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[scarlettina]

Sustainable Aliens: A New Theory On Why E.T. Hasn't Arrived Yet

What's interesting to me about this (and there are many, many elements about this that are interesting to me) is that I've been slowly, ever-so-slowly working on a piece about sustainability on an alien world, an idea that's grown at a glacial pace out of my trip to Africa two years

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[oldmangrumpus]

What's interesting to me is the ways in which we impose our own societal norms on possible alien life. First nuclear war, now environmental concerns. And even before that, the Fermi Paradox, arising from a society built on exploration and colonization, assumes that alien life will follow the same course. But perhaps an alien society won't want to pay the costs, or has it's own planet in environmental balance, or has made its peace with its mortality as a species.

[keikaimalu]

And here I thought it was because of the real-world limits imposed by the speed of light.

They may be out there, but they may not be able to get here. Even their radio transmissions could take hundreds of thousands of years.