Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Case For Warp Drive


     Science is missing something; interstellar space travel can't be as impossible as they say.  That is, assuming aliens are here on Earth.
     That latter statement isn't an entirely silly assumption.  A heap, a hill, maybe even an entire mountain range of evidence exists for that assumption.  Sure, most of that evidence comes from freaky, flakey, very personal sources, but can it honestly be 100% wrong?  Airport radar contacts, exhaust burns in the desert, simultaneous sightings by groups of strangers, etc. - there's more to alien evidence than abduction stories.
     So, assume aliens are here, flying around probing, beaming, time-warping victims.  While we can also guess these activities are only a piece of the puzzle of alien activities, that subject can be saved for another time.  The question at the heart of this discussion changes; instead of 'if' or 'why,' we must ask 'how?' 
     This particular question is a big part of the skeptical argument against aliens.  How is it that aliens can cross the impossibly wide gulf of space and fail at something so simple as hiding from us hairless apes?   As fast as our own stealth technology is advancing, shouldn't those advanced aliens be completely undetectable?
     Let's apply a little Sherlock logic.  Given aliens are here, as hard as they might try they can't seem to stay hidden.  They may even have crashed a ship or two here on Earth.  This evidence tells us that their technology isn't infallable, or even a great deal beyond ours. 
     Conclusion?  Interstellar space travel must be far simpler than Earthly scientists believe.  If Earth's bumbling E.T.s can do it, surely it lies within our power, too. 
(Unless E.T. is holding us back...)
     Dear Scientists: please look a little harder for Warp Drive - it's only logical.

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