RE: Fermi Paradox
July 20, 2015 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2015 at 4:14 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
A good explanation that I once heard was that there is probably only a very short period of time when a civilisation makes its presence known. In less than a hundred years we have gone from sending out television signals into spacd to using cable to deliver them. That's nothing in evolutionary terms.
Add to that the vast distances just to get out of solar system, the even larger distances between systems and that it's taken this long to create the technology to look for alien life. Our civilisation could well come to an end in a hundred years because of the long emergency. The chances of capable civilisations occuring at the same time to spot each other and actually doing so becomes orders of magnitude less likely. We don't even properly search the skies for Earth destroying asteroids.
Add to that the vast distances just to get out of solar system, the even larger distances between systems and that it's taken this long to create the technology to look for alien life. Our civilisation could well come to an end in a hundred years because of the long emergency. The chances of capable civilisations occuring at the same time to spot each other and actually doing so becomes orders of magnitude less likely. We don't even properly search the skies for Earth destroying asteroids.
