It seems like this theory is gaining prominence, and I think it's because it resonates by making so much sense... Before I used to believe in simulation as the answer to the Fermi Paradox explaining what happens in the late stage of intelligence (They digitize themselves into a safe and superior simulation), but the problem was is it didn't logically beat the numbers game of "Well okay, but even if 1% chose not to, why don't we see them anywhere?" The dark forest theory completely seals up that gap. They ARE everywhere, but everyone is hiding.
When every advanced species has effectively a doomsday device that can wipe out another civilization in the blink of an eye before they even knew what hit them, logically, everyone would want to hide so no one wipes them out, and attack first soon as they find someone else, to stay safe by not exposing themselves to someone else who can wipe them out.
This makes so much sense as to why they are hiding... And more than that, explains why the government wants to keep this ET things secret. Before, I used to not see much logic in why the government would keep ET's secret, especially if they had the tech. There is just too much money, power, prestige, and so on, to actually use it. However, if the answer is that 1) Using this tech will make our planet glow, it could invite first strike ET's to become aware of our existence and 2) The reality of the nature of what's going out in the universe, actually is terrifying.
Prior, I never liked the idea that "People can't handle the truth" as the reasoning, because I think the reasoning for it was always stupid that "religions would parish, people would panic, and society would collapse" merely knowing ET's exist. The simple knowledge of their existence wouldn't do that, especially considering a majority of people think ET's already visit the Earth (according to Americans anyway). However, if the knowledge of ET's also came with the revelation that sure maybe the Grey's are nice, but everyone is staying quiet and hidden (something they are great at) because there are hostile first strike hyper advanced species out there who have experienced a long history of watching civilizations get vaporized in a second. These first strikers have seen entire civilizations get wiped out, so they will not ever risk the chance of another civilization rising to advanced levels again. That they see any moderately intelligent species as a potential future threat, and will kill immediately without hesitation.
That would absolutely shake society to it's core, knowing for a fact that we are absolutely vulnerable with no defense, against a hostile species looking for advanced life to deploy a defensive first strike on. We'd lose our shit.
But it also solves so many more problems:
ET's are disabling our nukes, not because they want to save us from killing ourselves amongst each other. They've seen us experience extinction level events. They know some of us will survive and go on... What they are really worried about are nuclear bombs creating pings out into the universe that first strike species can use to locate our existence.
ET's are so elusive because that's what skill is required to survive in space. You have to have the technology to be as quiet and avoidable as possible.
ET's don't want to make contact, or our government admit it, because the knowledge of this could terrify us.
The universe isn't dead, but it's got plenty of highly intelligent life. It's just that the ones who survived to become advanced and haven't been wiped out, have learned to be very very quiet and masterful at avoiding detection.
The Grey's look humanoid because they are literally designed in our image to act as "divine" protectors. Humanoid because they would be able to more easily be approachable to humans when the time is needed. Another species created them in a lab with the sole purpose as sitting back with super advanced technology, to protect us from pinging out into the universe as well as defend against a potential first strike attempt (Think of that story told in Germany where they reported a battle between stars).
Overall, I think it just ties it all up. Why we don't see anything, why the government is hiding it, and why people like Lue and Tom talk about the truth being absolutely terrifying.
Submitted December 16, 2021 at 11:53AM by duffmanhb https://ift.tt/3FhS5Xv
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