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Cake day: February 25th, 2024
  • TruthAintEasy@kbin.socialtoSpace@lemmy.world•Why does our civilization send signals and our location into space?
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    6 months ago

    You see, I myself was conflicted.

    On one hand, I can see how repeated frequent personal tragedies of violence can break a person to the point that they hate everyone they see. I can sympathise with that, growing up I was the arbitrary target at school and at home most of the time. It brought me to some really dark places in the past. Things are much better now but it leaves a stain, it lurks.

    On the other hand, she was explicitly warned that Trisolarans were looking to conquer a new planet and just flat out ignored it. I get being angry and depressed but willfully stupid in an otherwise smart person is much harder to forgive. I mean, she discovered ETI… become famous? Naaahhhh lets doom everyone because I’m mad at the government.

    That scene really stuck with me

    Have you read The Locked Tomb series?

  • TruthAintEasy@kbin.socialtoSpace@lemmy.world•Why does our civilization send signals and our location into space?
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    6 months ago

    Here is my take on it. It all depends on if there is some sort of hard limit on how much we can accelerate an object with mass in space.

    If we are capped at say, 25% of the speed of light we will most likely never meet our intragalactic neighbours. The times scales and distances involved are insurmountable and economically they would have no reason to attempt travel to another inhabited planet. The journey is too dangerous on many levels to be worth attempting. No reason to contact, no reason to fight, many closer resouces in our respective solar neighbourhoods that wont shoot missiles at us.

    If we live in a universe that allows for FLT or even just 99.9999 percent of c then the alien overlords are already aware of us and are chill enough to leaves us be for the most part. So it really almost doesnt matter in my opinion.

    I did love the 3 body problem trilogy, Liu Cixin is a master story teller.

  • TruthAintEasy@kbin.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•puts hair on your chest
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    6 months ago

    Thank you for taking the time to write such an informed response :)

    I personaly belive their ‘thought proccess’ as limited as it is functions via the movement and increase/decrease of hormones. I think this because of how you can make marijuana plants do different things by adjusting their light cycles and ambient temperatures, or just blowing an oscillating fan over them and trimming them a certain way. That is just my uneducated guess

    I definetly dont think trees are holding debate forums lol

  • TruthAintEasy@kbin.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•puts hair on your chest
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    6 months ago

    This is why when people laugh at me for saying things like trees have concsiousness, and are kinda racist, I dont care. Science needs to catch up to intuition sometimes and Im not good at math so Im not going to be able to prove that tree’s have a rudimentary form of cognition and intention.

    Anyways, someone else already proved trees make decisions, cant remember where I read it but a big oak will feed baby oaks via root contact, and will feed certain other trees too, but not as much, because it favours its own species.