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If you worry about aliens from far away planets visiting us you might be unaware of a few facts. Let's start with this:
- Speed of light 670 million mph That's really fast!
- Closest planet in the habitable zone is 4.2 light years from earth but for many reasons is highly unlikely to harbor an advanced civilization.
- Closest planet in the habitable zone with a sun sort of like ours is approx. 472 light years away.
- In the future we hope to be able to travel to mars with humans onboard at speeds around 60,000 mph
- Just for perspective it would take a little over 5 billion years to travel 472 light years at 60,000 mph.
- Even if advanced alien beings figured out how to travel a 1000 times faster at 60 million mph you're still looking at 5 millions years. Let's suppose they figured out how to travel a million times faster at 60 BILLION MPH, still looking at 5 thousand years to get here. Seems VERY unlikely to me.
- I know that there are many theories about travel methods way beyond our current understanding that many BELIEVE, but this belief requires a leap of faith arguably greater than required for the belief in God. I think it's more akin to believing in magic.
If you are truly anxious and scared because of all the recent sightings I hope that you may not have been aware of some of the facts outlined above and it helps reduce your anxiousness and concern.
- Speed of light 670 million mph That's really fast!
- Closest planet in the habitable zone is 4.2 light years from earth but for many reasons is highly unlikely to harbor an advanced civilization.
- Closest planet in the habitable zone with a sun sort of like ours is approx. 472 light years away.
- In the future we hope to be able to travel to mars with humans onboard at speeds around 60,000 mph
- Just for perspective it would take a little over 5 billion years to travel 472 light years at 60,000 mph.
- Even if advanced alien beings figured out how to travel a 1000 times faster at 60 million mph you're still looking at 5 millions years. Let's suppose they figured out how to travel a million times faster at 60 BILLION MPH, still looking at 5 thousand years to get here. Seems VERY unlikely to me.
- I know that there are many theories about travel methods way beyond our current understanding that many BELIEVE, but this belief requires a leap of faith arguably greater than required for the belief in God. I think it's more akin to believing in magic.
If you are truly anxious and scared because of all the recent sightings I hope that you may not have been aware of some of the facts outlined above and it helps reduce your anxiousness and concern.