I’m trying to remember the scale given in “A Short History of Nearly Everything.” If the Earth were the size of a pea then Pluto would be the size of a one-celled bacterium and would be a mile distant. The universe is big. Bigger than Obama’s ego.
If you disallow magical means of transport as envisioned in Star Trek the chance that we would ever meet an alien is vanishingly small. The odds would make winning the Florida lottery seem to be a virtual given for everybody who buys a ticket.
I have zero doubt there are other intelligences out there. But even if they froze themselves and launched towards us billions of years ago, by the time they got here their civilization would be long dead.
Species on Earth live an average of only 10 million years.
Oh, and why would they come here? Even if our radio signals can be understood at the colossal distances we’re talking about, they haven’t yet gotten to a suitable candidate star.
Understanding synthetic radio signals is unnecessary.
Detection of synthetic signals is sufficient to prove intelligence. And electromagnetic waves (light, radio, etc.) propagate at the speed of light, so Alpha Centauri is about four years away.
First off, since God created the universe and us in his image, any other life HE may have created wouldn't be any more advanced than us...........
Even if our radio signals can be understood at the colossal distances we’re talking about, they haven’t yet gotten to a suitable candidate star.
And neither has the similar radio signals created by a race no more advanced than ours been received........
It never ceases to amaze me the people that think we will never reach the stars.
Do you really think we know everything there is to know about space travel?
Mathematically it is possible to jump instantaneously from one place to another.
There are a lot of reasons to believe ancient stories about ‘star people’ and so it must be possible
None of this conflicts with any religious beliefs.