Mathematically speaking, ET would have found us by now -- if he exists -- so we're being consciously avoided for some reason, a new study concludes.

"We're either alone, or they're out there and leave us alone," mathematician Thomas Hair, with Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, told Discovery News.

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Hair, who presented his research at the Mathematical Association of America in Boston last month, based his approximation on what he considered to be extremely conservative estimates for how long it would take a society to muster up the resources and technological know-how to leave its home world and travel to another star. Even at the relatively sedate pace of 1 percent of light-speed, the

aliens would arrive at their nearest neighbor star in about 500 years.

Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.

Figure another 500 years to build new ships, set out again, and so on and so on, and the calculations show that civilizations starting out from the oldest stars in our galaxy would have had epochs of time to reach us by now. So where are they?

Yet another transparently dishonest and idiotic article from the mainstream media. ETs have found us, but our government institutions have chosen not to acknowledge that fact.  To read more, click here.