If aliens could travel between the stars they would very likely be independent of anything our planet would offer. After all, they didn't evolve here, so our planet wouldn't be ideal for them, and their spacecraft would be designed/evolved to sustain them forever using space-based resources. For all we know, there IS an alien spacecraft in our solar system RIGHT NOW, loitering around the Sun, or around Jupiter, collecting materials & energy. Maybe even incapable of understanding our communications.
On the other hand, I don't believe interstellar travel is possible. And what, besides knowledge, would we gain by travelling to another solar system? It's just another star, another planet. Why is that better than the one we've already got? Why would living in a cramped spaceship be better than living on Earth?
It doesn't make any sense. I'm convinced that either there is another path up the evolutionary ladder, one that has nothing to do with interstellar travel, or this universe is just a trashbin and we are a 10E(-80) part of it. I can hope that the former is true, but that doesn't mean it is. But until there is proof either way, I'll keep philosophizing about possible solutions.
My latest theory is that the universe is a continuum of waves. A gigantic wave-mechanical interference pattern. It borrows from both the explicate and implicate orders proposed by Bohm. It solves rather intuitively the paradoxes arising from Bell's Theorem. But so far it fails to adequately model some rather basic classical physics. My ultimate challenge is to devise a superposition of waves that induces a gravitational effect. I'm having intellectual fun with it.
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If aliens could travel between the stars
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