[Serious] Atheist Dogma

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

But as far as "aliens" sorry. I can agree other intelligent life exists in a universe of trillions of galaxies. But outside of communication, time and distance and the physical energy to overcome those distances to see other life person to person, is out of reach. 

So. This is a thought I feel I must disagree with.

Take, for instance, the 1950's and 60's development of the 'Brute force atomic Orion'. A design that could easily conceivably reach Alpha Centauri A or B in about fourty years (Note you can 'Shave' years off if you only want to send the ship 'One way' and don't actually want to slow down when you get there. Much like getting the probe out to Pluto.)

So.... had people built the thing back then? We'd be getting laser pulsed pictures back roughly now of our closest stellar neighborhood.

So, if you add in 'Angagethics' as proposed by Niven and Pournelle, then a species whose only problem is ship time boredome could, conceivably and slowly spread out through a galaxy simply given enough time.

It's one of the 'Problems' for the Fermi paradox. Given the age of our galaxy. The 'Young' age of our Earth and Humanities time on it. Where are the 'Older' space faring civilizations that 'Could' be around?

Cheers.