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 Originally Posted by Eric
I don't think we're alone in the universe but the Fermi paradox is interesting. What do you think about it?
Maybe intelligent life is spread out across great distances and maybe it destroys itself a large percentage of the time.
I'm a total buzzkill, but I don't really agree with the Femi paradox. If some sort of life was advanced enough to show up here, they would surely be advanced enough to not be detected if they didn't want to. They probably rolled up and was like, "Okay these things are boring," and maybe abducted a few to study just like we would if we discovered some kind of algae in ice on Mars.
It's also worth noting that we're probably the first species on this planet to think about life from other planets visiting us, and we haven't been around all that long in the grand scheme of things.
I agree that life dies out from either destroying itself or other causes eventually, and even if human beings are around for another 300 million years or something, that's not really going to be that long compared to the history of the universe (about 2 percent of the life of the universe according to our best estimates), etc.
I've been asked if I think that we'll colonize other planets before our sun explodes or whatever it does (about 5 billion years from now). I think we will eventually establish a colony on the moon and on at least one other planet (probably Mars).
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