There’s no way I made a mistake like that!

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The horrible secret: the popcorn are all clones of your mother.

Star Wars is all about the retro-future tech though. The Millenium Falcon is a “beater spaceship” for godsakes! I think “futuristic-but-junky” was a recurring theme in the SW universe. It was “a long time ago,” after all.

Man..... i thought I knew Lego could get pricey but holy hydrospanner!

I have this one Superman book, maybe the first I read that wound up doing anything for me.

Neverthless, it’s a weird coincidence that a retro-inflected, feel-good riff on Superman is out at the same time that the original Man of Steel is angrier than he’s been in a while.

Fuu, just reminds me of when that person did those super popular ff7 prints and then Square came in and NOPED the crap out of them >_<

Fixed.

I think the issue is not that life is so utterly rare, or that intelligent life is so utterly rare. I think the issue is one of transcendence and of the mindset to achieve it. In otherwords, we're not seeing ETI blazing across the universe because its not socially acceptable for us to see ETI blazing across the…

Just think of the theological arguments we could inspire!

I'd totally go for number 1. I can think of a couple more possibilities:

Here's some other possibilities;

The Maya civilization had already fallen by then, the Aztec were still in power at that time, then they collapsed.

OK, there's some speculative fiction I'd buy if it were well written.

Came here to say this. It's entirely plausible that there simply is no way for any current civilization to figure out the "space is really fucking big" problem, and physics may simply not allow for it to be 'figured out' practically.

Yeah, sometimes it seems like the people worrying about the Fermi Paradox are ignoring the fact that chance alone could explain us not being contacted.

The Mayan civilization went "extinct" (collapsed) in a world full of seafaring, empire-building civilizations who had the means to reach them, such as the Romans and Asians. To our knowledge, they were never visited by any people "from the outside" (ie from Europe or Asia) before their highly advanced civilization…

What is wrong with the idea that there may be plenty of civilizations but they did not solve the problems of interstellar distance? Maybe we have not been visited because there exists to practical way to solve the problem of interstellar travel.