We have no good reason to believe that aliens have ever contacted Earth. Sure, there are conspiracy theories and some rather strange reports about harm to cattle, but nothing credible. Physicist Enrico Fermi found this odd. His formulation of the puzzle, proposed in the 1950s and now known as "the Fermi Paradox", is still key to the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI) and messaging by sending signals into space (METI).
I vote we expand anyway, even if it’s done automatically while we’re in some kind of degenerate party simulation. It just seems like a shame not to build things for real.
I vote we expand anyway, even if it’s done automatically while we’re in some kind of degenerate party simulation. It just seems like a shame not to build things for real.