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6 Mind-Bending Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
- troymc 12y agoThere's a whole book of solutions that people have thought up over the years: If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb
- zvrba 12y ago... or some others: 7: The universe is larger than our visible light cone. "They" may be "hiding" outside of our visible universe. 8: (even more mind-bending) "They" are hiding in the dark matter, i.e., they ARE dark matter :P A serious question to some scientist: assuming there exsits an alien civilization that is, say, a million years old, 500 000 ly away, and that they communicate in the spectrum we can detect. Wouldn't their EM radiation be overwhelmed ("erased") by star and other activity on its way to earth?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThey are among us and they call themselves Hungarians. That has to go on a t-shirt. edit - looking at it this story gets even better. I have heard about the Fermi paradox loads of times, I can't believe I had never heard of the martians before - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_%28group%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_%28group%29 "The galaxy of scientific minds, that worked on the liberation of nuclear power, were really visitors from Mars. They found it difficult to speak English without an alien accent, which would give them away, and therefore they chose to pretend to be Hungarian, whose inability to speak any language but Hungarian without a foreign accent is well known. It would be hard to check the above statement, because Hungary is so far away." - Fritz Houtermans