<story><title>Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/galaxy-simulations-offer-a-new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-20190307/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukifer</author><text>My favorite solution: The galaxy is teeming with life, but in the form of quasi-immortal software that lives at such vast timescales, they&amp;#x27;re as uninterested in talking to us as we would be in talking to a fruit fly. (Imagine Space Ents that say hello, and are perfectly content to wait 10,000 years for a reply.) It may well be that becoming such a life form is the only practical way to deal with the speed-of-light constraint, either in travel or communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t have conversations with paramecium.&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to build a Dyson sphere you would capture all the light from your star and might not exhibit ANY radiation.&lt;p&gt;We wouldn&amp;#x27;t see such a species and if there&amp;#x27;s such a small blink of time between the industrial age to the singularity the probability that there is an overlapping species is very very low.&lt;p&gt;We would only have about 20-40 years to actually have the technology to find them before we hit the singularity.&lt;p&gt;We have NO idea what happens after that point but my plan is to just chill with my wife in a virtual Yosemite park once we hit the singularity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/galaxy-simulations-offer-a-new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-20190307/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukifer</author><text>My favorite solution: The galaxy is teeming with life, but in the form of quasi-immortal software that lives at such vast timescales, they&amp;#x27;re as uninterested in talking to us as we would be in talking to a fruit fly. (Imagine Space Ents that say hello, and are perfectly content to wait 10,000 years for a reply.) It may well be that becoming such a life form is the only practical way to deal with the speed-of-light constraint, either in travel or communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>To continue the speculation, such &amp;quot;life&amp;quot; may be what can travel between stars but life such as our may still be common. Indeed, life such as our may be common enough that interstellar life merely takes note of it and moves on since novelty wears off quickly.</text></comment>