There IS definitely intelligent life, even vastly more that us, out there, but, they are not coming here.
#1 If you could traverse the galaxy, why would you go way out to the outer arm system, find a smaller than most star ( our sun ) that has a very small planet on an inside orbit - just to SEE if something is there?
#2 You can't go speed of light. Let's say you can do 70%. You need an engine that can do that, constantly without needing to be refueled.
#3 You need a material you can build a vessel from that can handle going that speed constantly.
#4 As your hurtling around space at 70% light speed, what happens when you hit a 1cm x 1 cm space rock? Ever seen the damage a 1 cm rock does to the ISS? The ISS isn't even going 1000 mph. Imagine going 100X faster.
It's more possible OUR data is off. WE created carbon dating. What do we have, that we KNOW FOR FACT is say , 5 million years old to compare to? We don't. We need to do a test, that we created, to find that out.
What if carbon dating is wrong by 2 million years? What if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, actually took US out and the dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years longer than we think? We don't know for sure. We're only as smart as we've made ourselves
Thousands of years ago, all the ancient structures were built without calculators, computer models, engineering tech, etc. ARE we smarter than these folks?
Artificial lights won't work in a vacuum. You can experiment this yourself with a flashlight, a vacuum cleaner and a clear tube.
A benign species that can travel the galaxy WILL know this. So the question arises : If artificial lights can't work in space, why would you put headlights on your spaceship?
If you were a benign species travelling the galaxy, would you REALLY automatically draw attention to yourself / announce your presence on an unsuspecting planet of inhabitants by having headlights on your ship?
I would think no.
Also, if you could travel the galaxy, why go to small planets on the inside orbits of local suns? WE aren't looking at small planets. What would be the purpose of travelling the galaxy = resources. So, what would a very small, inside orbit planet provide for resources that a much, much larger planet wouldn't?
Just doesn't make sense and it's extremely arrogant given the vastness of our galaxy alone, that aliens would come here to see us. I know we require answers for the ancient past, but aliens is just a lazy excuse for accepting current scientific process - which may or may not even be correct ( ie carbon / nuclear dating ) - and our arrogance that ancient people were just too stupid to build these structures.
There's no aliens.
There IS definitely intelligent life, even vastly more that us, out there, but, they are not coming here.
#1 If you could traverse the galaxy, why would you go way out to the outer arm system, find a smaller than most star ( our sun ) that has a very small planet on an inside orbit - just to SEE if something is there?
#2 You can't go speed of light. Let's say you can do 70%. You need an engine that can do that, constantly without needing to be refueled.
#3 You need a material you can build a vessel from that can handle going that speed constantly.
#4 As your hurtling around space at 70% light speed, what happens when you hit a 1cm x 1 cm space rock? Ever seen the damage a 1 cm rock does to the ISS? The ISS isn't even going 1000 mph. Imagine going 100X faster.
It's more possible OUR data is off. WE created carbon dating. What do we have, that we KNOW FOR FACT is say , 5 million years old to compare to? We don't. We need to do a test, that we created, to find that out.
What if carbon dating is wrong by 2 million years? What if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, actually took US out and the dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years longer than we think? We don't know for sure. We're only as smart as we've made ourselves
Thousands of years ago, all the ancient structures were built without calculators, computer models, engineering tech, etc. ARE we smarter than these folks?
This ( below meme ) is actually quite possible.
https://i.redd.it/w3n8acy7q6361.png
I also have to say this:
Artificial lights won't work in a vacuum. You can experiment this yourself with a flashlight, a vacuum cleaner and a clear tube.
A benign species that can travel the galaxy WILL know this. So the question arises : If artificial lights can't work in space, why would you put headlights on your spaceship?
If you were a benign species travelling the galaxy, would you REALLY automatically draw attention to yourself / announce your presence on an unsuspecting planet of inhabitants by having headlights on your ship?
I would think no.
Also, if you could travel the galaxy, why go to small planets on the inside orbits of local suns? WE aren't looking at small planets. What would be the purpose of travelling the galaxy = resources. So, what would a very small, inside orbit planet provide for resources that a much, much larger planet wouldn't?
Just doesn't make sense and it's extremely arrogant given the vastness of our galaxy alone, that aliens would come here to see us. I know we require answers for the ancient past, but aliens is just a lazy excuse for accepting current scientific process - which may or may not even be correct ( ie carbon / nuclear dating ) - and our arrogance that ancient people were just too stupid to build these structures.
Wtf, artificial lights work in a vacuum... Why would it not?