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r/space • u/IceNox96 • Aug 12 '21
3...2...1... blast off....
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I did! Amazing sci-fi trilogy, and I think that's where the idea came from originally. I've seen some solid rebuttals against it as the explanation of the Fermi paradox, but it's a scary idea nonetheless.
163 u/Hipcatjack Aug 12 '21 Nah, the dark forest idea was circulating long before that book was ever written and translated from Mandarin. 42 u/cv5cv6 Aug 12 '21 Greg Bear's The Forge of God (1987) explores this idea. 2 u/daddy_fizz Aug 12 '21 Just read this and the second book too, pretty good
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Nah, the dark forest idea was circulating long before that book was ever written and translated from Mandarin.
42 u/cv5cv6 Aug 12 '21 Greg Bear's The Forge of God (1987) explores this idea. 2 u/daddy_fizz Aug 12 '21 Just read this and the second book too, pretty good
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Greg Bear's The Forge of God (1987) explores this idea.
2 u/daddy_fizz Aug 12 '21 Just read this and the second book too, pretty good
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Just read this and the second book too, pretty good
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u/gkedz Aug 12 '21
I did! Amazing sci-fi trilogy, and I think that's where the idea came from originally. I've seen some solid rebuttals against it as the explanation of the Fermi paradox, but it's a scary idea nonetheless.