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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Also, one of the leading theories of why we haven’t met other intelligent alien cultures is because there is one major ancient, highly advanced race that is so devoted to being the only race on the Universe, that every time they find any evidence of another intelligent race, they travel there and extinguish them entirely.

What evidence is there to support this theory?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely none.

That is a variance on the dark forest theory. It has flaws just like any of the proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's more likely that either life getting to the point of space travel is incredibly rare and the universe is just so vast they don't run into each other or they destroy their planet before they get very far (like we're doing).

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It is not just vast in distance, it is also vast in time.

Imagine an advanced civilization; it rises and is space fairing for 30million years. Something (who knows what) happens and they either go extinct; or render themselves unable to travel in space/use technology.

30 million years; it seems so long from our point of view; but that 30 million years could have ended a million years ago and we would be none the wiser. Their signals faded to nothingness the machines all broken and cold. And still that is a blip on the scale of the universe.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

This is the theory I like best. There have been plenty of civilizations throughout the Universe, it's just that very few emerge at the same time, and we've never had another one emerge close enough for us to notice.