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Originally Posted by eburacum45
I can imagine that some very advanced alien civilisations might adopt a low profile for reasons other than fear. Perhaps they prefer to blend into the background out of politeness; they might prefer the appearance of a galaxy which looks as if it is uninhabited.
They might even hide in this way for our benefit, so that we can continue to behave as if they did not exist, which for all intents and purposes they don't.
This leads on naturally to the Zoo hypothesis; we don't see them because we are being kept as specially preserved examples of our kind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
An ideal zoo might provide an environment in which the zookeepers were entirely invisible.
What does the Great Filter hypothesis tell us about such a situation? Well; there would obviously be a barrier for us to pass to move from the status of zoo exhibits to that of zookeepers. It may be the case that we would not be allowed to ever make that transition. We would remain as exhibits forever - and a filter which could potentially prevent us from passing to a higher status in the Galaxy would exist. |
Sorry, but stop this "Great filter" nonsense.
I said that even if they don't want to hide, the most advanced technologies would be virtually invisible.
Zoo hypothesis?It seems strange to me, why they would keep us in same state?What if they just want to watch and secretly guide our developement and not disrupt it by revealing themselves, then accept us into the "gods club" once we will be developed enough?What if advanced civilizations in this universe are watching and guiding the developement of sentients and then accept them as brothers and in turn watch another civilization etc.
What if there is actually no war between advanced civilizations simply because everyone achieved it's status due to someone other?
It is really a coincidence that our solar system seems to be litararly designed for life of our kind?
Possibilities are endless, and I am not claiming any of my speculations as sure facts, just possibilities and speculations.
But I think that when you wanna speculate about godlike civs, it is really stupid to assume that they would be detectable by us and postulating some type of galactic plague that prevents civs. from developing, and to assume that civilizations that manage to live for billions of years would have the same level of ego and narcissm as our human race has (let's face it) and that they would just wanna to control lesser civilizations as "exponates" preventing their growth and developement.
I am not saying they would be benevolent angels, just that evil, violence and dishonesty loving creatures would not survive to the stage of being gods.
Their malevolent ways would backfire on them, just as Hitler lost his narcisstic mad genocidal conquest.