Have you ever thought about Earth being like an uncontacted tribe in South America, where the whole Galaxy knows we’re here but won’t reach out until we solve our own problems? 🤔🌍✨
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What if Earth is like an uncontacted tribe?
– Is Earth part of a larger cosmic community?
– Are we being observed by advanced beings?
– Will we ever make contact with extraterrestrial life?
Don’t you wonder if there’s more to our place in the universe than we realize? Join the conversation and explore the possibilities! 💭👽🚀 #curiousminds #explorethespace
What if aliens showed up here millions of years ago, saw a planet inhabited buy enormous lizard monsters and said fuck that, don’t come back to this place.
I think there was a twilight zone episode about this
I saw an interview from Neil DeGrasse Tyson a while back, and he basically said, that if aliens exist, either they’ve chosen to ignore us as uninteresting, or they are so beyond our comprehension that they could have been messing with us for millennia and we’d never even know it. Neither are exactly comforting.
It would seem to be very difficult to arrange total cooperation on any kind of rule like that. The uncontacted tribes have been contacted numerous times, and their lands are being burned and stripped at alarming rates, despite rules and laws prohibiting it.
If there were some kind of Prime Directive thing going on, I wonder how that would be enforced. If there are other current intelligent and technological species out there, how would each of them be induced to cooperate in an effort to avoid contacting Earth or other such planets? Any of them could launch a probe or fire off a hugely powerful radio signal.
Maybe there are no such civilizations. Or there is only one which is so advanced, and they decide not to contact for whatever reason. Possibly there are many, but one, or a set of allied races, are well advanced beyond any others, and they enforce the rule. Or 3000 other possibilities I can’t think of at the moment, most of which are covered in various answers to the old Fermi paradox/Drake equation.
If multiple advanced civiliations A) exist, B) are aware of us, C) are inclined to contact others, and D) choose not to contact us, they could have a number of reasons. They may not even be aware that we are an intelligent species. It seems obvious enough to us, with our impressive cities and computers and pollution and tiktok dances and such, but we might just look like slightly clever ants with elaborate anthills. Or they may see us as dangerous and stupid, or, as you say, just not very interesting. It could be, for instance, that every intelligent species in the galaxy so far has been some variation on a collective hivemind of tiny individual creatures, and they find our kind of life utterly bizarre and horrifying. The possibilities are endless.
Earth: Mostly harmless
I think I read before that it’s possible intelligent species tend to exist for such small periods that even if we found proof, by time radiowaves or other communication reaches our planet it’s possible they’ve been dead for millions of years. Or we simply missed it because of timing.
Kinda like Omnicron Persei 8 and Earth TV except much further distance.
I like this. We either figure it out or blow ourselves up.
And we don’t have the types of resources they need to make it worth their while to try to come get.
Nah we’re reality crash TV to them.
this is what’s happening.
I’m into UFO stuff and this has always been my thinking.
They look at us the way people look at those indigenous tribes who throw spears at any planes that fly nearby.
cf. The Fermin paradox.
There’s the flip side that we are incredibly interesting from a scientific perspective but they live in a way we cannot comprehend/detect, or at the very least can observe us without being detected. See Slaughterhouse V
This is the plot for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
If you are even remotely entertained by such a question you *really* need to read some Douglas Adams. His Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series is full of stuff like this. They’re absolutely hilarious, and very easy to read a chapter at a time. I must have read the books ten times by now. I fill time by reading a chapter, which takes only a few minutes.
Isn’t this called the zoo hypothesis?
What about this premise? Our race of humans used to rule the galaxy with an iron fist and we were extremely destructive to the galaxy. The rest of the species in the galaxy rebelled and won. A council was formed and decided not to exterminate our entire species so they chose to drop the few of us off on this planet as a prison. Aliens don’t visit here because it’s unlawful to do so. The council actively patrols our sector to keep anyone from disturbing us for fear of our kind spreading through the galaxy and becoming too powerful again.
It’s very scifi but an interesting take on the fermi paradox.
Think about it like how you personally deal with crackheads. You watch from a distance but try to stay away at all costs. Until earth gets sober, we are still a crazy crackhead.
There’s numerous theories that involve a type of scale in relation to civilizations from 1-7. Apparently earth isn’t even a type 1 civilization. And apparently we won’t get contacted until we become a type 1 civilization because earth is still in its crackhead phase. I think the idea of a virtual consciousness integrated with ai will lead us there.
Looks like they’re going to have to wait a long, long time,
The question is how would these aliens even know we exist. We have only been using radio strong enough to escape our atmosphere since WW2.
So that means that any aliens would have to be within 100 light years. And since nothing can move faster then light there is little chance they have heard our signals, decrypted them and sent a reply.
There is no way for them to have travelled here. Since nothing goes faster then light.
The term for that is [The Zoo Hypothosis.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis)
The aliens won’t visit us because we’re “THAT” planet. lol
Genesis 6
What’s far more likely is that once a civilization reaches the technological capabilities of trying to send and interpret deep space radio signals they have already invented technology capable of destroying themselves. Just think, the first radio message humanity sent into deep space occurred the same year as the closest we’ve ever been to total nuclear war. The Morse Message and the Cuban Missile Crisis both occurred in 1962.
Humanity nearly sent itself into nuclear armageddon just as it was starting to try and communicate beyond our planet, I imagine there are many civilizations in our universe history that succeeded in doing so.
Ahh some space talk. Interesting
The issue with that is that “uncontacted” tribes are rarely truly isolated. Even if contact is legally banned, many indigenous peoples in remote and isolated areas routinely encounter illegal loggers, poachers and miners, missionaries, or even just crazy people that are curious.
The effects of these contacts are almost always devastating to these communities, either by introduction of disease, outright murder, or fear of the unknown causing them to uproot their lives. They don’t forget them, and part of the reason you don’t see them regularly wandering into civilization is because they are scared of us.
Especially in the vastness of space, and considering the sheer number of aliens you would expect in an interstellar empire, the idea that we have been set aside as a nature preserve and no one has been able to violate it raises more questions than it solves. Civilizations are composed of people, and people are not monoliths. It would only take a tiny percentage of bad actors with petty and greedy motives to make us abundantly aware aliens exist.
Yiu mean Star Trek?