Monday, October 24, 2005

James Nicoll's Humans as The Elder Race

James Nicoll has a very interesting post on his Live Journal: What if Humanity is the Elder Race (ie The First Ones).

Unfortunately, the follow-ups to it are not as thoughtful.

The idea is fascinating and explains the Fermi Paradox w/o needing to go into handwaving. It's not my prefered hypothesis, but it'll do. It's my second favourite, actually. My first one is that intelligent species go through a boom-bust cycle (exploration, expansion, extinction) and the last time around Earth wasn't so interesting and at best only had a handful of visitors that cleaned up after themselves. However, Humanity as the First Ones works too.

Perhaps even better.


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