Are we in a technological arms race with aliens?

>>9130999
Such an endeavour would require generation projects; building huge spaceships person by person in space. Such a spaceship that could use momentum to generate artificial gravity.
Prolonged space travel...Check.

Sustained fusion.... spaceship ecology..Check.

Only until we obtain fusion, so that we can give each spaceship a starting seed of a few atoms, could we spread the seed of ourselves into the universe on carfully chosen trajectories.

>>9131031
>could we spread the seed of ourselves into the universe on carfully chosen trajectories

You know they're going to include Negro DNA.

Shit, if an AYYY finds it, they'll think it's a bio weapon and they'll send relativistic missiles our way.

good news. even with currently theoretical FTL travel. the galaxy is still too large to make it likely that intelligent life would come across intelligent life by anything but the most random happenstance.

it no FTL is possible ever. Then we will never find intelligent organic life. though we might accidentally come across artificial intelligence that was created by organics millions of years ago.

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>>9131387
>it's another "dumbass doesn't know you can travel between stars at sublight speeds" episode
I hate reruns

>>9131398

To be fair, unless you've got a location clued in with intelligence life (radio), you'll probably never bump into intelligent life with a generation ship.

>>9131398
It's slow and takes lots of energy. The chances of finding any intelligent species are small, the chances of detecting radio or something and arriving there before they blasted themselves with bombs into extinction minuscule, and the chances of something like a galactic civilization (or just a few dozen star systems) given the limits of light-speed in travel and communications infinitesimal.

>>9131398
You absolutely cannot travel to distant galaxies at sublight speeds though. Andromeda and the local dwarfs are the limit

>>9131425
You totally can, though. Travel at extreme relativistic speeds and pray a stray hydrogen atom doesn't rip your ship in two and it'll be a relatively short travel time from your perspective, sans millions of years for the rest of the universe.

>>9131430
No, its literally impossible. Anything past our local group is expanding away from us faster than we can cross the distance

>>9131380
>Not having awesome resistance to the sun.
Will help inside a Dyson Sphere.

>>9131425
Some applications of the Drake equation place the number of alien civilizations in the Milky Way in the hundreds, so aliens or their probes might not even need to leave their galaxy to meet us.

>>9131435
>what is warp drive?

>>9131520
A hypothetical technology that only works in select physical models not widely accepted in the scientific community and often requires exotic materials and/or ludicrous amounts of energy.