[BenLurkin]

"Artist’s depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy. The relatively short time it would take to colonize the galaxy forms the basis of the Fermi paradox." (credit: NASA)

"Relatively short"?

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[NonValueAdded]

Can you imagine the glo-ball warming in the center of that swirl!!!

[sig226]

Relatively silly is more like it. Suppose the space people lived in a system relatively close by and they had faster than light travel. Where would they go? They would go to places that offered them something they wanted.

Does our system have something they want?

Who knows what they want? Perhaps some other system has more of what they want, so it is more profitable for them to go there than to go here. I can't imagine that interstellar travel would be cheap. It's a major failing of Star Trek - where did the Federation get the money to pay for all of that stuff?

Besides that, the ability to travel faster than light implies the ability to control light. If Captain Korg of the Klingon Empire was tooling around Venus and Juputer, we would never know about it.