Comment on The great silence or why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The answer is obvious, it’s just not anthropocentric, so no one bothers to think of it.
When you look out at the sky, you see the results of a universe engineered by an intelligent species. You can’t tell, for the same reason a hippo looking out at a nature preserve can’t tell they are in a curated environment that has been made to appear to them as natural as possible, set aside for preservation.
We are ants, farting into the cosmos, wondering why no one else farts back. To think that radio waves and visible light are the height of understanding and interacting with the universe, is on its face nonsense. We can’t even maintain homeostasis on a single tiny planet that started with the most perfect conditions a universe could ever have for us. Why oh why do the “brightest minds” think that we have the tools to communicate with or even observe those who traverse solar systems, much less galaxies or the universe itself?
Pure ego. Look at all the “great filter possibilities” people propose. They’re all “what if monkey forest, but bigger”. Sure Ken, the unfathomable universe is just “big monkey forest”.
But how does this differ from some God preserving humans for their own reasons or fairies doing it magically for that matter. Unknowable superhuman forces isnt a useful starting hypothesis for this question. After all how can it be tested? There doesn’t seem to be anything it proves or disproves.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Which theories for “the great silence” are currently testable? Which ones currently prove or disprove anything?
This theory is at least evidence based. If you’d like to know how it specifically differs from a specific theory, I’m happy to explain just like below.
The way it differs from some god or faeries preserving humans is that;
True, although given how little of the universe we are aware of I think the evidence can only grow. Thanks for the explanation.