19th March 2005, 4:39 PM
Well, I don't think it'd be physically impossible for them to have ever visited us. I mean, let's say they had been 'space capable' for hundreds of thousands of years. If their technology was sufficiently advanced it's more than possible. Hell, if they were able to travel at just half the speed of light, it'd only take a mere 20 years to get here from one of the nearby stars. Of course, with each further star away that figure would grow exponentially. Though, that's not to mean that it couldn't happen. Billions of years is enough time for millions of different paths of evolution to advance sufficiently to become space born, and indeed build a gallactic empire, then eventually die off again.
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!