Clarke’s Fourth Law?
“Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature.” Explains everything from Avatar to the Fermi Paradox. Via MeFi.
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“Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature.” Explains everything from Avatar to the Fermi Paradox. Via MeFi.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 8, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Avatar, Clarke's Third Law, ecology, Fermi paradox, nature, science, science fiction, technology
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[…] “Clarke’s fourth law” is the name of Gerry Canavan’s post linking to the blog Next Nature’s post “Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature”. In the titles of their posts, the two blogs are referring to Clarke’s three laws. 1.When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. […]
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March 9, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Interesting. I’m assuming that your implication, is that as of this moment in time, no such advanced human civilization exists, or that if it does, it remains hidden as a matter of its own survival, we barbarians have yet to discover it and rape it.
William Satire
February 7, 2021 at 10:09 am