middle of an alien war between two civilizations far more advanced than our own the chance isn't zero but we've never seen evidence for any of this and we'd probably have been vaporized long before now possibly even millions of years before we arose here if that were the case but the interdict scenario motivates us to think in terms of the great silence being artificial and that alien civilizations in the end ultimately hide from each other or have a bar at which their existence is kept secret until a developing civilization is ready for contact or contact may never come at all because aliens simply leave each other alone that's something we might also do if we ever discover an alien civilization we might choose not to message them with a medi-signal due to it being rather dangerous because of all of the unknowns involved in contacting an alien civilization there may be a time centuries from now where we know of many alien civilizations in the galaxy he had contacted none of them and only passively watched their activities from a distance this in itself is a separate solution to the fermi paradox but on the other hand who wouldn't want to chat with an alien civilization especially if the distances are simply too great for anyone to pose a threat to each other the conversation might last for thousands of years and would be painfully slow at the speed of light but that it could happen at all would be among the greatest discoveries in human history and over time we might learn what an alien civilization is like and the reality of that is that there is a kind of natural interdict scenario for our location in the universe where you do eventually get to learn about aliens but the universe itself limits you on what you can know until you're by default an ancient civilization yourself thanks for listening i am futurist and science fiction author john michael gautier currently eyeing a plastic pterodactyl suspiciously a flying reptile with sharp teeth is sort of like the idea of a land shark a bad thing to have around humans i know birds descend from the dinosaurs but they lost the teeth that asteroid did us a favor and be sure to check out my books at your favorite online book retailer and subscribe to my channels for regular in-depth explorations into the interesting weird and unknown aspects of this amazing universe in which we live
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN thanks for listening i am futurist and science fiction author john michael gautier currently eyeing a plastic pterodactyl suspiciously a flying reptile with sharp teeth is sort of like the idea of a land shark a bad thing to have around humans i know birds descend from the dinosaurs but they lost the teeth that asteroid did us a favor and be sure to check out my books at your favorite online book retailer and subscribe to my channels for regular in-depth explorations into the interesting weird and unknown aspects of this amazing universe in which we live END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN