#zoo hypothesis

[futurebird]

Listen if your kid wants to raise humans, you need to understand they live in large groups. You can’t just plop a few thousand in a habitat and expect them to thrive — most kids get a small solar system or even a galaxy arm. Then your humans will make their little civilizations and wars and cultures it’s such a fascinating hobby! … one planet? well that ought to do. (I guess.)

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I'm a little worried about the humans the next door neighbor's kid keeps. Maybe I'm just being nosey, but I know that they only set up one planet for them (in an otherwise barren solar system designed to contain them.) I suppose it's easier if you just suppress space development. Saves you the trouble of using radiation zones to keep them contained-

They originally had 3 planets, but two were 2nd hand and their plate tectonics and atmospheres broke before the humans even got established.

From what I hear their civilizations are a little on the brutal side and I can't help but wonder if this kid's stingy set-up is in part to blame. Every human keeper enjoys watching war behaviors natural disaster response, but there is a fine line between observing nature, and putting creatures in a limited environment where suffering and disasters are inevitable.

The whole population is bottlenecked from some long ago event, but the kid says they don't even know what it was!

I remember some of the kits for keeping humans they sold when I was young. We knew a lot less about how they worked back then.

You'd just try to keep several thousand in bio box, and inevitably, if they didn't all kill each other they would find the borders of the box and focus all their energy on escape.

Human intelligence is remarkable for their size. Not saying they can think like we do exactly, but I often wonder if they are conscious like we are. It's possible in some rudimentary way.

[rootsinthefuture]

The zoo hypothesis speculates on the assumed behavior and existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from contacting Earth. It is one of many theoretical explanations for the Fermi paradox. The hypothesis states that alien life intentionally avoids communication with Earth to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and avoiding interplanetary contamination, similar to people observing animals at a zoo. (Wikipedia)

[the-riddler-that-can-riddle]

The fact that (assumedly) mermaids produce eggs and milk (boobs and, well, fish.) means that they could probably be classified the same as a platypus.

[doctorslippery]

[donotdestroy]

“The zoo hypothesis speculates on the assumed behavior and existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from contacting Earth. It is one of many theoretical explanations for the Fermi paradox. The hypothesis states that alien life intentionally avoids communication with Earth to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and avoiding interplanetary contamination, similar to people observing animals at a zoo. The hypothesis seeks to explain the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life despite its generally accepted plausibility and hence the reasonable expectation of its existence.”

[adastra-sf]

[ ID: tweet by tsaritsasimp06: u believe in stars? fool. those are holes poked in the container so we can breathe /ID ]

Related to two possible explanations for the Fermi Paradox:

the Zoo Hypothesis, wherein alien life intentionally avoids observation by Earthly beings to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and avoids contaminating our culture, similar to people observing animals at a zoo or Star Trek's Prime Directive.

the Planetarium Hypothesis, wherein our observations of the universe beyond the Earth-Moon system (or however far we've explored) are an illusion created by a powerful alien civilization capable of manipulating matter and energy on vast scales. Thus we cannot observe evidence of extraterrestrial life because the universe has been engineered (via vast "crystal spheres" or other physical or electronic barriers) to appear empty of other life.

[twiglet192]

THE LOOMING GREAT FILTER

What Is The Great Filter? Imagine the vastness of the universe, filled with billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, many of which have planets orbiting them. It seems statistically probable that life, even intelligent life, should have arisen elsewhere. This is the core of the Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who famously asked, “Where is everybody?” If the…

[b3crew]

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[cassandraxiv]

Love the Fool in a Field hypothesis! This is the Fermi Paradox solution I subscribe to, honestly.

Another problem with many Fermi Paradox "solutions" is that they only work if all aliens abide by them. It only takes one alien breaking into the zoo to reveal to us that we're not alone. The prime directive is a neat idea, but unless every individual spacefaring alien is on board, it is basically unenforcible.

