Comments on: Fuck The Fermi Paradox

By: Gareth L Powell

Gareth L Powell — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:24:47 +0000

Thanks for joining in, Subbuttegga (if that *is* your real name ).

The flaw in the Fermi Paradox is that there are a 100 billion galaxies. If a species arose in a galaxy apart from this one, we would likely never know, as their signals would take so long to reach us.

The FP is dependent on the idea that intelligent life is common enough among those 100 billion galaxies that it will arise at least twice in ours. That implies that there must be at least 200 billion intelligent species out there.

By: Subbuttegga

Subbuttegga — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:32:48 +0000

Heh, you don’t get it. One of the main parts of the Fermi Paradox is that if just *one* civilization developed the technology to explore space, they could colonize the entire milky way galaxy over the course of less than 100,000 years with sub light space ships. Even if they are not around, there should in theory be an overwhelming amount of evidence of aliens around.

Doesn’t help that the Earth and our solar system is located at the outer edge of the milky way. We need to get closer to the centre where all the cool kids hang out.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:09:26 +0000

But you’re assuming we were one of the first civilisations to exist. The universe is billions of years old, and although it couldn’t support life (as we know it) for all of that time, there could be civilisations hundreds of thousands, if not billions, of years old.

Time is a bigger factor than distance.

By: Portland Magician

Portland Magician — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:03:24 +0000

well done.

By: Arajay

Arajay — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:50:00 +0000

it also doesn’t account for the possible existence of extra-dimensional organisms beyond our limited 4D perception.