If we really believe in scientific progress, then we must accept that, compared to some time in the future, our current understanding of the Universe is akin to people thinking the world was flat some time in the past.<p>Maybe the Universe's scale compared to our physical form has a purpose. Maybe it's intended to <i>not</i> be traversed physcally. Maybe that's the most obvious conclusion an intelligent life form might draw from analyzing it's scale ?<p>Maybe in the future we will understand it just like the aliens we're looking for did a long time ago - that the way to communicate in this Universe does not involve physical travel or physical signals.<p>Just look up some pictures of Pablo Amaringo - a shaman making drawings of his trips on ayahuasca.
Notice the 'aliens' and the galaxies and the the distant worlds that he is visiting while tripping.<p>Anyone who has been on powerful psychedelic trips would agree that there is a lot of stuff to explain there, besides just the brain reaction to a chemical. Stuff like traveling through time, out of the Universe, into the microcosmos, before and after life, etc.<p>People did this for thousands of years - they used terms such as 'spirits', 'beings' and 'gods' to describe who they made contact with.<p>But what if those substances are more than just intoxicants, what if they really trigger some unknown mind-space-time gateway which we haven't yet tapped scientifically, which makes space and time travel possible.
What if we could approach this scientifically and actually make these trips predictable and repeatable ?<p>What if the aliens are actually just high tech savages using advanced psychedelic drugs + mind machines to travel and explore time and space, while sitting in a forest around a fire ?<p>We should start exploring the inner space just like we are exploring the outer space. When will we see $100m invested in that ? :)