[Dion]

Originally Posted by troutman

This is pretty much how I feel about it. The distances are too great for other civilizations to be visiting us. And it is almost impossible that they would look remotely like us (ex. two eyes, two arms, two legs, etc).

http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../2003/04/58359

Then again, maybe not. A new paper by University of Utah physicist Lior Burko, building on earlier work, raises the possibility that black holes may not annihilate everything, and that the potential for hyperspace travel is still open.

"One possibility is that black holes may allow us to travel to very remote places in the universe, or another universe entirely," said Burko in a telephone interview from his office in Salt Lake City. "It depends on the topology of the universe, which we do not know very well.... I'm not arguing it's a practical thing to do, but maybe in 1,000 years from now, maybe it would be simpler."