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What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America, like the whole Galaxy knows we're here but they've agreed not to contact us until we figure it out for ourselves? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's called the zoo hypothesis.

It's weakness is that "only a single dissident group in an alien civilization, or alternatively the existence of galactic cliques instead of a unified galactic club, would be enough to break the pact of no contact."

It's also highly speculative. If we assume a vastly more advanced community chooses to not be seen by us, that makes it by definition nearly impossible to either prove or disprove the theory. For me, that's a red flag.