Nah, they are here flying around as unannounced UAPs (not to be confused with debunked UFOs) /s

Uninteresting average people? They're everywhere!!

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Naw. It’s gonna be some kinda cellular life we find in a puddle on some moon.

Dead space did a great Interactive documentary about this scenario.

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I’ll beat the shit out of a alien if I see one.

Unless they speak to one another louder than the nuclear fusion of a star, I don't think we'll discover them having a casual conversation in a park...

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Could even use a biochemistry that produces biosignatures we’re not even looking for

There is a lot of conjecture that it will be industrial type chemicals discovered in spectral analysis of planets

Now that’s what I call a close encounter

Yeah a few were playfully chasing some of the RAFs during the queen's jubilee. We're probably pretty close.

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The title says "technology" not life..

Do you have a YouTube link?

Denying facts is so hot right now.

For me it is tremendously problematic regarding this topic. The amount of interest and time and money going into UAPs is at the cost of the things that could easily identify life in the universe.

Everyone makes noise about UAPs so the govt and NASA does something.

But why isn't that action resulting in another space telescope? Funding of a breakthrough challenge? Educating the next generation of theoreticians?

I believe the intense interest in UAPs is due to a subtle psychology: The kids are scared of the future and hope to see proven evidence that there is an in-Universe savior.

Punching is a close encounter of the sixth kind.

Your hands would probably go through them, and they probably don't look anyhting close to anyhting on earth.

There is definitely a religious belief like fervor to the UFO cultists. R/ufos for example is quite the shit show.

Huh, I'll go lurk there to see how it informs my pop-psych hypothesis.

You'll likely find this book interesting, mind you I haven't read it yet but I've heard good things:

https://www.amazon.ca/American-Cosmic-Ufos-Religion-Technology/dp/019069288X

>More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.

Most excellent. And shhh, the original commentor of "Denying facts is so hot right now." is actually one of them!

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Not unless Harry Caul is on the case.

Interactive? Like, I get to choose which conclusion they will arrive at by the end of the documentary?

“first finds extraterrestrial life”

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Space is so big that unless an alien civilization existed millions or even billions of years ago I doubt we will ever hear or see them