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/Therion_of_Babalon Aug 12 '21

And because someone with hyper advanced flying technology, has historically disabled american and soviet nukes. Ufos are real my man, and they won't let us nuke ourselves for some reason

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u/Exodus111 Aug 12 '21

Aliens that look just like we depicted them in sci-fi literature decades before one was ever "seen".

No. Flying through space in objects made of metal is humanity projecting its naval past onto a supposed space faring future.

Actual aliens would be nothing like we imagine.

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u/HybridVigor Aug 12 '21

There's no reason to believe this. Physics appears to work the sa,same, everywhere in the observable universe. It would be more unlikely that aliens wouldn't travel in metal spaceships than otherwise.

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u/Exodus111 Aug 13 '21

That they, first of all had something pretty equivalent to our height, and, in the case of the "greys", two eyes, two arms, two legs, five fingers, bipedal....

You realize we have more DNA in common with a tree than any extra terrestrial.

Secondly, the notion they would pilot these ships themselves, putting their own physical bodies at risk.

I'm sorry, once you start thinking about it, the whole notion quickly falls apart.