[ExI] 30 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

[John Grigg]

In the classic alien invasion novel, "When Heaven Fell," a human janissary
slave is shocked to learn that the godlike AI who conquered Earth, were
created by the very small pig-like species that handles basic maintenance
tasks. It took them eons to develop their technology and get to a
singularity, but they finally got there only to immediately lose control.

The initial "alien invasion" in the mid 21st century was basically an alien
A.I. scout ship with a few thousand dinosaur merc shock troops who invaded
the Earth, and caused massive damage before being just barely repelled.
Humanity was able to calculate that in roughly seventy years, the invaders
could be back with a much larger display of power, and so the entire
resources of the planet were used to create a massive global defense force.
But despite their best efforts, an invasion force of over a dozen huge
ships appeared when expected, and after a ferocious fight that killed off
2/3 of humanity, the invaders conquered Earth. They were quite impressed by
human fighting spirit and ingenuity, and so they allowed worthy homo
sapiens to join their janissary forces, which included a variety of races.


The novel may be the grittiest alien conquest of Earth sf novel ever
written. It shows the extreme degradation caused by a conqueror that does
not care about any form of conventional human morality. But it does
actually end on a hopeful note.

John


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:23 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] 30 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
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> >…Suppose that the new alien race is a bit smarter than we are.  That
> reminds me of a scifi story in which aliens land here with their very
> advanced technology.  But they have been civilized for tens of thousands of
> years.  It turns out that on our scale their average IQ is about 80, and
> humans start selling them the Brooklyn Bridge and so on.  Maybe we'll be
> the ones to buy the stupid things from the aliens - their version of the
> Brooklyn Bridge.  bill w
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> That is kinda sorta the idea with the Borg from Star Trek: hive mind
> advanced so far that the individuals lost all autonomy and everything we
> think of as intelligence.  Picard accidentally killed one of them, a coupla
> Borglets saw, had no concept of murder or justice, they just scooped up the
> body and walked off with it to the morgue, no alarm, no nothing.
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> You couldn’t sell “individuals” anything of course, because they didn’t
> think as an individual or have any money.  So if you were somehow beamed
> aboard, you might as well forget making a buttload and spend your time
> looking for the other 8 of whatever 7 of 9 was one of.  I bet those were
> some awesome space babe sisters.
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