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- Larisa: At their latest conference, several leading astronomers engaged in a debate as to why no aliens have yet visited us, although the universe is believed to be rife with life.
- Larisa: Unfortunately, they failed to discuss the most plausible theory.
- Sandra: Which would be?
- Larisa: They’re afraid of us!
- Sandra: With good reason.
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I thought the most plausible theory is that sentient beings don’t tend to go visit creepy would be stalkers…
That story would be ‘Rescue Party’ by Arthur C. Clarke written in 1946. It was the first story he sold. to John W. Campbell and was published in ‘Amazing Stories’.
Since everyone’s putting out wild-eyed theories here I thought I’d throw in mine:
In another timeline we used to be the galaxy’s whipping boy. We were (are) the perfect slaves, smart enough to be taught to perform almost any task, extremely adaptable to many environments, stupid enough to be mollified by simple moving pictures, excellent stamina. Then after several failed rebellion attempts we decided to use some forbidden technology we stole to build a time machine and set about destroying the various alien races in our galaxy before they evolved. This timeline is a result of that xenocidal rampage and so there are no alien races in our galaxy because we erased them from time.
classic science fiction: “Danger, Human” by Gordon Dickson:
“”It’s not what he did,” said the academician, “but the fact that he did it. No member of another culture that we know would have even entertained the possibility in their minds. Don’t you see—he disregarded, he denied the fact that escape was impossible. That is what makes his kind so fearful, so dangerous. The fact that something is impossible presents no barrier to their seeking minds. That, alone, places them above us on a plane we can never reach.””
@ Melkior:
I can’t say I’m a very competent in quantum physic, but, among the few things I remember from my course, there is the fact that you can not send information faster than light by using quantum transportation.
Why ?
Because quantum transportation use two intricate particle. When you effect a measure on one of the particle, it collapse randomly into one states out of all possible states. Then, if you effect a measure on the other particle, you will find the same state as the first one.
But this state is random, (for example, it could be “yes” or “no”), you can not force it to be a particular state, and so you can not send a message (in fact, you would randomly send “yes” or “no”…)
In other word :
@ athroughzdude:
I feel pretty bad for them if they fear nitrogen, since it is one of the most common element in the universe.
Paul Davies used to work with/for SETI and writes about it in ‘The Eerie Silence’ pub 2010. His conclusion, which he supports very logically is that we haven’t heard from anyone because there’s no one there. It’s just us in this lonely Cosmos.
Well I think my first blonde female soldier in the XCOM2 will be called Larisa Korelev 🙂 I wonder if Firaxis will include the flamethrower…
they say lot of weapons should be improvized… 😀 😀 😀
Angelo Pardi wrote:
there are ways how to go around it… use 2 pairs of particles… know when you do the measurements… operate only on disctinct set of states…
you can not transfer quantum information but you can theoreticaly under extremly strain conditions pass on “classical” information. (you need to know when the “transmission” is “on”)
The artwork… It’s beautiful…
– Rule 34 Artist
(I wish I had likes.)
In point of fact, scientists would not bother discussing that possibility because fiction has so thoroughly covered it so far.
People talking about how rare life is in the universe as an argument for why they’re not here yet – likely don’t understand just what exponential growth means. We already could, with available technology assuming we cared to spend the money, fill the entire Galaxy in a million years or so. That means that it’s possible that such would have happened 13,000 times already – one after another after another.
The question of FTL communication, be it by quantum entanglement or whatever, is still not settled. The Alcubierre metric (and the associated theoretical “drive”) muddies things quite a bit, despite what the physicists keep saying, talking about “local light speed” crap. Local is *not* a well-defined term, as far as I can tell for their purposes!
Aha love it! Been reading your comic for a while now but this is my first comment. I would get on well soo much with Larisa. Great job with the comics they always make me smile
The people who argue that the Speed of Light is the One Unbreakable Law tend to gloss over the fact that the Speed of Light actually Changes with the density of the medium it is passing through.
Oh, and another argument for just Why we haven’t heard from any Alien races is that they may have decided that Interstellar Travel just isn’t worth the bother when they have so many more Important things on the “To Do” list.
