@CaptMarkKelly Have you actually seen what public school is producing? No amount of money is going to fix this because we have these unverifiable education companies shilling the system. How about fixing the real problem?
Pathfinder Wisdom:
Gravitational Filter:
Okay, I'll answer this to the best of my ability. Fair warning; I'm about to drop some deductive reasoning backed by planetary science and astrophysics; so if that’s not your thing, feel free to keep scrolling.
Let’s start with a reasonable assumption: any interstellar traveling aliens would almost certainly be more technologically advanced than we are.
Here’s the key point from exoplanet data; The Milky Way has a disproportionate number of smaller terrestrial, i.e., rocky, planets with lower mass, and therefore significantly lower surface gravity than Earth.
By comparison, Earth is a motherfucking Death World simply by mass and thus gravity alone when stacked against the majority of terrestrial planets in our galaxy.
That means the statistical probability is that alien life, if it arises elsewhere, would most likely evolve on a planet with less gravity than Earth.
This creates a serious asymmetry.
On a low gravity world, you get,
Weaker geological activity,
Milder weather patterns,
Smaller predators, fewer true apex predators,
Less intense competition for resources,
Bodies of lower bone density & muscle mass,
Life forms that are generally more delicate and cooperative.
As a result, intelligent species evolving there would be adapted to weaker materials, lower structural stresses, and gentler environmental pressures. Even if they develop as predators, they would sit much lower on the predatory hierarchy than humans do.
Logically, such a species might conclude that complex life or at least their kind of complex life couldn’t arise on a high gravity world like Earth or a super Earth. They would naturally search for planets similar to their own; low gravity environments.
Here’s the crucial difference,
Humans evolved on a relatively high gravity world 1g. This gives us a major advantage: we can comfortably visit and explore all lower gravity worlds, and we can handle many higher gravity ones up to roughly 2g with technology and gradual adaptation.
A species that evolved on a low gravity planet would struggle enormously to adapt to Earth’s gravity, or any world significantly above their home gravity. Their physiology, technology, and even psychology would be tuned to gentler conditions. Visiting or colonizing a 1g plus world could be physically damaging or even impossible without extreme assistance.
In short; We can go to their worlds far more easily than they can come to ours.
Also, this isn’t hard scientific law, obviously, just like we see exceptions to generalities in our everyday lives, there may very well be outlier civilizations that have overcome this gravitational filter through advanced technology, genetic engineering, or sheer determination.
This gravitational asymmetry may help explain part of the Fermi Paradox; why we don’t see obvious evidence of advanced civilizations visiting Earth.
Unknown Pathfinder
Got an odd question, @elonmusk, would you consider buying the state of Colorado to free us from the liberal mind virus and their Marxist agenda?
It's beautiful here, I promise.
Got an odd question, @elonmusk, would you consider buying the state of Colorado to free us from the liberal mind virus and their Marxist agenda?
It's beautiful here, I promise.