What we can’t see in shoddy photographs of UFOs—namely any direct and reliable evidence of E.T.s far from home—is much more alienating than what we can see.
An exploration of the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, the absence of detectable alien life, and what this all can tell us about the future fate of all civilisations, including our own.
al-Assas on
I never understood how the probability of technological civilization is supposed to be significantly more than zero. The article says that Fermi himself did a quantitative estimate. How did he estimate the probability of life producing a technological civilization?
DCLexiLou on
We seem to make the bold assumption that other advanced civilizations are anything like us and care to find us.
How many of us try to inject ourselves into more primitive groups of animals or even remote tribes of humans? Not many! For every Jane Goodall or uninvited missionary to remote islands, there are billions of us going about our day.
Why would another civ be any different?
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What we can’t see in shoddy photographs of UFOs—namely any direct and reliable evidence of E.T.s far from home—is much more alienating than what we can see.
An exploration of the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, the absence of detectable alien life, and what this all can tell us about the future fate of all civilisations, including our own.
I never understood how the probability of technological civilization is supposed to be significantly more than zero. The article says that Fermi himself did a quantitative estimate. How did he estimate the probability of life producing a technological civilization?
We seem to make the bold assumption that other advanced civilizations are anything like us and care to find us.
How many of us try to inject ourselves into more primitive groups of animals or even remote tribes of humans? Not many! For every Jane Goodall or uninvited missionary to remote islands, there are billions of us going about our day.
Why would another civ be any different?