The answer to the Fermi Paradox is they are avoiding us.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com Isn’t there some saying about extra-terrestrial life intelligent enough to invent interstellar travel would also be smart enough to not come here?
Not by choice mind you. the speed of light is so slow compared to the size of the universe they don’t know we are here.
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If there existed a real version of Star Trek, would not the Prime Directive preclude a Captain Sulu from contacting a civilization as undeveloped, violent, and addicted to unrestrained capitalism as the present one on earth?
Better to let it progress or not on its own, as it attempts to explore a universe beyond its small star system. That could take some time, which would give the Federation - or the Klingons - more time to develop a suitable way of interacting with it.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com 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.
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Kirk obviously got there first.
Their women are ashamed, their men are pissed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com 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.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com 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
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Either that or they have the prime directive.
Ahead warp factor 9 past Earth, Mr Sulu.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com If they are around, and I still doubt that they’d spend the effort to visit this backwater, the obvious conclusion is exactly that.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com either that or the filter is Orange and social media
@georgetakei@universeodon.com Proof that there is intelligent life ‘out there’:
They got here, took one look, said “OH HELL NO!” and went home.
That’s the proof they’re intelligent.
