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Fermi tangent: I wonder if the Fermi paradox is a bit of a fallacy of reverse casualty in a similar vain to asking - how come we end up in the Goldilocks zone a
by worldsayshi 5y ago
Fermi tangent: I wonder if the Fermi paradox is a bit of a fallacy of reverse casualty in a similar vain to asking - how come we end up in the Goldilocks zone around a star? Because sentient life is not likely to appear in other conditions.
Why are there no aliens making contact? Because if there were such aliens it would be a high probability that they wouldn't want to leave earth alone and then humanity wouldn't have a chance to evolve here.
In other words, any surrounding aliens or non-aliens that have left earth alone for enough time for humans to have evolved are unlikely to suddenly want to make contact at any certain point of our development.
- bluGill 5y agoThe speed of light alone is enough to explain it. Aliens cannot get here, and so they don't know we exist. Even if you believe there is life elsewhere, odds are it is far enough away that they cannot detect us (not to mention radio hasn't make it 150 light year yet - which is a much smaller amount of stars).
- BurningFrog 5y agoThe universe is 14 billions years old. That plenty of time for a civilization to spread around all the galaxy, at least.
- hunterb123 5y agoTo be fair only some of that time is usable as you have to wait for the many conditions of life to happen. That's a lot of coincidences to wait for, then the long evolution process...
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