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It seems to me that the millions of events that happened in order to get to where we are now (alive on a rocky, water and oxygen-filled planet, in the Goldilock
by archeantus 7y ago
It seems to me that the millions of events that happened in order to get to where we are now (alive on a rocky, water and oxygen-filled planet, in the Goldilocks zone of a healthy star) were sequential in nature and they took a finite amount of time to occur.
Assuming that there was A Beginning, where everything started at the same time, wouldn’t the steps to get to where we are in this process take about the same time for everyone else? Meaning that if there are other civilizations out there, that they’d more or less be as advanced as we are? Which is pretty sophisticated in certain areas at home, but not yet super capable in the long-distance human space travel department.
Not a scientist, just thinking out loud the thought I had reading the article.
- MattRix 7y agoThere are many stars and planets much much older than ours. Earth is 4.5 billion years old, the oldest exoplanet we've seen is 12.8 billion. The terms of the Fermi paradox are are designed to cover things like this.
- IAmGraydon 7y agoPerhaps, but even tiny variances could cause shifts in the timeline of thousands or millions of years, which would be a blink compared to the age of the universe. Look how far we’ve come in the last 200 years. Imagine a civilization that is only 10,000 years ahead of us.
- archeantus 7y agoI’d love to see what the iPhone 10,000 ends up looking like
- peteradio 7y ago50000 years ago we were throwing chipped rocks at hairy elephants. Technology moves fast on galactic time scales. Expecting two alien species to have roughly the same tech would be like two randomly fired bullets to collide mid air.