OT: Alien Contact

[Puke]

i think that was from a calvin and hobes comic strip, as calvin is looking at a sawed off tree stump, littered with empty beer cans.

[Fyron]

There is little to no possibility of being visited by an alien race because it would be quite impractical to get to earth from another star system. It is impossible to travel faster than light, or even anywhere near the speed of light. It would take centuries to get here from the nearest stars, and there is no way those stars could support life on any planets that could be around them. Alpha Centauri and its companion stars probably don't even have any planets, much less ones that could support life. So, any life-supporting planets are going to be much farther away, making a trip here even less practical. Warp points (or frequent worm holes, which is what warp points would be, really) do not exist in reality, so that nullifies the possibility of bypassing most of interstellar space on the trip here.

[Phoenix-D]

Fyron, you're being so much of a skeptic you're starting to look like a speculator yourself.

We have not tried to accelerate past C. We don't -know- for sure what happens. Yes, we have theory. Yes, have have tests that support it, and observations that do the same. But we haven't done it. Remember how the sound barrier got its name.

The same applies even more so to other FTL methods, especially the ones you mentioned. Lack of proof is not proof of abscene.

Phoenix-D

[Suicide Junkie]

I'm sure there are a lot of wacky crackpots trying to literally accelerate past C, at the moment.

Then there's the serious scientists with their super-high energy particle accelerators who don't even bother with the idea.

[Fyron]

There is a world of difference between the limits of the sound barrier and the speed of light.

[ZeroAdunn]

Wow... this thread is a hotplate ready to explode. Nice to see nobody stepping on anybody elses toes though.

Fyron is quite the skeptic. Amazing isn't it?

As for faster then light, you could travel faster then light, because light has variable velocity and as such you just slow down some light.....

Yah, I know, it is stupid but I had to say it.

As for science, remember this is current science we talk about, there was a time when current science told us the world was flat (I love cliches) We can't really talk about the future in certainties because nobody, unless your phsycic, in which case, what are next weeks lotery numbers?

[Fyron]

What light has variable velocity?