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The author raises an interesting question in his notes - human nations & races have for much of human history distrusted each other & gone to war. And yet we b
by steveBK123 4y ago
The author raises an interesting question in his notes - human nations & races have for much of human history distrusted each other & gone to war. And yet we broadcast our location and welcome out into the cosmos assuming that alien species will be benign and friendly!
- joshuahedlund 4y agoIMO that fact is actually a pretty strong reason to doubt the dark forest hypothesis as a serious explanation for the lack of observable aliens. If we've broadcast ourselves to each other for thousands of years and now even to the universe, why should we expect that every single other civilization out there is consistently doing the exact opposite?
- steveBK123 4y agoArguably we've only been broadcasting outwards for something like 50 years, so the message hasn't gotten that far yet. There was a plot element in the book about using a technique to broadcast a message more strongly than terrestrial antennas alone. A spoiler alert another plot element in the book was that it wasn't just the one way broadcast, but a response & counter-response that allowed distant aliens to determine distance and direction. So I wouldn't quite say its disproven.