Shatner has some interesting views on the topic of alien life. Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Super Festivals
The immortal Star Trek actor called into question the idea that aliens would travel all the way to Earth and then 'hide'.
We've heard from a lot of prominent figures involved in space, science and UFO research over the last week or two regarding the recent subcommittee hearing on UAPs and now legendary Star Trek actor William Shatner has joined the fray via an interview with NewsNation.
"You mean, some highly intelligent being goes 10,000 light years with advanced technology, arrives here and hides ?" he said, branding the idea "ridiculous".
"It doesn't make any sense. If they're going to make that journey all the way here, it just beggars the imagination that they would hide and make it, like, 'Peekaboo, I'm here, no I'm not.'"
"I mean, what could we want more than to realize that there are other life forms in the universe that have the same yearnings," he added.
"What's the universe about? What's after death? I mean, the monumental questions would abound, and they would be asking the same questions, but they're not here."
"If they were, they would make their presence known."
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Hi, OS. How helpful do you really think it would be to go twice the speed of light? It would still take you 50,000 years to cross the Milky Way. We need to find the short cut, is what we need
It's a theoretical problem so who can say, really. But I assume that at twice the speed of light, you could go twice as far as light in the same amount of time. C = 300 million m/s ; 2C = 600 million m/s
But in theory if you actually travel at the speed of light from your perspective no time would pass and you would seem to appear instantly at your destination. So if you travel twice the speed of light what would happen? But of course the theory is that nothing with mass can even achieve light speed according to current understanding of physics.
Only the parts they find. In 1978 a DC-8 ran out of fuel and crashed into my city leaving a half mile line of destruction as it smashed through trees. People building a house near the crash site twenty two years later dug up fragments of the aircraft. It's impossible to remove everything.
So you're saying Roddenberry (as a representative of our species and our current level of intelligence) could figure out it would be a good idea, but a highly intelligent species could not do the same in millions of years. Yeah, makes sense.
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