Will we find aliens first or will they find us?

[longship]

110. Well, that would be a straw man.

I never wrote that we know everything, and you know that. What I wrote was that there are certain universal principles which demonstrably apply throughout the universe. Now maybe I did not make that very clear. That would be my bad. I apologize if I did that.

However, anybody who stakes a claim that violates the basic principles of what we do know about the universe -- including Newton, Einstein, conservation laws, rocket equation, etc. -- had better have their shit together. Just making shit up isn't going to do it.

So I stand by my posts. In spite of the fact that warp drives would be really cool, they seem to violate the basic science which tells us how the universe works.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If one claims to be holding a warp drive in ones hand, either show it or fold it. The hand has been called. Oopsy! No negative energy. (What does that even mean?) That means no warp drives there.