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I think the question isn't whether or not we are alone, but why don't we know the answer. As you said, it's 'wildly improbable that we are alone.' So the great
by jack-bodine 5y ago
I think the question isn't whether or not we are alone, but why don't we know the answer. As you said, it's 'wildly improbable that we are alone.' So the great question is, why is the universe so quiet?
- roywiggins 5y agoTo quote Fermi, "Where is everybody?"
- jandrese 5y agoFermi was operating under the assumption that travel between solar systems would not only be possible, but it would be desirable. The answer to the Fermi paradox might be as simple as "solar systems are too far apart".
- gremlinsinc 5y agoOr we're in a simulation, and everything we perceive as "out there in the expanse of space" is just fake data like a background on a website...from a processing standpoint it'd be much easier to feed/render certain views only under observation, otherwise just nothing exists there...it's save resources for a simulation from a computing standpoint... Like in a video game where new areas are rendered as you discover them....
- goatlover 5y agoThat's Frank Drake's answer to the Fermi Paradox. He doesn't think it is a paradox, because he thinks it's just a matter of time before SETI makes a detection. It's just that the search needs to be thorough enough since the aliens stick to their solar systems. Jill Tartar has talked about how we would need to think about investing in a powerful radio beacon for 60,000 years if we wanted other aliens to know about us. That gives one an ideal of the scale of time and distance SETI is dealing with, assuming their assumptions are more realistic than Fermi's was.
- splistud 5y agoNot as frequently asked, "when was everybody?"
- koheripbal 5y agoA counter-question might be : What makes you think they want to talk to US?