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What if Fermi Paradox due to advanced civs spending all their resources on redressing past injustices & no longer paying it forward
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Or with a cultural memory spanning only a few thousand years and scientific knowledge only a few hundred, we simply missed it.
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The Fermi Paradox seems to assume we'd be significant enough for an alien species that they'd leave a big "WE WERE HERE" sign.
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Which, if they had mastered interstellar travel enough to permeate the entire milky way, makes no sense at all. We'd be ants.
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Alien to other alien: "Oh look, they're building little pyramids out of bricks. Thousands of them for each. How cute."
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Or suppose aliens thought we merited attention and left a sign for us. Then we say "Wow, never knew nature could do that."
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I think Roadside Picnic had the best angle on it. But that story has aliens actually bothering to land and leave stuff here.