New Solution to the Fermi Paradox Found. Scientists Hope They're Wrong

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New Solution to the Fermi Paradox Found. Scientists Hope They're Wrong

Some call it The Great Silence, others The Fermi Paradox.

For the last 60 years, we’ve had our eyes and ears glued to the cosmos looking and listening for some sign letting us know we’re not all alone in the galaxy. And the more we discover, the harder it is to believe we’re the only ones.

Think about this for a moment; there’s around 2 trillion [2,000,000,000,000 galaxies] galaxies in the observable universe. Each one of those galaxies have on average 100 million stars. Some supergiants have one hundred trillion stars, and our Milky Way Galaxy has between 100 to 400 billion stars alone. It is likely that there’s at least this many planets floating around all those stars, and complex planetary systems that may resemble our own Solar System.

It brings us to the big question: where is everyone, and why haven’t we been contacted by an extra-terrestrial civilization from even inside our own galaxy? There should be many advanced civilizations out there, and we should have heard something from someone by now.

There are quite a few possible explanations for the ‘Great Silence’, and some researchers think they may have found some answers to this so-called paradox.

What will happen to humanity in the future? Will we finally make contact with another alien civilization, or are we simply alone in the universe?

Will artificial intelligence end up destroying us and other advanced civilizations, or is there a chilling possibility that AI has already done this?

Get ready to find out this and more.

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I read a short story way back in my teens called “All the Way Back” by Michael Shaara. In the story it turns out that we live in a region of the galaxy called the Great Desert. None of the other suns in our galactic neighborhood have planets, so alien races outside the Great Desert have not come our way because no one thought there was any chance of a civilization being here. In the story, that turns out to be a good thing. I won’t give away the ending and ruin the story for those who want to read it.

durbeckvonwyman
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When you consider the age and size of the universe.. we haven't been looking long enough to assume anything.

PaulClipMaster
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Planet Earth is over 4.5 Billion years old, the very basic life form in micros started about 3.7 Billion years ago. Animals are believe to have evolved into their current species about 800 Million years ago and modern Human Beings came to be about 300, 000 years ago only.
Here's the kicker, humans left Earth's atmosphere only recently in 1961. How the heck can we even consider being "alone" in merely after 60 years of being able to escape our planet's gravity considering this timeline? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lovelywaz
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11:55 My Father worked for a big road building company, He believed any Alien race developed enough to fly by Earth, would be too advanced to be interested in us, beyond saying "Look an inhabited planet." as they passed by.

When his crew, was building new roads, and came across, for example, a large Ant Hill a few meters out of their work zone ... they made no efforts whatsoever, to communicate with the ants.

A simple "That's a big ant hill" was their only comment

MikeBaxterABC
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Back 120 years ago when we got to the point that we started radio communication, the power we transmitted started rising very quickly. 70 or so years ago we started broadcasting at high power to reach the majority of the planet from a relatively few transmitters. 60 years ago we started on the path to satellite communication. The signals from that are directional, and pointed down towards the earth. Due to latency considerations the majority of our communication moved to fiber optics that are directed exactly where we want them and nowhere else. Over the last 30 years ago we have rolled out a lot of wireless systems, but they are low power and frequency agile, with power density's that are lost in the noise. We used to run massive high power over the horizon radar systems, but we are steadily replacing commercial radar systems with high power transmitters, with active low power transmitters on the aircraft/systems being tracked. The assumption that we are an ever increasing source of meaningful radio transmissions does not hold up, in my humble opinion. Advancing technology is steadily providing more from less energy. Most of what we now emit amounts to mush that is pretty much indistinguishable from the local noise, and the intentional directional broadcasts that would stand out as intentional communication is practically non existent. I see every indication that those trends will continue, and that any similar civilization will follow a similar path. We may be deploying vastly increasing amounts of technology but we are not increasing the transmission of simple high powered, easily recognizable non directional radio signals, that would announce us to other neighbors.

harrymoyes
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Our search for aliens with our current technology is equivalent to looking out into the ocean with a telescope and wondering why there are no other humans on Earth.

DoomFinger
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It's unknown how common it is for life to spark. We have only 1 Datapoint; therefore, it's impossible to extrapolate from that...

blaxxun
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0:31 "Each one of those galaxies have on average 1 million stars." No, they have on average 100 billion stars.

Microverse
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I am fond of the dark forest concept. The universe is a dangerous place, and transmitting signals that draw attention to your civilization is not a good idea, as it would invite attack or war. Other (alien) civilizations realized this early on, and if they advanced, have not been broadcasting as loudly as we have.

AlluvianGarald
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The idea that AI created us (and not the other way around) to see the cause of their collapse, is both wild and interesting. Great production as always

SyaitanBDO
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If they found a signal would they (government, nasal, seti, etc.) even tell us anyways lol. Those organizations probably already know.

stevo
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Basically we are living on a grain of sand on a beach in Australia, we have checked nearby grains of sand on that beach but there might be life on another grain of sand on another beach in Australia or California, Cape Town or Rio.

hurleycapetown
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Our active search of ET life has just begun less than a century ago, and with kind of rudimentary technologies so far... At the galactic scale of things, this is a heartbeat. The real question should be: "why are we so impatient?".

rlstine
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I think it's a cool (though unlikely) idea that we are part of a neutral zone in a Cold War. So all alien factions just observe us to see if other factions are trying to contact/conquer us, but can't actually contact us without starting a war.

guybrushthreepwood
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I dont remember the name, but somebody once said, "...it is like dipping a cup of the ocean water and then assuming that there is nothing in the ocean"
Man has only been able to study, yet, a very tiny part of the space.

sandeepdebnath
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Those scenerios do not take into account on whether or not an advanced extraterrestrial civilization actively take part in other less advanced civilizations, keeping themselves basically separate yet engaged in the developement of the less advanced civilization. Maybe they like being just watchers and guides and have and do interact yet on a level that We are not awared of.

mercurusblastomus
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"Aliens, if you are out there, please give us a sign"
UFO fly's by
"Sigh. . . Guess we are alone"

MF-bled
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I like to think they're observing earth like a reality tv show. It's kinda cringe on this planet if you think about it. They probably can't stop watching.

landotucker
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What if we have encountered aliens in the past, but we were too primitive and just saw them as godlike beings? The aliens made some notes like all scientific explorers, penciled in a repeat visit for a few thousands years in the future, and moved on to the next system. Everyone assumes they would visit since the 50's, but the sheer distances might mean their visits occur in the thousands, or tens of thousands of years.

simongardner
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The most terrifying answer to the Fermi paradox is the “Alone in the Dark” solution. There is no life out there, we are a true anomaly. This scares me when I think about it because of the implications.

Lorlic