Brad malt: Why haven't we detected technologically advanced aliens yet? He says it's easy to come up with reasons why any individual technological civilization might destroy itself. But if you really thought that technological civilizations were thick on the ground, as it were, then you only need one of the ones in the past,. In our past, light cone, to escape killing them s and that civilization could fill the galaxy.
Welcome to the April 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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