[ExI] Bad News for Fermi Paradox?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 16:44:38 UTC 2017


>
> The implication is that once species become
> technological, they flame out and take the biosphere with them.
>
billk

There is actually a short story by Isaac Asimov in which an intergalactic
organization goes around testing civilizations.  As soon as the technology
gets nuclear the planet is invited to join the galactic group.  Just when
Earth was about to get the invitation they discovered that we were using
nuclear power to bomb each other.

And so we were the only ones ever to have done this.

bill w

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, turning your entire terrestrial planet into computronium, but never
> quite getting the hang of stellar engineering or reliable interstellar
> travel, and living happily ever after for extremely large values of "ever
> after", isn't a /terrible/ fate, as these things go.
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:04 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11 August 2017 at 15:41, Dave Sill wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:22 AM, BillK  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Since we are first, other typical technological
>> >> civilizations should also be first.
>> >
>> >
>> > Huh? Parse error.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> The principle of mediocrity allows
>> >> no second acts.
>> >
>> >
>> > What?
>> >
>>
>>
>> I only quoted a few paragraphs. What he is saying is that all the
>> earlier civilisations in the galaxy would have reached the same point
>> as us. i.e. Becoming the first tech civ on their planet. And then they
>> disappeared. (as we see no trace of them).
>>
>> BillK
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >> The implication is that once species become
>> >> technological, they flame out and take the biosphere with them.
>> >
>> >
>> > That could well be the case. We seem to be headed that way.
>> >
>> > -Dave
>> >
>> >
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