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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

👽 ‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? / The Guardian

“The idea is that they’re more advanced, but not much more advanced. It’s like having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17,”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/15/bored-aliens-has-intelligent-life-stopped-bothering-trying-to-contact-earth

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‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?

Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials
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Mike McCaffrey
@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@jbz I think the simple issue here is that humans are unable to comprehend the vastness of space between the stars, how much time it would take to travel between them, and how much energy would need to be inefficiently thrown off in order to be detected by others.

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@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@jbz I think the simple issue here is that humans are unable to comprehend the vastness of space between the stars, how much time it would take to travel between them, and how much energy would need to be inefficiently thrown off in order to be detected by others.

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