Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

Re:Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox by Joakal on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:02PM (#19342652)

Civilizations probably ended because it's hard to control their own populations. Imagine a society where population is set to 5 billion, the limit only increased when capacity is increased.

This is compounded by:

1) a lot of planets are not hospitable for a variety of factors. A society might resent the limit for many years if it was possible to implement such a limit.

2) the technology era is short-lived and not ongoing. A new civilization starts 10,000 years later. How will they even know homo-sapiens existed if a plague wipes out homo-sapiens tomorrow? A few tiny satellites in the vast emptiness of space?

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Re:Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox by ethbro on Saturday March 09, 2019 @12:58AM (#19344731)

It'd be ironic if the great filter was that "population required for development and construction of interstellar travel" is very close to "population at which civilizations exhaust their resources and collapse."

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