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In reply to the discussion: New model predicts that we're probably the only advanced civilization... [View all]DemocraticSocialist8
(396 posts)figures out how to do it. I'm sure if you hopped in a time machine and told people 100 years ago what's possible today, they'd call you crazy and wouldn't believe you. You think explaining the blockchain or nanotechnology to someone a century or more ago would've been easy and widely-accepted? I doubted.
I think intelligent life is probable, but I doubt their ability to visit us. I believe the majority of intelligent life is locked to their planet of origin and don't have the technology and resources to space travel...like Humans. I also believe that if you do have a civilization that can travel the stars, more than likely they've mastered things like cloning/bio-genetic engineering, organic-machine interfaces, and robotics to such an extent that they can just make duplicates of themselves or transfer their minds to android-like machines and live much longer than organic life. The intelligent alien races traveling the stars might all be Androids and other types of inorganic intelligent life lol
I also don't think FTL travel is the only way to get across the universe. I think wormholes are very likely and much quicker for advances civilizations and you're not violating any laws of physics. The problem is the amount of energy required to create a wormhole (much less know where you'll pop out on the other end) is massive. It's not feasible for humans right now to do that. Einstein showed that wormholes are scientifically-possible.