Does anyone else feel mildly ill when they think about the implications of Fermi's paradox? I remember hearing a radio program about a guy who was deeply disturbed by "the silence." I thought it was so silly until I sat with it for awhile and considered the implications of a silent universe. It suddenly felt like everything on our planet - factories billowing smoke and statues piercing through the clouds and fisherman hauling in the latest catch - all of it suddenly seemed so trivial and small and lonely, like a little kid doing a play for two of their plastic action figures alone in a forest.
Does anyone else feel mildly ill when they think about the implications of Fermi's paradox? I remember hearing a radio program about a guy who was deeply disturbed by "the silence." I thought it was so silly until I sat with it for awhile and considered the implications of a silent universe. It suddenly felt like everything on our planet - factories billowing smoke and statues piercing through the clouds and fisherman hauling in the latest catch - all of it suddenly seemed so trivial and small and lonely, like a little kid doing a play for two of their plastic action figures alone in a forest.
Thank you. This is an evocative set of images. Makes us think.
If Jonathon Keats is Chief Terrestrial Librarian, can I be the first Chief Extraterrestrial Librarian?
You are fully qualified as you are fluent in one of the inter species languages
Yes you should. He copyrighted his mind. But everyone wants to be a librarian.