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If aliens are advanced enough to come all the way here and hide pretty well, how are they not advanced enough to not crash all the time?
by rgrieselhuber 4y ago
If aliens are advanced enough to come all the way here and hide pretty well, how are they not advanced enough to not crash all the time?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoDerelict spacecraft? I don't believe it, the odds against it are astronomical, but derelict spacecraft are a popular sci-fi trope.
- sammalloy 4y agoAlso, we’ve crashed numerous probes at the end of their lifecycle into many of the objects in our own Solar System. If an interstellar probe from a civilization like our own completed its mission, would it also be programmed to self-destruct itself in a similar manner? I think it’s a highly unlikely series of events, but there is a method to the madness.
- tiborsaas 4y agoMaybe they are suffering from floating point math too and rounding errors added up :D
- exitb 4y agoThis is more like a remote, uncontacted tribe "discovering" other civilizations via trash that washes up on their shore. Given enough scale, this wouldn't be an unlikely event. Who knows, maybe the universe is littered with bits and pieces of ancient Dyson spheres.