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Stands to reason they are going to have much more profound technology than we, and so why would they want to come and kill us when they can just steal what they want?
They wouldn't need the resources here. Resources are abundant throughout the Universe, a civilization traveling through space would collect or create what they needed along the way. The potential exists to simply collect resources without even altering course.
With us being the lower life form the issue is if they decided to live here and looked at us like a giant nuisance similar to how we may view insects living where we want to build. Out comes the giant can of Galactic Raid® and bye bye humans.
Other life in the Universe is very likely. Because of the distances detecting them becomes very difficult. Assuming the speed of light cannot be broken..... If there was a civilization positioned similar to us but on the other side of our own galaxy that rose 25K years ago and just ended yesterday it's going to be another 25K years before those radio signals from the early part of their civilization reach us. If the human race was gone 25K years from now there is no one here to detect it. If they existed hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of years ago that information has already traveled past us.
there is no other intelligent life in our galaxy, if it exists anywhere it is in another galaxy far far away, the distance they would have to travel or us to them would be longer than a normal lifespan...as we know it, even if they lived longer than us they would be very old before they reached here.
..there is no other intelligent life in our galaxy,
That is not something you can say absolutely.
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....the distance they would have to travel or us to them would be longer than a normal lifespan...as we know it, even if they lived longer than us they would be very old before they reached here.
You are not understanding the vastness of the distances, radio waves travel at the speed of light because that is what they are. That is 186K miles per second. It is presumed this would be the easiest way to detect intelligent life. A civilization could have arisen 50k years ago somewhere across the galaxy and we would never even know they were there because the radio waves haven't reached us yet.
Supposing we did detect such life and could send people into space at the speed of light traveling at 186K miles per second, it would take thousands of generations for them to get there.
there is no other intelligent life in our galaxy, if it exists anywhere it is in another galaxy far far away, the distance they would have to travel or us to them would be longer than a normal lifespan...as we know it, even if they lived longer than us they would be very old before they reached here.
The nearest solar system is 4 light years away. Our current telescope tech couldn't even distinguish features on Pluto that is only 4 billion miles away. It took the New Horizons craft 10 years to travel 4.6 billion miles. It will take over hundreds of years to get to the nearest solar system.
We don't have the tech to see the closest solar systems near us to make a blanket statement that there's no intelligent life in our galaxy.
People watch too many movies. If an alien species wanted our planet, there would be no battle. If they have the technology to get here, they would have the technology to easily get rid of us. Most likely in the form of pest control. We wouldn't even know what hit us. That's my opinion. There's always a bigger fish.
I'm not in the least worried about aliens showing up and destroying the human race. Obviously, if they have the technology to get here, they could do just that. Maybe they're already here? I'd buy that scenario. My guess is that they might use their knowledge to help us. Think of what they might be able to do. Cure cancer, stop the aging process, etc. I'm sort of hoping they show up sometime soon. We don't seem to be doing so well on our own, right now.
If gyro technology was incorporated on the interior of the craft, it probably would not be fatal.
I like gyros when the meat is cut off the spit as you order it; that's good technology.
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