The Fermi Paradox - Why we haven't been contacted by aliens

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

You dumb**** ! This nation is made up of Aliens !

[Marco Polo]

This was a great read. Wish you would've posted it in the Science is Cool page to be immortalized there.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by Marco Polo

This was a great read. Wish you would've posted it in the Science is Cool page to be immortalized there.

so instead of you and me reading it, absolutely knowone reads it? lol

[Easy 6]

"In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you we are not alone" - Charles J. Camarda, NASA astronaut.

"Of course the flying saucers are real, and they are interplanetary" - Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of Royal Air Force during WWII

"We must insist on full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination" - J. Edgar Hoover

[loochy]

that was a fun read

[Buck]

It's a mind****.

[Chief_For_Life58]

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

Yeah. After reading that and the stuff before it I thought, if we're the first, we would definitely claim everything for ourselves. We would be the predators. That's how it is now on Earth.

Then I basically surmised that if we were to be the big bully, if there was someone before us, they would almost certainly be the same bully.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by Buck

Yeah. After reading that and the stuff before it I thought, if we're the first, we would definitely claim everything for ourselves. We would be the predators. That's how it is now on Earth.

Then I basically surmised that if we were to be the big bully, if there was someone before us, they would almost certainly be the same bully.

the native american Christopher Columbus analogy

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Buck

Yeah. After reading that and the stuff before it I thought, if we're the first, we would definitely claim everything for ourselves. We would be the predators. That's how it is now on Earth.

Then I basically surmised that if we were to be the big bully, if there was someone before us, they would almost certainly be the same bully.

Its a trap. We lure them here, beat them up, and take their stuff.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

Even if we did-the signals we sent are still going. We will probably blow ourselves up before it reaches another species that would want to come investigate the origin.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

Why?

As a species, we're pretty ****ing horrible anyway.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

I'm with Hawking on this issue. It won't be ET aliens visiting us, it will be MIB aliens. Who is going to try to educate or be friends with such a backward society? On the other hand, we are intergalatic low hanging fruit.

[Chief_For_Life58]

are we ahead or behind the filter?

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

are we ahead or behind the filter?

I think it's possible that it's both. Maybe not "The Great Filter," but I don't see why there can't be multiple filters that kill 99.9% of life each time they are approached.