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Question for someone smarter than me: is this a similar argument to this[1] 1985 paper (referenced by Wikipedia in the "criticism of logical basis" section[2] o
by wilg 8y ago
Question for someone smarter than me: is this a similar argument to this[1] 1985 paper (referenced by Wikipedia in the "criticism of logical basis" section[2] on the Fermi Paradox article)?
[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985Icar...62..518F http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985Icar...62..518F
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Criticism_of_logical_basis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Criticism_of_log...
- vlasev 8y agoNo. This 1985 paper you reference talks about a logical argument for why there is no paradox, whereas the discussed paper is talking about how the uncertainty in the parameters is enough to yield something that is not a paradox.