Isn’t it funny how so many people fail to see or understand the possibilities just because “it’s never been done before”? Your examples are but a small fraction of things that would have been incomprehensible 200 years ago.
I feel reasonably confident that we’ll find life and perhaps even intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos within my children’s lifetimes. They’re teenagers now.
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.â€
I guess in science terms.... the aliens are coming here and are going to inhabit this planet and they will rule over us. In Christian terms, God is coming here and He will live with man and we'll call it heaven on earth.
Funny how religion and science often see the same event but from a different perspective.
Well, I certainly hope we find intelligent life somewhere. It's nearly absent here.
Until someone invents a way to traverse the stars at a velocity that is at or near the speed of light, we are trapped within our own solar system. Einstein’s speed of light is the speed limit of our universe, unless there is a way around it, and even that is too slow for interstellar travel. Plus the energy required to accelerate even a grain of sand to the ‘speed of light ‘ is enormous beyond comprehension.
Even if we had a ship at this moment that could somehow achieve the speed of light, a small trip to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light years away, would be incomprehensible.
The logistics of supporting even one human for that amount of time is staggering, not to mention the ‘Time Dilation’ effect of near or at light speeds. An astronaut that left on a trip to there might never see their family or anyone he ever knew alive again. His ‘time’ would slow down relative to our time, though he would not notice the change. Upon his return to Earth, he would discover that dozens of our years had passed since his departure.
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/HEP/QuarkNet/time.html