What are you reading?

[The Valkyrie]

Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses, and Lichens of [Australia]. Volume 29c, Part 3.*

(Author unknown, but presumably dead.

Boru

* shamelessly stolen from Terry Pratchett

"Some of the sheep".

[Penubra Shade]

The God Delusion

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I've read a book about the Fermi paradox and I didn't realize how interesting concept it is. There is probably someone in our "neighborhood," but we have no evidence of them. So the question is, why?

I guess you could say that the space is too large, making it difficult to contact someone even with a signal, let alone a drone. And you probably do not need drones or spaceships to explore the universe; enough advanced computers could probably give you satisfying guesses about what the planets in the galaxy look like. Thus, if aliens are just little more advanced than us they have probably calculated that our planet has life, including intelligence, therefore they could be driven to send us a direct signal or some drone. But nothing yet.

So, every time you appear to have found an answer to the Fermi paradox, you raise new questions.

There ARE no answers to the Fermi Paradox, because it’s, you know, a paradox. If it could be resolved, say, by us being contacted by ETs, it would no longer be paradoxical.

Boru

[Ivan Denisovich]

Polish Dreyfuss Case by Grzeogorz Gauden. It's both depressing and uplifting; depressing because it shows how strong antisemitism was in post WWI Poland and uplifting cause it shows that there is no dumber animal than antisemite.

[Jackalope]

"Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity", Devon Price Ph.D

[The Grand Nudger]

On The Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases. Ward-1842. Obscure item..but it profoundly changed the natural and political world on a global scale.

[Nanny]

Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of our Alphabet from A to Z

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0767911733

https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index...er-perfect

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not really reading, per se, but researching A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor, In All Times and In All Countries.

I’ve been approached to build a functional suit of medieval armour, and I want to know what I’m getting into before I accept the commission.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

I've read a book about the Fermi paradox and I didn't realize how interesting concept it is. There is probably someone in our "neighborhood," but we have no evidence of them. So the question is, why?

I guess you could say that the space is too large, making it difficult to contact someone even with a signal, let alone a drone. And you probably do not need drones or spaceships to explore the universe; enough advanced computers could probably give you satisfying guesses about what the planets in the galaxy look like. Thus, if aliens are just little more advanced than us they have probably calculated that our planet has life, including intelligence, therefore they could be driven to send us a direct signal or some drone. But nothing yet.

So, every time you appear to have found an answer to the Fermi paradox, you raise new questions.

Or technological civilizations are rarer than Fermi thought and we're very far from the nearest other one. Our radio signals have only made it about 100 light years. Or they're closer than that and detected them fine and are on their way and will get here in a couple of hundred (or thousand) years, eager to learn more about us.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I've read a book about the Fermi paradox and I didn't realize how interesting concept it is. There is probably someone in our "neighborhood," but we have no evidence of them. So the question is, why?

I guess you could say that the space is too large, making it difficult to contact someone even with a signal, let alone a drone. And you probably do not need drones or spaceships to explore the universe; enough advanced computers could probably give you satisfying guesses about what the planets in the galaxy look like. Thus, if aliens are just little more advanced than us they have probably calculated that our planet has life, including intelligence, therefore they could be driven to send us a direct signal or some drone. But nothing yet.

So, every time you appear to have found an answer to the Fermi paradox, you raise new questions.

Or technological civilizations are rarer than Fermi thought and we're very far from the nearest other one. Our radio signals have only made it about 100 light years. Or they're closer than that and detected them fine and are on their way and will get here in a couple of hundred (or thousand) years, eager to learn more about us.

I like the notion (not my own) that technologically advanced ETs know all about us, which is why they haven’t contacted us. In fact, when they fly past Earth, they engage their cloaking devices AND lock their doors.

Boru