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Originally posted by AcidMax
Yes but you are looking at this from what we know. Think of how we came into existance, obviously there are different theories on this. If we can go to the moon (if you believe we did) and believe we can read license plates from space and much more, why wouldn't someone else be able to travel here.
Besides, who is to say that we are the only people in this solar system? Now I am the farthest thing from a Trekkie or anything like that, but I find it hard to believe with so many stupid people on this planet that we are the only people / things in this solar system that are advanced technologically.
Andy
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We seem to have the most conducive planet to life, and so far our astronomers aren't finding many other situations like ours out there beyond our solar system.
Once again, we come back to the distances involved. Matter stops being matter at the speed of light and is subject to gigantic distortions before then. If beings traveled for hundreds or thousands of years to reach us, what kind of beings would they be that they could go away from their "home" for that long, and what kind of purpose would survive on such a time scale.
Recently on Nightline, there was a cosmologist saying that since we don't seem to find Earth-like planets in any direction, and the places beyond those places are just so incredibly far away, we need to face up to the possibility that perhaps we are alone for all practical purposes, if not in fact.
Once there was a cartoon in the New Yorker which showed a professor in front of a blackboard with an incredibly long string of calculations, and at the end were these words: "And here a miracle happens."
I don't believe in miracles.