Out-to-Lunch
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
First: I have been in science and engineering my whole life and have never encountered anyone professing these beliefs.
Same here.
First: I have been in science and engineering my whole life and have never encountered anyone professing these beliefs.
First: I have been in science and engineering my whole life and have never encountered anyone professing these beliefs. Seems like something else is going on in OP's circle of acquaintances.
Same here.
Dream on! I believe Zsa Zsa Gabor was in one such movie. And she was, of course, Hungarian.I saw a movie years ago that showed us that Venus is populated by incredibly sexy women who lust after Earthmen. I think their Queen spoke with a Hungarian accent.
Maybe we aren’tThe way some people think is alien to me. It's often difficult to believe that we are the same species.
The movie was Queen of Outer Space, IIRC. Zsa Zsa and her followers help the earthmen to save the Earth. However, due to problems they end up stuck on Venus for a year with a bunch of Venusian women starved for male companionship. I hope they got overtime and hazard pay.Dream on! I believe Zsa Zsa Gabor was in one such movie. And she was, of course, Hungarian.
I've always found that ridiculous. If there are aliens smart enough to get here they already know and don't need to ask a random person.I know, take me to your leader.
That might be nice but you can't assume that they'll be friendly. Maybe they're looking for a new home and if so, we'd be in the way.I’ve always said that I hope we find life somewhere other than earth before I die.
You have got to be kidding!I know, take me to your leader.
There is also a temporal aspect to this. The Earth had a long period of time with no life at all. Then an even longer period with only single celled life. A visitor would have to be incredibly fortunate to observe the Earth during the cosmic millisecond that coinsided with an industrial civilization.I believe there is other life in the universe. It may be microscopic life but life nonetheless. It's also not hard for me to believe that there is intelligent life out there defined as life that is conscious of its being (I think, therefore I am). But I have an extremely difficult time believing that we have been visited by aliens. The distances are just too vast. Sure, there could be worm holes or a fourth dimension but I don't believe so and still, the distance is just too vast and the concept of another dimension is just too far out there conceptually.
Agreed. Interstellar travel (of living beings) is very, very unlikely to be possible even for highly advanced civilizations. This is because of the enormous amounts of time required to travel between star systems that are only even a few light years away. For example, it would take a space ship traveling at 1,000,000 km/hr over 4,700 years to go just from our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to Earth. And 1,000,000 km/hr is far, far faster than any spacecraft we have ever launched or have any hope of launching in the foreseeable future. People who believe in alien spacecraft (and alien beings) visiting the Earth tend to just handwave these inconvenient facts away. "Oh, they have mastered the ability to travel through wormholes" or "Oh, they have warp drives powered by unobtanium, etc. etc." They apparently have never heard of Carl Sagan's famous line: Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.Is anyone listening on the few systems not baked by radiation? And if so, if they are only getting the message today, we have time to wait for the answer.
Now that's just talking to each other. Traveling is a whole different matter, and one that is likely, simply, impossible. Sorry to be a bummer.
Agreed. Interstellar travel (of living beings) is very, very unlikely to be possible even for highly advanced civilizations. This is because of the enormous amounts of time required to travel between star systems that are only even a few light years away. For example, it would take a space ship traveling at 1,000,000 km/hr over 4,700 years to go just from our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to Earth. And 1,000,000 km/hr is far, far faster than any spacecraft we have ever launched or have any hope of launching in the foreseeable future. People who believe in alien spacecraft (and alien beings) visiting the Earth tend to just handwave these inconvenient facts away. "Oh, they have mastered the ability to travel through wormholes" or "Oh, they have warp drives powered by unobtanium, etc. etc." They apparently have never heard of Carl Sagan's famous line: Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
Sadly, global sex trafficking is a serious problem. Cannibalism, I'm not so sure.I mean, considering that roughly 7% of all Americans believe that a secret cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles operates a global child sex trafficking ring and that 2-3% of Americans believe the Earth is actually a flat disc, I certainly am not surprised that some people believe in some form of "ancient aliens" visiting the Earth in the distant past. People believe all sorts of bizarre nonsense, with zero concrete proof.
Well , there are other options. Ender’s Game introduced the ansible, which allow instantaneous communication across the universe. Dune gave us melange, also known as spice, which allows Space Guild navigators to cross the universe in short periods of time. In the Three Body problem Trisolarans can send siphons across the universe that affect human perception. So, the capability and potential is there even if Star Trek isn’t the answer.Agreed. Interstellar travel (of living beings) is very, very unlikely to be possible even for highly advanced civilizations. This is because of the enormous amounts of time required to travel between star systems that are only even a few light years away. For example, it would take a space ship traveling at 1,000,000 km/hr over 4,700 years to go just from our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to Earth. And 1,000,000 km/hr is far, far faster than any spacecraft we have ever launched or have any hope of launching in the foreseeable future. People who believe in alien spacecraft (and alien beings) visiting the Earth tend to just handwave these inconvenient facts away. "Oh, they have mastered the ability to travel through wormholes" or "Oh, they have warp drives powered by unobtanium, etc. etc." They apparently have never heard of Carl Sagan's famous line: Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
That's easy. Just use those three little words that men find so hard say: "I don't know." [Quoted from the great philosopher, Red Green.]Okay, I get it that the known (or visible) universe is a pretty big place that is many, many billions of light years across. But the hard part for me are the two sides of the argument that (1) the universe is endless or (2) it is not. Hard for me to grasp either side of the argument.