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Any civilization so primitive as to depend for its energy on radiation from a star is hardly worth detecting, never mind visiting.
by pencilguin 4y ago
Any civilization so primitive as to depend for its energy on radiation from a star is hardly worth detecting, never mind visiting.
- rendall 4y agoWhat are realistic alternatives? You're not talking about zero-point energy are you?
- pencilguin 4y agoAnybody not stony-planet primitive will have worked out aneutronic fusion. There is plenty of helium-3 in Neptune's atmosphere. And that is just stuff even a stony-planet primitive knows about.
- rpastuszak 4y agoHere's our solution to Fermi's paradox then. We're just so uninteresting, we're being ghosted by the entire universe! (come to think of it, this does sound like one of the proposed solutions, so we won't be able to call it "the pencilguin's theorem")