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Thomas
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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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jn
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I once read it'd take about one million years to colonize the galaxy. Assuming the civilization continues to evolve and colonize worlds. One million years isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things. But if you have conquered the galaxy, you're not going anywhere. And we've seen nothing like that.
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