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Are you sure we haven't been visited by anyone yet?
I just saw the Time Machine last night and there were gaping flaws with the movie - the first being that there was no attempt at all to explain exactly how the machine works (at least there was a working theory in Back To The Future - I'm beginning to think that the more Hollywood becomes obsessed with CGI, the less emphasis is put on writing); the second being his half-hearted attempt to save his girlfriend after one attempt; and most glaringly, his decision to destroy the machine instead of zipping back in time and living back in the late 1800's, where he would be more comfortable. If the pull was his new love interest (the cute Eloi), no emphasis was put in the development of their romance. If it was his having his being disillusioned either by technology in general or his wanting to escape his old world, I didn't see any development in that either. It was a CGI show based on a very good HG Wells book.
By the way, I'm one to believe that time travel is possible. I also believe that if we were to do so, one of two things would be inevitable: a) any form of time travel (whether it be by converting molecules into a radio or light particle that can travel back in time and can reach its destination via a "beacon" which will capture its signal) will assuredly alter one's physical structure - i.e. you take a risk of becoming non-human or ceasing to exist at all. or b) you successfully reach the past or the future - considering you can't alter "mainstream" time because if you go back into the past in which you weren't born yet, you create an alternate reality where the "present" you exist in a "past" timestream, while in "maistream" time, you don't exist yet at all - you in fact, create a divergent time stream (ala Mephisto in Marvel's Universe X) - in doing so, you create a double universe. Each trip in time (especially in the past) creates this "photocopying" of the universe, doubling or tripling it in size. Enough of this is guaranteed to do some major damage to the universe (like putting plates on top of one another - eventually, the plates will be crushed on top of another). Someone earlier had mentioned in this string that scientists have already identified molecules roaming around us but are unseen to the naked eye - this may be the proof that there's an alternate universe existing at this very moment - how many alternate universes can our universe handle before we are destroyed?
In any case, there are my two cents. You may now commence in bashing my theories.. <smiles>
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