Galactic Empires May Live at the Center of our Galaxy, Hence Why We Don’t Hear from Them | In new paper, a team of researchers argue that the rules of General Relativity allow for existence of a Type II Civilization in our galactic core region – which could explain why we haven’t heard from them
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/galactic-empires-may-live-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-hence-why-we-dont-hear-from-them
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This was pretty much the premise of the book “Contact.”
What’s obviously at our galactic core is a crazed, megalomaniacal, telepathic being of pure energy that would like nothing better than to take over a starship so that it could spread its “wisdom” to all corners of the cosmos.
The center of our galaxy is home to a massive black hole, getting access to it would lead us to our lord’s home
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Maybe the closer to the core you get, the faster you can travel 😁
The galactic core doesn’t seem like an environment that would be very amenable to the development of life, no?
Our solar system has had a pretty uneventful history for the most part, that would seem to be a factor in our favor. Much denser stellar environment would have more interactions between star systems which would upset planetary evolution, plus more radiation in general.
While this might sound good it’s actually the people inside the center that are in a severe disavantage. By us moving faster in time than them we would have more generations of people and inventions while they would move slow. What this mean is that while for every year they experience there’s let say 100 of ours. In time we would have advanced much faster than them so unless they periodically send killer drones to kill nascent civilizations they could be overwhelmed really quick.
In my opinion they just left. They did what they did and then left to find an even great intelligence on the other side of the universe. They left a single disembodies intellect that was immensely powerful but childlike and unsophisticated in our galaxy.
And we are left here. The descendants of cowards that didn’t have the guts to follow.
Pham Nuwen thought that. Look what happened to him.
How close would you have to orbit Sgr A*, in order to have a 100X time dilation? Or even 2X? What’s the radiation environment at that distance?
Yeah sure and if they’re hiding behind a pulsar or inside a black hole, we also wouldn’t see them. But what would be the point of hiding behind a pulsar or in the case of this paper, going to the center of the galaxy? It’s not like things are better there, even for type 2 civs.
Aka if my cat is hiding inside a nuclear reactor, I’d never find her. I couldn’t go looking in there, and the radiation would cloud any measurements I’d try to take of theoretical cats. So I couldn’t rule out that there are no cats in there. But she has no reason to hide inside a nuclear reactor. So the whole exercise is ridiculous.
I’ve always felt that when people say “If other life exists out there, why haven’t we made contact?” is such an ignorant point of view, based on a very limited understanding of how huge space is. Like the universe is incomprehensibly big, Earth is basically a grain of sand on Tattooine. Some estimates put the number of *galaxies* within the observational limit at two trillion.
Why haven’t we made contact yet? I’ll go toss a grain of sand at the an unspecified beach and then ask you to find it.
That’s where the Grox are but they are very difficult to deal with. Sell off all your Spices for Planet Busters before you venture out there
So Earth is the hillbilly backcountry of the Milky Way? Explains a lot.
That’s a misleading article name.
A team of researches have a serious talk over some shrooms and c**aine.
Well, in terms of the size of the galaxy, here’s one mind-blowing fact I just recently learned. I didn’t know this. Imagine you shrink down the galaxy to about a one meter diameter, right, and you have it hovering besides you. One meter is about a yard. Did you know that if you were to look at this object, you would not be able to resolve the stars? If the galaxy is a meter across, the stars and all visible matter would be *subatomic*(!) in scale. I didn’t know that. In other words, the visible matter is so completely, utterly tiny compared to the container. It would look like a slightly glowing disc, but you could not resolve any detail. It would be like a frosted lamp effect. I always thought if you shrink down the galaxy to a meter, you would be able to see the spiral arms like we see in the pictures, but no. My point is that the container which we live in, the galaxy and further out from that the universe, is so incredibly large compared to our subatomic size. The universe on that scale, by the way, would be about 1000km across. We are like subatomic particles compared to the size of just one galaxy. I didn’t know that the ratio is quite THAT large. And that shows you that the distances, you know, or the ability to travel even within our galaxy is a huge endeavor because you’re asking beings living on subatomic particles to, you know, travel inches, centimeters or half a yard. The other interesting fact is that if you took all this glowing material in this one meter disc and put it in one corner, it would be the size of a bacteria. Again, unimaginable. Imagine a 1m box and there is a bacteria in it. Looks like an empty box. That’s our galaxy except the matter is spread out. 99.999% of it is not visible matter. If you look at starfields that look like sands on a beach it doesn’t seem like that from our vantage point.
Sounds like the reverse of “A Fire Upon The Deep” by Vernor Vinge
If you ever get ahold of a hyperdrive spaceship, that’s where you want to go. The Galactc Core. That’s where all the action is.
The first article that I have read that explained Drake’s equation plausibly.
Tim slows down in the center from the gravity of the black hole, so wouldn’t it be more likely on the edges where more time has passed for societies to develop?
Warhammer 40k irl. Let’s just hope they don’t find us.
A ack of evidence can not be evidence of evidence.
not having evidence of aliens, is not evidence suggesting that the center of the galaxy, is evidence of aliens….
Bullshit to many stars to close together. Gravity would be messing with any planetary system making orbits unstable and ort clouds firing comets all the time at inner planets