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Solving the fermi-paradox

Derpestein said
-No other intelligent life in the universe. Sad face.

I think that even if intelligent life is a one in [very big number] thing there would have to be somewhere else it occurred if only since the universe is just that vast.

But I can buy the idea humans are the only intelligent life in this galaxy.

Solving the fermi-paradox

In this thread, solve the fermi-paradox through whatever excuses you can think of. Feel free to use realistic or space opera logic reasoning. And feel free to debate anyone's solutions.

Here's my solutions:

-The universe is extremely huge [just play space engine and you'll see], intelligent life is extremely rare [may need to comb a galaxy or two to find ET], not that long lived in cosmic scales and FTL doesn't exist. Probably the best possibility since it means no aliens that will wipe us out, just a bunch of alien wild life to dick around with if we can get interstellar.

-Who says a alien race didn't already take over the galaxy? With dominance of the milky way or at least the part we live in they were able to actually make a uniform system consistent all over that demands that no action towards planet bound civs [be it malicious or benevolent] are taken until they find one of their outposts or sentinels they tend to place in the outer parts of a star system in a obscure place. They may perceive time much different from us.

-There's multiple civs in the galaxy, but they're spread out pretty sporadically [in that only one in like, ten million star systems ever gives birth to a intelligent civilization, and only one in a thousand of those has a currently space faring one] and rarely actually do the "colonize a billion worlds" thing instead preferring to select a some worlds best suited to colonize [kinda like what humans probably will do] or just being nomads or never actually leave their star system. This gets complicated by other life generally having different ideas of habitable. Why would they want earth? That planet has acidic liquids and is too close to the sun! Therefore the only way humans could intersect with them is if a star system had both worlds suited for humans and world suited for planet X folk. And there's not any intelligent life nearby that likes titan-likes or Europa-type worlds.

Even the few that do never take the whole galaxy due to inertia and colonizing ships going in directions where worlds already were colonized causing lots of internal warfare that retards their progress. This gets worse as resources in the inner colonies get used up.

-A giant space monster ate them all.

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Oh look a glass pagoda!

Shame if anything would happen to it...

Anyhow is it fair to imagine the batmen as wyvern-like in their locomotion?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our annoyances.

"Yo. Gotta hard sci-fi RP."

"What does it have?"

"Spaceships with perfect FTL, space stealth using cold fusion engines, some humanoid aliens [two of which being space elves], a couple space bugs that just eat everything and one race of robots that look like people."

"So what is the limits on your standards of what's okay?"

"Must be completely realistic."

I know i've made this mistake before.

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TheEvanCat said
Why the fuck didn't you assholes link me the thread? Now I'm fashionably late.

Into the wild zones with you. Safe zone's getting too crowded.

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Never mind, village already stated.

While it could be argued the social norms of the world in 300 years are unlikely to be siniliar to now, I think it would better if that can of worms isn't opened since it would be like expecting People from the 1700's to not have people wearing fancy wigs in brass spacecraft shot at the moon's eye from a big cannon.

Even though it's pretty obvious people nowadays aren't as optimistic as they were in the golden age.

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Jeddaven said
I feel like that level of genetic modification would not only be extremely resource intensive, but likely require ages of physical therapy to cope with such huge changes in terms of motor function. It'd also likely be an incredibly painful change unless the subject was put far, far, far, under. Imho, even with such advanced tech, such drastic modifications would still most likely be incredibly complicated.

Is it really that hard to use genetic modification to get rid of hereditary diseases?

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I think the less serious you take that comment about human squids the better.

Vilageidiotx said
I don't really see people whimsically genetically modifying themselves. Cosmetic surgery is one thing, but our basic form is a humongous part of our identity. I would suspect that weird people, or people who have had their right to chose taken away, would be the majority of the genetically modified minority. It seems way more likely that people would find some way to settle on top of or in an ocean than it would be for them to go "Ala-Kazam! Little Mermaid tiem."

Chances are most genetic modifications will be more internal work. Stuff like ridding of hereditary diseases or picking your child's physical appearance out. More intense modification I have no clue on.

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Dunno how humans could settle a ocean planet.

If humans were to genetically modify themselves into being sentient squids, than maybe. But than this whole RP would play out differently as all the colonies on brahma would be underground.

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Yeah but sea monsters jed.

Maybe there could be flat worm-like creatures that are as long as whales and a couple meters wide that reproduce asexually [meaning if broken, there's two of them].

And they like wrapping around smaller creatures to drain their body fluids.