The idea of traveling trillions of miles to get here is rather linear and old fashioned, isn’t it? More likely that anyone traveling here would do so by folding space.
yes. People don’t realize how great the distances are between stars, much less between galaxies.
Even if you imagine something so complex as ‘spooky action at a distance’ or quantum entanglement being able to get you from A to B instantly and across the universe, the problem is you have to have B out there and in place. And getting B out there will take a very long time.
Extra terrestrial why not ??
I find it impossible to believe that Earth is the only planet in the entire universe where the conditions allowed intelligent life to exist.
If you believe science at all, they tell us they’re billions and billions of galaxies in the universe, within each galaxy, billions and billions of stars exist, somewhere in that exist planets that have some form of intelligent life.
Some of the life might be hundreds of thousands of years ahead of our technology, some are hundred of thousands of years behind our technology...
If some life form has developed a way to get here, they are using technology that no one on this planet has even dreamed of, which means they could come here and not be detected.
The idea that we now can possibly detect UFOs means they want to be detected.
There are still great unknowns in our physical understanding of the universe. Lots of photons hitting our eyes and telescopes, a bit of parallax from our yearly orbit, but space is mostly very, very empty. Partly a good thing, else Fermi would not have existed to put forth his famous paradox “Where are they?”.
But also very lonely in the grand scheme of things, unless and until we learn how to get to, say, the space near Alpha Centauri within a single lifetime, at a cost less than the annual GDP of California. Perhaps science and/or G-d will assist us, given time and effort on our part.
Or just send a text.