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The closest galaxy is what; 7 LIGHT YEARS away? A light year =187,000 per second x60 seconds in 1 minute x60 minutes in 1 hour x24hours in one day x365 days in one year X the number of miles in one year at light speed, and so on. The crew of the ship would be into their what 150th generation by time they got here?

If they are that determined they deserve to take us over... more likely they would have forgot why they flew here. How many generations of your family have been in the USA? What where they thinking about when they thought to come here? And so on...

The point is aliens are not coming here and most likely would not know why their family's originally started the trip millenniums ago. And what about the food, repairs, etc, the whole time they were even growing up?

No one would have that much determination to come and get our nuclear arms, let alone anything else our relatively primitive society has. So there is no one out there who is going to come here to get you. Why wouldn't they just send an email? Telegram? Radio transmission? Anything first????

Sheesh man, think about it.

Oh and add to the first paragraph.. since there is no proof or evidence anyone can travel at light speed then translate the number of miles into how far away that is and determine at what speed they can travel at and figure then how long it would take at that distance / speed to get here.

Sheesh man, think about it.

I have. The answer is faster-than-light propulsion technology.

A civilization with a thousand year head start on us will almost certainly have cracked the physics puzzle to achieve that.

Just look at the speed at which our own culture's technology is progressing. Try to imagine what sort of technologies will be commonplace in just the next 100 years. Now multiply that progress, times ten.

I'm pretty sure that most of us don't have the capacity to accurately predict what sort of developments will be ordinary 100 years from now, let alone, 1,000 years hence.

What we can do, is to use our own past and a bit of logic as a yardstick to predict the future of technology on this planet. It doesn't take a genius to see that the technologies of our distant future will be as magical to us, as the technologies of our time would be to humans of our distant past.

The universe is more vast than we can easily imagine. In all that vastness, there is every likelihood that cultures more advanced than ourselves have discovered the means to achieve realistic interstellar travel.

The closest galaxy is what; 7 LIGHT YEARS away? A light year =187,000 per second x60 seconds in 1 minute x60 minutes in 1 hour x24hours in one day x365 days in one year X the number of miles in one year at light speed, and so on. The crew of the ship would be into their what 150th generation by time they got here?

Are you on crack? ... or what ?

Erm, the closest *galaxy* is about 1.5 million light years away (Andromeda; I’m not counting the Magellanics or other satellites of our galaxy). The closest *solar system* is about 3.5 light years away, and that would be the Centauri system (and we don’t know for sure if that one even has planets yet).

You’ve got a point there somewhere, but I think your hat is hiding it.