Hi Billy, On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Not sure why this is, but there is another and very obvious solution to the > Fermi paradox > discussed in the article below. To repeat something said before, but > doubtless forgotten by > one and all, Isaac Asimov once said, in reviewing much of the same Drake > mathematics > Krauthammer reports in his article, that the conclusion is inescapable that > "they" are > already here and do not want us to know that they are here for reasons of > their own.
Yeah, that's sometimes known as the "wilderness preserve" argument. See also Prime Directive. :-) The main problem with that is: a) If true, and effective, then for all practical purposes it is the same as if they didn't exist, since there's no conceivable way we could detect a civilization that doesn't want to be detected until our technology surpasses theirs. b) Those who believe there have been (or could be) signs of intelligence life must either i) admit they are wrong, or ii) argue the shield isn't very effective So yeah, it solves the problem addressed in the article, but for various reasons most groups who care don't find it particularly attractive. E -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
