Originally posted by Gazrok[/i
That ship has sailed...
That's a good one!
Alpha Centauri one of the nearby stars is about 4.3 light years away. For an alien that’s not very far, for humans with our present technology it
would take several lifetimes.
Our probes can travel about 22,000 miles an hour----we don’t have a ship that can carry humans that fast yet.
But if we did, it would only take about 130,000 years to get to our nearest neighbor, so pack a big lunch.
I visited a star system much further than Alpha Centauri----don’t know which one and it didn’t take more than a few weeks, if that. I don’t know
how long the journey was, but it was under a month that I was away. It was like taking an ape into New York city and showing it the town and taking it
back to the jungle and letting it tell the other apes what it saw.
I remember crystal type structures----not much about the people.
However I have seen places more in line with earth, human looking people in what we would call futuristic cities
I leaned one thing-----Darwin was wrong, nothing evolved from slime.
[edit on 23-4-2006 by sleeper]