Comments by "Synthematix Music UK" (@Synthematix) on "Fermi Paradox: Why don't we see signs of alien civilizations?" video.
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Maybe after about 750 years we might find life up there, ive no doubt in my mind that somethings up there doing pretty much the same as what we are doing, but its the distances, to get to these planets thats stopping us, we would need to travel at over twice the speed of light or even faster, as every passing day continues the planets are moving further and further away from us meaning we would need even faster speeds to reach these planets as time goes on.
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As time goes on some planets could actually get a lot closer to us, both instances are equally valid. theres no way that earth can be at the center of everything up there, we are an insignificant blue dot floating around in a mandlebrot of endless possibilities.
Forget the words "massive" "big" or "huge" the size of everything up there is way beyond the human brains capability to understand, if we do in the near future properly look for life, then we gotta start small, theres currently no way possible for us to travel these distances. After hitting the force of about 9G the human body simply starts to shut down, you will have a heart attack in 10 seconds.
Maybe in the future we will be able to control gravity in a way that would allow us to travel at these insane speeds, currently i personally think we are between 950 to 1,100 years away of doing anything like this, the whole laws of human known physics would need to be updated before we could travel at these speeds.
I can promise you that there is life on other planets that are as equally inquisitive as us in finding other life, the distance to these planets can never be seen by any telescope or space mission, we are talking about billions/trillions of lightyears away from us and then some. There will be other "sun's" up there with planets the same distance as we are from our sun, i can guarantee that.
Were in very early stages at the moment, as with everything it takes time, its something we shouldnt worry about really. It will happen one day as its human curiosity thats got us this far, but the timeframe of this happening is out of reach for us and our future generations for a very long time to come.
With all this said its still fascinating to look at videos of different planets, but theres something you need to be mindful of, and thats the fact that NASA photoshop all their pictures of planets to fill in the missing gaps because theyre so far away to get a detailed and crisp image, not even the JWST can do it. the reality of it all is simple, with current technology to get detailed images of these far away planets the JWST would need to be the size of a planet itself. Of course this will change in the future, but its a long long way off.
Constantly introducing theories is not helpful in finding the truth, science is based on facts not fiction. Theories are commonly introduced as naturally us humans are very inquisitive and impatient.
You have to remember when we look up in to the skies at night at different planets, we are looking at whats already happened in the past, not the future. Light travel and time itself are joined at the hip.
If we want to look at whats going on with a planet right now thats 10million light years away, we would need to travel at 10million times the speed of light
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