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I’ve been wondering this for years now. Sci fi and even actual scientific speculation tends to assume aliens would be way ahead of us in terms of technology because their planets may have been formed earlier. I don’t think time alone matters. If they don’t have resources, if fhey don’t evolve the same way, if they have more difficulties in doing shit due to any number of reasons… They could be far less advanced than us. Maybe nobody in the entire universe has figured out how to realistically travel between stars yet. Maybe we are the only ones who have even managed to get off our rock.

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Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Imagine humanity in 1000 years. We would be among the stars.

Now imagine humanity in 10000 years, 100000 years or even 1000000 years.

A million years is still a fraction in the cosmic timescale.

It would be nearly impossible to have other civilizations be on exactly the same technological level as us. They would indeed be either less advanced, or more advanced.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is just arrogance.

We have only been announcing our intelligence for 100 years. It takes 100,000 years just to cross our galaxy. No-one knows we are here yet.

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- SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  There’s also the Dark Forest hypothesis - the idea that maybe many alien civilizations exist out there but stay silent because revealing themselves would make them targets/prey to a more high-tech hostile civilization.
  
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bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe they just don’t want to leave their planet because it’s dope af

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- Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Some humans want to travel even when they’re perfectly happy.
  
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  - qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s ascribing human motivations to non-humans. They could be fundamentally non-curious, only using their relative intelligence to solve actual problems in their environment rather than pushing for “what if?”.
    
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an0nym0us_dr0ne@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There still is the „Early Bird Theory“.

When you look at us, the Earth, life has formed almost immediately after the conditions where given. On top of that the universe itself isn’t even that old. There is a good chance, that Fermi was right but we are just the first ones.

… which makes me think that whatever or whoever designed us had some work left to do. You left in some bugs buddy.

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- bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There’s also a theory that we’re too late, and that our existence is like the remaining microbes in a puddle of water in a desert.
  
  The universe used to be lukewarm with conditions for life to exist everywhere, until it expanded and started cooling.
  
  On a positive note, this could also mean that life lies dormant everywhere just waiting for the right conditions, so that anywhere that has the right conditions also has life.
  
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  - Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Eh, I don’t buy it.
    
    Humans are proof that life is still possible in our universe. How could all life have died out when life is still perfectly possible?
    
    Only way this is possible is if life didn’t adapt (which I don’t see life doing).
    
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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wonder what another being would need of us if it was already able to travel through the vacuum of space while self-sustaining.

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- bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’d want our coconuts, I bet. They’re pretty cool, I bet aliens don’t have coconuts. They might have some cool alien fruit to trade for coconuts. Or weed.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    alien pointing at a coconut tree
    
    Look, m’lord! Horses!
    
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  - icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Coconuts are mammals
    
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  - Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Poetry, fashion, art.
    
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