Maybe I have this wrong, but wouldn't our imaginary space ship be able to turn on it's rockets and accelerate? So when it is a billion light years away, and in space that was receding from Earth, from Earth's point of reference, it could speed up to the local speed of light, in the rocket's now current frame of reference. And thus with repeated application of propulsion along its journey, make up for the recession of space.
You got to wonder when the next stage in this story will come out; that with all those computers we purchase being made in China, they have hacked the chipsets to allow backdoors for their use. Probably the only reason this hasn't happend so far is that they make too much money with the current situation and breaking into M$ computers is too easy to make such a step necessary. But the Defense department better be thinking about this!
Let me see if I've got this straight... I make all this effort to learn to live in space, get comfortable, and even feel able to make a journey of light years to visit a distant star system. I look down and see a teeming cesspool of alien life; viruses, predators, mosquitoes. And all I can think of is landing and taking my chances?
Fermi's Paradox misses the point completely. No alien capable of interstellar travel would seriously consider colonization of a planet. Once able to live in space, space would become home, and a planet would look like a large and dangerous gravity hole with little to offer except possibly entertainment.
Forget about these colonization scenarios. An alien will not be the passenger of some space ship, it will be the space ship, and it will have no interest in leaving it's existence in space. Perhaps we should begin thinking about such a future for ourselves?
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Maybe I have this wrong, but wouldn't our imaginary space ship be able to turn on it's rockets and accelerate? So when it is a billion light years away, and in space that was receding from Earth, from Earth's point of reference, it could speed up to the local speed of light, in the rocket's now current frame of reference. And thus with repeated application of propulsion along its journey, make up for the recession of space.
You got to wonder when the next stage in this story will come out; that with all those computers we purchase being made in China, they have hacked the chipsets to allow backdoors for their use. Probably the only reason this hasn't happend so far is that they make too much money with the current situation and breaking into M$ computers is too easy to make such a step necessary. But the Defense department better be thinking about this!
Let me see if I've got this straight... I make all this effort to learn to live in space, get comfortable, and even feel able to make a journey of light years to visit a distant star system. I look down and see a teeming cesspool of alien life; viruses, predators, mosquitoes. And all I can think of is landing and taking my chances? Fermi's Paradox misses the point completely. No alien capable of interstellar travel would seriously consider colonization of a planet. Once able to live in space, space would become home, and a planet would look like a large and dangerous gravity hole with little to offer except possibly entertainment. Forget about these colonization scenarios. An alien will not be the passenger of some space ship, it will be the space ship, and it will have no interest in leaving it's existence in space. Perhaps we should begin thinking about such a future for ourselves?