Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe

Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by vkou on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:14PM (#17393550)

> we don't have to come up with all sorts of crazy scenarios to resolve the paradox, as people often do.

Run-away climate catastrophe, nuclear war, or alternatively, the physical impossibility of interstellar travel are not crazy scenarios that explain the paradox. They are real threats that we have put far too little into mitigating. [1][2]

[1] I think we are putting the right amount of effort into mitigating the latter.

[2] A few smart people are playing with mental what-if toys like 'If we could send 100,000 people to a planet which has already suffered a run-away climate catastrophe!' The rest of us are digging our heels in, and finding every excuse to do nothing.

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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by DennisP on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:23PM (#17393618)

I definitely did not mean to minimize either of your first two threats. However, using them as explanations for the Fermi "paradox" would imply that they're impossible for any civilization to fix. Personally I don't think that's true.

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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by vkou on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:28PM (#17393647)

I suppose - they are not certain outcomes. But there's always option #3.

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