| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? 20:13 - Sep 20 with 1028 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
Also known as “The Great Silence” this is the concept that the likelihood of advanced extra terrestrial civilisations being out there is overwhelmingly high yet everywhere we look there’s absolutely no evidence
If we take our own species of human as the base example (we have to as it’s all we know),we have been on this planet for roughly 200,000 years. It has taken only 3000 years or so from the humble beginnings of mathematics and science in Mesopotamian civilisation to us landing on the moon and sending space craft outside the borders of our solar system.
If one species can do all that in just three millennia and the universe is 14 billion years old then other species who existed before us and have been advancing for much longer should have reached the technological prowess to colonise entire solar systems or even several. Everywhere we look we should see them.
But we don’t. So where is everybody? |  |
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 20:29 - Sep 20 with 1013 views | Wingstandwood |
I have pondered that even if there are alien civilisations out there?
There is, and never will be technology with capability to achieve space travel from one place to another with distances that are millions/billions of miles away in the vast infinity of space. Neither would the time be available, because it would take thousands, millions of years or maybe even eternity to arrive?
Because everything that moves needs a propulsion source or fuel. IMO scientific advancement will reach a level that it can never go beyond making some things impossible? |  |
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:26 - Sep 21 with 934 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 20:29 - Sep 20 by Wingstandwood |
I have pondered that even if there are alien civilisations out there?
There is, and never will be technology with capability to achieve space travel from one place to another with distances that are millions/billions of miles away in the vast infinity of space. Neither would the time be available, because it would take thousands, millions of years or maybe even eternity to arrive?
Because everything that moves needs a propulsion source or fuel. IMO scientific advancement will reach a level that it can never go beyond making some things impossible? |
It’s not really a question of actually travelling to meet each other. As a species we fire off an incredible amount of signals into the atmosphere. All man made and artificial. Radio signals, tv, internet. We’ve even got installations like seti deliberately sending messages in all directions specifically looking to attract or find others. Metaphorically speaking we are lit up like a Christmas tree.
So a species even on a par with us in terms of intelligence who have had several thousand years longer than us to progress and maybe have colonised their local system should also be detectable. And the nature of a universe which has trillions of galaxies all with hundreds of billions of stars most of which will likely have earth like planets capable of sustaining life suggests that these civilisations should be abundant. Yet wherever we point our sensors all we get is silence. In fact all we’ve ever received is a 72 second burst from the constellation of Sagittarius 40 odd years ago known colloquial as the Wow! signal.
Everywhere else we look all is silent. But they should be out there, right? | |
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:28 - Sep 21 with 933 views | KeithHaynes |
| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:26 - Sep 21 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
It’s not really a question of actually travelling to meet each other. As a species we fire off an incredible amount of signals into the atmosphere. All man made and artificial. Radio signals, tv, internet. We’ve even got installations like seti deliberately sending messages in all directions specifically looking to attract or find others. Metaphorically speaking we are lit up like a Christmas tree.
So a species even on a par with us in terms of intelligence who have had several thousand years longer than us to progress and maybe have colonised their local system should also be detectable. And the nature of a universe which has trillions of galaxies all with hundreds of billions of stars most of which will likely have earth like planets capable of sustaining life suggests that these civilisations should be abundant. Yet wherever we point our sensors all we get is silence. In fact all we’ve ever received is a 72 second burst from the constellation of Sagittarius 40 odd years ago known colloquial as the Wow! signal.
Everywhere else we look all is silent. But they should be out there, right? |
I love a good ufo sighting. |  |
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:50 - Sep 21 with 929 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:28 - Sep 21 by KeithHaynes |
I love a good ufo sighting. |
Some of the footage captured by pilots has been very strange. | |
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 12:21 - Sep 21 with 882 views | Wingstandwood |
| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:50 - Sep 21 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
Some of the footage captured by pilots has been very strange. |
I agree UFO's do exist 100%, because military witnesses are by their very selection criteria, training, intelligence, qualifications and sound mind the very best people possible to give an accurate and truthful account of experiencing something like that.
It's an interesting subject that asks so many questions that can let the imagination run riot also. The one where many think that people/sceptics have no right to be dismissive of the existence of alien species by the very fact of the sheer infinity of the universe/space is great philosophy. [Post edited 21 Sep 2023 12:40]
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| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 19:47 - Sep 21 with 818 views | SullutaCreturned |
| The Fermi Paradox - Where is everybody? on 01:26 - Sep 21 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
It’s not really a question of actually travelling to meet each other. As a species we fire off an incredible amount of signals into the atmosphere. All man made and artificial. Radio signals, tv, internet. We’ve even got installations like seti deliberately sending messages in all directions specifically looking to attract or find others. Metaphorically speaking we are lit up like a Christmas tree.
So a species even on a par with us in terms of intelligence who have had several thousand years longer than us to progress and maybe have colonised their local system should also be detectable. And the nature of a universe which has trillions of galaxies all with hundreds of billions of stars most of which will likely have earth like planets capable of sustaining life suggests that these civilisations should be abundant. Yet wherever we point our sensors all we get is silence. In fact all we’ve ever received is a 72 second burst from the constellation of Sagittarius 40 odd years ago known colloquial as the Wow! signal.
Everywhere else we look all is silent. But they should be out there, right? |
They are all hiding behind their sofas watching Dr Who. |  | | |
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