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ORIGINAL: papassion
for any lifeforms to visit us, they would have to know a way to go much faster than the speed of light.

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ORIGINAL: papassion
Or they would have to have lifespans in the millions of years.

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ORIGINAL: papassion
We don't know about their knowledge of science.

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ORIGINAL: papassion


for any lifeforms to visit us, they would have to know a way to go much faster than the speed of light. Or they would have to have lifespans in the millions of years. In our stage of science both are impossible. We don't know about their knowledge of science.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: papassion


for any lifeforms to visit us, they would have to know a way to go much faster than the speed of light. Or they would have to have lifespans in the millions of years. In our stage of science both are impossible. We don't know about their knowledge of science.

Actually, they do not have to exceed the speed of light, all they have to do is warp spacetime, which would give the illusion of supraluminal speeds without actually breaking the laws of physics.

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ORIGINAL: erieangel

We are but a tiny little speck in a solar system on the outer rim of the Milky Way Galaxy. How many more solar systems are in the Milky Way Galaxy alone?

How many galaxies are out there? How many solar systems in all the galaxies? 12

To believe that none of the planets in these far away solar systems have produced any form of intelligent life is a bit geocentric. (Look at our planet....do the math).

I, too, have watched the series Ancient Aliens. While I find some of the theories on that program a little far fetched, I do believe we have been visited throughout time and continue to be visited.

Perhaps we, as a species, did not even originate on this planet, but are the descendants of space travelers who continue to check on their "experiment" even thousands of years after it began.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Ohhh, I hate to offer anything serious with all this talk of ET blowjobs but here is an article that estimates the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in our Universe at only one/hundredth of one percent [0.01%]

The limitations being that we evolved so late on this planet due to the need for four distinct sequential stages of evolution, when the planet was already in its old age.

Prof Watson suggests the number of evolutionary steps needed to create intelligent life, in the case of humans, is four. These probably include the emergence of single-celled bacteria, complex cells, specialized cells allowing complex life forms, and intelligent life with an established language.

“Complex life is separated from the simplest life forms by several very unlikely steps and therefore will be much less common. Intelligence is one step further, so it is much less common still,” said Prof Watson.

What Are The Odds?

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The Earth’s biosphere is now in its old age and this has implications for our understanding of the likelihood of complex life and intelligence arising on any given planet,” said Prof Watson.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

If I'm wrong here, I'm sure someone will point it out, but I think the esteemed professor from the University of East Anglia's position would be that one planet in 10,000 capable of supporting life, might actually produce intelligent life, rather than saying it is a 1 in 10,000 chance that intelligent life, other than us, exists at all.

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The Earth’s biosphere is now in its old age and this has implications for our understanding of the likelihood of complex life and intelligence arising on any given planet,” said Prof Watson.

It's a mighty big universe.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

By warping spacetime, the area of spacetime in front of the ship contracts, and the area of space time behind the ship expands. In essence, space is moving around the ship, the ship doesnt move at all. To someone watching from outside the bubble of space the ship is in, it appears the ship is moving faster than light.

As far as the effects associated with moving at near the speed of light, those will not occur.

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There's no need to swap apple pie recipes with them. It's just difficult to look up into a night sky not polluted by artificial light, and think that all that, is just for us to look at.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

That's true, Vince, but our ability to detect such planets is still very much in its infancy. The theory may be dead on, in terms of intelligent life that we might somehow find, but that really wasn't my question, anyway.

There's no need to swap apple pie recipes with them. It's just difficult to look up into a night sky not polluted by artificial light, and think that all that, is just for us to look at.