Re: Fermi Paradox

JTEM wrote:

  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!

AT LIGHT SPEED!
As far as we know, it's impossible to move that fast. Even so, AT
LIGHT SPEED, which is impossible, Proxima Centauri represents four
to 10 times the separation of Paris from Beijing China, in
temporal distance.
At light speed.
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