aliens.md

Why do we keep looking for aliens?

Honest question. What's the point? What's the goal? What do we hope to learn or find or achieve, by making contact with or even co-existing with extraterrestrial intelligent life? What problems are we trying to solve?

Are we trying to find out the meaning of life or existence? Are we hoping to find new technologies that allow us to never have to work again? Do we hope for world peace to come from it? Are we trying to solve world hunger?

Do we want to make new friends? Are we lonely? Are we just bored? Did finding out everything humanly possible about Earth (which we haven't yet) already get too boring? Do we think maybe they'll have a cure for disease and death?

The reason why humans search for aliens is to understand their culture so that we can improve on our well being. Aliens can give us an understanding on how to live longer and show us the implications they faced when arriving to their solutions.

The largest reasons are theological and scientific. Understanding life, origins, and existence itself. Many people would point you to the Copernican principle, and suggest that its important that we understand and operate in a world view where we are not special, but a part of something much larger. There is a lot of sound ideas, theology, and science behind ideas that would make us believe we will never find life outside our own planet or solar system, yet science has proven over and over again that we should keep pushing forward, and no theory or law is beyond reproach.