I hope there are. Earth being a fluke would be… Weirdly depressing.
I have contemplated writing one of the more intriguing alien encounter stories into my Rats of NIMH fanfiction. Having sapient rats and mice try to figure out supposed extraterrestrial visitors.
I’m very dyslexic and thought the post was about the existence of Italians, which is something I have always had doubts regarding.
The UN does not recognise the Cuomingtang occupied Staten Island. Maomdani’s New York is the one New York.
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize
MissourahThe Italian RepublicNow I wonder if Marx wrote anything specifically about italians
I lowk think the “Great Filter” they talk about to explain why there are seemingly so few intelligent civilisations is literally just capitalism
That we gotta nuke ourselves so we can communicate with dolphins and join the aliens in the society of fully automated luxury gay space communism
We definitely need a J. Posadas article in ProleWiki. I cannot be the change I want to see because I’m not well versed in the topic.
There isn’t one; aliens are not part of human history yet (that we know of), so a historical dialectical materialist analysis can’t be conducted
There’s just no tangible data, only potential likelihoods firmly rooted in stellar physics and biological probabilities
The Vanguard Outside of History
Unironically, I always loved that phrase; it’s so metal
there’s no evidence for either, but do you mean “off somewhere in the universe at all” or “visiting earth”?
kinda hard to have an orthodox position on something that has never been observed.
The former.
The Marxist position would be who gives a fuck. If it doesn’t affect life here and has no possible way of doing so in the conceivable future then it is as good as non-existent.
I mean, it’s both. There’s the aliens out there and there’s also jemfrey the venusian who lives in my bathtub
I think I accidentally started a meme lol.
We don’t know if aliens exist.
I speak for all Marxists and the entirety of the theory when I say that I wish Strange New Worlds would have been planned around season long narrative arcs, less Spock struggling with his human half, and less relationships involving Spock.
Source: me, the one true leftist
It’s actually pretty sad that of the recent series most recently released it was Lower Decks that was most faithful to the spirit of prior classics
Oh god please no no one at bad robot knows how to write a plot longer than 43 minutes. They’d have Spock struggling with human emotions and relationships but also gibberish about a time travelling BLUE angel this time
oh damn that’s pretty true. I failed to consider who is writing it. I just kept seeing them bring up interesting sci fi themes or philosophies and then just go “isn’t that weird?” and throw it away after 43 minutes. They could have had a whole season about his wife’s arc. They could have had a whole season about border disputes. This current season could have been a whole season about Pike’s episode 1 predicted death.
Also they could have had Ortegas and La’an on screen for 99% of runtime but they chose not to for some reason.
Also they could have had Ortegas and La’an on screen for 99% of runtime but they chose not to for some reason.
They knew I would watch and wanted to personally attack me
If we can achieve communism we might be able to interact with aliens someday, if we don’t then we’re gonna turn into another dead region of the universe.
Probably something akin to this.
No idea what the marxist position is, doubt there is one, since there’s not a lot of data to work with. My position is that alien life exists and that “mathematical proof” it doesn’t is some hack bullshit that makes too many assumptions, but presents them as indesputable facts.
Considering how we are constantly learning about life on earth - dolphins have a straight up language apparently? It strikes me as the height of hubris to declare we know anything at all about the impossibility of extraterrestrial life.
Addendum: Life on mars is a good song and Bowie is my problematic fave
the idea that we are special and earth is the only place to have life is human exceptionalism taken to the extreme.
Aliens coming here though…physics says no. And any aliens that can do it anyway somehow are probably so far advanced that these monkeys over there aren’t particularly interesting any more.
