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What if we decide to invade what seems to be small civilization, and it turns out to be a colony of a much larger civilization or alliance? What if it's a honey

What if we decide to invade what seems to be small civilization, and it turns out to be a colony of a much larger civilization or alliance? What if it's a honeypot? Maybe the best strategy is to make as many allies as possible expecting that some day that would increase the odds of surviving a hostile contact with a other civilizations or other threats... Our understanding of life and the universe is limited. Our current version of the Drake equation is really off, and we do not have an answer to the Fermi paradox. Collaborate or compete are usually context sensitive decisions. The best thing to do is bounded to our understanding of game theory, which is a field full of open questions.

Arizhel 10y ago
>What if we decide to invade what seems to be small civilization... What if it's a honeypot? A plot twist like this would make a movie like "Avatar" very interesting: humans invade a beautiful moon with a seemingly backwards indigenous civilization so they can steal its natural resources, it turns out it's a honeypot (or a protectorate) of some far more advanced civilization, which then decides to wipe out all of humanity. I think this would be a great movie, though there wouldn't be a sequel (at least not one with any humans in it).
Myrth 10y ago
Drake equation always bothered me when used in argument of contact probability, because it doesn't take into account time. Yes, there might have been billions of extraterrestrial civilizations, but that doesn't mean there are currently ones that 1) already can communicate or receive EM waves, and 2) not yet deprecated use of EM waves. Oh and there's also speed of light issue.
Cookingboy 10y ago
If you actually read the trilogy I mentioned, by "elimination" the author doesn't mean an invasion. The advanced races literally manipulates laws of physics to its extreme to remotely wipe out star systems without ever exposing themselves. The methods range from rudimentary ones like turning the star of a system nova to god like ones like dropping the dimension level of a region of space from 3D to 2D. Yes, it's a fantastic series of reading :)

Arizhel 10y ago

>What if we decide to invade what seems to be small civilization... What if it's a honeypot? A plot twist like this would make a movie like "Avatar" very interesting: humans invade a beautiful moon with a seemingly backwards indigenous civilization so they can steal its natural resources, it turns out it's a honeypot (or a protectorate) of some far more advanced civilization, which then decides to wipe out all of humanity. I think this would be a great movie, though there wouldn't be a sequel (at least not one with any humans in it).

Myrth 10y ago

Drake equation always bothered me when used in argument of contact probability, because it doesn't take into account time. Yes, there might have been billions of extraterrestrial civilizations, but that doesn't mean there are currently ones that 1) already can communicate or receive EM waves, and 2) not yet deprecated use of EM waves. Oh and there's also speed of light issue.

Cookingboy 10y ago

If you actually read the trilogy I mentioned, by "elimination" the author doesn't mean an invasion. The advanced races literally manipulates laws of physics to its extreme to remotely wipe out star systems without ever exposing themselves. The methods range from rudimentary ones like turning the star of a system nova to god like ones like dropping the dimension level of a region of space from 3D to 2D. Yes, it's a fantastic series of reading :)