Stop believing the lies....there are no Aliens out there in the Universe

BaldingSoHard

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A problem I have with the alien haters is they also make a whole long of assumptions. Like linear or exponential progression of technology. It could be that there are certain discoveries that cause sparks of technological advancement. Fire, the wheel, sailing ships, computers. I bet a historian could analyze history and come up with the 10-20 inventions that caused technology to boom, then things plateau off for awhile until the next discovery. And, if you don't make the next big discovery you don't become a space faring race. And, if you get hit with a giant asteroid, you go backwards for a few million years (or get wiped out).

Just a lot of variables out there. HOnestly, any space faring race will have to have discoveries we don't have. I doubt we'll ever be able to create generation ships that can travel for 100,000 years to the next star system using solar sails, rockets, or ion thrusters; so it could be that every intelligent race is ultimately locked to their own solar system.

Good points, all. Even if we think about or own history.... we'd be colonizing other planets by now if not for the dark ages... a period of over 800 years when science and technology was considered heresy and anathema. Granted, the Muslim empire continued to advance technologically during that time but there's no question that it was a setback for humanity.
 

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Also, Ray is my man and probably my favorite author but I gotta :childplease: on this one.

Earth's light sphere is only about 100 light years. Space is MASSIVE. The assertion that "We would have noticed something" within that 100 light year radius is inaccurate, imo. I also doubt that a million years would be enough time for a race to completely dominate a galaxy, but I haven't run the math on that.
 
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