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The Fermi Paradox: Reasons why we havent been visited by Aliens
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I was always of the opinion that the universe is just too big and everybody is just too far away from each other and we don't live long enough.
You send a radio signal, even if somebody gets it and responds there's a good chance your species will be extinct (or the message will have long since been forgotten about) by the time the signal has time to travel thousands of light years.
You send a radio signal, even if somebody gets it and responds there's a good chance your species will be extinct (or the message will have long since been forgotten about) by the time the signal has time to travel thousands of light years.
mc_brew
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the great filter is intelligent life goes nuts before it ever gets to be intelligent enough to be a type II civilization.....
BelowTheMasonDixon
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GOAT tier thread back
i love stuff like this, take this rep, OP
agreed, thats almost as crazy as soaring the skies in giant metal birds or watching people in other nations on magic talking boxesYou're telling me that maybe we could terraform an entire planet in 300 years
That's insane, we would have to create a magnetosphere, create and pressurize an atmosphere, somehow deal with the fact that Mars has less than half of Earth's gravity, the reoccurring dust storms that would block out the sun a week at a time, and the fact that Mars' average temperature is the same as Antartica's. We have theories of how we could do this but they require a stupid amount of energy. We can't even solve the energy crisis here and we're going to have enough to pack up and remodel another planet?
things that would have been called the devils work in the 1700s 
TheDarceKnight
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Great read. I studied this a bit before and not sure what my intuition is in terms of how far we are along with the great filter or some of those other possibilities.
I do agree with Stephen Hawking that I think it's a bad idea to try to contact other intelligent lifeforms. There's no evidence to indicate that intelligent life doesn't have some level of inherent compulsion to violence, especially against lesser creatures. The Columbus example is a good one, and I think that if smarter and more powerful entities found us that they would be far more likely to harm us than to be some sort of benevolent kind beings.
If we are behind the great filter, then sadly I don't think it looks good as a species. I've long since believe that the rate technology is advancing combined with our inability to live peacefully with each other and this planet is going to force us to either quickly figure out how to come together in harmony or else face extinction at some point in the next few centuries.
I do agree with Stephen Hawking that I think it's a bad idea to try to contact other intelligent lifeforms. There's no evidence to indicate that intelligent life doesn't have some level of inherent compulsion to violence, especially against lesser creatures. The Columbus example is a good one, and I think that if smarter and more powerful entities found us that they would be far more likely to harm us than to be some sort of benevolent kind beings.
If we are behind the great filter, then sadly I don't think it looks good as a species. I've long since believe that the rate technology is advancing combined with our inability to live peacefully with each other and this planet is going to force us to either quickly figure out how to come together in harmony or else face extinction at some point in the next few centuries.
this shyt still blows my mind
Red Shield
Global Domination
Thought about that.. and there might be a far better reason.. we haven't been visited
Concave Earth Theory – The Wild Heretic
because there is no need to.
then again you you might be right
BelowTheMasonDixon
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Thought about that.. and there might be a far better reason.. we haven't been visited
Concave Earth Theory – The Wild Heretic
because there is no need to.
then again you you might be right
I've been drinking a bit so I'll go over this tomorrow but what exactly would it imply if the earth is actually concave?
Red Shield
Global Domination
Bunch of stuff.. but think about the kardashev scale....
a type 3 or maybe type 2 civ wouldn't have a problem creating a world sphere.
This world sphere would serve as a science lab or womb or ark or maybe all three. I think it adds up..
Hell wouldn't even matter if human beings peaced ourselves out... more of us could always be produced by this civilization.
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
Capitalism is the great filter
How do you become an advanced civ when you can't even have a just society?
Aliens will either have a socialist society or be an industrial slave society Where the masses are kept in line by surveillance and drone terrorism. We're on our way to that 
How do you become an advanced civ when you can't even have a just society?
Aliens will either have a socialist society or be an industrial slave society
Where the masses are kept in line by surveillance and drone terrorism. We're on our way to that Capitalism is the great filter
How do you become an advanced civ when you can't even have a just society?
Aliens will either have a socialist society or be an industrial slave society
