Man, screw the Star Destroyer; what I want is that classic T-65 he’s left rotting right in front of it! Do you know how rare they’re getting now that the T-70’s been out for a while? It’s gonna need some work, certainly, but the value of classic Galactic Civil War-era hardware is only going up, and I reckon actual,…

Amen x 1000.

There's going to be a lot of words written about this trailer. Analysis and frame by frame and all that good stuff. But I only need to say one thing.

I love that this trailer knows the real money shot:

Is there life elsewhere in the universe? More importantly, is there life elsewhere in the solar system?

In all seriousneess: Life outside of Earth, but that'll be a pretty popular answer, I assume.

Are we alone?

Either way I fell hard for a well played troll trap, or I stumbled yet again into the wonderful dissonance of io9. Regardless, live long and prosper!

As much as i appreciate the thought you've given the subject, i was really just making a joke about the incredibly stupid plot of Star Trek 5.

A book came out a few years ago that said the Roswell incident was actually a crashed Soviet vehicle. I never heard anything about it since then, so I'm not inclined to believe it, but it's still possible that a lot of the UFO investigations involved actual classified military shenanigans.

Aw man, but he knows we know, but does he know we know he knows that we know he knows we know?

will expose a long-standing government conspiracy

I'm sad that we lost the Arya-Hound buddy comedy, but we seem to be in good hands with Tyrion-Varys!

I agree, unfortunately. People that assume alien life must be able to reach us at some point are assuming that A) alien life will find a way to violate what we currently understand as the laws of physics and B) alien life will somehow be immune to the flaws that will ultimately render us a historical footnote.

This. "Materials to form a planet" does not necessarily mean "materials to form life". According to our current scientific understanding, it took a billion years after the formation of earth for the first life to appear. And we had the benefit of 10 billion years of materials "settling" in the universe. It's entirely…

Even without all those arguments, theres another factor of time people rarely bring up in all this. Civilizations die. Species go extinct. A civilization lasting 5 million years is nothing to this universe. Two space-faring species existing in the same localized area of the galaxy at the same era of time? Getting more…

Earlier this year, astronomers came to the realization that terrestrial, Earth-like planets began to emerge as long as 11.2 billion years ago, a mere two billion years after the Milky Way formed.

"it would mean that all alien civilizations would have to find space too big to bother with, or that interstellar space travel is technologically unfeasible. Neither is likely true."