Jim SalterThis is the best take on Fermi's Paradox that I've ever seen.
Kevin RussellWishful thinking. Billions and billions spent, terabytes of data, thousands of searchers, decades of nitpicking study, and not one empty matchbook, not a sniff, not an atom out of place in a very very big Petrie dish.
Hopeful sure, even excited for the search, but the unlikeliness, the fragility, of this gossamar exception, is also fascinating and enervating.
And frightening. Its really very easy for a planet to fail.
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@kevinrns the wishful thinking isn't that intelligent life might exist elsewhere, the wishful thinking is that attaining some level of technology actually extends a species' likely lifespan.
PARTICULARLY in the absence of some magical technology, and I do mean, *magical*, that would make migrating to a new solar system practically possible. I'm pretty dubious that even interplanetary colonization will ever make sense, at this point.
Scale is hard for us.
If you had a pizza box and a bowl of soup.
And you ripped the pizza box in half, drew the biggest circle inside and pinned it to the wall. Then took the bowl of soup to the next room.
When you come back, look at your circle on the wall and pretend its a drawing of our galaxy.
Pull out the pin, don't drop the galaxy.
The hole in the pizza box from the pin, corresponds well with the distance all of earths radio has travelled since radio was invented.
doboprobodyneGood visualisation; thank you.
May I ask what the soup-in-the-next-room represents?
Ross of Ottawa
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Iris VolkI'm ashamed to say, Ross is right, its a planned joke.
The bowl of soup is for lunch.
D. G. Marshall
Michael Gemar@kevinrns @jimsalter Is the answer to the Fermi Paradox that nowhere else has invented soup?
Precisely, we can find no dirty bowls.