, that their evolutionary path is far before intelligent species, before technological advancement or are so far advanced to our own that we don't know what to look for.....

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Truth Monster
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you hold evolution true, then the likelihood that life exists at all is insane. Just the mechanics of our planet alone are crucial to our development as a specie. The planet-wide disasters and the climate changes over the course of our evolution have led and shaped our evolution in drastic ways that could have easily veered another way just as easily. The chances of it happening again elsewhere, again, insane. The chances those lifeforms are higher lifeforms capable of recognizing each other as lifeforms are like the end digits to pi.

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Tabitha L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Add to that the odds of us existing at the same time. Maybe intelligent life existed somewhere 2 billion years ago.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The most depressing theory is that we are the most evololved specie among the lot...

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Darius Tulbure
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So many earthlings bashing comments out here... But I guess it's a joke that has lost its fun. I think life can be pretty prevalent, however toolmaking animals are not that common. We are a weird accident here on Earth, there's no other species that uses technology. Not one in 3 billion years since life exists, and even us got out of caves 10000 years ago, while the ability to communicate at a distance wasn't there until the 1800s with the invention of the telegraph... The number of advanced civilisations could be very small and probably so far away that communication is either impractical or impossible.

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Ron
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"it’s very strange that we haven’t detected alien signals of any kind so far" isn't actually true. With our current technology, we couldn't detect a planet with a similar level more than a few light years away. We're getting better at listening, but space is really, really, really big and signals get faint really fast.

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Emily Waterpony
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the danger already reached us, that's why humans are capable of ignoring our connection with one another, and succumb to short sighted greed which will ultimately cause our extinction.

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Michael Capriola Jr.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another point is that given the size and age of our galaxy, we simply would not find another species on a par with us. We would find either "apes or angels" as others have pointed out. In other words, very primitive or extraordinarily advanced lifeforms.

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Jonathan Schoonbroodt
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought this post was about SCIENCE, not about science fiction! #GTFO

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's hope the aliens aren't reading these comments. We are still a pretty stupid species.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe other planets are aware of us, and they are the UFO s that people are seeing. They periodically come and check on us and abduct people just to see where we are evolutionary wise, and when they still see that we aren't evolved they keep going and check back later. Or maybe, we were technologically evolved once, something happened like an meteorite hitting the Earth, and that sent us back to square one. Now we are in the process of evolving once more, and trying to regain our technology that we lost.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually a species intelligent enough to travel interstellar distances would use radio communications anyway. More likely they would use quantum entanglement communication. Also they wouldn’t be searching for our signals because unless you collect ants in a farm that’s all we would be...one building a house in a new area doesn’t ask the ants what they think before doing so

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Octavia Hansen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Consider the MASSIVE lengthy time scale in which the universe works . . . we could easily be the only life form at this time. Some have already come and gone; others are yet to be . . .

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Thomas Ewing
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That dark matter/ dark energy? It knows we're here! Run!! Aauugghh!

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AnnieLaurie Burke
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are the danger. They don't want us know they are there. Not much of a mystery.

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Terry Phillips
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The danger they know about and are not saying is US! Homo sapiens.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The time scale, too is a factor. The life could be a fungus or bacteria or on the other end of the spectrum they met the step they could not traverse and died out long ago. And we can't assume that this life was like humans, or even reached equivalencies that enabled them to communicate. Or that they even cared to do so.

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Richard Brown
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They all could have detected each others earlier transmissions and now we are all listening and not transmitting

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or their life form is such that by hearing the transmission, they die and we have unwittingly caused yet another mass extinction

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Indra Servo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shout out to Dead Space, humanity is not alone, they are just the last one left

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Tommy DePaul
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absolutely absurd. They are so advanced that they know we are here, but their primary concern is that we present an existential threat to them. In a universe where we don't know with certainty that they are there. So we see and know of the ants in the anthill and are terrified that they threaten our existence. That's the perfect analogy. Now, how about this explanation: a whole lot of commenters hate human society and their fellow man.

