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Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics. Another theory th

Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics. Another theory that doesn't require a great filter: The distribution of life may not be equal across the galaxy if it's truly random, we could be in a local minima and never meet another civilisation by the bad luck of where we are.

sjcsjc 7y ago
"by the bad luck of where we are" Or perhaps the good luck of where we are
BurningFrog 7y ago
> Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics. Never thought of the practicalities of that, so thanks for bringing it up. I think you're overstating things. Sure, they wouldn't be able to watch the Superbowl at the same time or hold elections in the same decade. It would be a very different and slow moving kind of civilization than what we know. But I don't see how that means it can't exist, in some form.