RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there.
June 3, 2014 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2014 at 1:32 pm by vorlon13.)
Regarding Fermi paradox, picture our galaxy as growth media for the first civilization to achieve the technology (and the motivation) to exploit it.
That we haven't encounted 'them' yet (by their arrival here to colonize) is a somewhat vigorous argument that the first civilization to achieve that level has not arisen, yet. The time to exploit the galaxy is on the order of 1 to a few million years, even with crappy nuclear impulse propulsion, the galaxy has been chugging along far, far longer.
For the majority of the last 2 or 3 million years, humans have been knocking rocks together and poking animals with sticks. Seems like a more advanced culture might have been more productively occupied . . . .
That we haven't encounted 'them' yet (by their arrival here to colonize) is a somewhat vigorous argument that the first civilization to achieve that level has not arisen, yet. The time to exploit the galaxy is on the order of 1 to a few million years, even with crappy nuclear impulse propulsion, the galaxy has been chugging along far, far longer.
For the majority of the last 2 or 3 million years, humans have been knocking rocks together and poking animals with sticks. Seems like a more advanced culture might have been more productively occupied . . . .
