What do you think about aliens?

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

Here's some musings.

The time it takes to travers stellar distances (Even with something as exotic as an Alcubierre drive) will take years both 'Ship' and 'Planet' time.

Now..... think about the great ocean voyages of discovery.

Colonies were grown from parent cultures that, in part due to the tyranny of distance, changed and seperated from said progenitors.

Should we cast ourselves outward (As in Arthur C Clark's "Songs of a distant earth") then similar changes, both cultural and genetic, will happen.

So..... in time we may, indeed, cross paths with 'Aliens' and they will be us.

Cheers.