Conspiracy buffs?

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Otter

I'm not really big on aliens or conspiracy but your premise here is reliant on the falsehood that everything in the universe is as old as our world as well as took the same paths of evolution as humans and the earth.

The age of the universe is an educated guess by "us" as is everything else we know or think we know (see the room for error?) and I'm not sure what string theory proves about alien life but I won't argue on that point because I'm not versed enough in the subject.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and try to convince you that you're wrong or right but saying YOU know for sure what's out there in the universe when we have yet to make it past the moon is as ignorant as anything I've read on this board.

Our world is about 5 billion years old. The universe is probably 15 billion.

I think there are other life forms out there, and possibly similar to ourselves. Why not? It's very likely. I didn't say I know for sure what is out there. What I'm arguing is that they're not coming here. And we're not going there. It's too far away.

Anyone who thinks we can get in a ship and go to the next solar system has no sense of the grand reality of the galaxy.