@Lazarou @nyrath They found earth almost too late, and then procrastinated on solving our problem because nearly half the council voted "let them burn" because humanity is considered The Virus in galactic circles.
Hundreds of space-faring civilizations, thousands of uncontacted ones, and Humans are the only ones who came up with the concept that you can own ideas.
They nearly let us die because of the dread mind-killer, "copyright"
@Lazarou @nyrath Anyway it was mainly just me finding it hilarious that the real reason for the Fermi paradox might just be that more enlightened alien races find us absolutely disgusting, for minor ideological reasons.
Like, sure, the Beta-Cassiopeians have killed billions, but they've got a locust-style reproductive strategy, they naturally swarm and overwhelm their enemies with sheer numbers... But at least they don't claim ownership on THOUGHT ITSELF!
@foone I worked with one writing group on a game that worked off of the idea that we were considered to be in a bad neighborhood so we got missed.
@dbolack nice. I have seen some stories that go by the idea that Earth is such a death world that some aliens flew by like 500mya and was like "god, nothing could ever evolve on that disaster of a planet, mark it down as 'can't support advanced life'" and never came back to check.
@foone We were mostly riffing off of the idea that Sol was in a "there be dragons" territory and that Sol wasn't the actual issue. When the group broke up I repurposed the idea as the plural of apocolypses happened here and we came along later. But nothing else ever did.
