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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
Thats a kind of silly statement. Any guess we have on how far away they might be and how long it would take to get here is based on what we know, if we are theorizing aliens find us first , they obviously would be much smarter.
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So far the nearest possible Earthlike planets exist in Alpha Centauri which in relative terms is very close only 4.36 light years away. If light travels at 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum then we are looking at only 60,000 years with our current technology to reach these planets. Recent thoughts are that it will be possible to travel faster than light by folding space, much like they did in "DUNE" but so far we do not have anywhere near enough power to do this.
