Re: There are a thousand aliens on Earth

  David Dalton wrote:

As I report on my “Mardi Gras/Waxing Salmon attempt” thread

Hmm...

on alt.religion.druid ,

Give me goose bumps!

I have now divined that there are 1000> aliens of four DNA-based species here.

Don't tell me, let me guess, they all receive a foreign aid
check. Right?
I mean, there's no one who's invested more than 2 seconds of
thought into the question that doesn't believe aliens exist.
But, coming here? Them?  Not their technology -- not robots or
a probe but them -- THEY are coming here? As far as we know,
that's not within the realm of possibilities.
The distances are beyond the scope of human comprehension. They
are so big, so far beyond anything humans have yet to deal with
that it's even difficult to build models of such a trip.
Voyager has traveled further than any man made object, and it's
not even a single Light Day from earth.
Not "Light Year" but "Light Day."
It was launched on September 5, 1977. Jimmy Carter was President.
Jimmy Carter was 8 months into his Presidency...
It takes over 22 hours for a signal from Voyager to reach us. It's
been zooming away from us for 48 years and it's not even a single
Light Day away!
The closest star to us is Proxima Centauri, and it's over four
light years from the earth!
Matching the speed of the absolute fastest craft we ever managed
to put into space, the Parker Solar Probe, it would take over
7,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri and then more than another
4 years from the first signal it beamed back to arrive...
Nothing, no machine ever constructed by man has ever lasted even
a fraction of that time!  We don't even know HOW to produce
equipment that could last that long!
"Just 3D print replacement parts as they break down!"
But, see, if we could do that we'd just build the ship out of the
same materials as the 3D printer, and then we wouldn't need the
to print anything...
Relax. When I say "We don't know how to produce equipment that
could last that long," I include 3D printers amongst the set
"Equipment."
It just plan doesn't make sense to even try to come here!
A probe? Sure. We built voyager with absolutely no hope what so
ever of being able to receive a signal, from whatever it's
final destination is, so aliens could do the same with us. But
they're not getting here. They're not hiding amongst us, blending
in, playing games on an iPhone in a crowded subway car.
Nope.
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