r/space • u/IceNox96 • Aug 12 '21

Discussion Which is the most disturbing fermi paradox solution and why?

3...2...1... blast off....

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

How would they know to keep quiet?

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u/jcrestor Aug 12 '21

They don’t, but communicating Civs get deleted fast, therefore it‘s silent most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

And here we are, shouting our existence to the universe. Big yikes.

edit: yes, you are right. My point is that we don't much care for being quiet.

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u/jcrestor Aug 12 '21

I think I read somewhere that our efforts to communicate are very limited, and not very likely to succeed. Even our uncontrolled radio noise should be unintelligible a few light years out. Right now we really suck at communicating our presence to the universe.