What "U.S. Ecologist" said this? I call B.S.! Please seek to find out more about this alleged comment.

But about the question....Are there Aliens? Can we travel to stars? Should we?

I've done a lot of research on this.

Short answer...No, no, and. no.

It ain't gonna happen for several reasons

#1 - We can go 18.6 miles per second now. That's 1/10,000th the speed of light. That will get us to our nearest star system -which is 4.3 light years ( L.Y.) away, in 43,000 years. In other words....all star systems are much too far from us.

Even if we somehow achieve moving at light speed...or through "worm holes"...Who would bother doing this?

#2. Even talking to ET, via radio (going speed of light, or 186K per second) would take 8.6 years round trip message.

#3.The odds of being life on any planets within 100 L.Y. of us are nil. (most scientists search within the 100 LY range because it was about 100 years. ago that we first sent strong radio and TV waves in to space - hence only folk within 100 LY of us would even know we exist.

There's about 500+ systems within that range...of which only a few have rocky planets that are in the "goldilocks" zone (not too hot, not too cool...so likely to have water and life). So there has been several "Earth-like" planets that are out there...but all that we've found are over 100 LY away.

Out of those few, there's a much reduced likelihood that they evolved at the same pace we did...so their civilization's either come and gone...or not there yet.

In September 2020, astronomers identified 24 superhabitable planet (planets better than Earth) contenders, from among more than 4000 confirmed exoplanets at present, based on astrophysical parameters, as well as the natural history of known life forms on the Earth.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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