I really like the Grabby Aliens theory. It states that we haven't encountered aliens yet because most civilizations that become interstellar become grabby and start gobbling up every solar system they can reach and prevent any new civilizations from arising there. So as civilizations go, you're either early, or you're not there at all. In other words, the fact that we're here at all may hint at us being one of the earliest civilizations to arise in the universe. The reason we haven't met aliens is because they simply haven't existed for long enough to reach us yet.

It's also good to take Great Filters into account. For about three quarters of earth's history, life consisted only of simple, mostly single-celled organisms. On a cosmic scale, any kind of complexity, let alone intelligence, tool use, language and civilization, is incredibly recent. That may suggest that these are not at all likely developments, and there is no guarantee that once life develops on a planet, it will develop into a civilization anytime soon or even at all. There is also no guarantee that a civilization that has reached our level will become interstellar.

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

[kitschke]

AOTD 5/30: Zoo Hypothesis - Tub Ring

i think i need to start getting up a little earlier and listening to albums before i start getting ready for the day. im just not a morning person...

[virtual-minotaur]

adding a new hypothesis to the fermi paradox: sapient extraterrestrial life exists but they dont want anything to do with humans

[ironychan]

The Zoo Hypothesis, but it's a comedy:

The Museum of Humans is a top-rated roadside attraction. You know how it is: you've been in space for decades, you're low on reaction mass, your larvae need to molt... stop here, fill up, use the facilities, and explore our little moon where we have habitats for over a dozen varieties of human, carefully collected from throughout their homeworld's history and kept separate so they won't fight! Look at all the different ways they decorate themselves! Watch their inventive, pre-antigrav ways of stacking up rocks! See them domesticate wildlife!

Gets a little awkward when the ship from Earth stops by.

[estradasphere]

my tub ring album ranking

ZOO HYPOTHESIS!!!!!!!!! > drake equation > fermi paradox > the velocity of progress = optics and sonics > secret handshakes > the great filter > all their demos (super scifi, mashed potato mountain, etc) > last and first men >>>>>>>>>> a choice of catastrophes

[bonbongiveshell]

I probably won't revisit this fic when I'm done, cause it's no price of forgiveness or hang the fool or etch the pain or the zoo hypothesis nothing, but it sure is taking me on an emotional journey

[finn-hasnoclue]

Let’s talk about Scar’s burgers. After seeing Hoffen’s (@/ink-ghoul) concerning posts about the burgers being offered at Scar’s zoo, I took a real look at them. Below is several picture, one being Scar’s thumb nail and the other 2 being captured and uploaded to r/Hermitcraft by user Affectionate-Jello83.

At first glance I thought it was a burger made out of an upsetting amount of onion. Which to each their own on their onions preferences. This was until I saw this post by Hoffen (@/ink-ghoul)

You can see that they listed all ingredients in the order depicted in the model they created. Minus one which was redacted, that strange thick slab of blue grey meat? After questioning I came up with a hypothesis, I have now come to realize I was not original in that and reddit user Affectionate-Jello83 also had a similar thought process so I cannot and will not claim that I came up with this. (I have not seen anyone else talking about it but if you have let me know and I will try to provide credit where it is due). It is believed that the redacted ingredient is meat as stated in this post by Hoffen.

PETA would not be interested if it was a non-animal based ingredient as PETA is an organization based on ethical treatment of animals and promotes veganism. Which brings is back to the question of what meat is this? Thankfully now the redacted ingredient is narrowed down to mobs in Minecraft containing meat. The best guess based on coloring and shape of burger (if you can call it that) patty would be dolphin.

If you look at the dolphin and the burger patty you can clearly see dolphin beak and fins sticking out both the sides and top of the burger. Further evidence is the coloring. Using both the thumbnail and the screenshots from reddit, you can see that several colors line up with the dolphin.

I have come to believe that the burger meat being served at Scar’s zoo is dolphin meat, most likely from the dolphins that have repeatedly been replaced in the aquarium car of the zoo (Flipper 1-10).

Also, Hoffen and Affectionate-Jello83 (from reddit) if you see this and there is a better way to credit you for your posts, let me know and I will adjust this :)