The Great Filter
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woops
is not like other people
at least credit him with "cosmic depression" or something
IdleRich
IdleRich
The thing that I find kinda hard to handle in this discussion is the sheer scale of things... the distances and the times involved. It's so hard to get our head around any of that.
I was reading the other day about the sci-fi genre called "evolutionary horror" and that was something that ties into this in my mind cos evolution obviously takes place over generations at the very least. I read about this book called All Tomorrows which seems pretty dark and fucked up in its own right, but - for me - it's especially unpleasant cos of the time scale involved.
Has anyone read that? Or even heard of it?
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I was reading the other day about the sci-fi genre called "evolutionary horror" and that was something that ties into this in my mind cos evolution obviously takes place over generations at the very least. I read about this book called All Tomorrows which seems pretty dark and fucked up in its own right, but - for me - it's especially unpleasant cos of the time scale involved.
Has anyone read that? Or even heard of it?
All Tomorrows - Wikipedia
IdleRich
IdleRich
This is a strange one cos on the one hand you got a load of people merrily beaming out messages saying who we are, what we know and where to find us - and then a few other voices urging caution and saying "Er maybe we shouldn't draw attention to ourselves" but of course they can't just stop everyone else.
And the enthusiastic ones make an argument that if there is someone out there who has both the ability and desire to find us then they will so we've nothing to lose and we should try and control the message... but surely if they really believed they wouldn't spend so much time and money amplifying the signal.
