Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say. And I totally agree. But there's one problem. This argument dovetails with, and supports, Hayabusa's "Great Filter" argument that you maligned above as being an ill-informed product of "pop sci fi." His was a different way of framing the argument. He framed it as: sentient species have a tendency to kill themselves off before they could find another sentient species, or be found by another sentient species. I would have added to his argument, "or die off from natural causes, such as the collision of celestial bodies, etc." Otherwise, it's basically the same argument you just made. If sentient species tend not to last terribly long, there must be reasons for this. Our own sun won't burn out for billions more years, but it seems unlikely we'll still be around when that happens. The reasons can only broadly be either extinction by natural cause or extinction by self-destruction. Pretty much what he argued except that he failed to mention natural causes.
So basically, you just derided his point, then supported it with your own argument. You would have been better off sticking with how interstellar travel is nigh impossible. Instead, you had to add another argument to show how smart you are, and in doing so, you unwittingly supported his point.
It's a rather distinct difference between why something doesn't happen because we're too stupid and because we're too smart. If this isn't self-evident, try to research and contrast the two highlighted terms which embody that distinction. You might also come to find it's the same one underlying this argument.
I didn't think my english was ambigiuous, in fact I know it wasn't. There could be many reasons and I merely explicitly mentioned two possibilites among many. Pretty much everyone got it, but some are developmentally incapable it seems. No matter, this thread isn't supposed to be about space and that subject has been discussed from Fermi's time on. I won't go into them because I shouldn't parrot somewhat smart people like Fermi and John von Neumann
Perhaps our expert should call the idiot Stephen Hawking and set him right about this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hip-to-alpha-centauri/?utm_term=.d5c96b4c137e
Well at least I'm hard to find in the real world so creepers are restricted to Minecraft.
As a simple example to help that process, smart people generate interesting ideas/arguments, and it's the role of dummies to parrot them like a cargo cult for intellect. The former are participants in the marketplace of ideas and the latter are not.
Smart people also know that $100million and free publicity is a pretty good deal for limited amount of work.
Did someone lose a sick puppy? It keeps following me around biting at my ankles.
Thanks for reinforcing why moonbeam's is an exercise in futility.