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Where Are All the Aliens?
universetoday.com ^ | June 20, 2013 | Fraser Cain on

Posted on 06/20/2013 5:24:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin

As far as we know, Earth is the only place in the Universe where life has arisen, let alone developed an intelligent civilization.

This baffling contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox, first described in 1950 by the physicist Enrico Fermi.

Scientists have been trying to resolve this mystery for decades, listening for radio signals from other worlds. We’ve only sampled a fraction of the radio spectrum, and so far, we haven’t detected anything that could be a signal from an intelligent species.

How can we explain this?

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: drakeequation; fermiparadox; ntsa; phoneybaloney; seti
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To: MisterArtery

“Still appearing to two-toothed Mississippi and Louisiana swamp dwellers. If ETs are so smart what is their navigation so screwed?”

Because they REALLY like Cajun cookin’?


61 posted on 06/20/2013 6:51:36 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: NativeSon
“most people cannot grasp the enormity of our galaxy let alone the universe.”

Suppose the sun were the size of a smallish grapefruit. At that scale Alpha Centari would be 1800 miles away. The center of the milky way galaxy would be 12,000,000 miles away. The moon, the farthest humans have been, is about an inch away.

62 posted on 06/20/2013 7:07:20 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: BenLurkin

If they wanted our beautiful planet for themselves, they might dumb us down enough to create a race of slaves.

Anybody see any evidence of dumbing down?


63 posted on 06/20/2013 7:10:01 PM PDT by Liberty Wins
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To: NativeSon

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and we’re not.


64 posted on 06/20/2013 7:10:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

What contradiction?


65 posted on 06/20/2013 7:15:03 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: cripplecreek

I like the indogenes... heh


66 posted on 06/20/2013 7:16:03 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: cripplecreek

What is your definition of intelligent? Whale intelligent? Dolphin intelligent? Dog intelligent?

At what level is an ET just dumb enough to eat?


67 posted on 06/20/2013 7:16:45 PM PDT by frickin_frackin
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe it’s us. Just sayin’

Maybe they think we are stuck up, or nerds or something.


68 posted on 06/20/2013 7:18:46 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: frickin_frackin

Planet of the cows would be awesome.

Robert Forward’s “Saturn Rukh” presents an interesting possibility of an encounter with an intelligent race in the atmosphere of Saturn. They are intelligent enough to converse with but have no technology and virtually no useful knowledge.


69 posted on 06/20/2013 7:25:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: BenLurkin

Abiogensis seems to be assumed in all his possible solutions to the paradox.


70 posted on 06/20/2013 7:30:59 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: no-to-illegals

I’m glad you like it.


71 posted on 06/20/2013 7:32:39 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Everybody’s gone surfin, surfin USA!”


72 posted on 06/20/2013 7:44:44 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

There’s no paradox; every single star system in our universe could host an advance, intelligent civilization and there’s no way we could possibly know.


73 posted on 06/20/2013 9:30:21 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: BenLurkin; KevinDavis

Still peddling the bogus “Fermi Paradox”. :’) :’P


74 posted on 06/20/2013 9:44:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
You might think that you’re essential
Try inconsequential
It’s a small world after all!


75 posted on 06/20/2013 9:44:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: BenLurkin

If they believe in evolution from an initial single-cell life form, mathematics says the universe isn’t old enough for us to have evolved. I’m sure that adding another life system under the same parameters would make the odds a bit bigger.


76 posted on 06/21/2013 3:53:07 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BenLurkin

Anyone who’s read Accelerando by Charles Stross knows that any sufficiently advanced civilization inevitably disappears up its own backside....


77 posted on 06/21/2013 4:23:56 AM PDT by Eepsy
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To: Liberty Wins

78 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I had not heard of Ringworld when I saw your post. Coincidentally, the author Larry Niven is being interviewed right now on the Coast To Coast radio program (5:15 a.m. EDT).


79 posted on 06/23/2013 2:22:58 AM PDT by deks ("...the battle...liberty against the overreach of the federal government" Ken Cuccinelli)
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To: deks

It is well worth the read.


80 posted on 06/25/2013 7:38:07 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Tactical Awareness. Use your brain. Then bring the pain.)
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