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Originally Posted by texas_tank
But how do we know that they havent already figured out an answer to planets bieng finite?..
did you know that scientists discovered a way, so that if you move fast enough (we're talking extremely fast) through space, it would create a vortex and time would freeze around you?..
leading to the theory that intelligent life on other planets ahs already figured this out, and can travel through space unaged, visiting other planet sucuh as ours..
or our ancestors, as i believe.
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Our imaginations can conjure up endless senerios of exotic intellegent ET life in space. It's the stuff of science fiction. However, it takes firm evidence to make any reasonable conclusion. Even if intellegent life does exist on another planet, space travel is tremendously difficult under the best of circumstances. Evolving from a primitive life form to an advanced intellegent specie would take hundreds of thousands, if not millons, of years. Once reaching intellegent status they would have to exploit whatever energy sources they could find to develp a civilization. All the while, they would be faced with a host of natural and self-caused disasters, including mega volcanic eruptions and astroid strikes. At one time, modern humans almost disappeared from the face of the earth due to the impacts of a mega volcanic eruption. All these obsticles, challenges and limitations would make it difficult for such intellegent life to move beyond their home planet.