That wasn't the point of me saying that.

why should they go on net if they gave us internet?

Your post was saying that technology is progressing very quickly, and that FTL travel will be possible soon just because we're progressing so quickly. You were using manned missions to Mars as a hypothetical example of how far our technology will advance. My point is that it's a terrible example. Manned missions to Mars and FTL travel aren't even remotely close in terms of technological difficulty. Not even close.

Our focus would then shift to population control, feeding the starving, cleaning up the planet, etc. If humanity focuses on this kind of stuff rather than war, there wouldn't be a need to even hypothesize about colonizing other planets any time soon. And yes, there are huge amounts being spent on space exploration, but the budgets for NASA and the other space agencies around the world have been getting smaller and smaller for the last few decades. Before we can have any reason advances in space exploration, we need to begin funding these programs again. By the time the governments around the world realize that we need to colonize other planets, it will probably be too late.

Apart from how pathetic it may sound, Id say "Its possible. Why not? And who knows?"

No it wasn't. Stop assuming you know what a post means if you don't.

It was an example of how Space Travel and technology involving that is going to get more attention and funding which will speed that area of technology up from the already huge breakthroughs that happen every month or so,

But it was seperated from that point for whatever reason.

Did you even read your post? Your "manned Mars mission" example came before you mentioned anything having to do with economics, so why would anyone assume the two were connected? Regardless, you didn't even try to reply to the point of my post. FTL travel is thousands, if not tens/hundreds of thousands, of years ahead of our current technological level, no matter how much funding we give to our space agencies.

No it's not. You base it on what? Opionated bullshit? You have absoulutely no clue, so you make up a number. 200 years ago sending a man to the moon was "thousands" of years ahead of our technological level if you want to use that logic.

I base it on the fact that, to make a ship travel faster than the speed of light, you need a billion times the energy that has been ever created on the history of the Earth(I pull the "billion" out of my ass, but it's something like that). Sending a man to the moon was easily within the laws of physics(Albeit far ahead of the current level of technology). Even 200 years ago, the mathematicians/physicists etc. knew that traveling to the moon was completely feasible, although the technology wasn't quite up to snub. You can't really say "Oh, traveling a few hundred thousand miles 200 years ago was 'impossible', and that turned out to be wrong, so doing this and that soon is possible." There's absolutely no comparison.

Bad thread is bad and anyways if they did interact with our networks it would only be for shutting down our military systems so we couldn't put up much of a fight if we ended up being hostile upon them showing themselves to us