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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Then one must accept that there are earth like or other potentially life sustaining planets in the Milky Way Galaxy that are billions of years older than our own. You gave an estimate of 300 million stars in our galaxy, that is interesting because my sources of references say that earth-like planet(s) containing stars alone number that amount. And our star is just one of several sequence stars, some of those sequences having a much larger probability of developing than our own star (which, given it's location in the galaxy would have a very low formation probability if one accepts the solar nebulae theory).
Don't get hung up on the speed of light number. It is a number which has meaning only to us. Astrophysicists speculate on a potential "dark matter" in the galaxies and universe (though it could instead be a force that we have not yet figured out). Beings that have understood that matter or force and figured out how to use it aren't working by the rules that we are, so the speed of light would likely be somewhat meaningless to them, they could potentially travel multiples of that speed and do things with light that we have no concept of.