we continue to look for intelligent life in the universe because we have yet to find any here

If it bleeds we can kill it plays qietly in the background

We can't even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we've settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!

Kill the xenos!

This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.

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Our thirst for blood cannot be bound by Sol's gravity.

Well yeah, we have to find it before we can kill it.

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!

This saddens the hell out of me. I'm doing what I can to keep my impact minimal but still. To be alive, to engineer, hurts the planet if you're not very very careful.

There is a reason we direct antennas to detect intelligent live away from earth

Seek out new life and new civilizations, and introduce deadly biological pathogens to their ecosystems!

Is there life elsewhere on the universe?

Most likely

Does it move?

Shoot it

Kind of relevant short story - my favourite

https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.

Yes, absolutely. Sapient life? Most likely.

I suddenly want to play Championship Manager. Couldn't possibly tell you why.

Just think about how much different life is just here, alone. I can't believe that there's absolutely nothing else out in the universe when there's so much variety of life here.

The US is currently descending into a fascist theocracy.

That's just a fact.