It isn't about if life exists out there or not.  The question is does the possibility of any intelligent life besides us existing that can reach us and the answer is no.  You will never travel faster than light,  mark my words.  So unless your life expactancy is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and you don't mind spending it on a space ship (probably all of it) than maybe...still just a maybe.  That is alot of shit and food you better pack.  If you start bring up stupid folding the universe to get from point A to point B quicker you might as well bring up fluffy ninja turtles in space,  its still one of the more far fetched theories around.  I follow current laws of physics and no one has arrived here and we haven't gone anywhere.  It will stay this way.  Maybe one day I will be proven wrong lets hope.

Truly amazing. Vy Canis Majoris is scary in size.. and that's just the biggest star that we know of.

And to answer Teslas question about the Solar system... the diagram is showing how big each of the planets are in relation to the sun, not the actual solar system itself, however, there are stars that are *gasp!* bigger than our entire solar system. Kinda scary.

And to think that each of the stars listed above are only in our galaxy, truly speaks for the size of the universe.

Using simulations, scientists have determined that atleast 10,000 "intelligent" species should be in our universe. And that was using a simulation with a very glum outlook on intelligent life. The question is not... do aliens exist, but rather when we will meet with these aliens?

We have actually recorded something moving 10,000 times greater then the speed of light.

From the May 2009 issue of Discover Magazine:

In 1997 University of Geneva phsicist Nicolas Gisin sent two entangled photons zooming along optical fibers until they were seven miles apart. One photon then hit a two-way mirror where it had a choice: either bounce off or go through. Detectors recorded what it randomly did. But whatever action it took, its entangled twin always performed the complementary [opposite] action. The communication between the two happened at least 10,000 times faster then the speed of light. It seems that quantam news travels instantaneuosly, limited by no external constraints-not even the speed of light. Since then, other researchers have duplicated and refined Gisin's work. Today, no one can question the immediate nature of this connectdness between bits of light or matter, or even entire clusters of atoms.

Hmm....very interesting. Thanks for answering my questions.

Lol, from the star trek: The next generation - Where No One Has Gone Before, it was said that in 3 centuries of space exploration they only have mapped 11% of the galaxy

and that is just the milky way

This is... amazing...

Think of the possibilities...

If we could reproduce this phenomenon in travel, the galaxy will open to us.  Billions upon Trillions of worlds at our fingertips. 

The strength of mankind, its ability to last until the last days of the last stars, will be defined by moments such as these.

That's actually be a lot, since there's something like a hundred billion stars in milky way alone iirc

If there are a hundred billion stars in the milky way and it took them 300 years to map 11% of the galaxy then they mapped a bit over 100 000 stars each day

(on average that is)

actually there are methods of traveling faster than light, they are just outside of our current capabilities. 1st, there is "warp drive" basically its warping space around a veicle to create forward motion. the greater the degree of fold, the more energy you will need but the farther you will go. Ths will most likley be the ultimate form of travel in the far future. 2nd there are wormholes, its still a form of warp drive, but the wormhole will be doing the work instead of the ship. wormholes can be setup so that giant gates create and maintain them, or so that shps create them as neccessary. finally there is the warp bubble, ala the Alcubierre drive, this is also a form of warp drive, but involves creating a buuble of warped space around a ship, thus allowing it and whatever else is in the bubble to move faster than light. i dont know which technology will bring us to the stars first, but i cant wait for the day.