It’s so very lonely
You’re two thousand light years from home.
Considering the distances involved across the milky way Galaxy I question that estimate of a time to colonize the entire Galaxy.
Carl Sagan use to say when SETI was up and running we could face it any any direction and hear the cacophony of the universe. Instead we faced it in all directions and heard nothing...
There is life on millions of other planets but only on Saturday night.
We only have one example of life. So why does all life everywhere have to have the same parameters to exists that we do? It could, for sure. And that theory is just as valid as proposing that the reason we aren’t visited is because all sentient life falls into a virtual reality hole or something when they become technologically advanced enough. When I see people looking at their phone walking into cars I think there might be something to it.
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Fermi, along with the others sitting around eating lunch that day, came up with the great filter idea. The theory being that any intelligent life would discovery weapons with which they could destroy themselves long before they came up with a way to travel the massive cosmos.
The question then became can anyone keep from killing themselves off long enough to get to the technolocical phase needed to colonize the cosmos.
LIFE...........Just one per galaxy........................
Too far, so I don’t really care.
And who says that anyone is going to “colonize the whole galaxy”? Why should they? Just because humans talk about it?
The aliens, if they exist, are going to follow their own plan, not the one that Earth science-fiction writers have made for them.
Lets fix the illegal alien problem we already have before worrying about outer space aliens.
Yes, I have come to the conclusion that we ARE alone. Should you doubt me, then watch the TV series “One Strange Rock” to see just how unlikely it was for life to have developed on earth, not to speak of intelligent life.
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I don’t have to watch it. I’ve been convinced for some time that life is extremely rare. All the evidence we have so far supports it.
First there is the fine tuning of the Universe. Another is that there is only one tree of life: Even though life appeared early on Earth, it only happened one time. The eukaryotic cell evolved only one time. The ratio of biomass to mass on Earth is only about 3 parts in 10 billion. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. But for 4 billion years there was no life on land. There are many other examples.
I lean hard towards believing that there is life, of some manner, out there. Take all the wildly varied examples of life here on earth, then consider the amount of “sweet spot” planets in our galaxy alone, then multiply that by the ocean of galaxies we’ve been able to detect so far.
Perhaps some advancing species hit the wall of self destruction, or natural disaster, while other lesser species are still climbing the lower rungs of development. Perhaps species at our level or beyond are just too far removed to detect during our time frame of attempts, or use a manner of communication yet to be detected. All reasonable scientific theories.
I’m religious and find it hard to imagine that God would create such an immense playground/laboratory, and not fill it with more creatures to entertain himself. I personally suspect he set up the rules of creation, and mostly lets it run autonomously. If that’s correct, then life should develop elsewhere just as handily as it does in even extreme environs here.
The Fermi Paradox is explained by the movie Idiocracy. When civilization stops Darwinian natural selection, the idiots take over and intelligent life becomes unintelligent. By the time that civilization completely collapses, it can never again rise as all of the easily obtainable natural resources necessary to re-start civilization have been exhausted.
Gives impetus to the command “Go Forth and multiply”.
I take it to mean ‘Spread Life throughout the Universe’.
Ya gotta think four-dimensionally. The earth is less than a flyspeck in comparison to the overall universe.
So - aliens would need to hit our flyspeck, in a sphere that's what - 100 billion lightyears? more? - across.
On top of that, and in evolutionary terms - the universe is around 13 billion years old and the earth has been around for 4.6 billion years, give or take a week. Man has been recording history for about 5000 of those years, less than an eyeblink of time, in comparison.
So, Aliens would have needed to hit our specific flyspeck, in a tiny sliver of time, in order for us to know about them.
They could hit the next galaxy over, and we'd not have a clue. OR, they could have been here a million years ago, with plans to return in a million more. Again, we'd be clueless.
IMO, there are plenty of aliens. We'll never know about them, though, because of time and distance constraints.
Mathematical probability would suggest, if not prove, otherwise. Furthermore, define ‘alien life’......
Most people I know just assume their is other intelligent life in the universe. When I ask why, all they can say is “because it is so big. We just CAN’T be the only life.”
Well, I can think of 2 reasons.
1.God made us, and put us here. If he didn’t choose to put people or other beings elsewhere, then it is logical to believe we aer alone.
2. We are the first life in the universe. If ETs will sread life through the universe, it illbe us doing the spreading.
As a Christian, I believe in 1. God made us alone in the universe. The problem with 2. is that sace is unimaginably vast and it takes impossible amounts of time and energy to gat from one world to the next inhabitable world. Which presumes there are other inabitable worlds — a theory yet to be poved.
This is about as meaningful as a 4,500 page book on the uses of navel lint.