Topic: The Fermi Paradox: where are all the aliens?

16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA started this discussion 8 years ago #76,256

In 1950, during lunch, the physicist Enrico Fermi, famous for inventing the nuclear reactor, thought of an observation:

1. There are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, and likewise there are many billions of planets.
2. Given that Earth developed life very early on, and most other planets are older than the Earth, there should be many planets that develop life.
3. While a life-bearing planet is unlikely to evolve intelligent life, there are so many planets that it should certainly happen many times.
4. Fermi estimated that it would take about 10 million years for a civilization to effectively colonize the galaxy, and even less to just explore it, using self-replicating machines (von Neumann probes).
5. Given that the galaxy is many billions of years old, it would be incredibly unlikely that no civilization has risen and explored the galaxy during this timeframe.
6. Therefore, we should expect to see tons and tons of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in the cosmos!
7. ...but we don't.

So, Fermi proposed the question: why have we detected no clear signs of alien intelligence?

There have been dozens, maybe hundreds, of proposed solutions to this problem - what do you think it might be?

MR MIKE PENCE joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 26 minutes later[^] [v] #897,224

They died

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 5 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #897,225

Simple. Because Aliens have evolved to the point where they look at us as retarded.

16bitch you probably play with cockroaches. Aliens look at us as cockroaches.

q. joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #897,240

there are lots of folks who say theyve seen clear signs of aliens, out in the country.

or, maybe they like to mask their presence and dont want to be detected.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #897,243

@previous (q.)
Many of those folks claimed Aliens probed their assholes.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,319

None of the aliens give a shit about conquering the galaxy because it's easier to develop virtual reality.

Catherine !ttGirlsPl2 joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,331

What the fuck? I thought you were Mordor since you posted this exact topic here.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 6 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,409

Sup TG.

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,416

@897,331 (Catherine !ttGirlsPl2)

Weird forum

16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 7 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,467

@897,331 (Catherine !ttGirlsPl2)
...no, that's me. I changed my username to Snowshard because I didn't want a swear word in my name since your forum is clearly supposed to be non-toxic.
@previous (I)
can confirm

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Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 9 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #897,468

@previous (16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA)
Wait what? No swear words?

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