Or the drive to explore and expand could be exceedingly rare. Hard for us to imagine, but who knows. Or every thinking race falls into a virtual reality hole when they achieve the technology to simulate reality at some level. They might not even have to perfectly simulate it—50% reality simmulation might be good enough as long as nothing bad ever occurs it or something.
Freegards
“Or the drive to explore and expand could be exceedingly rare. Hard for us to imagine, but who knows. Or every thinking race falls into a virtual reality hole when they achieve the technology to simulate reality at some level. They might not even have to perfectly simulate it—50% reality simmulation might be good enough as long as nothing bad ever occurs it or something.”
Unfortunately, not hard to imagine. It may already be happening. How much human capital has been blown on writing and playing video games? :) More than was spent in sending men to the moon, you can bet.