We assume(d) that for life to flourish on other planets, it would need similar conditions to ours. I.e life would need (1) oxygen (2) sunlight (3) water. But discoveries of life that thrives deep under the oceans, where sunlight cannot reach, inside vents that spew sulphuric acid has thrown that theory into the scrap pile of narrow postulation. Life it seems, can take many different guises and thrive in all sorts of environments. Which suggests that there could be all sorts of weird and wonderful life out there in the universe.
You don't necessarily need to break the speed of light, an alien civilisation could've cracked wormhole technology
I'm not sure if ppl have paid much attention to this at the end of MIB but it's quite profound and I expect if aliens exist, the situation is more like this... Except I expect it'll be more like some creature opening their fridge, discover a chunk of cheese (basically our universe) they'd forgotten about yonks ago, has gone mouldy, pull a face, say "ew!" and basically chuck us in the bin. Anyway I believe in God, creation, the works and we have no idea what other dimensions we cannot even begin to understand are out there.
Caveman probably couldn't have begun to understand electricity, but if you could travel through time and take a babe in arms and bring it up in our world/time it would take electricity for granted. But if you took an adult Kustard back in time to the Stone Age, he'd still be the dunce in the corner.
Worst type of ****s are them who go all ‘yeh but then how did...yeh but then how...yeh but then’ until they stumble across a ‘yeh but what about’ that you can’t answer because the question was just pathetic in the first place that there is just no point in it because ultimately, there is no way to disprove some of these things either, it’s just a case of what you are able to comprehend and possibly digest in life
Some of the stuff quantum physicists are taking seriously nowadays, is ****ing mind blowing. Multiverse Theory, Super-Determinism, Entanglement; this is not the work of cranks, all this stuff has credibility in senior academic circles. Add to that the proven existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy (we still don’t know what they are, but we see the effect they have on light), and you would actually be a fool to dismiss anything in science or nature as impossible.