One of the most perplexing things today is the notion of the the “Great Silence.” That is the simple question of why we haven’t been able to detect or find evidence for not just other civilizations in the galaxy, but life in general.
One theory that attempts to answer this dilemma is that once sufficiently-advanced civilizations reach a certain point in their technological development, they develop the ability to essentially download the digital equivalents of their organic forms into digital versions of themselves that can live nearly forever in a digital environment (or it’s equivalent, based upon whatever technology this civilization develops).
Therefore, the theory goes, there could be whole planets out there in the galaxy that are “dark” in terms of their electromagnetic output yet very much alive with what would be essentially “server farms” powered by solar energy from their sun, housing entire species on software platforms that live, in their subjective sense, forever in a digitally perfect environment. In such an environment, one second in the “real world” could be the subjective equivalent of one year in a digital world. The theory makes sense. Indeed, if we ourselves develop such technology, one is safe in assuming we’d use it.
Therefore, there would be no need to travel into space, and definitely no desire to contact other civilizations. The energy cost would be lower than the cost of space travel for organic forms, which has a multitude of problems and costs.
One would think it wise that if one did this, one would hide the servers in safe locations, locating them near endless energy sources, and optimally guard them with any means possible. Wouldn’t one create the equivalent of AI-driven robotic “monitors” that, over the course of the ongoing millennia, keep the servers protected while monitoring progress in the “real world?” Monitoring would include being on guard for natural disasters such as meteor strikes. This would likely include being on guard for any species that develop in the planet that, over thousands of years, might prove a threat.
At present, we understand that the Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old. Life has arisen, and been extinguished, at least five times that we know during that time. The latest mass extinction was 250 million years ago, when 96% of marine life and 70% of land life was wiped out.
Archaeologists will acknowledge that it is certainly not safe to assume that we’ve discovered all of the various forms of life that have existed on Earth simply by looking at the fossil record. Fossils are hard to create, and it is actually luck that we find any fossils at all. With the eons, continents shift, natural disasters happen, and it is safe to say there may indeed be fossil records, or even records of past civilizations, that we may never know of.
It is a reasonable assumption, therefore, that there have existed on this Earth other forms of life that we do not have any tangible fossil evidence for.
Query: Was there a sufficiently-advanced civilization that existed Earth, during its billions-of-years history, that reached this point? Could such a civilization have built the equivalent of our server farms that now house billions of singular intelligences in a virtual environment?
If one builds such technology and eventually uses it, wouldn’t one want to do so in the murky depths of the oceans, deep below the penetrating strikes of meteors, destructive mechanisms of earthquakes,and other natural disasters that befall land-dwellers?
Wouldn’t there be endless sources of energy located under the oceans, near hydrothermal vents or just closer to the Earth’s core? One could “sleep” in this environment for eons
Is there such a “sleeper” civilization living in a virtual environment somewhere in the unexplored depths of our oceans? Could UAP be their “observers,” or monitoring AI robotic craft that are programmed to monitor the progress of Earth’s denizens over the eons? To protect the server-based citizenry from an advancing species on land that has created, among other things, nuclear technology?
If this were the case, wouldn’t it explain a lot?
Submitted July 30, 2022 at 10:02AM by Glanton4455 https://ift.tt/pVrxmAi
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