• themoken@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Light speed is a “you must be this clever to participate” barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that’s all. Even if it’s not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      We can hardly plan 5 years into the future, let alone hundreds of thousands… It’d be pretty sad if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is too stupid to participate.

      • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        everyone is too stupid to participate

        if they are anything like us, its probably for the best.