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0 pointsgivan11y ago0 comments

Milder conditions relative to our environment? this is subjective, where do you see complex life and how do you know that complex life requires "milder" conditions or that is rare if we only have ourselves as an example that happen to live in such an environment?

What stops bacteria that live in harsh environments to evolve even if probably slower? harsh meaning hard/impossible for ourselves or for life as we know on earth.

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minikites11y ago

So where is everyone?

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

> That would mean there were 10 quadrillion, or 10 million billion intelligent civilizations in the observable universe.

>Our sun is relatively young in the lifespan of the universe. There are far older stars with far older Earth-like planets, which should in theory mean civilizations far more advanced than our own.

I think intelligent life is pretty special/rare, given the evidence.

givanOP11y ago

What evidence? we don't have enough data to draw conclusions on this matter, we barely sent a very limited robot on mars and some probes in the solar system, the universe is huge.

We can't initiate contact because of primitive technology, we barely made it to the moon with huge costs.

Why aren't advanced civilizations that can reach us contact us? we don't know, there are many theories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Explaining_the_pa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis

minikites11y ago

Exactly, believing in God has about the same scientific support. I wonder how many people don't believe in God but do believe there is advanced, intelligent life that choose not to contact us and how they reconcile that set of beliefs.

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0 pointsgivan11y ago0 comments

What stops bacteria that live in harsh environments to evolve even if probably slower? harsh meaning hard/impossible for ourselves or for life as we know on earth.

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minikites11y ago

So where is everyone?

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

> That would mean there were 10 quadrillion, or 10 million billion intelligent civilizations in the observable universe.

>Our sun is relatively young in the lifespan of the universe. There are far older stars with far older Earth-like planets, which should in theory mean civilizations far more advanced than our own.

I think intelligent life is pretty special/rare, given the evidence.

givanOP11y ago

What evidence? we don't have enough data to draw conclusions on this matter, we barely sent a very limited robot on mars and some probes in the solar system, the universe is huge.

We can't initiate contact because of primitive technology, we barely made it to the moon with huge costs.

Why aren't advanced civilizations that can reach us contact us? we don't know, there are many theories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Explaining_the_pa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis

minikites11y ago

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