if there are alien spacecraft everyone should just note it will take literally thousands of years for the rest of the armada to arrive

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-alcubierre-warp.amp

Alcubierre drives won’t take 1000s of years hypothetically

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Yeah I’d be interested to set up a lab to do research on feasibility / prototyping and testing for viability of alternative propulsion technologies (including Alcubierre drives) in my life

Whatever the scale, it would be a remarkable coincidence if it was inside the 60 odd years we all have left on average.