The Fermi Paradox is Back 713
nettxzl writes ""Sentient Developments revisits the Fermi Paradox which is "the contradictory and counter-intuitive observation that we have yet to see any evidence for the existence of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) although the size and age of the Universe suggests that many technologically advanced ETI's ought to exist." Sentient Development's blog post on the Fermi Paradox states that "a number of inter-disciplinary breakthroughs and insights have contributed to the Fermi Paradox gaining credence as an unsolved scientific problem" Amongst these are "(1)Improved quantification and conceptualization of our cosmological environment, (2) Improved understanding of planet formation, composition and the presence of habitable zones, (3) The discovery of extrasolar planets, (4) Confirmation of the rapid origination of life on Earth (5) Growing legitimacy of panspermia theories" and more ... So, where is everyone?"
So, where is everyone? (Score:5, Funny)
o Far away in time
o Far away in space and time
o Hollywood
God only made humans (Score:4, Funny)
Evidence for intelligent life (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, they're out there... (Score:2, Funny)
Advanced Intelligence May Just Be Embarrassed (Score:5, Funny)
Complex life on this planet has been going on for hundreds of millions of years and yet it's only in the last hundred or so that we've been able to look out with anything more than enhancements of our natural senses. This implies that the odds of a second species being at exactly the same point tiny. Most likely, if they're sending things we can read, they got there a long way before us and are quite a bit smarter.
Assuming they're quite a bit smarter, one look at the crap our radiowaves are sharing with the universe - infomercials, reality TV and our politics/wars - and I'd imagine pretty much any higher civilization would be embarrassed enough about us to screen their signature and make damn sure those idiotic hairless apes don't go and screw their part of the galaxy up too.
So, the answer to the paradox: There's most likely higher intelligence out there. And, because it's higher, it's most likely embarrassed to hell and back by us and screening itself from us. Problem solved.
Maybe they're using Messenger? (Score:3, Funny)
"hello earthling.we want to know you know about us.info is important!!!!!"
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Re:Have some patience, we'll run across them... ev (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not sure how sending fungi into space to find alien bread to consume is going to be useful to anyone besides the fungi.
They're hiding... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Time to give up... (Score:4, Funny)
Just because you can observe no evidence to indicate such,
does not mean that it has not happened.
We might just be hiding our ships on another planet, observing you.
Re:So, where is everyone? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We're right here (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The paradox (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The paradox (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We're right here (Score:5, Funny)
we are the alien life forms we're looking for...
I'm not the droid I'm looking for.
Re:So, where is everyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Christ, I hope not. Once the alien civilizations "grow up" we'd quickly become the idiot savants of the galaxy. Sure we will have split the atom, manipulated our genes, and developed FTL travel, but we will probably still entertain ourselves with reruns of Bret Michael's Rock of Love, burn down our cities when sports teams win championships, and get our "news" from Bill O'Reilly IV.
Re:We're right here (Score:5, Funny)