So I watched this show on History Channel talking about how there are worldwide accounts that could potentially be alien interactions. For instance, golden “airplanes” found in Mayan tombs, the Nazca Lines, stories in the Bible describing “angels” who with the nimbus around their heads could have been aliens in space suits. Cave paintings of humanoid creatures, again with circular “helmets.”
Frankly, I’m fascinated. Not saying I’m ready to put on my tinfoil cap to keep out the alien brain scanners, but it’s definitely an interesting idea. Our galaxy alone is estimated to have approximately 400 BILLION stars. I’ve also read recent articles where Earth-like planets are much more common than previously thought. Evolution is a numbers game…and with numbers like that it’s highly unlikely that we are alone in the universe.
Given the rate that human knowledge is progressing ( at my college graduation the speaker claimed that the whole of human knowledge was doubling every 3 years…and that was 7 years ago), I think it’s entirely possible and likely that we will achieve meaningful space travel within the next 200 years. If an alien race was able to achieve “warp drives,” then the distance from star to star would easily become moot.
In defense of playing devil’s advocate, if there are 400 billion stars in our galaxy, then the likelihood that an alien race would pick our planet to visit goes down. In which case the likelihood would probably depend on proximity ( seems logical that aliens would explore their immediate neighborhood first ).