Like putting the finishing touches on that Dyson Sphere they used up Every Single Molecule floating around their Sun to build.
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Or, as one Song put it: Mankind’s most Enduring Legacy may one day consist of a “Dyson Sphere” of Garbage completely surrounding our Sun.
@ Valkeiper2012:
I remember that story, but not whose it was. I also remember Alan Dean Foster’s “With Friends Like These…”
To Quote:
Jeremiah wrote:
I skimmed the book, but haven’t watched the show.
I asked myself, why would Aliens be so interested in “probing” abductees (if such did happen)?
The only really good answer I could come up with was they were ET sadists and we were easy marks. Rule 34?
Far wrote:
Here’s a fun fact BTW ants kill 30people annually c:
1)too far to reach and too hard to find in the vastness of space;
2)our civlization exists for 12k years at max. How hard is to notice 12 thousand years among billions? Who said that we’re not the first? Who said that we’ll exist for millions more years needed to wait for others?
3)a lot of possible lifeforms can be simply uncomprehensible and we probably won’t understand that was a lifeform.
U know, Larisa might be on to something, after all, Aliens might be just as Tech inpaired as us humans are.
And the fact that we will destroy our planet in this century means that they are probably looking elsewhere or just waiting for us to destroy ourselves.
At least thats what i would do.
Didn’t Larissa sell her flamethrower?
In an artistic sense, Powree, you do some amazing work (You too, Novil). I love seeing the progression of a fun style. I love looking at all the old comics, and all the characters seem to be younger, and now, all the kids are older and have so much more experience. I love seeing Sandra in the last panel, where she simply is just “used” to Larisa. I’m thrilled to see what happens next!
boson collider wrote:
Having FTL travel witout FTL communications is not a new idea.
In fact, there is a SCI-FI RPG in which THAT is the premise of the civilization.
Communications across the stars is ‘only’ as fast as the fastest ship.
The game?
Traveller.
(make sure you put 2 ‘Ls” in it)
Jerry wrote:
You’re right.
I can’t remember the name of the story, but I purposely refrained from stating the last line.
Valkeiper2012 wrote:
I kinda smirked when I read the story, because the writer forgot the aliens would not be using earthling measurements (miles, years, pounds, etc). Even as a 12-year-old, I knew that was a major mistake.
Melkior wrote:
Incorrect. The Fermi paradox assumes sublight travel. It starts by making an estimate as to how many sentient life forms would have existed on other planets how long ago. It then makes an estimate of which planets they could “hop” to, using rocket technology as we currently have it, combined with, potentially, cryogenic technology to allow their crew to survive the extremely long space travel.
The result is that even if they just had popsicle-people taking rockets from planet to planet, they should have already reached and conquered every habitable planet in the galaxy by now.
One possibility, however, is that they already passed through the earth several million years ago, saw nothing of interest, and just moved on.
Another possibility is that some alien president decided it’s a good idea to cut funding to alien NASA, and they stopped sending rockets into space before having even conquered their own solar system.
@ Melkior:
I remember reading about the building of the ABM system, they said computers couldn’t be built that were fast enough to do the job require. That CPU’s would never exceed 100 MHz clock speed.
And where are we now? ~4 GHz?
What will the genius that stands on Hawking’s back discover?
I want to live in the same place that allows people to walk around with flamethrowers on their backs. I don’t think you can even do that in Texas.
The arrogance of the modern scientist knows no bounds. Every one convinced through their orthodoxy that they have the nature of the universe by the ass and have absolute certainty that their view of the nature of the universe is infallible. If scientists of 300 years ago had the same degree of blind arrogance, we would still believe in aether. (oh… wait… most of them do… they just call it “dark matter” now)
The universe is infinitely more complex than the human mind can conceive. To call any theory “immutable” (even the sacred cow of “light speed barrier”) is beyond arrogant… it’s willful ignorance of the history of science. As few as 60 years ago, every “reputable” scientist knew that the universe was infinitely old, thus disproving every religious creation theory. Then along came Ryle and Clarke…
Larisa bought a new flamethrower, huh?
Fire in the Sky