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Great thread idea. One of my favorite resources is Isaac Arthur's Youtube channel/audio podcast, where he makes long-form videos breaking down the science behind insterstellar travel, building superstructures/massive, interstellar projects, and he also spends a ton of time on the Fermi Paradox. Each video can be 45 minutes long, but you get clearly organized videos that walk you through the theories, the scientific principles under-girding them, and even the calculations needed to make it happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPj5zI66LA The short version of his outlook is that he's an endless, Utopian optimist about the possibilities of mankind in space, but also makes very convincing arguments to the effect that there is no real answer to the Fermi Paradox other than intelligent life being ridiculously rare. edit: link fixed! sorry. Zoph fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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Lightning Knight posted:Your link gives me an error, just FYI. Thanks, should work now.
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Any galactic civilization, far more likely than not, would still be incredibly energetic, giving off heat radiation, radio waves, etc. Even if we can't see what they are building, doing, or saying, there would be tons of evidence that things are doing stuff. It's kind of why "dark forest" solutions to the Fermi Paradox don't really work, because by the time you realize that there might be consequences to the information your civilization is sending out into the universe you have already sent out a fuckton of it.
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Trainee PornStar posted:I've only read the 1st one & only vaguely remember it, wasn't that something to do with escaping a war by going to a universe with less dimensions? If I recall correctly the idea is a malevolent civilization fucks with our instruments from afar so we get confusing conflicting information about the nature of things and we're caught off guard when they invade. Zoph fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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