this thread makes me wanna watch V.

 

 

again, couldn't have really said it better myself.


If a specifies has the technology to visit neighboring stars and travel through deep space, then you better believe that their weapons will be just as devastating. Weapons and the ability to defend oneself is a very important part of a species survival and is why we are always pushing the envelope to develop a newer and bigger weapon that will devastate the enemy... If tech keeps progressing in the fashion that it has for the last 100 years for the next 1000 years, imagine the sort of tech we'll have in 1,000-5,000 years! Now imagine the sort of weapons we'll have when we become that advanced. The amount of technology that we'd need to travel even close to the speed of light is mind blowing and it's not something we're ever going to achieve, no way, no how... We simply don't have enough time on this rock (as a species) to tackle something that insanely complex. If a species was able to travel at or at least close to the speed of light, their technology would make ours look like stone-age bedrock/flintstones tech. I know we like to think we're really advanced, and for an Earth species, we are... However, compared to the life that could possibly be out there, we're very rudimentary and our tech is pretty basic.

If we're the smartest species in the universe, and judging by how old the universe is and how young life is (meaning that we've only come along VERY recently), I highly doubt this, but there's always that minuscule chance, so I guess anything is possible, that notion would be VERY depressing... VERY depressing.

 

you basically repeated what i said. thereby proving my original point.

 

Oh **** my bad! I thought you said isn't chalk that up to trying to read too quickly!

 

i'd like add that alien civilizations probably came and went the past 4 billion years (i'm guessing it probably took a large portion of 13 billion years for suns to form and blow up to create various elements needed to create planets and whatnot.) and more to come and go in the future.

so the possibility of alien civilization out there is far greater than one might think.

even if there was no life other than us in the milky way, i'm sure one of the galaxies out there would have life. problem is, we'll never know unless we can travel 100x faster than light.