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Old 03-22-2012, 03:01 AM  
jigg
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No. No no, No.

UFO's are not aliens from other plants. People who see lights in the sky and automatically conclude that they are aliens are romantic fools.

Here is some cold math facts for you.

The closet star to us is Proxima Centuri at about 4.37 Light years, and after that is Benards Star at 7 light years away.

Even if Proxima Centuri had a planet nearby that had a spacefaring civilization, they could not get here because it is too far away at almost 25,000,000,000,000 (25 Trillion) miles.

That fastest and most economical ship that can be built by humans at the moment uses an ion drive. The ESA SMART 1 mission launched by Nasa last year used an ion-drive ship to go to the moon. The top speed of an ion engine like this is 56,000 km/hr. At this speed it would take 81,000 years to fly between earth and Proxima.

You know I loves me my sci-fi, but there's no proof that aliens are here, and the chances of ever meeting aliens is next to 0 because the spaces between worlds are just too far to travel. THose little lights in the sky that people see? Are anything but. A little Occam's razor 101 would really help those people out.

so what you're saying is that because humans can't build a vessel that can take us far and away from the planet, other races haven't built it either?

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