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Originally posted by supergenius74
. I think a lot of people can't grasp just how far it is, to put it in perspective, the farthest man made object from earth is the voyager space probe, launched almost 30 years ago it is just now entering outer space, or the area beyond what is considered our solar system and all of the main bodies that make it up.
With our current technology it took 30 years to travel 8 billion miles and that is still considered "home", if we could travel at the speed of light, which many scientists say will never be possible unless you could turn yourself into a photon, it would still take 12 hours and you haven't even left town yet. 4 years to reach the closest star but no earth like planets and about 50 years to reach an earth like planet. Now to top it all off 50 years to get back and during that time 1000's of years would have passed for earth so no one is alive that you knew and you spent you whole life traveling somewhere just to stop in and say hi. Thats how far we are talking here.
Originally posted by supergenius74
We've spent the last 40 years checking out all the planets in our local solar system only to learn there are no signs of intelligent life here so knowing that it would need to come from another system ........
I think a lot of people can't grasp just how far it is, to put it in perspective, the farthest man made object from earth is the voyager space probe, launched almost 30 years ago it is just now entering outer space, or the area beyond what is considered our solar system and all of the main bodies that make it .........
The closer to c (light speed) that you get, the slower time passes. So for the observer on Earth the trip would take 50 years( not thousands) , but for you (the one making the trip) time would be passing more slowly the closer to c(L-Speed) you got. So the trip wouldn't take the traveler 50 years , but maybe 4 or 5 years ( depending on how long it takes you to reach close to c , and how long it takes you to slow back down.)
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
maybe one day people will begin to notice a pattern.
EDIT: Editted by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Paragraphs.
Aliens don't exist, the real deal is that we are alone in this big universe, there is no other species only us.
People who claim to have been in contact with extraterrestrials are either making money out of suckers that subscribe to this forum or mentally unbalanced.
Originally posted by one_small_step
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
maybe one day people will begin to notice a pattern.
I believe that your heading at this point in time can not be proven to be true or false.
However I truly respect your opinion.
What frustrates me is comments like the one I have quoted above from Esoteric Teacher for example and purley an example. (Mods sorry for the quick stray off topic).
I am a firm believer of taking small steps (hence the name) to achieve whatever greater good may be heading our way. I, like most on this forum ,wait for nothing less than meeting and exchanging thoughts and experiences with our fellow organisms that may inhabit the far reaches of this universe and other states of existance (exist - ants) ..Buuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
For the sake of humanity if not for board members and mods, please if you are witholding information that perhaps can change us into a more efficient, more humane / more advanced race - please empart your knowledge in a less cryptic / you'll see / just wait kind of way.
We get enough of this crap from govts, then what? we do it to ourselves.
( i will stop now - sorry )
Appologies for the rant (are ant) folks - All this 'impending information' is really bothering me.
maybe the ones who also know these things are doing the "stupid" crap they are to invoke people to start asking why?
ROFLMAO !! Someone has a wicked sense of humour!
Originally posted by CrossBone
... Just think, over the course of history how many people have indicated they have been touched by "the word of God", yet all of you are willing to put faith on "all the evidence on UFO's".
Nothing substanial has been proven yet to their existance so I would say that we are dealing with some extremly patient terrestrials. Or, in my opion, they arent here.
P.S. I have to really believe that if our Government, or individuals within our gov. knew aliens existed, saw them, had conversations with them; I would think that our governments actions and thoughts would be totally different. I would think that wars with other countries would be less of a priority, that a global awareness for the betterment of mankind would be an important national value, and NASA, not the millitary would get most of the funding.
Originally posted by Distortion
Originally posted by lost_shaman
The closer to c (light speed) that you get, the slower time passes. So for the observer on Earth the trip would take 50 years( not thousands) , but for you (the one making the trip) time would be passing more slowly the closer to c(L-Speed) you got. So the trip wouldn't take the traveler 50 years , but maybe 4 or 5 years ( depending on how long it takes you to reach close to c , and how long it takes you to slow back down.)
correct me if i'm wrong but I dont think it works like this. Say you set the guy off in a space ship and there is another person on earth, they both have watches that are ticking simultaneously upon take off. Say you could see both watches somehow when the space ship has a velocity of almost C. From your point of view the watch would be going slower than that of the the watch on earth. However, if you're sitting on the space ship your watching is still ticking at the same rate, time has not slowed down for you from your perspective, the earth watch is ticking faster. But say your going to somewhere 10 light years away, traveling at .999999 C. Its still going to take you a little over 10 years on the space ship. Right? Oh man i think i've confused myself now. This doesn't seem right.