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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Two studies have independently estimated that the portion of the sky that the SETI program has searched for extraterrestrial life to date is analogous to having searched for fish in all of the Earth's oceans by sampling no more than a drinking glass (Tarter et al., 2010) or a large hot tub (Wright et al., 2020). Which means that the Fermi paradox (the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence) isn't a paradox at all.
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Murtaza Hussain
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My high level take: If there were other life in an infinite universe at least one of them would’ve been advanced enough to make contact with us. Otherwise they already have and we are just unaware of it
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I mean, space is big. Like, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Related: https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0x95c45aa5
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
When I was a kid the Carl Sagan books really blew my mind about this issue of scale. But that size also suggests to me the greater space that should exist to foment abundant life in infinite permutations. So then where are these guys at?? Maybe already here or observing us as irrelevant bugs…
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