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The Fermi Paradox
Wait But Why ^ | Tim Urban

Posted on 10/24/2015 1:45:16 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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Found a few instances of profanity. Hope I got them all grawlixed out.
1 posted on 10/24/2015 1:45:16 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

For later.

Lot of assumptions with the Fermi Paradox that may not be true.


2 posted on 10/24/2015 1:48:56 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: LibWhacker

“Where in the timeline does the Great Filter occur? “

The Great Filter is... bureaucratization!
It’s destroyed every known civilization that’s been destroyed, and yet every civilization chooses to employ it.

Bureaucratization is the most dangerous power in the universe.
And no civilization can resist it.


3 posted on 10/24/2015 2:01:15 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: LibWhacker
Interesting. . The Truth is Out There. .

The Secret is in the Circle. .

4 posted on 10/24/2015 2:05:58 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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5 posted on 10/24/2015 2:06:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: LibWhacker

Fascinating post!


6 posted on 10/24/2015 2:06:52 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: LibWhacker

...perhaps we are the only ones, per the account in Genesis.

All that stuff out there is for us to populate once we get past the Great White Throne Judgement.

Either way, fascinating stuff.


7 posted on 10/24/2015 2:13:34 PM PDT by TheRobb7 ("Patriots don't negotiate the terms of their enslavement"--JimRob)
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To: LibWhacker

The real Fermi paradox is just how in Hell did supposedly intelligent man ever elect such an anti-American president...twice?


8 posted on 10/24/2015 2:47:19 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: LibWhacker

Well, maybe there are only so many monoliths to go around :)

Seriously, this the second Fermi-paradox article I have read this week, and it’s very interesting that both of them consider an incredible variety of highly speculative solutions, while deliberately ignoring the most obvious possible explanation.

“O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not...”


9 posted on 10/24/2015 2:48:57 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: LibWhacker

Hmmm...Wonder if this examined in greater detail in Common Core documents...


10 posted on 10/24/2015 3:01:44 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: LibWhacker

Hmmm...Wonder if this examined in greater detail in Common Core documents...


11 posted on 10/24/2015 3:03:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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SETI is for people obsessed with looking only in one direction for other consciences.

Years ago I made the acronym SQuInt (Search for Quantum Intelligence)

Mathematically the microcosm also offers an infinity of places to look.

The perspective on the size of things may be as relative as time and space.

I have yet to see any scientific work that demonstrates the size of one’s conscience or where and how it exists....

May be more about one’s faith than what we think our eyes and other senses perceive is reality.


12 posted on 10/24/2015 3:23:36 PM PDT by jcon40
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Thanks LibWhacker. Extra to X-Planets.
 
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13 posted on 10/24/2015 3:37:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood.

The problem is that our neighbors never take down their Christmas lights so we can't see the rest of the galaxy!

14 posted on 10/24/2015 3:47:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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Humans’ profound inability to understand the Cosmos does not mean that there are any paradoxes. Reality is intact. Humans’ understanding of it is inadequate.

When humans think their minds can encompass the universe they usurp for themselves the role of the Creator.


15 posted on 10/24/2015 3:49:07 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: mrsmith

I would postulate that one of the points of the great filter would be the ability to leave the planet and colonize another planet. You cant get to CivII until that is possible.

We are not there yet.


16 posted on 10/24/2015 3:53:46 PM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: LibWhacker

There is no paradox. Aliens have already colonized Earth disguised as domestic cats.


17 posted on 10/24/2015 3:55:32 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Kubrick originally wanted to do Childhood’s End but somebody else already had the film rights. Perhaps intelligent species evolve into something non-physical.


18 posted on 10/24/2015 3:59:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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19 posted on 10/24/2015 4:00:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: LibWhacker

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This screed is 100% ‘Anti-Science.’
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Tons of assertions; absolutely no basis.

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20 posted on 10/24/2015 4:20:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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