The Fermi Paradox - Why we haven't been contacted by aliens

[Chief_For_Life58]

Interesting read. What's your opinion?


http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

[bevischief]

Are you sure you want to know what this place things of this....?

[BigMeatballDave]

for every grain of sand on Earth, there are 10,000 stars out there

Brain orgasm

[Eleazar]

Even if they were "close" by our galaxy's standards, travel between the two places would take too long. The cultures would be too isolated to make contact with each other.

[Chief_For_Life58]

you should read the article cooter

[Chief_For_Life58]

or don't

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

You dumb**** ! This nation is made up of Aliens !

[Marco Polo]

This was a great read. Wish you would've posted it in the Science is Cool page to be immortalized there.

[Chief_For_Life58]

Originally Posted by Marco Polo

This was a great read. Wish you would've posted it in the Science is Cool page to be immortalized there.

so instead of you and me reading it, absolutely knowone reads it? lol

[Easy 6]

"In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you we are not alone" - Charles J. Camarda, NASA astronaut.

"Of course the flying saucers are real, and they are interplanetary" - Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of Royal Air Force during WWII

"We must insist on full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination" - J. Edgar Hoover

[Buck]

It's a mind****.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Even if they were "close" by our galaxy's standards, travel between the two places would take too long. The cultures would be too isolated to make contact with each other.

True.

At our current level of understanding.

[Chief_For_Life58]

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

[ChiliConCarnage]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Even if they were "close" by our galaxy's standards, travel between the two places would take too long. The cultures would be too isolated to make contact with each other.

A bit like saying the pony express or telegrams could never allow us to have instant-contact with people in China. Life the last few centuries has changed at an unbelievable if not unsustainable rates.

I'm not sure why they need to find planets Humans could have survived on. Life finds a way under bizarre circumstances. Even Humans as they exist are only around due to ancestors surviving hard to imagine catastrophes.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

the part where the article was talking about how other intelligent lifeforms don't broadcast throughout the universe cus a possible predator species could hear and come and rape them was mind blowing


yea we should probably stop doing that

Yeah. After reading that and the stuff before it I thought, if we're the first, we would definitely claim everything for ourselves. We would be the predators. That's how it is now on Earth.

Then I basically surmised that if we were to be the big bully, if there was someone before us, they would almost certainly be the same bully.