I think any civilization with technology capable of traveling light years to see us would understand this principle.

OP's notion is irrelevant. If one can bend time and space then one can go anywhere at an instant. Wormholes... Blackholes.... Stars...

It wouldn't matter if ancient photons reached someone at the other end. You could go back and forth a millions times before even one photon made it half way.

maaaaaaaaaaan

Legit this has my mind going.

They haven’t come to visit us because they do not exist.. every UFO sighting is an advanced military aircraft been kept under wraps since God knows when maybe ancient Egypt?

What fucking military were flying around ancient egypt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_hieroglyphs

Anything is possible. Why do you think there is such a huge conspiracy to keep everyone misinformed

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Anything is possible. Said the man who excludes Aliens from anything.

that has been debunked. same with the star wars speeder hieroglyph.

http://members.tripod.com/~A_U_R_A/abydos.html

Not saying the claims are wrong, but they don't source a single claim they make, nor reference any such other instances of these archaeological "typos." I'm just as skeptical of this explanation as I am of the one that claims it's a helicopter.

i know the article i linked is lacking. this is just what i could quickly find during my lunch break. I'm sure there are better ones out there. i'll look again later today to find one with more substance to it.

No worries, and it wasn't at all a criticism of you, just the source! Truly I have no dog in this race and on top of that, don't know what to make of it all. Certainly interesting either way.

Certainly interesting either way.

very true. i'm not sure what to make from a lot of aspects of ancient history. the only thing i can really say for sure is that mainstream archeology has made a plethora of errors in rebuilding the timeline of human history.

Definitely. I've found Graham Hancock seems to take an honest stab at the non-canonical side of history, but even he falls short due to lack of concrete evidence. He does a fair job at working with the given information however.

Lol.. Keep it real yo.

They might want to try some lovely dolmas.

I think if they visited us you would never know. They would infiltrate the highest levels of government conspicuously, then slowly over generations subvert society to give themselves leverage. Once the power and economic structure of the world was set, they would take full control; but I doubt they would ever reveal themselves. Instead they would alway keep the people fighting amongst themselves, blaming each other and the leaders who have the highest visibility for their problems. The people would be controlled and ideologically enslaved as the alien invaders take advantage of the resources of the planet.

Hmm, sounds like déjà vu.

Oh wait....

Maybe.

Although when humans want trees, we don’t infiltrate a pack of wolves and manipulate their financial markets. We just go fucking take the resources we want. Wouldn’t it make sense that a highly advance species would just take what they want?

Yes, but I think they would minimize waste and maximize all resources, including the people.

But do we outright slaughter the wolfpack along the way or do we allow the wolves to (mostly..) exist as we take what we want?

One of the best stories I've heard was that Tesla was testing one of his inventions. The "Death Ray".

It was about Vibrations and the such.

Well he pointed it into space and started causing a real havoc. Which was instantly followed up by mass sightings on our planet.

Look into it. It's weirdly coincidental.

Sure there was a nuclear program being researched. But I prefer to think Tesla destroyed some Alien civilizations on accident and they have been watching us since.

Supposedly he began receiving transmissions from what he thought was aliens in 1899.

Yeah, that part of Tesla's life is probably the most interesting for me.

look into it

Eddie Bravo is that you?

That's why the dinosaurs are extinct. They saw that shit and said, "aw hell no, nuke those ugly things."

Hahaha

the resolution would be too distorted to make anything out

Maybe they don’t follow same science and physics they do, or they receive light as instant speed.. like they have technology that see light exactly how it is, even lightyears away.

Once you think of science as just a way we as a people explain things, and not actual concrete facts. I think the possibility of anything opens up to you and your mind. Science is just our future prediction based on what we’ve observed in the past. I don’t think everywhere in the universe has to apply same science we do, or same logic, language etc.. our science is limited based on language and how we can explain things. I’m sure somewhere else in the universe it’s completely different based on elements, gravity, language.. information needed or wanted.

http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/universe/20130115_radio_broadcasts_f840.jpg

Heres a graphic showing how far our radio signals have traveled into the Milky Way in the last 200 years.

Upvoted for an truly humbling illustration of the truth behind a widespread misconception.

Although: 200 years since we began broadcasting? I think this is an error. Radio was certainly not invented during the Regency era! What's happened is that broadcasting began ~100 years ago, so the broadcasts have propagated across a diameter of 200 light-years (i.e., 100 years is the radius).

ahh thanks for tpicking that up

Dinosaurs roamed the earth 65 million years ago. Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across. We are gravitationally bound to our local group of galaxies which consists of around 30 galaxies all with 10 million light years from us. Space outside of this local group of galaxies actually expands faster than light. If we can only ever travel as fast as light, we will never be able to reach anything outside of our local group of galaxies. Eventually, advanced life billions of years from now wont even know of the Big Bang or the universe outside of their local group glaxies, if our understanding of the universe is forgotten. Anyways, my point is, if there is advanced civilizations looking at our planet within our Milky Way galaxy right now, then they'll be seeing anything from 100,000 years ago to one year ago. Crazy if they saw early man, sent a message and we got it and sent it back, that civilization we responded to would have dramatically evolved or died off by then.

Legit this has my mind going.