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The Fermi Paradox
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From Wikipedia:
"The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that extraterrestrial life should be common. Considering this with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi is said to have asked: 'Where are they?'"
To paraphrase, the Fermi Paradox states that if intelligent life exists, it should exist everywhere. Since the sky has so far appeared to be silent, does this mean that humans are the first intelligent creatures to arise in the galaxy? Perhaps in the whole of the universe? Perhaps life exists but we simply have not observed them yet, despite our best efforts?
A common response to these questions is that the entirety of the sky is too large an area to survey with our current technology. But when we say that life should be everywhere, that means everywhere. Surely there would be obvious evidence even in our own solar system. Maybe we truly are the first.
"The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that extraterrestrial life should be common. Considering this with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi is said to have asked: 'Where are they?'"
To paraphrase, the Fermi Paradox states that if intelligent life exists, it should exist everywhere. Since the sky has so far appeared to be silent, does this mean that humans are the first intelligent creatures to arise in the galaxy? Perhaps in the whole of the universe? Perhaps life exists but we simply have not observed them yet, despite our best efforts?
A common response to these questions is that the entirety of the sky is too large an area to survey with our current technology. But when we say that life should be everywhere, that means everywhere. Surely there would be obvious evidence even in our own solar system. Maybe we truly are the first.
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we are very small.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nroo-i8t8vg
NEXT STOP: ETERNAL SLAVES TO AN ALIEN RACE
To blow your mind
But that shit happens to me
Aaaaaaall the tiiiiiiime
Suck on that optimists.
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sitting here
in my pajamas
eating this box of chocolate doughnuts
waiting for the day that they awaken
and rape our souls with madness
I've just declared Manifest Destiny on the universe. Everything belongs to us in every direction and we all have to dress in expensive jeans to be part of it.
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I know, right. We need us a good Cold War again.
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Ahahaha
I am laughing very hard right now.
I somehow don't see that happening.
It's like Hunter said, we don't have to be the first. We could be the last.
They're made of meat, sir.
definitely not to us
That's just a 300 foot long whale shark monster swimming in our ocean depths waiting to rise and feast upon unsuspecting denziens of the beach.
Or maybe there's a big party going down in R'lyeh
Fermi, like most people, like to pretend they're far more important in the comings and goings on of universes.
In reality, we are but a heartbeat on the history of this planet, let alone the universe. Who fucking knows why or if we're alone. Maybe we're the assbackwards country bumbkins of the universe and people avoid us like Alabama.
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But with whom?
Nobody loves you because you're tiny and made of meat.
Of course you don't because we're still relatively in the dark ages of our specie.
Give it a million years, we'll be godlike beings of spirit and energy who chuckle at the hundreds of sentient races scattered throughout the cosmos, making important strides in their civilizations that we realize are but the first steps of an infant on the cosmic scale.
I like the thought of Cthulhu just chillin' and sippin' on a cold one. I dunno why, it just appeals to me.
By the looks of things, Russia wants another go at it.
"haha check this out todd we're gonna fuck with the humans
okay guys on three"
Really, I think they were doing better with Communism.
Take what we can, and bring it back home
So take me down to the cities of the future
Everybody's happy and I feel at home
I saw this movie already, and Rocky, Rambo, the Wolverines, and Chuck Norris win.
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When we finally explore the other life-bearing planets, they'll be at a lower level of tech, and we'll realize that, oh shit, we're the UFOs.
It's funny because I just got finished reading that Carl Sagan quote about the pale blue speck.
About how every single inventor, hero, villain, scientist, philosopher, every single general who sacrificed thousands of lives to rule over one fraction of a tiny dot in space has lived here.
Then we'll drop A-bombs on them from F-16's while they're still pumping out spearmen and looking into Monotheism.
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