The answer to the Fermi Paradox is they are avoiding us.
@[email protected] They have their own “Prome Directive” and we are not ready for contact yet. The way we act, maybe never!
@[email protected] Three Body Problem has an answer.
@[email protected] I believe the answer can be found in the (new) Outer Limits episode ‘Final Exam’.
@[email protected] 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.
@[email protected] If they are around, and I still doubt that they’d spend the effort to visit this backwater, the obvious conclusion is exactly that.
@[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.
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] 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] either that or the filter is Orange and social media
@[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
@[email protected] I guess we won’t be having a “Day The Earth Stood Still” event any time soon.
@[email protected] I literally wrote that short story: