It's rather unfair that we can observe all this shit, but will never get to know more that what we can observe via telescopes and other observation devices. I'm of the belief that faster than light travel is, and always will be impossible, so we are akin to a fish peering through it's fish bowl. Whats on the other side might as well be nothing but a pretty picture to gawk at.
I like the idea that you never
need to move faster than light, if you start toying with spacetime itself - warp drive. That's what
this project is hoping to find, at least at a microscopic level.
You don't need to move through space faster than light if you can move space itself.
What is really crazy is there are probably thousands of other life forms out there doing their own thing, hell with FTL travel but they probably don't even know about all the other life forms just because there's no practical way to just "get there".
Drake Equation.
That's looking at detectable signals. Not only would you need the included factor of civilizations that
can release detectable signals, but also then factor in the number of those that would
want to release them.
Maybe a civilization releasing signals into space is like a mouse wandering across an open field, wearing bright orange and banging cymbals together.
Large-scale natural selection rewards "quiet" civilizations by permitting them to remain out of view of predators. Loud, sociable ones like us draw attention, and are "selected."
That's just signaling. Then there's visiting.
"Yes, I
could develop this technology and go visiting, but I just can't be arsed to do it."
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