Aliens--Never going to see them--

[oxlogan23]

Okay so I don't want to be a party pooper but I have to do it. All of us in our lifetime are never going to find out if aliens exist. I do have reasoning for this though, it's not just a random guess...

-Communications-
The waves we send out into space hoping that they will get the signal travel at the speed of light. Pretty fast right? Wrong. Outside of our solar system and reaching into the galaxy would require years. We have a huge galaxy and if alien life did receive our transmissions, it would be thousands of years after we sent it.

-Physics-
The speed of light, NOTHING can go faster than the speed of light. Going back to previously, it would take hundereds of thousands of years to get to Earth. If there is a planet at the other end of the universe, it would take billions of years to reach us. I don't know about you but those numbers are huge compared to the amount of time that us Earthlings have been around.

-Interest-
If there are higher intelligent beings, odds are that they are stationary. When I say that I mean that I mean aliens aren't going to just be flying around. Unless aliens come up with a completely energy free way of transportation then it's just like us driving around in our cars, it wastes gas.

So discus?

 

[Spraynwipe]

Who's to say they aren't more advanced technologically, and don't have a rapid transportation system to get around the galaxy that fast? I even remember reading some time ago that black holes may infact act as a tunnel through space.

I do essentially agree with you though, on a time scale, humans have existed for such a small and insignificant fraction of time, that I doubt when "aliens" do actually make contact with earth, we will still be human. Evolution will take its due course, as it has even in recent centuries (look at how much larger we are compared to our ancestors, due to the fact we have a better understanding of what's good for our bodies and etc.).

I think its fair to say we may even become that alien race, before we ever come close to finding another source of life outside our own closed system.

 

[bitlord33]

Who's to say they aren't more advanced technologically, and don't have a rapid transportation system to get around the galaxy that fast? I even remember reading some time ago that black holes may infact act as a tunnel through space.

I do essentially agree with you though, on a time scale, humans have existed for such a small and insignificant fraction of time, that I doubt when "aliens" do actually make contact with earth, we will still be human. Evolution will take its due course, as it has even in recent centuries (look at how much larger we are compared to our ancestors, due to the fact we have a better understanding of what's good for our bodies and etc.).

I think its fair to say we may even become that alien race, before we ever come close to finding another source of life outside our own closed system.

Agree , They may have an Transporter? Teleports you ...Dont say this is stupid, no one knows if there is life out there(i believe humans aren't that special)

 

[slysteeler]

They may be able to use wormholes in order to travel large distances in a short amount of time.

 

[oxlogan23]

Well insisting that they do have wormholes that don't just devour them and send their information everywhere, what are the odds of them just stumbling across us? Our footprint is on Earth, not our galaxy.

Something else to think about, what if the aliens we are expecting are just like the animals (non humans) on our earth. The odds of it are far more likely. In that case traveling outside of the planet would be impossible. Dinosaurs have existed for far longer than human beings will. Human's destroy and manipulate the environment and in the short run it will be the best, but in the long run we are fkked

 

[Try²]

Maybe they have been travelling since year 1?
Who know's?

 

[Vulge]

I don't agree really... I think it's possible they suddenly just... turn up, don't make me sound like a little kid. But 'aliens' aren't most likely to be, what you think they would be. An alien will probably just be some sort of bacteria that wanders through a metiorite. So there is probably aliens on earth right now, there will be bacteria that has travelled from outer space and made it into the earths atmosphere.

 

[oxlogan23]

Even bacteria have means on which they must live... There aren't bacteria on meteorites there are amino acids... The building blocks of life yes but until they come together, they are just useless

 

[tiger9110]

Intelligent civilization is a certain possibility and the chances of them coming to US are greater than us going to THEM.

We cannot say this is impossible as we can't say when they first started to evolve and develop technology for interstellar flight. They could have been evolving for millions of years before we were even cave men.

The universe doesn't revolve around us, we are a tiny speck on the grand scale of things, so the probability of intelligent life forms never escapes my mind.

 

[mahtale]

In my opinion, you're right. We cannot travel at light speed, and even if we could, it wouldn't help. Life is highly improbable, so the chances of finding a planet that has other life forms would be very expensive and time consuming, and that's assuming we could travel at the speed of light.

Another thing is that when you travel at the speed of light, time slows down. In other words, if we sent a shuttle at the speed of light to another planet, they may have only traveled for 20 years, but Earth would have aged 500 years in the time they were gone. It's not BS, look it up. There's a site that can calculate it.

The only real option would be wormholes. I do not know enough about the subject to form my own opinion, but just the claim by itself sounds ridiculous.

 

[I_Shine]

U guys actually believe aliens exist there is no real proof about them

 

[mahtale]

U guys actually believe aliens exist there is no real proof about them

It would make sense that somewhere among the thousands of planets that at least one other would sustain life, even if it was only something as simple as bacteria.

 

[I_Shine]

yes possibly they might be life outside earth but we are talking bout aliens, aliens are different to bacteria we refer them to monsters or some kind.

 

[mahtale]

yes possibly they might be life outside earth but we are talking bout aliens, aliens are different to bacteria we refer them to monsters or some kind.

An "Alien" is an entity that is foreign to a region or group.... it doesn't necessarily have to be green men with antennas and ray guns. We're discussing any life that exists outside of Earth's atmosphere.

 

[oxlogan23]

I don't disagree that there are aliens. Don't get me wrong. There are billions of stars and each star has planets that orbit it. You want to do the math? Who says that somewhere out there there isn't life? And here is something to think about, DNA. Would the organism use dna or would it use something else to pass on it's traits/ sustain life

 

[DarkElement]

I don't disagree that there are aliens. Don't get me wrong. There are billions of stars and each star has planets that orbit it. You want to do the math? Who says that somewhere out there there isn't life? And here is something to think about, DNA. Would the organism use dna or would it use something else to pass on it's traits/ sustain life

True, its very possible

 

[BB Services]

Wormholes make no sense. If they did somebody obviously forgot about the word "Disintegration". and "Atom Seperation" causing explosions. If you can teleport so quick, then the atoms of you would be ripped apart, and what would there be to put them back in the same order to the 1 billionth of an atom? Impossible. I agree with the OP

 

[Rejection]

Wormholes make no sense. If they did somebody obviously forgot about the word "Disintegration". and "Atom Seperation" causing explosions. If you can teleport so quick, then the atoms of you would be ripped apart, and what would there be to put them back in the same order to the 1 billionth of an atom? Impossible. I agree with the OP

How do you know that we would Disintergrate? Source Please.
I have to agree with the impossibility of "Teleportation" though. Taking atoms apart and then putting them back together would be physically impossible.

 

[Honeo]

Before we ever develop technology sophisticated enough to travel to regions of space in a split second and not jump backward in time, we will have already destroyed ourselves, and our planet.

The possibility of aliens is certainly correct, but think about this statement I propose. "All race of species eventually get to a point, where we are now, where they have developed the technology to make their entire race extinct." So, unless a race of species gets along and has "planetary peace," no race of species will ever develop the technology to visit other galaxies.

 

[Mechanical Scythe]

I believe there is almost certainly more life out there given the entirety of the universe though I do some what agree with the OP as there are too many factors hindering this dream.