The Dark Forest solution to the Fermi Paradox imagines the galaxy as a place where every civilization hides, afraid that making noise will bring hunters.
But life itself is noisy.
Long before radio, rockets, or cities, Earth was already advertising biology through oxygen, methane, water vapor, vegetation, and seasonal atmospheric changes. A living planet is not silent; it is a beacon. So if alien civilizations are really watching for life, they may not need to wait for anyone to shout.
In this short, we look at the big problem with the Dark Forest: biosignatures make hiding nearly impossible.
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