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I propose that intelligent life is improbable generally speaking. The other issue is distance. Assuming there is an energy breakthrough and relativistic speeds
by therealbilly 5y ago
I propose that intelligent life is improbable generally speaking. The other issue is distance. Assuming there is an energy breakthrough and relativistic speeds are possible, the craft will be destroyed long before arriving at a destination. Think collisions and blueshifting of radiation. At non-relativistic speeds, you are looking at extremely long transit times. Think 40,000 years to 200,000 years. No energy source can last that long. You ship would have lost it's energy long before arriving at a destination. Biological entities would have died in the first 100 years. Robotic entities cannot function without an energy source.
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- reilly3000 5y agoTherein lies the insatiable desire for ETs to be real: we wish any or all of those things could be not true. We hope against observation that our own scientists will arrive at mind-boggling energy sources, knowing that cannot be done with all that we know. We imagine another life form that was superior understanding of physics that could prove its possible, and hopefully show us how. These limits, like mortality itself, don’t sit well with our boundless egos. There’s something majestic about that folly… for what it’s worth.