Could we actually fight a war against an alien race?

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superchunk said:

Your statements are so full of crap and easily contradicted by studying the vast differences of life on our own planet.

1) 99.9% of life found on this planet is carbon based. However, we have found life we thought couldn't exist in deep sea sulfur vents that are sulfur based.

2) Big Bang started at a single point and spread out over an endless vacuum of space. This means that solar systems/planets closest to the point of origin would be vastly older than systems further out. I would put a very large wager that we are not near the center meaning that there are countless societies that exist that are far older and more advanced that us.

3) Additionally, looking at the history of our own planet... humans from the America's were vastly behind in regards to technology and weapons as compared to humans in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East when they came into contact. Why would you think life forms on different planets would be similar?

4) There is WAY too much out there for it to be remotely conceivable that Earth is the only planet with not only life, but intelligent life. If I was given trillions of trillions of dollars, I could guarantee a winning ticket in every lottery game in this world.

5) Even from a religious perspective it seems illogical that a omnipresent God would create such a large canvas to only put life on one part of one pixel.

The only real argument anyone can make is whether or not anyone can develop a capability to travel across the great distances between star systems and galaxies in the first place.

Great post! Especially point 2, which I wanted to address myself.