Just because we can't wrap around our heads around space travel or travel at the speed of light doesn't mean it can't exist.
How about teleportation?
Just because we can't wrap around our heads around space travel or travel at the speed of light doesn't mean it can't exist. In the old days when there was no science we discount certain things as witchcraft or the act of God. Now it is fully explained.
How about teleportation?
exactly.
and as i stated before, WE are exploring our galaxy, and landing on other planets... who's to say they arent doing it as well ?
our " human " nature drives us to explore. maybe that curiosity drives other species as well ?
You're only seeing one side of an equation. You're seeing travelling as bringing one object from one place to another by a vehicle.Your are correct thats not the reason. But physics as it stands right now says that its a hard barrier.
Teleportation will be interesting we have been able to place the properties of one photon to another over a relatively long distance. But might be to complex for who items but it still has interesting possibilities
Oh yeh, I also think it is a bad idea for us to send signals out there broadcasting our location. That's almost as bad as posting your address on Facebook. Do you want complete strangers showing up at your front door?
What if they come here finding valuable resources they need? Remember what happened when the Europeans come to the Americas?
You're only seeing one side of an equation. You're seeing travelling as bringing one object from one place to another by a vehicle.
I remember reading an article about teleportation & this is disintegrating an object & reintegrating at another location. Not far fetched since who we are is defined by a bunch of hormones & chemicals that are distributed in a certain way or amount.
Well is we are talking about aliens reaching us, yes currently one has to make that assumption unless of course they are closer than we think. I mean more advanced than solid fuel rockets? Even by our own sense thats primitive and we are looking at other propulsion methodsyou're assuming they're reached us, as I noted before, most likely they would be more technologically advanced. So most likely they would have some advanced form of travelling
It's completely immaterial how old, mature, and technologically advanced some presumed alien societies might be. So let's presume that there's an alien 'empire' out there that spans tens of thousands of inhabited worlds and has existed for a million years. They've got faster than light travel. In which thousands of the 300 billion stars, in just our galaxy, are their thousands of inhabited systems? Then you have the stumbling block that I've already mentioned; they would have to stumble across us in the tiny fragment of time in which we've existed.
You misunderstood me. Imagine an omniscient species that has existed since before the gases in our solar system coalesced into planets and they still exist today. Imagine they have technology that is capable of monitoring or travel equipment to chart all the known universe. They've see and have seen everything. They know we're here. They don't care.
Infinity and the place we inhabit in it only seems like a "pitiful candle" because of our current limitations. If we are playing a speculation game, then go all in and imagine technology that is sufficiently advanced enough to seem like magic to us.
I think that we would be of zero ongoing interest to beings approaching such a state, because we have nothing to teach them.
Then call them "God" and get on with it, because you've pretty much defined that being.
I believe the next step is to try and terra-form Mars.