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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
Your theory is stupid as hell. Who exactly has all these high-powered telescopes you speak of? It could be argued that anyone who happens to see an alien craft through their telescope is probably involved with the government or NASA, therefore they would not tell the public.
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Apparently you don't know much about who uses high powered telescopes and where. You somehow assume that they're all used by the government or NASA.
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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
Also, even if Aliens are travelling the stars, how do you know for sure that a telescope could even see their crafts travelling in the first place? You do know that they supposedly run on anti-gravity propulsion systems right? Well if that is true then their method of travel is by stretching/warping/manipulating space by the use of gravity waves. So if this is the case you wouldn't be able to "see" them because they are distorting the light/space/time around them...
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Long distance space travel would most assuredly require an extremely fast vehicle. No object can travel faster than the speed of light. The nearest star is 4 light years away and the nearest star capable of supporting life is probably HUNDREDS of light years away.
Let's say we engage your fantasy notion that such a craft could be built to attain such speeds, you're still talking about at least a generation or two going by before the spacecraft reaches its destination. In terms of aliens coming HERE, that would be like finding a needle in the haystack. Think about it: to come here requires knowing that HERE is a destination worth coming to.
The "aliens" would have to:
a) Be capable of constructing a craft capable of travel at light speed
b) Large enough to hold whatever fuel powers such a craft over such long distances
c) Large enough to house the food and other sustenance necessary for such long distance travel
d) Large enough to hold the staff necessary to make such long distance travel.
e) and finally KNOW we even exist as a destination to visit.
The whole thing is totally fucking preposterous. I'd sooner believe in God than aliens visiting us from hundreds of light years away.