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In reply to the discussion: UFOs [View all]MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)One can believe in other intelligent life without buying into UFO's here.
We have to ask- why would they come here? And why would they come here but then hide from us? That's almost worse than being the only intelligent life in the universe: We're a very special experiment being monitored for god knows how long.
Also, they have the technology to traverse interstellar space and hang around here, but they can't quite perfectly conceal themselves?
Nevertheless, as someone else said, there is some weird shit out there. So who knows.
If they come from the nearest known other habitable plant, that is 12 years away if you can fly at the speed of light. Even if you could harness the energy required for that, and find a way to survive the journey, it's still 12 years! Are we worth all that? And what do they do when they get here?
It takes us years to get around in our own solar system.