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Tara Leigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WE are the danger. They know of our long history of mass violence, wars , genocide and don’t want US to find THEM.

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Charlette Seaver
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

maybe that danger is a destructive species like us, just with a more advanced technology..although it seems unlikely that every intelligent species besides ourselves would be aware of that

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or that the universe is 14 billion years old and that span of time is very unlikely to have another living thing the same time at humans in that 14 billion years.

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Maddie Painter
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People assume aliens will be very technologically advanced. They could just as easily be behind us in that way.

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Leila Nala
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Intellect comes in waves, this over billions Earth cycles. It would be 1 googol to the power googol that 1 Intellect wave arrives on our planet.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently once *I think it was at nasa or a space station search it!* Over the radio signal they once picked up unknown sounds/readings and we still don't know what they might be today! Still!!!🤷🏼‍♀️

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Adam Francis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time and space doesn't work the way everyone thinks it works. We're the only planet that can have life on it. Almost all the stars in our galaxy that we "see" were burnt out long ago. The center of the universe is very young and the edge of the universe is very old relative to Earth. We don't really have a clue what galaxies actually exist right now or not. Creatures exist on Earth that fly around in mechanical ships that are not human and are not purely spiritual beings. They've lived here as long as we have but they don't belong here.

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Anandra Danubis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Basically everyone else out there is quiet because they know that we are the danger.

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Steve Barker
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are the only intelligent life in the universe and I'm being generous about us.

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serge
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe we don't have the technology yet to capture what is being sent out, if anything is being sent out.

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Clare Amidei
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, we have killed off a lot of species. Maybe they’re just keeping quiet so we don’t attack a highly advanced species that could wipe us out with a button.

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Tommy DePaul
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Read what you wrote. They know we're here and feel they have to hide quietly. Why? What power do we have to "attack"?

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Jane
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It might take hundreds of years for a broadcast from space to reach earth. And we have only been sophisticated enough to receive one for about 50 years. Maybe we missed them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like us, they will all have died from wars before having the technology to visit us. Politics is always more important than science. We’re on the verge of complete destruction,,,and barely make it on the moon.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe we'll figure it out when we figure out why "If an underwater bubble is collapsed by loud sound, light is produced. . .".

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Steve Cruz
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone else out there knows about Humans On Earth and they aren't interested in making contact.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

bltresearch.com - Anatomical Anomalies in Crop Formation Plants, a peer-reviewed paper; Hair of the Alien, documenting analysis of primary and mitochondrial DNA extracted from a hair after an encounter with "Tall Blondes", with a signature that is on record but has been absent from the human population for thousands of years, and the subject and his story story also featured in the documentary My Mum Talks to Aliens; USS Nimitz / Tic Tac incident; testing over Nevada; YouTube channel UFOs Over Las Vegas, documenting what is undoubtedly testing of UFO-like craft on a daily basis; YouTube channel SasquatchOntario, documenting more than 7 years of contact with a group of some kind/origin unknown, matching Sasquatch/Yeti/Yowie contact claims from throughout history, and associated orbs, UFOs and other phenomena; ...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... Robert van Den Broeke, being tested under controlled conditions, taking random photos in which images appear, which he attributes to unknown beings who communicate with him, sometimes leading him to fresh crop circles, orbs and UFOs, confirmed by many researchers and others. Read between the lines: are "others" present on Earth? Yes. Do we understand their nature? Not publicly. Would we call them alien? Yes. Are they extraterrestrial? No.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LMAO BULL S**T.. We have heard things (by SETI) and they went public and then we were told they didn't hear. We have been contacted and been told we haven't.. We have seen things and were told we didn't see what we saw.... It isn't that there isn't anyone else out there. It is our LEADERS keeping it from us..

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elfin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps they are speaking and no one here is listening. They're probably telling us to wear masks.

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Martin Roy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they were all warned about Earth and shut up so we won't find them.

