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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 th
by 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 agoThat doesn't explain the absence of uncrewed space ships and probes piloted by AI, which had billions of years to get here.