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PokeJoe posted:i want to be the first person to eat an alien Pretty sure Jeffrey Dahmer beat you to it.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The distance problem combined with the speed of light means we’re basically stuck looking at the Milky Way, as even if another galaxy were entirely colonized in a way that we could detect, we wouldn’t be able to see it for a long time. Even if there’s a species with a ten million-year golden age, if they’re a hundred thousand light years away, we’re probably not lasting long enough to see them get started. The trouble with this is exponential growth. Let's say that there's a single species that wants to discover other species, and is sufficiently advanced to build Von Neumann probes. These probes are dispatched with solar sails or electric propulsion systems to seek out civilizations at other stars, and if none are found, to use the raw material in those systems to build copies of themselves and repeat the process. Every star in the galaxy could be visited and explored in a time frame that is very short compared to the age of the galaxy itself, even at non-relativistic speeds. It's possible that: 1. Von Neumann probes are physically impossible 2. No civilization advanced enough to do this actually wants to but neither of those seem very likely. That there isn't and hasn't been a a civlization advanced enough to do so seems much more likely.
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We need a golden record with Dickbutt.
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