Are there Aliens?

Can we travel to stars? Is there another "Earth" out there that we can move to? Should we? Can we expect communication via radio (and/or) Visitation from aliens?

Quick answer; No....no, no, no, and....no.

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 only 43,000 years.

Eventually, rocket scientists foresee going 1/1,000th the speed of light...that's 186 miles per second. But... that would still take us 4,300 years to reach the nearest star and its' planets.

Ughhh.

#2. Even talking to our alleged ET "neighbor", via radio (going speed of light, or 186,000 miles per second) would take 8.6 years round trip message - assuming that there's radio-communicating life on the nearest star system.

So we can't even "talk" with them...let alone visit them.

#3.The odds of being life on any planets within 100 L.Y. of us are nil. Really nil.

Drakes equation* suggests....quite simply - that the odds of an intelligent, radio communicating civilization out there is immensely large... perhaps 99.995%.

A famous radio astronomer once said...."if only one in a million stars out there had life on it....and out of that million - if only 1 in a million....if one of them had intelligent, radio sending and receiving life on it...then the numbers of their existence - in our galaxy alone...is in the millions.

But that the odds of there being one - within our 100 LY range...is close to 0.001%. That's one thousandth of one percent.

As of 2021, we have discovered that there's about 70 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).

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

*[exoplanets.nasa.gov]

So... are there aliens? Perhaps, far away, if we could go hundreds or thousands of light years in an instant (worm holes? - a lame theory)...then there's good probability that aliens exist and we could meet them.

And they probably will look just like us.

But - are there any close by? No.

Not a chance in our neighborhood (100 LY).

And let’s not forget - the Cetaceans have larger brains than we have. Live a life of no money, no technology, no clothes, no school - quite happily. Who’s to say they’re not more advanced than we are?

[solstation.com]