Will we find aliens first or will they find us?

[2naSalit]

82. If we keep

thinking inside the box, how can we ever know what's outside of our box?

All these points about the impossibility of travel from one galaxy to another or whatever is based on what we know on this planet as in what we have discovered so far. This is similar to climate change denial, there are infinite ways to go about this albeit not many involve our current physical form and the physical world. Perhaps there are other systems of travel and communication that none dare speak of because of the possibility of offending religious sensitivities or some system of thought which requires earth-bound physical reality sans any other form of energy. If we think about it in terms of energy, of course we're talking only about energy types that we know here on this planet, it is not all visible or physical.

And then there is the possibility that there are beings from other planets already here and we just can't tell them apart from ourselves because of our unwillingness to investigate. And I suspect that our unwillingness is due to the probability that it would scare the crap out of most of us. And maybe they are the orcas and dolphins and whales.

There are so many possibilities, I would not just wave them off as nonexistent.