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RE: - How unusual are we in the universe? To me this question is in answer to the Fermi paradox, the great filter .. is it behind us? Its important to answer
by cortic 3y ago
RE: - How unusual are we in the universe?
To me this question is in answer to the Fermi paradox, the great filter .. is it behind us? Its important to answer because if its not behind us, then; not wanting to be hyperbolic but, we are about to end.
Apparently most of the computer models of the early solar system doesn't result in rocky planets this close to the sun. And when it does there are constant meteor strikes. So we could be quite improbable. However considering the size and age of the universe, if the filter is behind us in the form of improbability, it should look to us as something that is impossible.
- queuebert 3y agoIt's behind us if we decide as a species that it is. We are frustratingly far from doing that though.
- toss1 3y agoThe "about to end" phrase is doing a lot of work there, unless you mean particularly 'soon on a geological time scale'. Of course we could be a few hours from some autocratic idiot starting the last nuclear war, a few months from a terminal AI singularity, or a few years from a runaway climate or food web collapse. But, I see nothing in the Fermi Paradox requiring the end to be so soon. Even dozens of millenia is still the blink of an eye in geological or galactic time scales. Perhaps the filter is populating the solar system but not escaping to other star systems before the sun expands into a red giant?