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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. If there is other intelligent life out there,

Reply to Oeditpus Rex (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:39 PM

Oct 13

or ever has been other intelligent life out there, the odds are astronomically high that we will ever contact them.

Most people simply don't understand how vast the distances are between stars, that the speed of light really and truly is a limit to how fast we can go.

And there is zero proof of any kind that anything from elsewhere has ever landed here.

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