Post B1JoEdkDxNaKK0dVLc by brianvastag@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #B1JnGnG9S372SO26Oe by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-16T21:16:40Z
       
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       they have this thing called the “Fermi paradox.”They get all sad and mournful about “where is everybody else in the universe?” and it’s hilarious because it’s impossible for me to imagine any of us ever been that way: but that’s just how isolated they are: they have no idea they aren’t alone and they have no idea what a blessing that is.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JnYd1AGiI3uBWkaW by rk@mastodon.well.com
       2025-12-16T21:19:51Z
       
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       @futurebird Apropos of nothing there’s an old sci-fi story from the USSR called (in English) “Roadside Picnic” that really leans into “we’re the ants to the aliens” trope in an interesting way. Been decades since I’ve read it so don’t quote me on it but I remember liking it a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JnrR5Or2UkOyTb4S by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
       2025-12-16T21:23:15Z
       
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       @futurebird I've never understood what's supposed to be paradoxical about the Fermi Paradox. It always seemed to be more about Enrico's fears than anything else.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JnurOBW7UIqctame by h4890@alive.bar
       2025-12-16T21:23:58Z
       
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       @futurebird Past a certain level advanced civilizations probably die the hedonistic death, or they might possibly "Transcend" in some kind of mass suicide.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Jo4AO8FRHyNYJCJE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-16T21:25:33Z
       
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       ("Everybody else" is right here on the planet with us.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JoEdkDxNaKK0dVLc by brianvastag@mas.to
       2025-12-16T21:27:27Z
       
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       @futurebird I get so annoyed that it's called a paradox when it's really a conjecture.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JpR0jGQVan2IeLWC by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-12-16T21:40:49Z
       
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       @futurebird one day I was looking at a image of the center of the Milky Way with another person. I blurted out "that's were everone else lives". They were startled by that thought and said "how do you know"? My response: "Just look at how crowded it is, we live out in the far rural area." 😅 . I know the problems with that logic, but so what, I'm just an unsophisticated creature from the middle of the universal nowhere. What would I know. 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #B1JprRxRoTnr0utJg0 by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
       2025-12-16T21:45:39Z
       
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       @futurebird I do find the Fermi Paradox or, more generally, the lack of evidence of biology outside this solar system depressing.Yes, statistically there *should* be other life out there, but we don't *know* that yet and I find the prospect that perhaps we (as in life of all forms on this rock) *might* be "it" sad.Short length of time left for this solar system compared to the stretch of time to the heat death of the universe....  it just feels terrible to think of no one experiencing it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Jq5yNo3PeTdI94iG by emjonaitis@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-12-16T21:48:17Z
       
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       @futurebird how is it we don’t notice the alien minds among us? That’s the Fourmi paradox