Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ...
by BurningFrog on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:37PM
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> Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics.
Never thought of the practicalities of that, so thanks for bringing it up.
I think you're overstating things. Sure, they wouldn't be able to watch the Superbowl at the same time or hold elections in the same decade. It would be a very different and slow moving kind of civilization than what we know.
But I don't see how that means it can't exist, in some form.
Never thought of the practicalities of that, so thanks for bringing it up.
I think you're overstating things. Sure, they wouldn't be able to watch the Superbowl at the same time or hold elections in the same decade. It would be a very different and slow moving kind of civilization than what we know.
But I don't see how that means it can't exist, in some form.