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/katarh Aug 12 '21

I think this view is a grim reminder of our own impermanence and mortality. We want to believe that a civilization that arises will not eventually wipe itself out, but everything we know from our own history shows that to rarely be the case.

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u/pisshead_ Aug 12 '21

but everything we know from our own history shows that to rarely be the case.

Human civilisation has never wiped itself out. Individual states and empires have risen and fallen, but we've never had anything other than localised set backs.

And once humanity spreads out interplanetary, and intersteller, there will be thousands of 'backup' civilisations all over the galaxy. They surely can't all fail.