(February 15, 2015 at 7:48 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(February 15, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is a matter of perspective. I am struck by how far apart things are. The distances in space are almost unimaginable.
It is one of the reasons there is little chance that beings from one solar system will ever visit beings from another one, unless the two solar systems collide.
It depends on how long-lived the traveling beings are and their motivations. The times involved in the evolution of solar systems and any resultant life forms is what makes the meeting unlikely. One would likely be so far evolved over the other, there would be no significant commonality at all. No reason to meet.
If I had the technology to visit beings in other solar systems, I certainly would not waste my time visiting earth.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
