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If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out? (lemm.ee)

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What do you think would finally be their, "Enough, we gotta say something!" situation?

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Put another way, what might serve as a cosmic icebreaker?

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[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I agree about the Dark Forest hypothesis. Also the idea that other alien life just knew to be quiet up front is silly, for the same reason we've been blasting radio waves into the universe the moment we figured out how.

Nah, us being first is scary to me in the sense if life is nearly impossible to form, and we're all alone, that means we can search planet after planet, after planet and only find dead lifeless environments. That's not nearly as fun of a thought as the universe being full of life, and all the amazing discoveries we'd make exploring. That's all I meant.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah the DFH makes no sense. It requires that all forms of nearby alien life exist, but either choose to be completely silent (somehow) without knowing that other life exists, or to have found out that other life exists and chosen to be silent before broadcasting literally anything decipherable.

[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I know it's so damn frequent that Occam's Razor gets trotted out, but in this situation, I think the simplest explanation is probably the most likely. Life developing in general is insanely rare in the universe, and there is no law that states that life HAS to evolve into intelligent life that would develop technologies, and space travel.

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