Intelligent life does exist on other worlds but we will never communicate with them.

[Mowgli]

1. The speed of light and the vastness of the universe won’t allow it.

2. If Proxima Centauri b had intelligent life and we were able to directly communicate with them, it would take at a minimum 8 years to ask them a question and receive an answer. 40 years for a 5 question convo.

3. And let’s say there is a more technological advance civilization that’s let’s say 200 light years away. The first signal powerful enough to travel into space has only been traveling for 114 years so they wouldn’t know we existed for another 86 years.

4. the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light for a reason. Intelligent life like us is simply a random set of chemical reactions that are meaningless compared to the rest of the universe. We are no more significant than a spec of dust in the kiper belt or a random charged particle that hits the earths atmosphere.

Speak for yourself

The hole that eats light is way smaller then what it's consuming

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

In many ways humanity is still in its infancy.

But we could send a probe as small as a microchip on a lightsail. It could take about 40 years to get to Proxima Centuri b.

Eventually, if a planet is habitable or maybe we can even terraform it, we can send a colony ship to go there. Start a settlement.

Even if there are no aliens, we will become the aliens to start populating the galaxy. But we have to start with our own solar system first.

First things first though. Mining the asteroid belt.

first we need to master terraforming EARTH.

If we can’t even master taking care of our own planet, how are we going to take care of another one.

politics, religion, and scientific ignorance has probably set the human race back hundreds of years in terms of reaching our max potential.

 

[DrunkerThanAMotherfucker]

Food for thought, but some evolutionary biologists think intelligence could be a sort of dead end from an evolution stand point.

Our penchant for the abstract has allowed us to problem solve and innovate in ways beyond any other species capability, but at the cost of endless conflict and quickly escalating planetary destruction.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Food for thought, but some evolutionary biologists think intelligence could be a sort of dead end from an evolution stand point.

Our penchant for the abstract has allowed us to problem solve and innovate in ways beyond any other species capability, but at the cost of endless conflict and quickly escalating planetary destruction.

In most cases throughout history, science has been funded by the military. Scientists know the military would get first dibs on the discoveries and new technology, but they knew it was worth the risk, if it meant the advancement of science would move forward.

 

[Wargames]

I chuckle when people from our times claim to know what is possible given where we are on scientific level. There have been many things over the thousands of years that people said were impossible when it was only impossible to them at the time.

I have to agree. Imagine trying to describe a smart phone to someone in 1920..... even crazier 1820? They couldn’t even imagine this level of science

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I have to agree. Imagine trying to describe a smart phone to someone in 1920..... even crazier 1820? They couldn’t even imagine this level of science

That’s a bad analogy. There was no basis for it.

but quantum mechanics was discovered in the 1920’s and without it, there would be no smart phones and a lot of other every day tech.

 

[cobra]

Alcubierre drive

basically since you can’t go faster than light in normal space time, you contract space in-front of the space ship and expand space behind the space ship


However to do this you need to create a negative energy-density field (I.e negative mass)

dark matter and dark energy is the key to this breakthrough

 

[cobra]

Remember it was also theorized that that it was guaranteed for the universe to slow down

yet it is accelerating

Einstein’s theories are wrong

It is accelerating due to dark energy.
Indeed, figuring out dark matter is the key to going faster than the speed of light

 

[Skooby]

Thats assuming faster than light travel isnt possible. Which may be wrong. Its just a matter of energy. A civilization needs to control the power of a sun or more. And then possibly could open up a stargate

A Dyson's Sphere!

But that'll be a Type II civilization. We're not even at Type I yet.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

A Dyson's Sphere!

But that'll be a Type II civilization. We're not even at Type I yet.

a type whatever civilization is made up nonsense.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Remember it was also theorized that that it was guaranteed for the universe to slow down

yet it is accelerating

Einstein’s theories are wrong

It is accelerating due to dark energy.
Indeed, figuring out dark matter is the key to going faster than the speed of light

The only way to warp space time is gravity. The only way to create gravity is mass.
The only way to warp space time that much is with an unquantified amount of mass. Like a black hole which has an infinite amount of mass.

we would have to discover “exotic” matter that can warp space time but not crush us down to subatomic particles the moment we activate it.

Dark matter or dark energy may or may not do that. But since the universe is theoretically comprised of most of it, maybe it has properties that allow you to manipulate space time without gravity.

Or maybe. Just maybe. We can’t see dark matter or dark energy because it can only be accessed on a forth dimensional plain. that would explain why we can’t see it but we know something is there.

 

[Laidbackman]

Some of you sound like you worked at CERN.

 

[Skooby]

a type whatever civilization is made up nonsense.

You don't think there are stages humanity has to reach? At least with controlling energy?