Finally ... a reasonable and realistic view on life in the universe.
“Think about it. Even if it were possible to travel at the speed of light, and even if some other intelligent creatures had developed technology far more quickly than we did, they would have to have lived for two and a half million years of space travel (as the crow flies) to find us. How likely is that?”
How many centuries has man been messing around with real science on any great scale? Maybe two or three? Powered flight has only been around a hundred years or so. And many no doubt thought man would never fly. So I think it’s kind of silly to claim that nothing can go faster than light, ever. What about teleportation? I reckon we’ll see in a few thousand years. Or maybe not.
I still think it’s a bummer that Mars isn’t like Barsoom.
Freegards
The whole “can’t fly faster than the speed of light THEREFORE...” argument is lame.
A hundred years ago, if someone in NY said they were going to be in London in four hours, they woulda locked him up and thrown away the key.
And I personally am convinced there is alien life (maybe not highly advanced alien life, but alien life nonetheless) right in our backyard - our martian backyard, that is.