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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 6255268" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>Sure we can. It's actually fairly easy to colonize the Moon, and we could have done it with 1960's tech, but we don't want to spend the money to do it.</p><p></p><p>For Fermi: I think it's silly to think we're alone in the universe, but the paradox is troubling.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the problem is psychological. It might be that we have an unusual outlook. We think of 'curiosity' as one of the defining traits of intelligence, but maybe it's not. Maybe few other species ever have the desire to go into space or explore the unknown, or constantly expand their tech capabilities - maybe the 'norm' of the universe for intelligent life is to create enough tech to satisfy the basic needs of food, shelter and safety - then stop. Most civilizations might dead-end in the early Bronze Age. Maybe most worlds with intelligent life are very 'kind' to them; planets with little or no seasons, with plenty of food and water, with little in the way of hostile bacteria or parasites - maybe most civilizations never see the need to tailor their environment to themselves. Without a super-complex infrastructure, nothing much happens when it gets knocked over by a plague or climate change or other sort of disaster.</p><p></p><p>Maybe 'radio' is indicative of a general, conceptual-level technological dead end we haven't recognized yet, much like the 100-year detour chemistry took with Phlogiston. People don't answer because it's pretty pointless for them to do so: we can't detect what they are saying, and we wouldn't have anything worth trading even if we did.</p><p></p><p>More ominous might be the 'war-verse' theories, where rogue civilizations created something like a Berserker fleet that homes in on people with radio transmissions and obliterates them, so everyone stays very, very quiet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 6255268, member: 3649"] Sure we can. It's actually fairly easy to colonize the Moon, and we could have done it with 1960's tech, but we don't want to spend the money to do it. For Fermi: I think it's silly to think we're alone in the universe, but the paradox is troubling. Maybe the problem is psychological. It might be that we have an unusual outlook. We think of 'curiosity' as one of the defining traits of intelligence, but maybe it's not. Maybe few other species ever have the desire to go into space or explore the unknown, or constantly expand their tech capabilities - maybe the 'norm' of the universe for intelligent life is to create enough tech to satisfy the basic needs of food, shelter and safety - then stop. Most civilizations might dead-end in the early Bronze Age. Maybe most worlds with intelligent life are very 'kind' to them; planets with little or no seasons, with plenty of food and water, with little in the way of hostile bacteria or parasites - maybe most civilizations never see the need to tailor their environment to themselves. Without a super-complex infrastructure, nothing much happens when it gets knocked over by a plague or climate change or other sort of disaster. Maybe 'radio' is indicative of a general, conceptual-level technological dead end we haven't recognized yet, much like the 100-year detour chemistry took with Phlogiston. People don't answer because it's pretty pointless for them to do so: we can't detect what they are saying, and we wouldn't have anything worth trading even if we did. More ominous might be the 'war-verse' theories, where rogue civilizations created something like a Berserker fleet that homes in on people with radio transmissions and obliterates them, so everyone stays very, very quiet. [/QUOTE]
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