perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
Earth being the Ukraine of space NATO would be funny
perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
Earth being the Ukraine of space NATO would be funny
I thought of more "paperwork" tasks at first. ET but he's really into making sure your Space Tax forms are 100% correct. You didn't forget to get a permit for that Ion Cannon did you?
Space Biden: “We will fight Xenu to the last earthling.”
Space John Bolton: “WE HAVE TO NUKE YAKUB! JUST LET ME NUKE YAKUB!”
pretty sure we are living in a zoo. it's the only scenario that logically makes sense.
There's still some weird implications and assumptions though. Either galactic civilization must not be highly developed b/c we'd notice all the megastructures, or they put a planetarium around our solar system (paper mentions this). But how the hell would that work? The answer is just indistinguishable from magic. Same thing with hiding infrared emissions.
Earth is a laboratory. Every few million years the galactic powers that be accept a new grant proposal from an alien postdoc. That lucky researcher then gets exclusive rights to transform the planet for their experiment. The first such experiment was the Cambrian Explosion. The dinosaurs were another. Extinction events are when they wipe the planet for the next researcher.
The latest experiment got a little out of hand when the apes invented nuclear weapons and risked irradiating the whole laboratory.
They do explore the Zoo hypothesis in the paper. I don't personally think it's very likely, but it's possible.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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