Beyond the Fermi Paradox V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?

Universe Today ^ | Matt Williams

[marktwain]

Thanks.

Maybe I was too dismissive.

[marktwain]

I read some of the reviews of the series.

It sounds like a series I would enjoy reading.

I doubt I am willing to expend the 40 or 50 hours I would have to give up, to read the series.

Fascinating that a Chinese book in translation would do so well.

Most of the panning of the book harps about character development.

What most modern critics call "character development" is all about obscure naval gazing by people who have a hard time making a decision.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I got it all figured out.

When you die your spirit goes to heaven (or the other place), and sometimes you have to come back to earth.

For reasons we will all find out one day.

5.56mm

[PIF]

Read it when doing nothing important with ur mind, like siting on the crapper :}

[marktwain]

Fortunately or not, my mind does not work that way.

I am susceptible to a gripping novel. It would dominate my time for a couple of days. I likely would not get much sleep, if it is the page turner many say it is.

[Ransomed]

I liked it, a case of a newer sci-fi series not being completely crap despite being so highly regarded by the new US sci-fi lib crowd. I was pleasantly surprised anyhow, especially coming from china.

Freegards

[PIF]

I am susceptible to a gripping novel

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Ah Ha! You admit a weakness. Now that will prey on your subconscious until you succumb. Your doomed, by your own hand, good sir.

[The Duke]

Better explanation ... we’re listening on AM, and the aliens are transmitting on FM.

[mo]

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. ‘E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!

O: No, no, ‘e’s uh,...he’s resting.

[discostu]

Not necessarily hiding. Just not doing anything we can detect. Or more importantly not having done anything we could detect long enough ago for that sign to have gotten here. Detecting life across the cosmos isn’t easy. You have to have done something that detectable. Generally speaking we consider radio to be the first thing we did that could be detectable, and therefore on the list of things we look for. But even then that stuff travels at the speed of light, or slightly below it. If our very first radio signals were strong enough to survive in space (which they weren’t) they would have traveled through less than 1% of our own galaxy, and would be millions of years away from hitting another. Even things like rockets and satellites, you need a very strong telescope to be able to see them, and that “vision” still needs to travel at the speed of light. When we’re looking at planets hundreds or even thousands of light years away what we’re seeing is that planet THEN. If they didn’t have detectable life THEN we won’t see it. If it turns out 100 years ago some planet invented lighting their dark side, but they’re more than 100 light years away, we can’t see it yet.