Great. We wanted aliens and we get more climate doom.
I’m sure the universe is brimming with life.
That said, why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 “civilization” of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another while they work towards planetary scale mass suicide eyes wide open? I mean sure, Einstein might have enjoyed 16 and pregnant, or the ironically unironic Squid Game reality show, but I doubt it.
Our culture sucks, we’re still basically fresh out of the cave technologically, and if they’re the conquering habitable worlds type, we’re turning our habitat into fucking Mordor with what little technology we’ve recklessly implemented without caring to fully understand.
I honestly hope space faring civilizations, whether benevolent, neutral, or malevolent, have better shit to do.
There’s a good probability, of other civilizations exist in our galaxy alone, they faced similar challenges we are facing and may even be facing challenges we have to endure.
The idea that somewhere there are old aliens complaining on how the young ones keep recklessly racing their flying saucers, bothering those still under developed home planets sounds so… banal.
We keep certain aboriginal tribes secluded so we can properly research how societies arise, I don’t see why they wouldn’t.
Any space faring civ also has the tech to make human bodies to control from a distance and would have some of their members chilling with us down here. Likewise, I think a lot of people here would enjoy spending a bit of free time in different eras in our past, even though they are much more barbaric by todays standards.
I can’t even imagine them just not caring.
All life would be precious to them.
That’s a really bold claim. As the only sapient species we can draw for comparison, we largely don’t respect life even when it comes to our own species. If our space faring age is led by people like Musk and Bezos, expect generational labor camp colonies and being born into company stores you can’t escape.
I hope the majority of space faring civilizations out there have more respect for life than us, but that’s not a high bar. Our most advanced technologies are born out of a desire to kill one another. Power generation is a bonus we half assed upon harnessing the power of the atom explicitly to murder one another in greater numbers at once.
@AllonzeeLV I think the basic logic is that if they’re as bad as us, they don’t make it past their own global environmental catastrophes.
why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 “civilization” of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another
Idk ask Jane Goodall. People do it, why wouldn’t “space people?”
chimps don’t have nuclear weapons or VX gas.
Neither do I.
@ArcaneSlime @AllonzeeLV
Gorillas (and bonobos) are gentle, quite unlike humans. Baboons are a better analogue.
Are you saying that if you were that super intelligent life traveling through space that you’d pass up a planet if you thought its inhabitants were too stupid?
I mean, I avoid “reality” shows like the plague for being a celebration of duhhhhh.
So you think seeing the entire spectrum of earth lifeforms is equivalent to reality tv shows?
In a post scarcity society capable of folding dimensions for space travel, or can survive for thousands of years in regular space flight, yeah absolutely, do you watch cells divide for entertainment?
Yes, 100% every time, yes, for the same reason people crouch and watch in fascination as the ants and the springtails go about their unfathomable business.
How do you not have this curiosity of the endless wonder beneath your feet
It died when I realized I was born into the species that kills all the other species.
I was hoping for whale farts.
Now, we just have to discover what “iceberg calving” is.
“breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.”
I am sorry, but I believe this news isnt new, I remember reading about it few years back on reddit.
I remember hearing about it in 1936 when Phantom Menace was released in crisp sepia-tone on one of them new fangled Beta Max Tapes
Didn’t we already know this?
This will be my new notification sound
ahhhh nuts
