Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Michio Kaku: The entire universe will be aware of this one explosion" video.

  1. As a child of Apollo and the days when the original Star Trek was shown on prime-time, I have been waiting for the aliens my entire life (actually, I'm still waiting on flying cars and jetpacks, but I digress). I realize the universe is a big place and the odds that we are alone in it are slim, but I don't think these radio radio waves are reruns of Amos and Andy from Vulcan. First, a civilization advanced enough to defeat the problems associated with faster than light travel is probably pretty well past the radio age. So, they were sent 1,000,000,000 years ago and are just now getting to us. The problem with that is, radio transmissions of such a low magnitude would be stretched pretty this by the time they traveled 1,000 light years. It's doubtful we would even notice them. These big blasts come from stars with the juice to produce huge bursts, not the kind Sirius XM transmits. As for these flying saucers, why is it they spend so much time over corn fields in Iowa? Look, I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but the complexities of traveling vast distances in space are such that even a super-duper smart bunch of folks would have trouble over coming them. I believe the grand designer set it up that way. Sorry gang, but don't look for ET to be phoning any time soon. I say this as someone who used to be pumped up about SETI and what they are doing. But once I learned the truth as far as the mechanics of the the thing is concerned, well, as John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things."
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