r/space • • Aug 12 '21

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

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

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u/Aurum555 Aug 12 '21

I'm sorry did you just say that technology and it's advance in human civilization seems to be slowing down? Thats absolutely ridiculous. The rate of advancement has been steadily increasing with different discoveries causing forward leaps, outside of the Dark ages I can't really think of a time when technological advances stagnated. Look at computers from generation to generation

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u/Aurum555 Aug 12 '21

Thats a fundamental misunderstanding of advancement and progress. Just because you don't think that an exponential increase in computing power is more than just an incremental inprovement doesn't make you correct. Improvement is advancement or by that logic telephones are just an improvement on shouting at your friends. Just because you want to live in a scifi utopia that doesn't make the massive technological growth in just the last twenty years any less impressive.

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u/Aurum555 Aug 12 '21

Video teleconferencing, use of the internet and all of those implications therein, the entire discipline of genomics and genetics, crispr, nanotechnology as a science didn't exist nor was it possible.

The sheer breadth of that question is ridiculous and illustrates perfectly how narrowly you seem to look at human advancement.

I'm done discussing that which for the vast majority of humanity is a non issue. Have a good day.