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Originally Posted by Pawnmower
essentially the answer is YES
because:
either:
1) we actually are alone, because of 'the great filter'
2) we arent alone but the distance is so vast that even with ultimate technology it really isnt feasible to travel to other galaxies or universes
3) again, because of a different aspect of 'the great filter'...there are other civilizations out there but they all go extinct before they develop the technology needed to travel such great distances
or
4) they ARE here but for some reason they harness this great energy and resource (black holes) and expend a universe of energy and give up knowing and hugging anyone they have ever loved to come to earth, remain hidden and abduct cows
as in the above link, I believe the great filter is the ANSWER to the fermi paradox and also to the question of 'are we alone'?:
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I agree with everything you said. Still there is a part of me that would love to know that we or some other intelligence would eventually be able to warp time and space enough to travel to some near by stars that don't take a full generation to do so.
We still don't know what dark energy and dark matter are, could they be used as an energy source or even pathways through space and time?
I really think there are living things in our solar system. Especially on the moons of the gas giants. Stuff is swimming in our oceans, there could be some type of fish swimming in Europa or sludge growing on Titan. I think we are alone in our Solar system but not in our galaxy. They keep finding Goldilocks planets all the time there has to be a bunch in even our corner of the Milky Way that have had the time to evolve and become sentient. Communicating and meeting would be tough with our current limited tech.
I have seen the CNN footage a bunch of times and think it was a secret Military program. I have been told that Aurora happened by people close to the project. I know NASA was working on Hypersonic scramjets just a couple of years ago and I thought I heard of interest in bringing back an SR-71 type craft or faster. The way the new fighters can turn on a dime I don't see why skunk works wouldn't have something that could do what we saw on the clip.