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AliceBleachWhite
The universe is beyond VAST.
There's room enough for HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of galaxy spanning space faring technologically advanced civilizations in the universe to exist, while at the same time still having enough room and space such that no other civilization ever runs into another, or ever even detects the existence of another.
The Universe is that big.
That's galaxy spanning, space faring, technologically advanced civilizations too.
Now, here we are, not even a speck of a speck of dust on a single planet.
Certainly there's Aliens ... somewhere in the universe.
Still, Aliens that can't be observed, detected, or interacted with are essentially worthless.
Thus, the only aliens that matter are those that we could detect, observe and potentially even interact with.
Thus far, we've none.
edit on 11/9/2013 by AliceBleachWhite because: (no reason given)
tanka418
Yes if we go with conventional physics the end of possibility is neigh. The very reason that horizons must be expanded and areas of novel physics explored. Such as with the work in Europe on artificial gravity and gravity drive systems. The so-called Heim-Lorentz drives.
There is also work being done on "Warp drives". And, there are a number of other possibilities that exist for cheating the physics of the "very fast". It also appears that there may be other "Lorentz" like effects that can be exploited and may even open up new areas of physics, technology and industry.
Reaching those technological and scientific ceilings is what I'm talking about. At some point a civilization may simply decide to "stay home".
LogicalRazor
AliceBleachWhite
The universe is beyond VAST.
There's room enough for HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of galaxy spanning space faring technologically advanced civilizations in the universe to exist, while at the same time still having enough room and space such that no other civilization ever runs into another, or ever even detects the existence of another.
The Universe is that big.
That's galaxy spanning, space faring, technologically advanced civilizations too.
Now, here we are, not even a speck of a speck of dust on a single planet.
Certainly there's Aliens ... somewhere in the universe.
Still, Aliens that can't be observed, detected, or interacted with are essentially worthless.
Thus, the only aliens that matter are those that we could detect, observe and potentially even interact with.
Thus far, we've none.
edit on 11/9/2013 by AliceBleachWhite because: (no reason given)
^^Precisely this.
Believing in the possibility of alien life is one thing,...not accepting the fact that there has been zero tangible proof to support alien visitations to earth is another.edit on 14-11-2013 by LogicalRazor because: (no reason given)
ATSZOMBIE
Assuming we know everything, which we don't. How arrogant, when our 'models' of physics and so on dont even necessarily agree with each other.
.there's definitely much we dont understand. A race with MILLIONS of years ahead of us? Yea..they know their ish..
JadeStar
Tanka, I like you but when you start talking about spirituality and trying to use it to refute some very sound science you lose me.
JadeStar