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Is the Universe a Dark Forest Full of Aliens in Hiding?

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  On the other hand, what if the aliens have their own Federation of Planets but they lock the doors on their UFOs every time they fly past our solar system? "Prime directive, man... just keep warping; don't make eye contact..." (on the gripping hand: Asimov, "The Gentle Vultures" 1957)
• bediger4000 3y ago
  I take this as the boldest soft reveal of the discovery of SETI ever. Most of the soft reveals we've seen so far have been "ingredients of life found in $X", where X has values like "Mars sedimentary rock", "Titan atmosphere", "Ice volcanoes on Io", "atmosphere of exoplanet imaged by JWST".
• simonblack 3y ago
  No, the Universe is a vast desert with the nearest village about 2000 years trek on foot away. Our lives are too short for us to survive long enough to reach that nearest village. We can never reach that village. The villagers from there can never reach us. The aliens aren't hiding. They're just too far away from us. They're also too far away for us to hear them, or for them to hear us.
  • hollerith 3y ago
    That doesn't explain the absence of uncrewed space ships and probes piloted by AI, which had billions of years to get here.