What do you think would finally be their, “Enough, we gotta say something!” situation?

Edit:
Put another way, what might serve as a cosmic icebreaker?

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    9·
    11 months ago

    Well if you’re an advanced alien race, imagine hearing this on your airwaves

    “What a joyous day, our messages have been received we’ve made first contact with an unidentified vessel in our solar system “

    A few days later

    “oh god why? They’re killing everyone it’s a slaughter out there”

    And radio silence.

    And imagine every time you hear something it ends the same way.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Right but then that relies on not existing in a dark forest. That is, you can detect signs of alien life, but then those signs tell you horrible things.

      The situation we have is that we see nothing.

      I guess the answer is that some civilisations reach a point where they broadcast themselves and get destroyed, whilst other civilisations reach a point where they receive those broadcasts and don’t reply before hearing the other civilisation get destroyed. So somehow they were listening at the exact right moment to discover that others are getting killed without responding, and that happened enough times that there is a whole universe full of quiet civilisations.

      I still don’t see the A to B. I cannot imagine any species curious enough to detect alien life and insular enough to not respond. If we got those signs we would reply immediately, almost definitely.