I was wondering if /sci/ has any interesting solutions to the

You didn't come up with A and the rest are pure cringe, especially C

>>8368984
agreed

>>8368956
>it simply takes longer than we thought to spread throughout the galaxy
>there is a point in a species history in which they are almost invariably wiped out due to self inflicted or external sources
>we are one of the first sentient species to emerge in our galaxy
>the galaxy is already under the control of an advanced civilization and we are simply a nature preserve

>>8368987
>>we are one of the first sentient species to emerge in our galaxy

I was gonna list that one too, but forgot. Seems pretty reasonable.

>>8368984
I never claimed I came up with these ideas, just that I've been thinking about them.

>>8368987
>We are the first sentient species in our galaxy.
I doubt it, but its a nice thought.

>Takes longer to spread throughout the galaxy.
I can believe it.

>We are a nature preserve.
I can believe it.

We're made of meat.

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>>8369040

A lot of things went right to allow humans to take over as the dominant species on this planet, had anything been different then even now there may still have been no technologically advanced species on earth, being the first may not be as unlikely as you think

no i ate beef today! moo

>>8369040
>I doubt it

Based on what? Muh size?

Distances and time scales are too big for meaningful contact.
We are separated by thousand of light years and by hundreds of millions of years.

Civilization that possibly survived probably know of our existence but they are too advanced for us to communicate, as it would destroy our civilization's culture and progress(which is worthy in being unique).

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>Civilization that possibly survived probably know of our existence but they are too advanced for us to communicate, as it would destroy our civilization's culture and progress(which is worthy in being unique).

Fucking retarded humans think aliens are all about serious technology progress and shit. We are the one who spreed the ayy lmao meme and we are laughing at you, that's all we do. You aren't unique, we know many more intelligent life form, but you guys are the most laughable. In our world, humans are a meme.

That said,

Ayylmao I fuck your wife and when she's going to tell you about it, you'll put her in an asylum

The problem I have with the Fermi Paradox is that it assumes life will always evolve to the point where a species is intelligent enough to create and use technology. I think it's much more likely that life exists elsewhere but doesn't frequency evolve to human levels, than there's no other life.

>>8370140
>intelligence
>being the only recorded species that degrades its own environment en-masse until it dies out

>>8370149
But we haven't died out anon. Our intelligence makes us independent from biosphere more and more.

>>8368956
>A
I'm a really big believer in this
>B
seems extremely likely, but humanity has the tendency to go against whatever the norm is, so when virtual reality becomes widespread there will probably be a big division between people that consider the real world to be real and that consider the virtual world to be real
>C
I doubt it, suicide will definitely increase in popularity the more organized and effortless our life becomes, but the whole world would never agree to something like that
>D
totally possible, but I'd like to think that if there was an organized government of intelligent life within reach of communicating with us they'd have considered us evolved enough to participate, and possibly even solicited military assistance for subduing the remaining disorderly countries, kind of like the US and UK often intervene in foreign affairs
>E
I don't really like the matrix idea but once again it's an unfalsifiable claim

here's one, we've been using technology that could be detectable from outside our planet for maybe 100 years max, and weaponry has already advanced to the point where our future hangs in the balance. so if we assume that other intelligent life have as much trouble getting along as we do, we could assume that on average there's a limited amount of time any society is capable of possessing advanced technology before it implodes and has to rebuild from scratch

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>>8370161
if you actually think this you have completely lost any connection with nature
>the world garbage patch
>microplastics
>bioaccumulation of heavy metals
>climate change
>ocean acidification
no but, we doing fine f a m
independent from biosphere?
>brought up in a world where meat and vegetables are a packaged product wrapped in clingwrap