The answer to the Fermi Paradox is they are avoiding us.
@[email protected] Three Body Problem has an answer.
@[email protected] since there isn’t any intelligent life on Earth, no reason to visit. It would be like humans traveling to a dump in Bangladesh to make contact with the fermented contents of a diaper.
@[email protected] The only thing that makes sense for alien sentient species to do is to trade intellectual property, and perhaps entertainment content. Traveling at or near speed of light may not be possible, but sending information is rudimentary. I bet they would enjoy watching Star Trek episodes a great deal, and I wonder what types of technology they would trade for each episode/film…
I agree, however surely if they were say 100 ly away they would detect our world as it was in 1924, as light would have taken 100 years to reach them.
@[email protected] makes sense to me
@[email protected] 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
I’m pretty sure the reason they haven’t made contact with us is because we’re made of meat.
Source: Terry Bisson, April 1991 (OMNI)
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
@[email protected] Welllll… why are we studying lemurs, fungi, asteroids, cockroaches, jellyfish, bacteria, horses, ball lightning, cloud formations, rocks, seaweed, and basically everything else there is to see?
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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!
@[email protected] 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?
@[email protected] 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.
@[email protected] 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.
