[Herra Tohtori]

Spooky...

Great minds think alike, I suppose.

[Excalibur]

My science teacher thinks that (assuming today's physics) if you go over the speed of light, you can't get slower than the speed of light.

So mabye these aliens are flying around trying to land somewhere but can't because they are unable to stop!


I suupose I should have a response to my own questions, now that it's just discussion - but........it's simliar to Shades, and his is slightly simliar to Herra Tohtori, which is simliar to...........

[DiabloRojo]

At first I was surprised all our answers were so similar...

Then I remembered this is a forum based around a Sci-Fi space sim that deals with 3 alien races.
But, I didn't save a copy of what I sent so I can't post it.  I know some of my reasoning differed a bit on the 'why.'

2. Sophisticated
2a. (Why) Basically I considered statistics, one life-bearing planet with at least 2 more potentially life-bearing bodies in a single solar system out of ~200 billion stars of one galaxy of hundreds of billions of galaxies.

4. No
4a. (Why) I don't think we would be interesting enough.

-I am optimistically guessing at MANY advanced civilizations in our own galaxy, or at least that are SO advanced, we would never know of their presence.  After all, our planet has only been here for less than 1/3 of the time the universe has existed, and then factor in that Earth has had a few huge evolutionary setbacks (moon formation and asteroid impacts).
-Physics issues aren't factored into my reasoning as I firmly hold to the idea that there are ways around any 'roadblock,' be it a sobriety checkpoint or the speed of light.

Which of course means that I don't think us being alone on this rock amongst ~10^21 star systems in this universe is impossible.  Just very unlikely. 

[karajorma]

So mabye these aliens are flying around trying to land somewhere but can't because they are unable to stop!

If aliens were hitting the planet at light speed they wouldn't be leaving crash sites strewn with childlike corpses and strangely liquid metal fragments.

They'd be leaving a large crater and millions of tonnes of dust in the atmosphere.

[Flipside]

They're probably so busy laughing that they weren't paying attention

[Bobboau]

If aliens were hitting the planet at light speed they wouldn't be leaving crash sites strewn with childlike corpses and strangely liquid metal fragments.

They'd be leaving a large crater and millions of tonnes of dust in the atmosphere.

actually they'd probably be leaving a hole through the planet.

[Ashrak]

i assume they have shields to travel at LS or FTL .... otherwise a spec of dust = owned