Hard agree on the not enough aliens. There could be regions of space where as soon as you discover radio, you discover and join the interstellar community. If a region of space is dense and densely populated, maybe via a panspermia event that seeded the region, it could be that as soon as a species discovers radio waves, they become aware of the interstellar chatter, all the signals generated by all their radio-capable neighbors, engaged in a continual conversation spanning light-years and millennia. some worlds transmit introductions and translation guides at intervals, some only transmit noise or encrypted signals. Some transmit for a while and then fall silent. Most of the traffic is for intraplanetary use whose broadcast is incidental, which serves as an autobiographical record for that world, to their neighborhood. The neighborhood watches world conquering empires rise and fall from a distance. They see the worlds that talk themselves into nuclear war and then go quiet. Some resume transmitting after some time. Some individuals or groups maintain correspondences over millennia. Some of these correspondents are worshiped as gods.
Instead we get crickets. 1/10 would rather be in the galactic downtown.
True. Space crickets would be a significant upgrade over the silence. Some kind of astrophage-ish spaceborne organism perhaps, that sing in light to communicate with nearby colonies.
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queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 27d
Hard agree on the not enough aliens. There could be regions of space where as soon as you discover radio, you discover and join the interstellar community. If a region of space is dense and densely populated, maybe via a panspermia event that seeded the region, it could be that as soon as a species discovers radio waves, they become aware of the interstellar chatter, all the signals generated by all their radio-capable neighbors, engaged in a continual conversation spanning light-years and millennia. some worlds transmit introductions and translation guides at intervals, some only transmit noise or encrypted signals. Some transmit for a while and then fall silent. Most of the traffic is for intraplanetary use whose broadcast is incidental, which serves as an autobiographical record for that world, to their neighborhood. The neighborhood watches world conquering empires rise and fall from a distance. They see the worlds that talk themselves into nuclear war and then go quiet. Some resume transmitting after some time. Some individuals or groups maintain correspondences over millennia. Some of these correspondents are worshiped as gods.
Instead we get crickets. 1/10 would rather be in the galactic downtown.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 27d
If only
cosmos8188@leminal.space · 4 pts · 27d
Yep with the state of the earth, crickets are becoming a rarity 😥.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 26d
True. Space crickets would be a significant upgrade over the silence. Some kind of astrophage-ish spaceborne organism perhaps, that sing in light to communicate with nearby colonies.
ladicius@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d
There are aliens in this galaxy. 8 billion of them.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 26d
That's true, and they are cool and all, but I wish there were more.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 26d
Sounds like a fun time at the club! 😁
vrek@programming.dev · 7 pts · 27d
I mean... I can't say he's wrong...
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 7 pts · 27d
I also seethe about how spread out everything is ngl.
otter@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 27d
Fair enough, some people prefer smaller phones
It's overhyped? I didn't know that, but good to know
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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
I was expecting an explosion joke
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 26d
Dude, have you seen Andromeda reviews ? We got it good.
... I am letting everyone decide if it's about the thing with Kevin Sorbo or Mass Effect, or whatever other one I might not know.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23d
Too big! Yes! I remember the good old days when phones were phones and "Note" is a big phone which is slightly smaller than tablets.
Nowadays every fucking phone is a fucking brick. A small phone today is as big as those "Note" variants.