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[โ€“] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think the scariest answer would be the moon.

Think about it. It's been this mythic symbol for different human civs over the eons. We've literally been there. To find out we had some shy neighbors just hanging out right there, somehow unobserved after all this time... brrr.

[โ€“] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I was thinking too. I think at this point, we're pretty darn sure there's no alien civilization on the moon. For there to be one suggests very possibly it's purposefully hiding from us. That's the scariest idea, I think. If it's just a little further away, we can assume that they aren't trying to hide. But the moon is too close and too well studied for a civilization to be there without likely some advanced method of hiding.