it doesnt matter to me whether there are other civilizations on other planets , so im not biased on either side. So even though i understand why you cant fathom us being the only ones, there are actual reasons that would make it seem so . This is how the simple logic follows and its similar to the way people explain that time travelling backwards is not likely . If there WAS life somewhere else, then it would be safe to assume that there are in fact trillions³ of planets with life in them , in which case , its safe to assume that there are atleast trillions of plaents with civilizations significantly greater than ours (since our earth and sun is a baby in universe time) . So if there are trillions and EASILY more than trillions, of other civilizations greater than ours, with teh capabilities to travel atleast a mile p/h less than the speed of light, adn perhaps other civilizations with capabilities greater that those, why isnt it apparent then ? in a scenario like that one, it would seem as though it should be OBVIOUS that other civilizations exist since the universe would be jam packed with the evidence .Its similar to the "well , OBVIOUSLY , people will never be able to travel back in time , since nobody has come FROM the future yet". On THAT topic, i believe that its possible to "view" past events, but not interact with them or "be" in them. Also, its possible that if traveling back WAS possible, it has a short range, meaning that nobody has come because it can only go back 1000 years and wont be discovered till 1001 years in the future. etc. So although it doesnt prove either way, there are actually many things that would point to the "for some reason , we seem to be the only ones" ideology .
First off, did you read the article? There is life on THIS PLANET. This is one possible explanation for how we got here. I know you're super religious so you're gonna go into denial mode, but it's all good. You can believe what you want, but facts are facts. They found an amino acid in space. They showed how it could have possibly been created. You'll start to see more and more of this. Good luck with your 2000 year old science textbook, but we prefer to live in the present.
Anyway, your post appears to be "logical" only if you don't really have much of an understanding of what you're talking about.
If you were to travel at 1km less than the speed of light, you would not survive the trip. Not only would it take too long, a human body (or alien body, assuming that other lifeforms would be similar cell based entities) would not be able to handle the changes made to mass and space-time at such speeds.
For interstellar travel, there needs to be other methods than actually travelling the distance. You would need to bend space-time, presumably by manipulating the force of gravity (something that's being worked on at the moment and even publicly announced by Boeing).
With that out of the way, who are you to say that alien life is not apparent? It was pretty f*cking apparent to me 8 years ago when 3 very stereotypical looking beings were standing by my bed and "speaking" to me without actually speaking. Scariest shyt in my life. I've only told a few ppl about this, but I don't care about speaking on it here cuz most of you don't even know who I am.
My father used to be in the army in Iran (service is mandatory). He's witnessed UFOs on 2 different occasions. His first sighting is the more exciting one. In 1976, he says that he and the rest of the troops saw an object close by, hovering about 20m above the ground. They said it had different colored lights that allowed them to make out the shape of the object (it was night time). He said it just hovered there, without making any noise, for a few minutes before it lifted up and sped away. They called it in and it was tracked on radar. This is actually documented. Look it up. The air force tried to chase this thing.
My mother also experienced an abduction when she was 13 years old (mine was at 16, although I don't remember being literally abducted like she claims she was). She says she remembers being paralyzed and unable to scream. She claims they did something on her back before letting her go.
My sister is the only one in my immediate family who has no experience of this kind (that I know of).
Besides my family's personal experiences, there are tons and tons of events that ppl have reported. I would even argue that there is more evidence for UFOs than there is for God (which there is no evidence for).
The problem with the UFO issue is that there are so many crackpots that dilute the serious cases with hoaxes that it's hard to take most ppl seriously. I found when I tried to talk about my experience, I was laughed at immediately. It was almost like a knee jerk reaction. So I don't really talk about it with ppl I know personally anymore. I don't need that stigma.
One other thing I wanna mention is about why we may not have intercepted any alien transmissions. We are certainly blasting our signals into space. Why have we not picked up alien signals? One possible explanation is that none of the planets that are close to us support alien civilizations that blasting out these signals into space. You have to understand the vastness of not only the Universe, but also our own Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself is 100,000 LIGHT YEARS in diameter. We are near the edge of the galaxy. We've only been looking for signals for about 40 years. That means that we have not intercepted any signals from planets 40 light years away or closer. That's it. That doesn't even cover 0.1% of our own galaxy, much less the Universe.
I hope that gives you some sort of perspective.
I'm not even gonna tackle time travel because I'd be lying if I said I understand the physics required to even talk about the theories beyond random laymen speculation, which is what you're doing.
You can believe whatever you want, but acknowledge scientific research and don't voluntarily turn a blind eye to new information. Skepticism is healthy, but denial is not.
