Maybe the Aliens Aren’t Hiding, they’re Sleeping

[Binary_Bark]

When you consider that age of the Universe – 13.8 billion years by our most recent counts – and that which is “observable” to us measures about 93 billion light years in diameter, you begin to wonder why we haven’t found signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI) beyond our Solar System. To paraphrase Enrico Fermi, the 20th century physicists who advanced the famous Fermi Paradox – “where the heck are all the aliens?”

Naturally, Fermi’s Paradox has attracted a lot of theoretical explanations over the years – which include ETI being very rare, humanity being early to the Universe, and the aliens being extinct! But a new study by a team of scientists from the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) offers a different take on this age-old paradox. According to their study, the key to answering this question is to consider the possibility that the aliens are engaged in “aestivation”.

Essentially, aestivation is a prolonged state of torpor that organisms enter into during a particularly hot or dry period. Similar to what hibernating animals do during the winter, this state is designed to keep creatures alive until more favorable conditions emerge. And when applied to the cosmos, this concept could explain why one of the key things astronomers have been looking for – i.e. activity – has been lacking.

Read More at: https://www.universetoday.com/13590...-theyre-sleeping-waiting-universe-get-better/

 

[Ninja'd]

Yeah, the Great Old Ones.

 

[Deadmanza]

Yes. Like Calvin. Watch life if you wanna see what happens when you wake them from hibernation! :crylaugh:

 

[Compton_effect]

Once again - the sheer scale of the universe makes that argument sound stupid.
Think a soccer ball in Pretoria and a soccer ball in Cairo. That is a scale model of the Sun and Proxima Centauri. Its a big-ass world, very old and most likely with lots of life. Some of it intelligent. (Unlike, good old Earth - Trump, remember)
The odds of all other alien races deciding to go dormant at the same time is so damn unlikely, even more than us being the only ones.

Most likely - its very damn expensive to travel between stars, and we don't know what to look for yet.

Or...

 

[Moosedrool]

What? Maybe because we don't really see that well when looking at the universe. A dip in light during a planet transit in front of a star does give us some information about it but not whether there is life or not. Radio signals takes roughly 100,000 years to cross just this galaxy. And now we're reading articles about why we're not seeing aliens?

I really don't think these people consider the logistics when they say "We know the universe is 93 billion lightyears in diameter why haven't we found aliens?"

Then start assuming some stuff and writing a article.

 

[Compton_effect]

What? Maybe because we don't really see that well when looking at the universe. A dip in light during a planet transit in front of a star does give us some information about it but not whether there is life or not. Radio signals takes roughly 100,000 years to cross just this galaxy. And now we're reading articles about why we're not seeing aliens?

I really don't think these people consider the logistics when they say "We know the universe is 93 billion lightyears in diameter why haven't we found aliens?"

Then start assuming some stuff and writing a article.

Wikipedia class journalism. Sad, isn't it?

 

[chunk10]

Have you watched Ancient Aliens?