Warning, long ass post ahead.
There were topics about Area 51 & Roswell in General Discussion / Off-Topic not that long ago and apparently my posts have been deleted (I was going to copy and paste) not sure why but whatevs, I'll retype it. I do want to forewarn that I am in no way condemning alien life. Read on.
Aliens have NOT visited the Earth.. or at least we have NEVER captured them.. but most likely we haven't had any visitors. When you think of the unimaginably large distances an alien civilization would have to travel to make it to Earth, it becomes obvious.. but before we get to that, let me give you some figures.
- Light travels at 186,000 miles PER SECOND in a vacuum (~300,000 km/s)
- Light speed is the ultimate universal speed limit, you can not go faster than light no matter how much you try. In fact, actual light speed itself is at the very least an improbability in and of itself, because it requires an infinite amount of energy to move anything with mass at the speed of light
Now, our universe is about 14 BILLION light years across. A light year for anyone who is unaware is a measure of distance equating to the distance light travels in one year. That's one entire year of traveling at 186,000 miles PER SECOND. That's a pretty damn big distance. Life in our universe is most definitely out there. There's almost no denying that when you think about the sheer mathematical odds.. hell, there could even be life in our own solar system (extremophials (sp), definitely nothing advanced obviously).. but the time it takes for a civilization to sufficiently advance in order to make the long haul here is just a huge improbability. Life on Earth has been evolving for roughly 3.6 billion years, and how far have we come really? We're not even on Michio Kaku's universal civilization scale.
There's 3 types of civilizations:
- Type 1 - planetary, meaning it controls many/all of the planetary processes
- Type 2 - solar, able to harness the power of their parent star/neighboring planets
- Type 3 - interstellar/multistellar, meaning it can control multiple star systems and eventually the entire parent galaxy
What do we rank as? Type 0, we can't do any of the above.. and we've had 3.6 billion years to evolve. Granted there have been some bumps along the way, but even assuming that we had started out fresh with no interruptions along the way, the civilization would have to be MILLIONS times more advanced than us. Billions of years of uninterrupted evolution.. it's just NOT likely, and while I'm sure there are some pretty advanced civilizations out there, the idea that they would be close enough to us to make any sort of trip here, even at light speed, is even more improbable.
Furthermore, what would a civilization that much more advanced have to gain by paying us a visit? Additionally, let's assume for whatever reason they do decide to come to Earth. If we are billions of years behind these aliens and are already developing cloaking technology do you really think that they would not also possess this technology? Why would the openly expose themselves to us if we're obviously hostile? Also I'd like to point out that if a ship/civilization is advanced enough to make the long haul here, it is advanced enough to withstand anything we could throw at it and surely would not crash and give us the opportunity to reverse engineer it. I'm not saying these things would be impossible to kill, but it'd be like cavemen going up against an armored tank of modern day. They can try all they want, but there would be nothing in their arsenal capable of taking it out. Then let's assume that somehow we DID manage to capture an alien ship with an alien on board and did do tests and shit on it like Area 51 theorists claim. Would this not be seen as an act of war? Do I need to reiterate the vast advantages they would have over us? They would probably be capable of Star Wars type Death Star attacks, annihilating entire planets, maybe even on a grander scale if they really wanted to.
I know the point of the thread wasn't Area 51, but I thought it would be pertinent to touch on seeing as a lot of you have misconstrued Area 51. I'd also like to point out once again that I do embrace alien life as a fact. I have no doubt in my mind it is out there.. but we have almost certainly not encountered it. When I posted this last time a lot of people seemed to think I was saying alien life was an impossibility.
