The answer to the Fermi Paradox is they are avoiding us.

  • Patrick@noc.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com To be fair, can were blame them? We either look like free labor or proverbial insects to annihilate on one end of the spectrum or probably seem horrible primitive, uncultured, and barbaric (as a species) on the other side.

  • huntingdon@mstdn.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    If there existed a real version of Star Trek, would not the Prime Directive preclude a Captain Sulu from contacting a civilization as undeveloped, violent, and addicted to unrestrained capitalism as the present one on earth?

    Better to let it progress or not on its own, as it attempts to explore a universe beyond its small star system. That could take some time, which would give the Federation - or the Klingons - more time to develop a suitable way of interacting with it.

  • Dud on my feet@mas.to
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Isn’t there some saying about extra-terrestrial life intelligent enough to invent interstellar travel would also be smart enough to not come here?

  • Pxtl@mastodon.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com okay but what about the other aliens? And the other other aliens? Why should we assume there’s only one alien group? And that they’re homogeneous over endless space and time?

    Would every single alien ever for all time agree to never ever contact us?

  • Urzl@mastodon.social
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Our memetic infections are probably more dangerous in the long run than our physical infections and they cross freely between minds even if our biology is incompatible.

  • Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    I so dislike it when people allegedly friendly to my ideology take it for granted that the other side defines humanity. Yes, there’s a lot of awful in us. There’s a lot of wonderful, too. Let the other side say we’re crud. Let’s not say it about ourselves.

  • RolandOfGilead@mastodon.acm.org
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com earth could be a nice place to grow plants and raise cattle. Kinda like how we keep screwing around with the Arab countries cause we want their oil.

  • AnjaJune@chaosfem.tw
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    11 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Welllll… why are we studying lemurs, fungi, asteroids, religions, cockroaches, languages, jellyfish, music, viruses, ball lightning, cloud formations, rocks, seaweed, food, and basically everything else there is to see or imagine?

    My solution to the Fermi paradox is: they’re cringing at our ceaseless churning-out of increasingly desperate and speculative solutions to the Fermi paradox. :P