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My answer to the Fermi Paradox is that it seems to be human conceit that alien life intelligent enough for space travel would want to contact us. If our specie
by vivekd 9y ago
My answer to the Fermi Paradox is that it seems to be human conceit that alien life intelligent enough for space travel would want to contact us. If our species really is typical, there is no reason for them to contact us above the many other species. We don't go out of our way to make contact with every band of chimps in the wild, so why would species much more advanced than us be interested in contacting us?
- Diederich 9y agoI don't think it's just about whether they WANT to contact us. It's about us detecting them in some way, whether that detection is part of them contacting us or not. There's all the questions around how we would know what to look for, of course.
- pharrington 9y agoPerhaps we don't go out of our way to contact every band of chimps in the wild because we're not smart enough to detect or appreciate the ranges of behavior present in or capable of that species.