Lot of talk about extraterrestrial life lately. Saw the article below this morning.
My opinion is there is zero credible evidence of an actual unidentified flying object.
My other thought is even if a civilization did manage to overcome the light speed and time dilation problem, which is a big if, the technology required to do that, find us among all the stars out there, come visit us from billions of miles and perhaps thousands of light years away…..only to crash in the Arizona desert? Doesn’t seem likely.
Even if we’re not the only life form in the universe, it doesn’t matter. The light speed/ time, dilation phenomenon effectively isolates us as much as the castaways on Gilligans Island. Maybe we’ll pick up a radio signal at some point from 100 light years away, but so what? I just looked this up and we had a probe that hit 430,000 mph. That’s the fastest anything we created that’s ever moved and it was directed at the sun, so it utilized the sun‘s gravity to hitthat speed. Assuming we could make a craft that could go that fast away from the sun, it would take 156,000 years to travel 100 light years. The voyager spacecrafts will take 75,000 years before they get to the nearest star.
The other interesting thing I read a few weeks ago is if you think about how our communication technology is changing. We do not emit electromagnetic waves into space as much as we used to. A lot of our electronic communications is streamed over wires and from low power, limited range Bluetooth. We don’t have as much massive broadcasting as we did in the past.
The point is the ability to locate another civilization in a galaxy could be limited to only a couple of hundred years of existence before their communication technology changes and high powered radio waves become fewer and fewer which reduces our chances of stumbling into them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamfrank/2026/02/23/what-we-could-learn--from-t...
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