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To me, the paradox assumes that we have looked everywhere, turned every stone, and cant find the aliens. When in reality, all we've done is take a cup of ocean water, looked in the cup and said " where are all the fish?" We really havent even looked. And we assume they follow our technological paths. Its just silly
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Thank you for saying this out loud. Of the two assumptions, I think the second is the weakest.
I think things like megastructures and colony ships and slow galactic expansion are the weak points.
People like to assume that all technological problems will one day be solved, as if it's inevitable that FTL travel and Dyson swarms must be realistic. I don't think they are.
If we're ordinary -- the mediocrity principle -- then the idea that we can get the whole species focused on creating a Dyson swarm for the 1000-odd years it would take to build is IMO preposterous. We can't even keep space programs funded longer than one US presidential election cycle.
I'm assuming that our counterparts are likely to be political to some degree. As much as FTL may not be a solvable problem, so might politics not be solvable.
We still haven't proven that civilization was a good idea.
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Considering the utter scale of the universe and how long it took for a spacefaring civilization to appear on Earth, it's highly unlikely the Silurian Hypothesis produced even an industrial civilization, it would not be all surprising if a single galaxy or several dozen galaxies are home to only a single sapient species.
Of course, there could be so many other reasons as well. We are asking the question of why we haven't encountered or found signs of an alien species after all.
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Thanks again, David Kipping! In an era when deep-sea exploration and outer-space speculation have both become entertainment for the wealthy or wish-fulfillment for the under-read & less-traveled, we depend more than ever on rigorous science articulated with intellectual coherence by scientist-heroes of ethical integrity. You are that hero/that scientist.
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@emperorarasaka
2 months ago
The Denial Hypothesis - There is no Fermi Paradox because Fermi never existed
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