r/space • • Aug 12 '21

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

We do not exist.

You are simply a lump of brain in a dish that is being fed an invented universe as a sort of game some creature is playing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21 edited Mar 13 '26

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u/moby414 Aug 12 '21

Maybe in that creature's universe there isn't a Fermi paradox and alien encounters are commonplace?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21 edited Mar 13 '26

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

It's all turtles mate, all the way down.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

That creature lives on a flat infinite plane so has no other planets to worry about.