"Chris.B" <chris.b@mail.dk> wrote in message 
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On Aug 29, 10:43 pm, "HVAC" <harlowcampb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Putting your kookiness aside for a minute, consider this:

ANY craft traveling past say 50% light speed would be
visible across 1/2 the galaxy at least. The X-ray emissions
alone would mark it as an alien craft.

Where are the trails?

Putting your flattery aside, you are making the common mistake in
believing that present knowledge is the sum of all knowledge.



Where did I say that?





We can
only see our scientific beliefs as surfers riding high on the broad,
constantly advancing wavefront of present knowledge. The wave rises
ever higher with each passing second but it seems to show no desire to
topple and crash and dissipate onto some unknown shore.




Metaphors about crashing waves nonwithstanding, I ask again
for proof. Since nothing in our universe can travel faster than
light and you claim that aliens have visited earth, I ask where are
the X-ray emmissions from a craft traveling a good percentage of C?

They should stand out like a beacon that says, 'Here We Are'









Nothing is
truly written in stone until we reach the end of time and of the
universe. Each generation thinks it has command of its facts only to
be surprised by some chance discovery. The basic science may not
change fundamentally but new understanding can turn our everyday
practices on their heads. For example; microgravity may unearth subtle
new insights which will have far reaching consequences for us all. The
leading scientists of every generation have shown a remarkable
blindness to advancements which even laymen can hardly believe today.
Yet their exalted status at their height would have the world believe
they were the real experts about absolutely everything.

I place my hope and trust for human advancement not in the hands of a
few geniuses but rather in the exploitation of ever larger numbers of
good minds as they are released from the burden of poverty, survival
and lack of education. Only when the full potential of every member of
the human race is finally unleashed for the greater good, rather than
the empty profit of a tiny few, will we finally reach the stars.
Before that we don't deserve to escape form Earth's gravity and would
take our unjust, acquisitive aggression with us. There is still a very
long way to go judging by the present miserably small numbers of human
beings actively involved in the advancement of human knowledge for its
own sake. Most of us are far too busy just surviving to have any
excess energy left for the great dream of expansion beyond our own
atmosphere.