Laura Krantz

That was like a 10 day trip.

And that's the moon.

That's like,

so close in comparison with everything else.

So like time travel or space travel is just so enormous and such a huge undertaking that

Why would a civilization come here and then not make that entire journey and then not interact with us except for like, you know, one or two people?

I think that was kind of one of the big questions that came up during these conversations.

And the other one is, is that this one is sort of just blew my mind in thinking about time.

And I don't remember who said this, but they were like, think of...

Let's assume that there is life on multiple planets out there.

Think of a Christmas tree and a strand of Christmas lights around it that are blinking.

And as one light blinks on, another one is blinking off.

Think of those as being the civilizations.

And all these different civilizations are going to be arising at different times and then vanishing again.

And so the odds that two civilizations are A, going to be...

lit up at the right moment and then also come in contact with each other are so infinitesimally small.

That's just, I kind of like was like, Whoa, that's a really interesting way to think about it.

But if you think about like how old the galaxy is, how old the universe is and humans are alive forever,

Fractions of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that time.

So I don't know.