(July 12, 2015 at 5:21 pm)Chuck Wrote:(July 12, 2015 at 5:07 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Lichen like forms might be out there, and on maybe quite a few worlds we might even consider 'uninhabitable'. When it comes to our equals or superiors, I'm firm in my conclusion they are profoundly rare.
As I've noted before, I find the Fermi Paradox extremely persuasive. And for those who argue with me about 'life' being even 'common', it reinforces (IMO) Fermi's concept. The more advanced life you think is out there, the stronger Fermi's Paradox becomes.
I find Fermi paradox a very shoddy exercise...
Me too. For starters, I can't imagine why anyone thinks it is a given that any intelligent race would have any desire to pave over the entire galaxy. The resources of a single solar system would last aeons and long before those resources are exhausted, the race would have self-evolved to a god-like state unimaginable to us. Why would they be bound by a primitive (and somewhat insecure) need to spread themselves everywhere?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
