Quote (ThurgoodJenkins @ Aug 5 2010 11:22pm)
Many cultures predicted a new era, not the end of the world as many people portray. Anyways this is when I think aliens will present themselves to us.
doubtful
the amount of technology required to cross the galaxy in a single life span is un imaginable to us atm, and if a alien race were to be able to achieve this feat would mean there hundreds of thousands if not millions of more years advanced then us. They wouldent come present them selves to us because there would be no point, they would simply observe us with robotics cause the amount of energy required to send robots into space is significantly less then actual life forms, why do you think we send probes to Jupiter and not humans?
let me put it in perspective.
Imagine a ant hill next to a 10 lane super highway, the ants go about there daily business not knowing or understand what the highway is completely ignorant to the huge mass of technology and innovation 20 feet away from there home, and we humans dont go to the ants and try to explain to them what its purpose is and how it works because its useless the ants wouldn't understand, humans just simply sit and observe the ants not trying to communicate with them.
in this analogy the ants are humans and the humans are the advanced alien race.
Aliens wont present them selves until we reach the comparable intelligence of what a dog is to a human, at least then some sort of communication could be exchanged