"Feeding Time at the Human Zoo: Why We Never Get Invited..." Topic

… to Extraterrestrial Parties.

"The Fermi Paradox, or the contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for such civilizations, has us scratching our heads. We've come up with a lot of explanations for the apparent absence of alien critters from the inevitable self-destructiveness of advanced life, to the notion that the universe is young and we just happen to be the first in the neighborhood, to the fact that our anthropocentric version of sentience means we wouldn't recognize them if they contacted us, to the possibility that life-sterilizing gamma ray bursts are a popular astronomical event that periodically wipes out civilizations before they can get their colonization on. I like to think of our current constellation of hypotheses for the abject loneliness of human existence as largely "outward-facing". That is to say, our response to the possibility that we weren't invited to the galactic party (perhaps it's just our personal hygiene) results from the fact that there is no party, when in fact, a little self-examination would suggest that we're not on the guest list because we're likely to get drunk, hit on the hostess, and wear the lampshade as a hat. We tend to valorize the role of the "party animal", conveniently forgetting that at least 50% of that oeuvre is "animal". It might have been fun for a little while, when aliens wanted to play Jenga with pyramids, but after a while it just gets embarrassing. After all, monkeys are fun to dress up and play with around the house for a short time, but eventually they start throwing feces and biting people's faces off. That's why one of the under-appreciated suggestions for why extraterrestrials aren't landing on the White House lawn is the Zoo Hypothesis…"
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Armand

Actually, we used to rule the galaxy. All the aliens revolted, exiled us to this planet, then blasted us back to the Stone Age.
Occasionally, they check on us(UFO's), they even had one accident(Tunguska), maybe even screwed up our space probes.

So we're quarantined, interdicted, jammed and blockaded.

If there's ever proof of this…..

Quite interesting…

Amicalement
Armand