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The closest star is faint little point in the skies and is Proxima Centauri at only 4.24 light years away.
It’s difficult to conceptualize such vast distances, but a popular analogy sets the Sun at the size of a grapefruit. If you wanted to get from your grapefruit-sized Sun to a grapefruit-sized Alpha Centauri system, you would have to travel about 2,500 miles, which is about the distance from coast to coast on the continental United States. And that’s just to the Sun’s closest neighbor!
One light year is very roughly 6 TRILLION miles, so just 28 Trillion miles and that is just the closest star. Most likely the closest intelligent life is going to he hundreds of light years away. Why would any life form travel billions of trillions of miles to come shove probes up Bubba and Skeeters butt out in the woods, but not say hello to the Earth. Don't they have a MRI, X rays and CT scans? And why come at all? There are literally countless worlds out there. Nothing super special about our little world. There are billions just like it most likely.
Yea, I really hope I live long enough to see any real proof of extraterrestrial life, even bacteria. Intelligent life will be kinda scary. If they can travel the interstellar distances we will seem very quaint and backwards. I sure hope they are like Star Trek and just want to help.
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Glen
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