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[L_B_123]

Think about it, many of us believe that there is life beyond earth,  that  we don't live alone in the galaxy- which I agree with. Would it be far fatched to think that reapers do exist, perhaps in another form but basically doing the same function. 
After all we wouldn't know of their existence yet because we'd be classed as a primitive species to them so they wouldn't attack. 
I think it would be quite interesting, as it makes you wonder would we be able to beat the reapers too, or would we fail quite quickly an be wiped out,

[trenq]

I believe the reapers wiped out the dinosaurs, because they were very advanced.

Modifié par trenq, 21 décembre 2013 - 12:28 .

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Maybe galactic civilization was booming millions of years ago and some idiot made the reapers and they wiped out all intelligent life in the galaxy. Millions of years later we evolved and we're all there is.

Reapers? Shmeapers.

We might as well be all there is. I'll never live to see anything more.

[L_B_123]

trenq wrote...

I believe the reapers wiped out the dinosaurs, because they were very advanced.

hahs oh thanks,got an image of a trex flying a ship through space now

[David7204]

Anything's possible.

[themikefest]

There might be.

We should send a team of scientists to Mars to start digging for artifacts that will lead to plans to stop them. By the time 2186 rolls around we would have the weapon ready to fire when they enter our galaxy.

[PMC65]

There could be aliens like the reapers or the borgs or even more horrific than we can imagine. 

Let's just hope that if NASA's Voyager-1 probe is found by one of our neighbors, they are from the really nice part of the galaxy. I mean, it would really suck if that golden record ends up being our demise. 

[MassivelyEffective0730]

trenq wrote...

I believe the reapers wiped out the dinosaurs, because they were very advanced.

No, that was clearly Adric's spaceship blowing up.

[dreamgazer]

Mhmm. I actually hear they're responsible for indoctrinating execs and producing the recent Battlestar Galactica television reboot as a cautionary tale about organics and synthetics.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

dreamgazer wrote...

Mhmm. I actually hear they're responsible for indoctrinating execs and producing the recent Battlestar Galactica television reboot as a cautionary tale about organics and synthetics.

And the Daleks are what happens when you choose Synthesis.

[ruggly]

Soon

[Andrew Lucas]

^^ primitive reaper

[dreamgazer]

ruggly wrote...

Soon

I feel indoctrinated. 

[Shuidizi]

Any civilization advanced enough to create something that complicated is smart enough to know nothing should play god and interfere with nature, of course I can't outright cast out that possibility, but I can say with much confidence that possibility is very very low.

[Argentoid]

trenq wrote...

I believe the reapers wiped out the dinosaurs, because they were very advanced.

Life canon.

BTW, it sounds interesting that maybe Earth got hit by mass accelerator weapons.


In that case, meteors = mass accelerator rounds.

Or Reaper orbital strike

Modifié par Argentoid, 21 décembre 2013 - 04:57 .

[zed888]

Nope. I'd be willing to bet blended organic life-forms would make a very poor material for building space ships.

[His Name was HYR!!]

L_B_123 wrote...

trenq wrote...

I believe the reapers wiped out the dinosaurs, because they were very advanced.

hahs oh thanks,got an image of a trex flying a ship through space now

I can help with that:

Modifié par HYR 2.0, 21 décembre 2013 - 06:47 .

[Ieldra]

@OP:
Define "Something like the Reapers". There are knowledgeable people who think that if we ever meet extrasolar intelligent life, it will most likely be synthetic. I also find it plausible to think there are lifeforms which are hyper-advanced compared to us, in a similar way the Reapers are to ME's galactic civilization. That's as a far as I'm willing to go, however. While the Reapers present a neat solution to the Fermi paradox, the concept of intelligent starships with the conjoined minds of whole civilizations with an explicit agenda of cyclical genocide is too specific to believe in on grounds of pure speculation.

[Excella Gionne]

If it happened, then we are all psychic. But we'll never live to see that far anyways.

[Dean_the_Young]

@OP:

I doubt it. I suspect, rather than some sinister actor, the answer to the Fermi paradox will be 'there is life out there, but the limits of physics prevent any single coordinated force from bridging the galaxy.

If species are being wiped out before they can escape their systems, it's probably more because of natural disasters, infighting, and so on rather than external threats.

[JasonShepard]

*Could* be real? Maybe.

Is real? Doubtful.

Speculation about alien life quickly runs into the Fermi Paradox, which holds that with reasonable estimates of flight speed and colonisation abilities, we really should have heard about intelligent alien life by now, if it was at all common. (Extra Credits gave a decent explanation of the problem here.)

So I'd guess that intelligent, space-faring aliens are fairly rare, all things considered. Far too rare for something like the Reapers to have developed.

Of course, an alternative explanation is that something like the Reapers does exist, and they eat any species that manages to get outside its home solar system. However, I prefer to sleep well at night rather than speculate about ridiculously powerful alien life that plans to kill us all. Especially since there's nothing we'd be able to do about it.

Modifié par JasonShepard, 21 décembre 2013 - 03:19 .

[crimzontearz]

Ah, the Fermi paradox

Love it

Of course there is always the possibility that we are being kept in the dark until "ready"

[Armass81]

Fermi Paradox has many possible answers to it, whats the truth? I guess well just have to see, wont we?

Im personally in the lines of prime directive/keeping us in the dark or we dont even know what were looking at answers.

SETI searches for an answer from a civilization that seems to be about the same level as us in development, give or take a couple of hundred years, with radiowaves.... yeah good luck with that. There may be a handful of them now but  like in ME theyre likely far away from us, even in the other arms and corners of this galaxy. Others are just way too advanced to care, maybe bound by rules or simple lack of intrest, or simply in the caveman stage or dark ages for us to bother with that. It is also possible that those waves start to dissipate after traveling a certain distance, they simply get lost in space, and we have to find a more efficient way. Maybe after we find it we start to get noticed more. 

As for something like the reapers, I really hope not.

Modifié par Armass81, 21 décembre 2013 - 08:22 .

[JShepppp]

ruggly wrote...

Soon

I literally LOLed.

[Reorte]

Armass81 wrote...

Fermi Paradox has many possible answers to it, whats the truth? I guess well just have to see, wont we?

Im personally in the lines of prime directive/keeping us in the dark or we dont even know what were looking at answers.

Unfortunately I feel that those are explanations that I'd like to be true rather than ones that seem likely to be true.