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Michael Capriola Jr.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was an essay on the Atomic Rockets site suggesting that the danger they're all afraid of is other starfaring species. Super paranoia. Nothing is more important than the survival of my species, so if we discover another advanced species we need to destroy it before it destroys us.

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Eric Vittini
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another probable reason we havent heard form them is the same reason why you woldnt stop to dicuss quantum physics with a colony of ants

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Harold Volkwyn II
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They keep silent because they know of that orange man who is in charge of the country to the left of Africa. He'll want to nuke them like he wants to nuke hurricanes.

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Bernard Nyacuma
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason that Earthlings will not find a neighbour(terrestrial) is because , they understand that we are a violent species and they cow away in fear. No body wants a human for a neighbour.

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Tommy DePaul
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like we fear the ants. Perhaps some solution -focused therapy would be advisable.

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Courtney LeDroit
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe they're trying to avoid us. I mean, we're not exactly what I would call evolved.

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Brian Barton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it could be that earth is the alabama trailer park of the universe....

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always figured we were in a great space race against foes we do not know exist.

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Mshauri Mazuri
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now think this, Milky way is just a tiny galaxy in a universe full of galaxies. If per galaxy has a planet, there's a possibility that there's a planet like earth in one of those galaxies. If that's the case, there's a possibility that there are people also that we called alien while to them, they called us alien too cause we are not like them. But what if?

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Tiffany Marie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe lots of life out there but lacking on intelligent species.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or highly intelligent and already knows about us, but is waiting for us to be at the proper level to handle meeting the neighbors and not going all caveman and wanting to blow them up. Which is where we've backslid to right now, so we won’t be meeting them for a while.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are we still searching for life on earth-like planets? For all we know other life forms "breathe" water. Or fire. Or whatever gas we don't even have on earth. Or maybe they don't even breathe at all.

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Kate
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then how do they all know about it? What is this “thing” giving off?

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Patrick Reolon
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the one who postulated the paradox clearly was never in basic school... Otherwise he or she would know that even children are able to leaving you out when they make groups, or play...

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Rick Seiden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't see a paradox. The truth is that there has to be a first intelligent species in the Milky Way. Maybe we're the first. Fermi never took that into account.

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Tom Brock
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fermi did take that into account...read rhe great barrier part of the paradox

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Nina Khmielnitzky
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe they observed us and considered us a sub-intelligent form of life: pollution, wars, inequalities, tyrants. I understand them perfectly of not wanting to have anything to do with us.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A specie that refuse to evolve for so many years,can be a danger for others :)

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Ian Bodey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was an alien race I don't think I would want anything to do with earth and its Idiot people...😱😱😱👽👽👽

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It is ok. When the aliens do come, they will, of course, come to the U.S. of Dumbfuckistan, where the Fascist state created by Trump and his psychopathic sycophants will "save the world" by first shooting then asking questions.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That the biggest bacteria species known, Thiomargarita namibiensis, can have a maximum diameter of 0.7 millimeters, which is big enough for you to see it without a microscope.

That's insane if you consider that your average bacteria species has a diameter of 0.001 millimeters.

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How a computer does what it does. Blows my mind how 1's and 0's can do so much. Maybe I'm uneducated, but still mind blowing

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 1's and 0's aren't so amazing, binary math is easily understood -- the amazing thing to me is the timing, the fastest CPU's can reach 5Ghz, that's so fast that light can only travel around 2 inches with every CPU clock tick.

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A pig will eat a whole human body except for the teeth

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The way the human brain works. These cells that are powered by tiny jolts of electricity are collectively having conscious thoughts, coming up with morals and empathy and every human behavior

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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That Neutrinos have mass and every second of every day about a billion of them are going through every square inch of your body - but the space between your atoms is so huge there's pretty much a 0% chance they will ever hit you

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm more amazed that we consist of atoms with huge spaces in between and we are still in one piece. Wow.

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