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Fermi's paradox. It assumes that technology will get to the point where it becomes trivial to explore space. That's not an easy assumption to grant.
by bena 6y ago
Fermi's paradox.
It assumes that technology will get to the point where it becomes trivial to explore space. That's not an easy assumption to grant.
- larsiusprime 6y agoSure, but my question was just if the article was making the same basic argument as the given hypothesis (along with the same basic assumptions).
- Pxtl 6y agoTrivial and possible are the same. If colonization is possible it will eventually be mastered and then you get geometric growth. Covid has given us all a quick refresher course on the nature of geometric growth. On the timescale of the universe, geometric growth in colonization is functionally hyper rapid. So either colonization (and thus, geometric growth) is impossible or there's nobody else out there.
- tsimionescu 6y agoWell, if establishing colonies and moving from one star system to the next is possible, but takes a few hundred million years each time, then it wouldn't be surprising in any way if even the 'first' civilization to arise has barely colonized a handful of star systems. Perhaps in a few hundred billion years the universe will indeed be full of colonies.