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Originally Posted by Argos
Well, such activity wouldn´t necessarily leave traces that could be detected [by people like us] on the order of parsecs [let alone the fact that such activities would presumably be carried out with a high efficiency, with minimum energy requirements]
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For that matter, flesh and blood aliens going about their daily business
may not either. We ourselves couldn't detect us. To me Fermi's paradox means that life is even more precious then it seems. Also, we talk of solar system, and star fairing peoples, but does a single planet have the resources to develop the infrastructure to plunder the vault of heaven? Sure it happens all the time in science fiction, but so far we haven't done squat in that direction, and sadly show no signs of doing so. We have done much research, and that is admirable, but it feeds and clothes no one.
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