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The great Enrico Fermi gets credit for discovering this paradox --
o Considering the age of the universe, and
o The vast number of stars
if the Earth is typical, extraterrestrial life should be common!
Yet we have never detected spacecraft or probes (at least according to most of the scientific community -- please don't go off on a UFO tanget. Start your own thread). Why not??
Ok so adimittedly intergalactic travel poses massive challenges (an understatement) but we have never detected any radio transmissions either (a related paradox called the Great Silence).
Some say it is impossible for such life to exist or we would have discovered it by now. Others say extraterrestrial intelligent life is non-existent, or at least so rare that we will never make contact with it. But if that is the case, what is the impact on our understanding of evolution? Evolution says that over time, under favorable conditions, life forms will arise. But with billions of other "Earths" out there, are we seriously saying we are the only one that has developed life? Is that scientific naivete on our part or egotism inherent to our species?
Ok! Let the War of the Worlds, I mean Words, begin!
For more details and a much better explanation than I have given --
Fermi paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
o Considering the age of the universe, and
o The vast number of stars
if the Earth is typical, extraterrestrial life should be common!
Yet we have never detected spacecraft or probes (at least according to most of the scientific community -- please don't go off on a UFO tanget. Start your own thread). Why not??
Ok so adimittedly intergalactic travel poses massive challenges (an understatement) but we have never detected any radio transmissions either (a related paradox called the Great Silence).
Some say it is impossible for such life to exist or we would have discovered it by now. Others say extraterrestrial intelligent life is non-existent, or at least so rare that we will never make contact with it. But if that is the case, what is the impact on our understanding of evolution? Evolution says that over time, under favorable conditions, life forms will arise. But with billions of other "Earths" out there, are we seriously saying we are the only one that has developed life? Is that scientific naivete on our part or egotism inherent to our species?
Ok! Let the War of the Worlds, I mean Words, begin!
For more details and a much better explanation than I have given --
Fermi paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia