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

  • Pxtl@mastodon.social
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    8 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?

  • Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place
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    8 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.

  • Urzl@mastodon.social
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    8 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.

  • Scott James™ ✅@toot.community
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    8 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com I have it on good authority that when aliens’ GPS accidentally steers them into this neighborhood, they roll up the windows, lock the doors, and step on it at Warp 9

  • The Animal and the Machine@mathstodon.xyz
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    8 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com
    This to me was one of the aspects of the Star Trek Prime Directive. Not just protecting minority culture but also avoiding it until it can get on the highway and you really can’t.

    Anyway, let’s keep working for the betterment of humanity!

  • bluGill@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Not by choice mind you. the speed of light is so slow compared to the size of the universe they don’t know we are here.

  • Dud on my feet@mas.to
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    8 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?

  • Patrick@noc.social
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    8 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.