I’ve actually read a great deal on the Fermi Paradox and posted about it already:Doombrain wrote:This is a road to nowhere, but...xer0s wrote:First of all, it may not be “life” as we know it. More than likely a super advanced alien species would send out enormous amounts of probes and drones, opposed to going themselves, mainly because it’d be much easier.
Secondly, the enormous size of our galaxy also comes with an enormous timeline. A civilization one million years older than us could have easily colonized or established the entire Milky Way by now.
So,
a) why not come here and fly around? They could theoretically have an infinite number of probes to send out to monitor millions of planets.
b) why not be seen? What do they have to gain from sneaking around?
There are billions of Earth-type planets in our galaxy. Any resource needed could be found without 'sneaking' around here unless they exist in the local region, say 1'000'000ly. If that was the case, and they could visit, we'd have had better proof than your standard BW grainy images.
Another major pain in the ass for people who believe we're already in contact is there's no reason to visit as we have nothing to offer and if there were super civilised they wouldn't allow us to detect them, 'prime directive' in sci-fi n shit.
Personally, I believe there are millions of civilisations in the Milky Way but none of them makes it to interstellar travel before they are wiped out by a natural or random event. We only have another two billion years to crack FTL travel before our sun starts going nova, that's if we're not wiped out by a thousand natural events or ourselves (as cheesy as that is (USA USA USA)).
Fermi Paradox bro.
https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/pro ... mi-paradox
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50553&hilit=Fermi
Again, I don’t think they would need to sneak around for any reason. And I doubt they would visit for resources. It could just be the equivalent to a galactic library probe. Maybe they just want to have records of every planet worth tracking.
As far as not allowing us to detect them, again that goes back to trying to guess their motive, which is virtually impossible. Prime directive is an imaginary concept humans created. Do we try to hide from ants?
I agree, most probably don’t make it to “advanced” stages of intelligence due to getting slammed by meteors and having to reset their technology. But we can’t be certain all have been stuck in lower level advancement.
I guess what I’m getting at is that there are an endless amount of possibilities. And to just brush it off and say for certain there are no visitors (drone or biological) seems to be a little short sighted.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe most of the sightings are bullshit. But there’s no reason to believe some, no matter how small a percentage, could be legit.
tl;dr For the most part I agree with you, but I can’t completely dismiss it because the possibilities and unknowns are too great...
