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I don't deny that we see things we can't identify. I also don't discount alien life (I'll bet the universe is full of life). I don't know if space-aliens are running around here tho. It's probably us, somehow. Who knows for sure tho.

I can tell you that it's one hell of a distance to the nearest star from our sun. And nothing that we know of can travel faster than light.

Need I remind you that the Enterprise did hit Warp 15 once?!
 

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I don't deny that we see things we can't identify. I also don't discount alien life (I'll bet the universe is full of life). I don't know if space-aliens are running around here tho. It's probably us, somehow. Who knows for sure tho.

I can tell you that it's one hell of a distance to the nearest star from our sun. And nothing that we know of can travel faster than light.

The only things there that (A) allow UFO nuts a glimmer of hope, and (B) permit science fiction credible enough to fall within the limits of suspension of disbelief is that (C) nothing that we know of is self-limiting, and (D) the notion of wormholes, no matter how far out the concept.
 
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OTOH... there's cancellation of the Higg's field...............;)

...which in turn led to the cancellation of Star Trek.

Actually, lest I give the impression I have any idea of what you're talking about, I passed out shortly after reading this sentence, had to be revived with oxygen:

In particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is the process in which gauge bosons in a gauge theory can acquire non-vanishing masses through absorption of Nambu-Goldstone bosons arising in spontaneous symmetry breaking.
 

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.In particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is the process in which gauge bosons in a gauge theory can acquire non-vanishing masses through absorption of Nambu-Goldstone bosons arising in spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Yawn.. beginner stuff!
 

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I don't deny that we see things we can't identify. I also don't discount alien life (I'll bet the universe is full of life). I don't know if space-aliens are running around here tho. It's probably us, somehow. Who knows for sure tho.

I can tell you that it's one hell of a distance to the nearest star from our sun. And nothing that we know of can travel faster than light.

Nah, a mere four light years. Even if we can only ever get to 0.5C we'll be there in 8 years. Of course, there's the fact that there are probably no Earthlike planets orbiting Alpha Centauri despite theories suggesting it's more likely there, so really it'll just be a sightseeing tour. But still, it's nice to get out once in a while.

Also, given the number of stars and number of galaxies and theorized number of planets orbiting their stars in the Goldilocks zone, the odds that there isn't life out there as next to nothing as makes no odds.
 
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