The answer to the Fermi Paradox is they are avoiding us.
@[email protected] Isn’t there some saying about extra-terrestrial life intelligent enough to invent interstellar travel would also be smart enough to not come here?
@[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.
Earth is the Galactic version of that bad neighbourhood you try not to go to, and if you have to drive through it you do it with your doors and windows locked, and never after dark.
Either that or they have the prime directive.
Ahead warp factor 9 past Earth, Mr Sulu.
@[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?
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.
@[email protected] either that or the filter is Orange and social media
@[email protected] I literally wrote that short story:
@[email protected] well it’s already been established that apart from an accident back in 1957, aliens will basically avoids us until April 5, 2063 😉
@[email protected] I believe the answer can be found in the (new) Outer Limits episode ‘Final Exam’.
Yeah, Stephen’s got a point. We don’t play well with other races.
