Strongly disagree. What you are referring to is the “dark forest” theory, which holds that everyone “out tbere” is so scared of everyone else that they are “hiding”. It is a very weak rebuttle to the Fermi Paradox, which is fundamentally unanswerable. Civilizations many milllioms of years advanced beyond our own would unquestionably have visited and very likely colonized our planet, exploiting our natural resources, etc.
Strongly disagree. What you are referring to is the “dark forest” theory, which holds that everyone “out tbere” is so scared of everyone else that they are “hiding”. It is a very weak rebuttle to the Fermi Paradox, which is fundamentally unanswerable. Civilizations many milllioms of years advanced beyond our own would unquestionably have visited and very likely colonized our planet, exploiting our natural resources, etc
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I don’t mean to be rude when I say you are shortsighted, please don’t take it that way.
A society advanced millions of years ahead of us certainly don’t need our resources. If you learn to harness fusion surely you can make any material you desire. Mining would be a thing of the past.
This doesn’t mean they couldn’t have visited us just that they really would not have much incentive to do so.
If they had thought to leave their DNA behind they would have only done so after teaching all they could of their existence. How cruel to leave their seed and then leave them in poverty and ignorance of what they are.