Alice chases The Fermi Paradox Down a Rabbit Hole..

Alice chases The Fermi Paradox Down a Rabbit Hole.. 

Hi WWW

Like Alice, I was curious why the rabbit checked their watch.. I'm very very late he said. We've had the ability to study the sky for thousands of years now.. and even in modern times, our abilities in knowing our cosmos, are truly astounding. Where are the aliens? .. are they as the rabbit.. simply running late?

We have mapped our Galaxy.. the star map was completed just this year, in 2022 (Gaia).. I *did* wonder why Starlink didn't contain also multi linked outward facing radio telescopes.. like the Doctor Who 2010 Episode  'The End of Time'..I mean Starlink is basically a network of radio satellites already..  but I digress.

What are these maps for? What is their purpose? A lot of money has been spent on them.. why? All those telescopes pointed outside of our solar system.. why?

It's not like we can ever go to these places.. well not within the next 1000 to 3000 years... but even that is pure imagination.. 

firstly outside of our solar system, are amounts of radiation the like of which we have never seen, the Galactic cosmic rays/radiation would kills us stone dead. And the distances involved are jaw dropping; At a conventional 17.3 km/s, it would take 73,000 years to travel to our nearest star Proxima Centauri.. 73,000 years in deadly radiation. No amount of water is going to wash *that* off! No matter how long the rabbit checks their watch.. 73,000 years is too long..

Sure sure.. one day FTL etc.. but even FTL, brings up paradoxes and even more radiation..

For the next thousand years.. why not turn our Solar system in to our home, we have failed stars that have mini systems of their own, that we can ACTUALLY travel to within a year or two.. It is these system we require mapped..

Astronomers are our cartographers.. but do we really need yet another map of another star system that we aren't going to go to for 1000-3000 years? .. What we DO need however is detailed maps of every single speck, of every valley of every planet, moon, asteroid, centaur and every object inside our solar system.

Imagine.. we had live feeds of satellites, from around every planet and moon available on the internet, 8K, available for everyone to see, to inspire.

Little Green Aliens

I believe in alien life but not in alien civilizations; I believe in alien fish, cows, plants, insects etc, but no civilization.

I *think* the money spent on Telescopes and Radio Telescopes, except for Asteroid/Comet threating Earth or the Sun for sunspots and coronal ejections, needs to be diverted in to.. 'lets go there' rather than 'lets rent a spyglass'.. Even small missions to simply gather video and pictures, mini satellites whose only job is to let us all see whats there. Instead of pie in the sky, aliens who bake..

Also there's no sense in making huge telescopes on Earth, whilst Pluto, Charon or Kuiper Belt worlds would be ideal. Once we occupy all our solar system, building a telescope there would be a simple matter, that would return much more than spending huge sums upon the Earth.

Imagine satellites that can land, refuel from a moons atmosphere and relaunch.. now that would be a mission worthy of creating!

A mini nuclear reactor for electricity, diffuse hydrogen and oxygen from the water/ice on Callisto or Ganymede or Europa, diffuse methane/oxygen/hydrogen from Titan, land, refill the tank and be off again to orbit another Jovian or Saturnian world (moon).. imagine 20 of these mini craft per Gas Giant doing this constantly. They're only job; to send back detailed video.

Astronomy jobs should decrease until we need Astronomers again to map the Oort Cloud, which is best done from a Trans-Neptunian world. For now.. maybe.. searching for craft- suitable landing zones on solar bodies.

I'm getting really tired.. and hungry.. maybe finish this up another time.. but for now I'll publish. It's crazy we have systems here we can get to in a short time and we are spending billions on hippy telescopes.

Dava

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Update: 27/June/2023 

Thinking about this again..

Q: what is the smartest way for a civilization to create advanced apex technology, with the least amount of effort and resource usage?

A: Develop AI and robotkind smart and able enough that they can develop it on their own to the peak of technological advancement.

Problem: By the time AI were finished doing this, the civilization might have died out.

A: If the civilization (like in the movie Interstellar) lived on a stable planet next to a black hole, time further away would move quicker.

If humans had the ability to reach and live in such a relatively fast place while leaving Robotkind on a  slow place and given them much time, this would quicker the advancement of the technology.

Prose: Not that I believe in Alien civilizations but.. if such a thing existed, their radio signals would be very different.

Why? time dilatation would shorten or lengthen of the light wave.

I have often said.. the speed of light is NOT constant but relative to local gravity.

If such a (alien) signal existed it would would be many Hz below what would be expected.