While noone can answer this question (yet ), why don't you just help to find out ?

Data to answer this question is being taken from here since quite a while :


To be more precise, from its 90ton heavy Transceiver :


To analyze the Data, just Download and Install BOINC SETI (based on Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, still part of the global SERENDIP Project)


http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

This is about what it will look like to answer the question (using the default Software) :


In the future, Data will also be aquired from here :

(Parkes Observatory, Australia)

Hmm Seti @ Home, is cool, I know it, my neighbours have it also, I'll be installing it later today FalconFly.

my nodes are:

Dual OpteronDP CG 244 1800Mhz
Pentium4 HT E 3400Mhz
AthlonXP 2700+ 2167Mhz
K6-2 500 @ 550Mhz.

I suppose the K6-2 is abit on the slow side

I believe we're alone.

haah I guess, well at least there isn't any Death Star's in our Space .... woops, sorry to scare you lads

nice stats FalconFly w00t!

On a slightly related subject, go watch a really great Sci-Fi film that is one of my favourites...

CONTACT 8)

I hope light speed tech nology will come soon, so space travel will be possible, though theoretically lightspeed is a possibillity @ 300.000 KM per seccond

so 300.000 km per second x60 = 18.000.000 km per minute that x60 = 1.080.000.000 km per hour.

so light speed would be equivalant to:

1.080.000.000 Kilometres per hour  farout!

So Ionpulse technology would be required.

Well Ion Pulse acelleration is at least an improvement:

http://www.zuko.com/Sci-Tech/space_technology.htm

As the xenon gas is fed into the engine, it is ionized (given an electrical charge) and is then accelerated to a speed of about 68,000 miles per hour.   When these emitted xenon ions are shot out of the back end of a spacecraft, they will
push the craft in the opposite direction at a constantly increasing higher rate of speed.


so 68.000 mph is not bad though, but it's no where near the speed of light, maybe nuclear pulse maybe needed who knows.

anyway I also do believe there is life on other worlds and maybe more advanced than us, I always have a feeling we are being explored, not the UFO's not that idea but by launcing probes and so on.