all alien theories are pretty :so-true: brained, IMO. Until we have a better picture of how common life is or isn't, and how long it typically lasts or doesn't before being wiped out by cosmic phenomena, any answer to Fermi's Paradox is just people projecting their vibe onto the question. Star Trek is an optimistic answer, Dark Forest a pessimistic one, etc.
I never liked speculation about alien life because it's far too anthropocentric. They assume intelligent life would even care about space exploration or that humans would actually recognize them as intelligent. Imagine if the nearest intelligent species are sentient trees that communicate with each other through dispersion of pollen. They could have an entire tree society, and we wouldn't see them as anything more than a bunch of trees. And for that matter, they wouldn't recognize us as intelligent either. As far as those trees are concerned, humans aren't that functionally different from a squirrel. Obviously, a bunch of trees would have little to no motivation to develop space travel and why would they?
all alien theories are pretty :so-true: brained, IMO. Until we have a better picture of how common life is or isn't, and how long it typically lasts or doesn't before being wiped out by cosmic phenomena, any answer to Fermi's Paradox is just people projecting their vibe onto the question. Star Trek is an optimistic answer, Dark Forest a pessimistic one, etc.
I never liked speculation about alien life because it's far too anthropocentric. They assume intelligent life would even care about space exploration or that humans would actually recognize them as intelligent. Imagine if the nearest intelligent species are sentient trees that communicate with each other through dispersion of pollen. They could have an entire tree society, and we wouldn't see them as anything more than a bunch of trees. And for that matter, they wouldn't recognize us as intelligent either. As far as those trees are concerned, humans aren't that functionally different from a squirrel. Obviously, a bunch of trees would have little to no motivation to develop space travel and why would they?