Submitted 3 days ago by MutantTailThing@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
It’s wild people think:
Our nukes matter to aliens
Aliens would just ignore an actual threat
Aliens would ignore a planet that will eventually be a threat but isn’t one yet
The few centuries we’ve been noticable is enough time to feel confident no one is out there.
And still think they know more than anyone else and need to comment on it…
You put that a bit abrasively, but yeah.
That’s just the Dark Forest Hypothesis
Not quite. Dark forest says it’s dangerous out there, so everyone else is quiet. Not that we’re dangerous, but that we’re at risk by being noisy.
We pose no real threat to any other civilization, we can’t get to them.
It’s possible we’re being avoided because we’re loathsome in some way or various ways, but that’s not dark forest.
It’s also possible we pose a risk we don’t understand (disease, culture, loudness) so we’re avoided / quarantined, but that is also not dark forest.
More like Ostracized Planet.
CAUTION: EXTREME MEMETIC DANGER, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO ENTER THIS ATMOSPHERE. CRASH LAND ON ITS MOON’S DARK SIDE INSTEAD.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Just because you can come up with a plausible explanation for it doesn’t mean it’s the correct one. There are hundreds of similar theories that have already been suggested in the past - including this one.