[srmanuel]

exactly, but what was the prevailing science 300-400 years ago....no one then could have ever dreamed about the technology today....we can only imagine what it will be like 300-400 years from now....the prevailing science today might be completely different then.....

Has some form of intelligent life figured out a way to travel thru space to visit Earth, the chances are no...but I’m not 100% sure....I’m willing to think anything is possible even something that we can’t comprehend today.

[jmacusa]

You could easily just send the equivalent of an email or a text. That is if we were even detected down here. Imagine yourself standing on the mid-field line of a football stadium at might, looking up into the stands. There is all that glaring light from klieg lights and spot lights glaring down at you. Now imagine trying to find what would amount the light given off by a flashlight with the diameter of the head of a pencil eraser. That's about what trying to find Earth would be like in the vastness of the universe. In fact, even that analogy is flawed. The light would almost impossible to see.

[RoosterRedux]

I’m willing to think anything is possible even something that we can’t comprehend today.

Imagine telling a New Yorker back in the early part of the 20th century that a person will be able to have breakfast in NYC and lunch in Los Angeles on the same day. He would not be able to wrap his mind around it.

The imagination is extremely limited for a reason...for the sake of our sanity. That limitation keeps us safe in our thinking and focused on the here and now.

I have a background in mathematics. The funny thing that folks don't realize is that we--we humans--don't invent equations that explain the universe.

They already exist. They are waiting for us.

They are waiting for us to discover them.

There's a vast--VAST--world of stuff just beyond our fingertips waiting to be discovered. Stuff that will blow our minds.