mondinspace, 7 months ago to aliens

Someone on Twitter/X asked a very interesting question: “Why do you think we haven’t been visited by aliens yet?”

There are many possible answers to the Fermi paradox, which is the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial intelligence and the lack of evidence for it.

Read more:
• https://www.seti.org/fermi-paradox-0
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

#FermiParadox #ExtraterrestrialLife #IntelligentLife #Aliens #WhereIsEverybody #SETI #Fermi #Science

spaceflight, 1 year ago to random

Why was the Search for #Extraterrestrial Intelligence (#SETI) 👽 unsuccessful so far ?

#Life 🦠 appeared pretty much as soon as it could, right when the #oceans formed and our #planet stopped being a molten 🌋 hellscape. That might have been as early as 3.7 billion years ago. But #intelligent life appeared basically yesterday—what we identify as anatomically modern humans arose about 120,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/were-essentially-alone-in-the-universe-and-thats-ok

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