[HN Gopher] Aliens Are Out There - But They Probably Don't Care ...
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       Aliens Are Out There - But They Probably Don't Care About Us
        
       Author : billybuckwheat
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-11-27 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | demondemidi wrote:
       | These articles should spend more time trying to explain the scale
       | of galaxies and superclusters, plus the sheer number of stars vs.
       | physics. That puts in so much perspective: even if we had warp 11
       | drives it would be essentially impossible to look for alien life
       | on every star system. We'll never find each other because the
       | universe is too damn big.
        
         | nadermx wrote:
         | That's assuming that's the only mode of travel. There could be
         | worm holes, or things we can't imagine.
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         | Also if the goal was to find life, searching would not be
         | optimal. It would be better to launch pods that self expand to
         | nearby planet, make their own pods, and go to the next nearby
         | planets.
        
       | araes wrote:
       | Kind of a worldbuilding stackexchange response, yet other reasons
       | aliens might not interact (from a "they exist" perspective).
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       | Hitchhiker's Guide - We're just not very interesting. The aliens
       | exist, have noticed the Earth, yet don't care, because we don't
       | really do much from a galactic perspective. Mostly Harmless.
       | 
       | Star Trek - The aliens exist, yet have some external reason to
       | not interact, like a diplomatic treaty.
       | 
       | Star Wars - The aliens exist, there's just too many other aliens
       | to deal with already (Republic). The situation external to Earth
       | is some kind of massive bureaucracy that makes doing much other
       | than dealing with the bureaucracy nearly unmanageable.
       | 
       | Culture Novels - The aliens exist, yet don't interact because
       | we're the equivalent of barbarous housepets from their
       | perspective.
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       | Forever War - The aliens exist, may have noticed, they're just
       | too busy fighting some really long term war with each other to
       | care.
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       | Stargate - The aliens exist, just view the Earth as a non-
       | threatening farm to be harvested eventually.
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       | The Algebraist - Aliens exist, yet the most common form is just
       | really weird from a human perspective (like gaseous objects in
       | cloud giants). Flesh bipeds are not all that interesting, or
       | perhaps discounted because "intelligence only exists in these
       | forms."
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       | Dragon Ball Z or Warhammer 40k - Aliens exist, yet the Earth is
       | boring. It's mostly calm bickering a lot of the time. Where are
       | the enormous battles and massive weapons? No titanic fights that
       | lay waste to the surface?
        
       | syntaxing wrote:
       | Maybe they would if they live in a solar system with 3 suns?
        
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