XPost: rec.aviation.military   
   From: smharding@verizon.net   
      
   On 2/19/26 2:38 PM, a425couple wrote:   
   > On 2/18/26 12:49, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:   
   >> Never !   
   >>   
   >> Interstellar distances are so great, as to preclude any chance of   
   >> travel or practical comunication.   
   >>   
   >> Do the simple math :  Time = Distance / Speed   
   >>   
   >> This is why, although intelligent space faring species likely abound   
   >> throughout the universe, we are never visited by any.   
   >   
   > I mostly agree about the travel.   
   > As we understand the scientific rules, no human will   
   > travel to another 'alien' civilization.   
   > But, if we try, and continue to make progress,   
   > we might indeed communicate with 'alien' life.   
   >   
   > There is no reason why we can not in the future   
   > (as our capabilities increase) create   
   > "artificial intelligence" controlled computers   
   > on space ships to go out as explorers, investigators,   
   > and diplomats.   
   >   
   > Communications may be possible if we are very patient   
   > and have long time attention.   
      
   I recall reading "somewhere" that space travel in the future (very,   
   very, very* future) won't involve actually traveling gazillions of light   
   years away but instead, "punching through" the space-time fabric as a   
   sort of short cut.  I suppose it would be like a great circle route on a   
   globe is shorter than the apparent straight line route or as we think of   
   SciFi wormholes and such.   
      
   But without that sort of mechanism, there is no way we'll see other life   
   forms, let alone intelligent ones.  As far as we know, even with   
   exoplanet systems that we have now found, the odds are scarce that a   
   planet will have the requirements for life (as we know it) let alone the   
   roll of the dice evolutionary process to produce intelligence.   
      
   That's a primary reason I don't believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial   
   incidents.  Some weird stuff no doubt, but explainable at some point,   
   now or in the future with more knowledge.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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