Dr. Brian Keating

hyper-intelligent alien civilization has a bigger planet so they can fit more stuff on it.

Well, then you have this problem that the bigger planet has much higher gravity and it makes it even less likely that they have the capability to get off the Earth's surface.

You know, the SpaceX, you know, Starship, it uses like 90% of its energy, its fuel, just to get, just to launch, let alone to traverse the galaxy, which we haven't been able to do.

The farthest object mankind has ever sent is

is beyond the orbit of Pluto.

But by light travel time, it's only one light day.

So if you shined a laser at it, it would take a day to get to that spacecraft called Voyager 1.

And it was launched when I was a baby 50 years ago.

So you talk about like this incomprehensible size of our universe and how paltry a distance we've only been able to explore.

And then you think about, well, could there be aliens that are, you know, have all these properties?

I liken it sometimes to almost like a religious fixation that, yes, Jesus can do anything, you know, or God can do anything.

It's omnipotent, omniscient.

etc.

But then when you start saying that the aliens can manipulate gravity, it's almost giving them godlike powers.

Because if they don't have the ability to actually warp space-time themselves, then they have to use the tools that nature or god gave them, which is just the same as we have.

So you'd have to have massive black holes.

You'd have to have incredibly sized planets.

You'd have to have

the ability to transcend the speed of light.

So these are all things that are literally supernatural.