Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation

Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by DesiLurker on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:33PM (#29409406)

Would you really want to stake our entire species (& biosphere's) fate on that piece of logic? even if you do I dont think any of the current world leaders ( & about 50% of developed world population) would.

at the very least it would be a strong reason to go build the biggest space shield and hold it between this planet and earth while we figure out the rest. Anything short of that would be incredibly naive.

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Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:23AM (#29413742)

You seemingly assume that dark forest is a safe strategy. But if you position yourself as a dark forester, you send a message that you're aggressive and dangerous (dark forest is a projection obviously). The only case when this can go well is when we're alone, but in that case it makes no sense to play dark forest.

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