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"Civilizations smart and advanced enough to collapse entire dimensions but too dumb to move past the need to compete for planets by parking themselves off to th
by snakeyjake 3y ago
"Civilizations smart and advanced enough to collapse entire dimensions but too dumb to move past the need to compete for planets by parking themselves off to the side of a black hole and harvesting energy from its relativistic jets" is so stupid.
Every time a seemingly intelligent person takes the dark forest hypothesis seriously I am dismayed. The only answer to the dark forest is: FTL is impossible and we are presently incapable of detecting ourselves at a distance of 4 LY so there is a 0.0% chance of detecting anything beyond that.
- idontpost 3y ago[dead]
- rbanffy 3y ago> we are presently incapable of detecting ourselves at a distance of 4 LY You don't need to detect a civilisation. All you need to detect is a planet hospitable to whatever biology suits you. That said, our detection tech improves relatively quickly and we might be able to directly image rocky planets before this century is over. It's safe to assume that, if there is someone curious enough to look for planets with biosignatures or technosignatures that has been perfecting their craft for thousands, or millions of years, by now they must be very good at that.