Re: Star Travel ?

"Steve Silverwood [KB6OJS]" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:49:47 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>This is why, although intelligent space faring species likely abound
>>throughout the universe, we are never visited by any.
>
> I'm not surprised.  Even though I do believe interplanetary (and
> beyond) travel is possible, I can just imagine another species
> watching our news broadcasts and deciding that the people of Earth are
> too wacky to bother with.  IMHO, THAT is why we haven't been openly
> contacted by another species.  And I don't blame them a bit....

Interplanetary travel is possible. We do it all the time. Got probes on
Mars. Sent some to Venus. We even sent a probe to Titan. One visited
Pluto a few years back. We have effectively visited every planet in
the solar system and a variety of minor planets. We've even had return
samples brought back from asteroids.

Interstallar travel is something we started doing in the 70s, albeit
inadvertently. It wasn't the original intention that the Voyager
spacecraft last as long as they have, but alas, they reached
interstellar space a some years ago. Neither spacecraft are going to any
particular star.

Personal Opinion Zone

The universe isn't teeming with life just yet. Our universe is still
quite young. The picture will be different  20-30 billion years from
now.

Daniel
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