Unless I’m missing something, the chances of intelligent alien life seem pretty good. The next question is: How do we summon them to Earth to bring space communism and/or anal probing?
you cant go faster than the speed of light and the speed of light is too slow.
This is the real problem. For any meaningful contact to be established, an alien race would need some kind of wormhole/warp technology, and the fact that no alien race has established contact with us yet is (in my opinion) pretty damning evidence that such a technology is not possible.
They’d have to have a general interest in exploration for exploration’s sake, which I think is a reasonable assumption for intelligence. By the time they get to space, there’s just so much abundance in the stars just around your home that - what would be the point of exploring for more resources? They’d have to also have some interest in exploring just because.
