If technologies like fusion, antimatter and quantum phase are perfected we'd pack enough juice in a Coke can to fly to Andromeda. Not in my lifetime. But anyways, back to the subject of aliens, i think the Fermi-Hart paradox is an interesting conundrum. If there really were aliens, they're sure as hell quiet. The galaxy is old, very old, plenty of time for star-faring civilizations to evolve. And yet we get nothing, not so much as a peep on the RF or EM. Even SETI ain't got nothing. I think there's a helluva lot going on out there that we're not aware of...and "we come in peace" might not be a part of it.

This post has been edited by pleasuresaurus: Jul 2 2009, 09:05 PM

I don't think distance is that big a deal la bro, especially if u look at it from a galactic scale of space and time.

The Milky Way is what, 100,00 light years across? Lets assume that whatever hypothetical bunch of aliens we are looking at here do at some point use radio frequencies for communication. In vacuum, radio frequencies move at essentially the speed of light. Safe to say it takes RF 100,000 years or so to get from one end of the galaxy to another. The Milky Way is at least 13 billion years old. The earth is only 4. A billion years is plenty of evolutionary time to allow space faring civilizations to populate and spread and generally make a lot of noise.

Granted we've only begun to grasp electromagnetic communication some hundred or so years ago. If the aliens still exist, there should be SOME noise at least. Something residual, recurring.

Also, granted, they may be using some form of communication that we have not been able to decipher as yet. Maybe the deluge is yet to come (intergalactic spam! )

But I honestly feel the galaxy is too creepy quite. What are the odds that out of almost 400 billion stars, ours is the ONLY one that supports life?

Cherenkov radiation indicate electrons can move faster than light. I'm sure some idiot out there must've done the math and figured FTL travel.

On aside note, i must really have nothing better to do to be coming up with this rubbish at 1 am on a weeknight