If someone were to record a flawless, 4K video of an actual alien walking around or a spaceship flying overhead, people would just think it’s a deep fake.

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    If I were The Aliens, I would’ve stopped coming here somewhere around 2013-2014. And I don’t say this with any kind of undertone, I just feel we haven’t developed in significant ways over the past decade. They most certainly haven’t presented any social interest, so it’s a study. They’d only need vertical slices every half century to a century or so.

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      15 days ago

      That depends on your description of development. Socially, economically, etc we have reverted and are doing the same things that failed 100 years ago. But there have been breakthroughs elsewhere.

      Cas9 gene editing through CRISPR has opened a ton of incredibly valuable medical options around that time. The same with mRNA vaccination breakthroughs leading into the COVID era.

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        13 days ago

        But mRNA isn’t new. It just got the recognition with COVID. They used to burn could you imagine if they released the vaccine and it had a burning sensation.