• Spzi@lemmy.click
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    1 year ago

    That’s called the zoo hypothesis.

    It’s weakness is that “only a single dissident group in an alien civilization, or alternatively the existence of galactic cliques instead of a unified galactic club, would be enough to break the pact of no contact.”

    It’s also highly speculative. If we assume a vastly more advanced community chooses to not be seen by us, that makes it by definition nearly impossible to either prove or disprove the theory. For me, that’s a red flag.