Believing that anything can either travel faster than the speed of light or somehow bypass intervening space is probably wrong.
Among the problems with such an idea is the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox becomes even worse if superluminal travel is possible.
Sure you can argue for the Zoo hypothesis or some other explanation, but I don’t buy it.
In others words, science is settled, eh?
As you know, throughout history, men, scientists even, have said the same thing about discoveries and inventions.
The Sun revolves around the Earth, heavy than air machines will never fly, "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
And then there's this (in "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly," NY Times, October 9, 1903):
🛩️[Back in 1903, the venerable New York Times boldly declared that] Airplanes will take between 1 and 10 million years to develop.