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One thing a lot of people fail to consider when it comes to the topic of stuff like interstellar travel is the fact that there might, in fact, be hard limits to what can be done with technology. There is no law saying that organisms must be capable of interstellar travel. There seems to be this common assumption that literally anything is possible with enough time and technological advancement, but there is no reason to think this is true. People say stuff like "well, we also didn't know how to fly through the sky!" but the kind of obvious difference there is that we at least knew "things flying through the sky" is a thing that can technically happen and it was just an engineering problem for humans to do it. The same doesn't really apply to stuff like interstellar travel. Some sort of sub-light-speed, extremely inconvenient travel may be possible, but anything that would allow an organism to freely travel among the stars is no different than magic. I think that it is very possible that the huge advancement in our knowledge and technology in the past couple centuries is largely a result of there being a ton of "low hanging fruit" so to speak related to learning about stuff like electricity and the various technology that enabled. I'm sure that there's still a ton of new stuff for us to learn and invent as well, but that doesn't mean we'll somehow figure out how to make everything we currently believe to be impossible possible. If you look only at the time period since the "modern" scientific community has existed, it isn't really that common for something commonly believed to be completely upturned. Sure, we find out we were wrong about stuff, but there's a difference between (for example) "the properties of ____ are different than once believed" and "_____ doesn't even exist." We aren't going to learn some day that most of what we take for granted in fields like physics or medicine is completely wrong. All this being said, the existence of other life, including complex/intelligent life, is very likely. The same building blocks exist throughout the universe. So even if we haven't seen it, it's entirely reasonable to think that it probably exists. The same can't be said for any of them being capable of interstellar travel, though.
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