The only thing that stopped them from becoming a dominate species like humans is their short lifespans.
They don't live long enough to accumulate and exchange complex information.
We could have an underwater squid society if they just lived a couple years longer so they'd start seeing a benefit from increased lifespan and start selecting for it.
It's why aliens coming to earth is so far fetched. It's not just "life" being out there, it's hitting a bunch of conditions so certain necessary traits are selected for, then the species living long enough to develop and sustain interstellar travel.
All while being in Earths local commuting distance.
Maybe they reached this state in the past and thought:
"Nah, the whole trauma you build up in a long life of complicated relationships, that inevitably ends in sorrow and death? It just ain't worth it."
Then they reverted back to the short-life sweet-spot of 2 - 3 years. Enough time to get reproductive organs going, have the best sex of your lifetime and thank off.
No one's got time for religion, war and all that other nonsense with such a short time at your disposal.
I'm just conjecturing, mind you. Nothing truly serious. That said:
I think that individual lifespan plays a small role on this. The main issue is that they don't care about their young and their typical lonely behaviour.
I'm saying this because a lot of our (human) strength is not individual. It's the small things that we do that give a tiny bit more power to the ones around them, and to the next generations. Those things pile up, and yet for cephalopods there's nothing remotely similar to that. (Cetaceans come closer, but their ability to change the environment around them is a bit handicapped. Or rather flippercapped.)
I wouldn't say it's the only thing getting in their way; being underwater is a major disadvantage when it comes to developing advanced technology, as it makes smelting rather difficult.
didn't the pentagon come out a few years ago saying there are 'ufo's that are not US or other known nation's. There are lots of possibilities that are not aliens from other plants but then again with some time a race could learn to use technology to live thousands of years naturally right?
Nah, that was us, we couldn't say anything till the SR-71 Blackbird was declassified tho
Why would you assume that when they say next:
But this new thing definitely isn't us
That it's not the same thing?
Hell, you're operating under the assumption they're actually things.
The stuff where pilots say "nothing can move like that" is usually from some trick of perspective because they're flying faster than the speed of sound and trying to look at something at a weird angle.
Like, something from another planet that flew here is like a 0.00000000000000001% chance.
It would be more likely to be a civilization from the center of the Earth, time travellers, something from a parallel universe...
All that stuff is also incredibly unlikely and not what any of those are. But even fucking Jesus coming back and flying around is more likely than aliens flew here through space.
Especially considering they had to fly here without us ever finding any evidence except these few videos.
If they could hide coming here, they wouldn't have any problem hiding once here.
And if they were gonna let us catch glimpses for this long, they'd have said what's up by now.
I miss how fun Fark was before I became aware of how conservative the mods are. The more of the conservatism I saw, the more I realized the place was not really for normal people and I felt like an intruder. I was so happy to find Reddit.
Also everything being in a single thread often resulted in me giving up on bothering. And the contrast immediately attracted me to Reddit (I think I went from checking Fark daily to just never going back when I discovered Reddit, at least not until the API changes).
Interesting. Because they didn't share your viewes, you felt they weren't "normal" people?
Then you found Reddit, which (at least today) is fairly left wing. And you're happy you found it, because it's filled with people who share your views.
Correct. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny and other conservative bigotry are not views I share with conservatives, so I felt it would be best to find another place.
you felt they weren't "normal" people?
Correct. I do not consider harmful conservative ideologies to be consistent with the ideologies one would expect from normal people. Although, I concede that conservatives likely consider their own bigotry to be perfectly normal.
You can find those views literally anywhere online with varying degrees
No offense, but you sound like a typical online conservative who thinks all leftists are commie loving, America hating, flag stopping, socialists vegans.
You obviously hate an entire group of people for some views that are not shared by all. This is dangerous and I would encourage you not to paint with such a broad brush.
Though I realize as I'm typing this you've already convinced yourself you are right and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong so this is a futile effort on my part. Safe journey.
I have an old 1TB hard drive from 2010 that is full of these kinds of memes. Caturday, Ya rly owls, the whole works. I should stop by Fark and see how it's doing.
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