Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly

Post by jdenning » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 2:32 AM UTC

leppr wrote: post #60

givan wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you still think the earth is flat? This is how it sounds when you try to ridicule something that you don't know or probably don't want to know for various reasons, you should read more on the subject with an objective mind.

I think the comparison with dragons is appropriate. Religion and talk about hell and demons was in-vogue at the time so dragons fit in well with that. Why did aliens wait for us to develop advanced technology before manifesting themselves, and why did they stop now that smartphones and google-earth are common-place things?

> Why did aliens wait for us to develop advanced technology before manifesting themselves, and why did they stop now that smartphones and google-earth are common-place things?

The Prime Directive? :D

Post by hyperpallium » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 10:13 AM UTC

reasonattlm wrote: post #18

No answer to the Fermi Paradox works if it requires all aliens to uniformly come to the same end state or satisfy some boundary condition without exception. All it takes is the one exception, one small group in one suitably advanced civilization, and you have self-replicating probes building an expanding wave of computronium, dismantling even the stars themselves as soon as the economics favor a better use for that m…

Reminds me of how some animals were domesticated several times, and some only once, because they spread with technology (cats, I think). So, whether alien computronium reaches us before we start our own depends on hsppenstance, of who happened to start first.

PS: Sorry; accidental mobile downvote when trying to upvote :(

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