UFOs: Few answers at rare US Congressional hearing

[Hugh_Lebowski]

19. The possibility of other intelligent species EVER existing in the universe?

Have to say that's high. Esp. if you don't consider how far away it is from Earth.

But that's entirely different than them being able to visit us, during the last 70 years people have been claiming to see them (it cannot be overstated what a TINY blip of time this is, cosmologically).

They would not only have to be the proper distance away to be able get here, but also be developing as an intelligent species at just the right time that correlates perfectly with the distance between our worlds, and the max speed thru space their tech allows them to travel.

People who believe in alien visitations are not grasping the math and statistics here, esp. wrt time and distance. They say the kind of thing you suggested, and completely illogically extrapolate 'that means they could visit Earth just in time for us to see them'.

Yeah, no it doesn't. AT ALL.

I also think evolution will basically work the same way everywhere, and that 'intelligent life' will end up destroying it's host planet in a span of a few hundreds of years from the time advanced tech begins to develop there. Look at humans ... we're on pace for a Max Max kinda existence by 2100 at the latest.

NO CHANCE humans ever come up with 'warp travel' or whatever, and in fact, it's almost surely impossible anyway.