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Sweets are bad for you.

How does it... doesn't it positively influence cognitive processes?

Time, as we understand it, our system of chronology, the clock face, applies only to our planet and even not to all of its dimensions, and therefore it is just as much nonsense as Darwin's theory. Nothing has been proven, but everything has been canonized. Humanity has not fully explored its own planet; how can it possibly explore the universe, especially with its limited understanding of time and its concepts? And time itself is an ambiguous concept in the universe.
As for aliens, our world is just one of many. And all sorts of... non-locals are wandering around.

There is no possibility of interstellar travel; it is fundamentally impossible, so even if someone else exists, we will never meet.

Stop, they are actually possible. Comets from neighboring star systems sometimes fly to us. The question is, if it is impossible to travel within a reasonable time, many civilizations will say something like "we found some fools" and will not fly beyond their star system. And there will be few of those who do, and the chances of meeting them will be small.
But in general, it is difficult to say. At the moment, all this is science fiction, and it is simply impossible to reason about this topic seriously.

Off the top of my head, 95% of my favorite sci-fi series have at least one episode dedicated to either a "generation ship" or the deep-freezing of the crew for the hundreds of years it takes for the ship to travel to some remote corners of the galaxy.

deep freezing the crew for those one hundred years

Something about this seems familiar to me.

It reminds me more of one of the episodes from Babylon 5, about the ship "Copernicus". We also remember what happened there, right?

Yeah, it's actually pretty cool in the long run. Although, again, in 95% of cases, this crew is thawed out by their descendants:
- Hey, Captain, there's some weird thing flying around!
- Maybe it's alien?
- Nah, there are letters on its hull, and even an American flag!
- Wow. Hey, who's our history expert?
- Me.
- Look out the window.
- Wow, it's that very ship that our primitive ancestors sent to explore the vastness of the universe hundreds of years ago! And there's probably a frozen crew on board!
- Let's thaw them out! What could possibly go wrong?
- Exactly! And we'll have fun watching them adapt to modern realities!

By the way, something similar happened in Babylon.

if traveling takes an unreasonable amount of time

Has anyone ever wondered if Mr. Einstein might have been wrong?:smile26:

I told you, he's a fanatic, and they're all against science.

Guys, I flew to Venus, and it's raining there.

Acidic?

Carrot

No, just regular ones. Lots of rain, and I got my boots and jacket wet. Want to go together next time?