Re: Fermi Paradox

  RonO wrote:

In a recent thread on Mars water I proposed that a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox

There is no paradox. It's an erroneous assumption.

was that extraterrestrial intelligence might be like us in terms of probably never needing to go any place else.

Neanderthals, Denisovans, Red Deer People, erectus, all the species
of Homo... all the different races and ethnicities that exist right
now... everything evolved with significantly less separation, less
isolation than even the distance between us and proxima centauri
represents.
Google:  how long would it take to walk from paris to beijing china
3,420 hours or 142.5 days
Double it. We're still well shy of a year and Proxima Centauri is
more than four years away!
ALL the different species of Homo arose with VASTLY less separation
than travel to another solar system means.
THERE WAS NEVER ANY PARADOX!
Never.
There was an erroneous assumption that a species might even colonize
the tiniest fraction of a galaxy before splitting into unique
cultures, ethnicities and even species... creating their own rivals!
We know of no way for that to happen. As far as we know, colonizing
the stars means inventing rivals. This is the best of our knowledge.
  Our

population may be decreasing by 2050 if we can improve the standard of living in the 3rd world enough by that time.

More cullings will do it.

The Phys.org article has three solutions to the Fermi paradox:

There's no paradox.

Intelligent life may just be very rare in this universe.

Of course it's rare. But the universe is to huge that no matter how
rare we assume there's always a super large number of civilizations.
The real issue is time. Civilization would not only be separated by
distance but also by time... THEY WOULDN'T ALL EXIST AT ONCE!
Even if another world is destined for intelligent life, it may have
happened 3 billion years ago and is long extinct by now. Or it may
not happen for another 3 billion years, by which time we'll be long
gone...
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