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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I suspect that the speed of light barrier is just that - a barrier. Not the ultimate one, however. I firmly believe that there are ways to get around it, so that interstellar travel is not a question of many years to journey relatively short distances (measured on an interstellar scale here). I believe that Science Fiction (today's science fiction, is tomorrow's science fact ;) ) portrays a huge amount of different possibilities alone. And one needs to keep in mind just how young Science really is as a studied and used human tool. As for the chance of there being life among the incredible vast and unbelievably populated heavens, I would say just from a statistics point of view, that it is with a very high probability that there is life out there. The real question then is, is it intelligent, and how scientifically advanced is it? This is aside from the question, is it even life? What if it is a machine or non-living intelligence? One that does not see time like we do, nor is it affected by it like we are - then journeying at light speed is not a barrier anymore, of course. I firmly believe that there is intelligent life out there. I believe that there is lots of it, in fact. Probably organized into groups, that interact with one another, if not just for the normal economic reasons, then for others. So why have we not been contacted already? Well, assuming that we haven't (and by that, I mean they didn't just pop out over the skies and announce themselves, obviously), there are probably very good reasons for this. One that I can immediately think of, is to do a little excercise - examine the human species from [b]OUTSIDE[/b] of the human species itself, as a whole. Imagine that you are an outsider, you have superior technology, probably superior advancement in most areas, and you are examining the prospects of contacting the Human Race. Let us also say that you are not from a warlike species (otherwise I believe the results would already have been noticed, as controlling the spacial room around a planet gives one unprecidented power over those that are landbound below ;) ). What do you think contact on a wide, public scale would result in? What would you, as a totally different species, get in return for revealing yourselves on a wide, public scale to the Human Race? When viewed like that, I think it is rather obvious that any intelligence species considering contacting the Human Race (for whatever purpose - perhaps to get the mining rights for the Asteroid Belt, or Jupiter, or Saturn, perhaps other planets in the Solar System?) would not reveal themselves on a wide, public scale. Instead, they would deal only with those that they would feel would be necessary to do so. And that, in this case, means governments. And probably only certain governments, those with the ability to actually detect such endeavors such as Asteroid Mining, etc. So has contact already occurred? I believe that it has. I even believe that there is proof of it, but of course I cannot provide anyone with it. In any regards, it is a fascinating subject, and one that I really like. [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/397/]WebShaman[/url] \| [i]The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles[/i] Loading...
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