Will we find aliens first or will they find us?

[Xithras]

102. Not only that....

But in the last few decades neuroscience has revealed that the the human perception of time is subjective and we've already narrowed down the parts of the brain that are responsible for it. By the time we master death, we'll have time perception down pat.

Which means: If humans have lives measured in millions of years, and a ship full of them set off on a 0.02C spaceflight to another planet that will take 100,000 years, it's possible that the crews perception of time can be sufficiently altered so that the flight only appears to take a few decades/years/months/days (we obviously don't know what the limits are). Time itself would continue to move at a speed relative to the velocity and destination of the spacecraft, but the perception of time could be so radically altered that the crew simply won't perceive it.