So, seeing a bunch of astrophysicists saying that they don't believe NHI has visited, we don't see any signs of life out in the universe currently, the question of the Fermi Paradox, etc. But with Einsteins theory of relativity and how we, as humans observe the universe through photons and wave lengths, doesn't it make sense that we aren't seeing any signs of life because what we're seeing in the sky/through our current tech is the past? The information we are digesting from these planets and systems is traveling insane distances just to reach us, so what we currently observe is not what's happening relative to that observation. If a civilization was 500 million light years away from Earth, and then tried to view the Earth with our exact same tech we're currently trying to use to discover life, wouldn't they be viewing an Earth that's 500 million years in the past? Basically, aren't our current methods of detecting life like going back in time to the 1800's to try to find an iPhone? And wouldn't it also make sense that this is why random NHI tech would/could be appearing out of nowhere? Because relative to them, they already advanced however much in their relative time, but to us their planet could look like an empty rock? Wouldn't it also make sense that if a civilization had the ability to travel space, they could also travel faster than the speed of light, which would make them practically invisible to us unless they stopped and slowed down for some reason? I kinda feel like the answers for their not being any other life in the universe from these scientists are also extremely close minded, which is strange coming from the people who are usually pretty open top things. Couldn't lifeforms traveling faster than light everywhere around us be how the universe is teeming with life, and the only ones we see are the ones who make a pit stop on the planet for whatever reason? Deer can't see or really understand cars at night zooming past them on the highway, but when we stop, they see/understand. Then freak out and run away. I mean, doesn't that sound familiar? I don't know. It just seems like it would make sense that we can't see anything outside of our own solar system when it comes to detecting life because of the distance of space but then having what could be NHI appearing all over the place out of nowhere. But what do you think? Maybe there's people here who understand relativity more than me and I am just completely misunderstanding it. submitted by /u/New-Pressure-6932 [link] [comments]