General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Of course, I think there is another explanation and the universe is much older and like Hawkings wrote about, is not the only universe.
Now, back to our disagreement. The points that you made do not dismiss my basic premise. Even our galaxy, earth-like planets can have age spreads up to 5-6 billion years. Our planet is approximately 4 billion years old and is expected to perish at around 8 billion years old. The location of our sun and earth is probability wise not an optimal zone for star and planet formation, there are other zones in the galaxy that are much more favorable for formation of the same sequence star as our sun. There are approximately 100-400 million sun sequence stars and an untold number of earth-like or life (in some form) containing planets, with billions of years in age between the oldest and youngest.
Both of us are making assumptions, yours seem to be that beings that are from planets billions of years older than our own won't develop knowledge that we are still hundreds of millions of years from understanding. My assumption is that time alone is a major factor and that simple development of beings, if they are intelligent, would produce advanced capabilities over billions of year, even in the case of intelligent species succession. The first species that discovered us could have long ago perished and newer species that have developed advanced knowledge compared to our own have reached us over the millions of years of our existence. So the same species is not necessarily visiting us on loop.
So, here we are in a standoff, both of us making assumptions and projections from the standpoint of what we know and what we believe is possible, yet neither of us are seers. I will leave it at that.