this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
33 points (76.2% liked)

Astronomy

6103 readers
193 users here now

A community for sharing astronmy-related news, content, research, photographs, etc.

When sharing photographs and articles, please make an effort to include source URLs.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Sal@mander.xyz
33
Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason (www.popularmechanics.com)
submitted 2 months ago by original_reader@lemmy.zip to c/astronomy@mander.xyz
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

We just live too far apart.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's really hard for the human brain to intuitively grasp exponential growth. Anyone who says a galaxy is "too big" hasn't actually run the numbers on that.

FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.

FTL is in no way necessary to allow for interstellar colonization to proceed.