An alien species would have to be able to fold time to get here, which means they would have had to survived whatever 'peak' they had, being population or resources etc...— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
'If 'we' had a spaceship big enough for some people and enough supplies— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
that could go 250,000 miles per hour,
and it would take about 11,276 years without stopping or hitting anything
to get to the nearest star,
what are the chances of there being a habitable planet?
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
Were you to board a spaceship,— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
head out at 99.999999 percent of light speed,
travel for six months and then back at the same speed,
you’d be one year older upon your return,
while everyone on Earth would have aged about 7,000 years.
Brian Greene
What do you do if you possess a brief case that may contain either $0 or $1,000,000— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
and are offered $200,000 for the case?
What if the majority of a civilization collectively chose the case and lost
but most don’t know?
What could happen if a generation— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
of underemployed, underpaid, educated and indebted young adults
became disillusioned by their elders’ financial mismanagement
and sought to identify and punish those responsible?
There is a theory— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why
it will instantly disappear and be replaced
by something even more bizarre
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes
If there is more unknown than known— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
like what started everything and why or if what started everything is still around,
and we don’t know for certain what happens before life or after death,
what is the purpose of cognitive existence?
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) November 30, 2017
and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
